Plan Your Approach

It is well known that for any work to be done effectively or for any project to be carried out successfully, proper planning, approach and willingness to change, when necessary, are called for. Right thinking, perceptions, resilience, assertiveness, focus, ‘flow’ — such virtues are integral to this fulfilment.

Indeed, for one’s spiritual progress too, a similar strategy and vision are vital! There are as many paths as there are seekers and, therefore, each has to divine that which would suit him well. He should also ponder intelligently his own life (past and present).

Dwelling also on the needed changes, he could commence the process by asking himself certain simple, yet probing, questions as below.

(1) Quo Vadis? (Whither goest thou?) (This would be with regard to one’s material, creative and spiritual needs); (2) In which way, different approaches or attitudes in the past (concerning relationships, opinions, instincts, habits or transactions) could have yielded better results?

How to ensure needed changes, at least from now on?; (3) How to implement practically Oscar Wilde’s concept, “Experience is the name which wise men give to their mistakes,” also ensuring such ‘mistakes’ are not repeated?; (4) Can you learn from right criticism, also being assertive, not being deterred by ‘sneers of selfish men’ or foolish persons around?

Prayerful contemplation on such ‘goings on’ enables one to divine one’s own ‘truths’ for evolving into karmasu koushalam. This is brought about, finally, by rightly planning one’s approach!