How to Meet the Obstacles in Life?

Perform all your actions centred in your ideal—be it God or an ideal in the world outside. Hold on to it. Once that you have entered in your field of action, don’t you ever get fluttered by success or failure. You act on unperturbed by the obstacles that might arise in your path.When Mother Ganga starts from the peaks of the Himalayas, she has already decided to go and reach the Bay of Bengal. She is flowing down millions of gallons of water per minute.Do you think that her path is red carpeted? No. Every square inch there are obstacles. Small pebbles are in the middle of the river. It gives a beautiful melody, a songful sound from the water rumbling through it. When she meets a little obstacle, she gracefully jumps over it.If that obstacle is a little higher and she cannot jump over it, she doesn’t stop there and lament, ‘What can I do? Let me give up.’ No..She collects her white saree and goes around. Suppose if she meets a revered mountain, she can’t jump over it. She can’t go around it. What does she do? Taking it as a joke, rubbing her shoulder at the foot of the mountain she goes; and she knows the mountain cannot be for eternity. It may be for one or two miles and where the mountain ends, she turns around the mountain and again proceeds in the same direction that she had decided at the peak of the Himalayas. Ultimately, she flows herself into the Bay of Bengal and reaches all the seven oceans of the world.Think… Be like Mother Ganga. You have a goal, no doubt; and the higher the goal, the greater you must expect obstacles in you. But no obstacles should upset you. Meet them diligently; where it can be jumped over, jump over. If you cannot go around it, and if you cannot wait, proceed; and when the obstacle is ended, turn again and continue your direction. That is the way you have to achieve.The journey is long, and alone you have to walk. With love and devotion, serve all on the way and, you will meet me one day. For that blissful moment, I shall wait.Life becomes a sport when you have learnt the art of splashing silver linings on all passing clouds that cross your bosom.