By Sanjib Mukherjee,
Have you ever noticed why the sun never gets tired from shining, or why the ocean never gets bothered from swimming or why the wind never gets tired of blowing? They seem to follow their instincts and do what comes naturally to them. Days, weeks, months, years, even centuries may come and go, yet the elements never loose their vigour, their focus or their intensity in whatever they do.
So as human beings, why do people get frustrated so easily with their lives…..whether it be with their career, partners, friends or even simply with themselves? What can we learn and apply from the elements to ensure we too, can move with the same ease and enthusiasm with our daily routines as they do? The first point to realise is that the elements only do what comes naturally to them.
The sun never blows, the wind doesn’t swim, the ocean doesn’t float above the skies. In fact, the elements remain very limited in their actions and never stray beyond their limitations. However, in the tasks they do undertake, they always perform them very well. Whether it be years of dedicated practice or just a pure one pointed devotion to their task, they remain solid, regular and consistent. The elements never have to think about what they do, they simply undertake actions which they designed to accomplish and carry on perfecting their art with no regards to time or any other dimensional facets. Even when reaching perfection, the elements still never stray from their tasks.
Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci was one asked how he created such beautiful masterpieces, his response was “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration”. A single minded focus on his work, resulted his achievements which are still marvelled at today. But could Leonardo Da Vinci run a marathon? could he cook a gourmet 5 course oriental meal? could be sing an entire opera concerto in key by himself?…probably not. In fact, he may well have been useless in all those tasks, but none of those tasks came natural to him. Painting was his nature and where he ultimately focused his attentions, and artistry is where he achieved his perfection.
I believe we can only truly reach perfection when following our nature and doing whatever comes naturally to us from within. It’s when we move away from our innate calling in life, that we feel a sense of lacking, a sense of incompletion and subsequently feelings of frustrations. No amount of money, fame, success can ever truly keep us satisfied unless we do what we are really meant to do in this life. When following our nature, discipline is never required. You don;t need the discipline to smile when holding a baby or you don;t the discipline to sleep when feeling tired. These actions happen naturally and effortlessly.
The next question invariably becomes “well how do I know my calling in life, what is my nature?” The answer is simple, do what comes easily and what you love the most. A true musician can never go a day without music, a true dancer can never go a day without think about the dance. What can you never go a day without thinking about? For some the answers come easily, others it may take a lifetime, but its an individual question we must all follow. Finding our true love in life, finding our true calling, finding our true nature automatically gives us a sense of fulfilment when undertaking those tasks.
The elements follow their nature and groove with such ease, power and fulfillment. We too must do the same. Yoga is the journey to find ones inner-self, finding ones true nature, once found, you never look back. Remain true to yourself and happiness becomes not a destination, but your very being. Follow your heart, move like nature and you will never need discipline in life, as your every action becomes a statement of your very purpose in life.
Life is generous to those who follow their destiny.
Wonderful start and awesome gelling of meditaion and yoga in the end.
An effortless and good attempt buddy.
It seems you got what you actually want to do.
Be Inspirational with your words!!
Madhav
Woow.. Sanjib, just what I needed today and mostly the rest of the week. Let me think of what I really want, and what comes naturally with me.. and i will make my decision after the reflection. What do you say?
I am soo impressed by your writting…
Loads of Love,
Anjana
Hello sanjib,
i like ur post very much.
Keep it up.
God bless u
thanks
Leepikaa
lovely. loved it
Shilpa ***
Very well written Sanjib, in short you are saying, follow your passion…you never feel tired to do what you love…you are absolutely right…!!!
Flow becomes easy and enjoyable too…
really love your posts
good explanation…very well written…keep it up…..
Ultimate!!!!!
=)..
I have seen your site………who are you ….?
Another young baba …….?
haha..been called many things in my life Sameer, but never a baba:)…I’m a passionate yogi who loves to write about the rich heritage yoga has given us….this site is to designed to share all this wonderful knowledge:)
Go on dude…….nice work……take care…..
true said…i m personally facing these….when chosing my profession…..!!!!!
exactly….. do what you love, jai gurudev
Do what you Love & Love what you do……..
so true….
Great post. It’s true that what will keep us prospering and in good health is simply to listen to our natural states and become in tune with our bodies. So often people miss this as the first step in curing a disease/addiction/disorder/etc.
my true nature is love. thanks Sanjib!
really good…
Yor articles are very impressive
I would say, if my inner voice says its fine, then all is fine….
sereiously it’s work yarrr……….
Very nice! Thank you!
I would add to ur very good knowledge that the elements you referring ie: all the 5 elements today are absolutely in imbalance state the proof is their untimely performance that too vigorously. Now it shoudn’t come as a surprise to us when we find that these imbalance of elements is the result of our body imbalance which is also made up of 5 elements. So the effect is seen in the nature.
Now yoga is one technique where in we are able to discipline our elements with I wouldn’t say finding the true self but emerging the true self whose consciousness has been merged. The moment it gets merged , we are reincarnated that’s the congregation with the supreme or intoxicated in the love of the supreme.
Now love itself has discipline because its not gross but subtle or soulful which can be cleared in the name of SHRIMAT BHAGWAD GITA where the word SHRIMAT means SHRI ki MAT ( means discipline of the supreme , with the supreme ). This is our natural self in true means.