Straight to your truth

'Discovering' one's truth presupposes also divining one's work upon this earth - one's swadharma.

Straight to your truth
'Discovering' one's truth presupposes also divining one's work upon this earth - one's swadharma. Most humans are born with particular inborn talents and gifts though few even know what they are really good at. Even out of those who know this, only very few stick to their chosen and well-suited paths.

Now comes the all important question: but then how does one 'discover' one's swadharma? While for some, the answer comes, as if on a platter, for others, it is through self-searching, prayers and through trial and error. A guideline in this regard is offered by Benjamin Franklin, himself one, who had risen to supreme levels of excellence.

In a prayer evolved by himself, he implores the "powerful goodness, bountiful father and merciful Guide" to increase in him "that wisdom, which discovers my truest interest", while offering also his "kind offices to thy other children".

Indeed, the crux is not merely in 'discovering' one's "truest interest" or swadharma but also in ensuring that one's focus is not lost by simultaneously also involving in other manifestations of creativity, which too abound! Otherwise, he would merely end up as a 'jack of all trades'.

Application of the above concept is illustrated powerfully by Sherlock Holmes who single-mindedly focuses on his chosen field. He does not bother to store any other information, which is not directly related to his work.

Knowledge of 'truth', as applicable to oneself, thus, necessitates that single-mindedness and focus, even if this, at times, may have to be with the blinkers on!
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