Strength is life - Swami vivekananda

Vivekananda life-changing thoughts --- Strength is life; Weakness is death

I want you to forget yourself for some-time and go into the minds of the following three personalities. Listen to the situations and think what you would do if you were them.

Situation 1 – You were from a well-respected big family with name and fame. You had been searching for spiritual awakening but you couldn’t find the right master to show you the right path. You came to one of the holy places in India called ‘kasi’. You feel exhausted physically as well as mentally. You are trembling to walk; you cannot move a bit even one step forward. You are afraid of your present and future life in this unfair world. All of a sudden, you encounter 6-7 ferocious monkeys in front of you. They start running towards you by making fierce noise. You start running without knowing a way to get escaped. You are running for your life. You are running for your survival. How can you handle it better?

Situation 2 – You are the daughter of a tenant. You pushed the door of an old-fashioned mill and it got opened; you walked in and took your place near the door.

There was a gigantic tough-looking man with cocky attitude saw and barked at you roughly, “what do you want?”

Meekly, you replied,” My mommy says send her fifty rupees.”

“I’ll not do it,” the man retorted, “Now you run on home.”

“Yes, sir,” you replied. But you did not want to move.

The man went ahead with his work, so busily engaged he did not notice that you had not left. When he looked up and saw you still standing there. He yelled at you, “I told you to go home! Now, go, or I’ll take a switch to you.”

You, a poor little girl, said, “Yes, sir,” but you did not budge an inch.

He dropped a sack of grain he was about to pour into the mill hopper, picked up a barrel stave and started towards you with an expression on his face that indicated trouble. His assistant held his breath and it seemed he was certain about to witness a murder. As he knew, this man had a fierce temper.

When the man reaches the spot where you are standing, ------- What will you do?

Our brain is like an ant. Our life and this world are like an elephant. An ant, staying under the elephant, cannot notice the elephant completely. The ant could view a part of it. Our brain may be like a sharp-sighted ant but you cannot find answers for all our lives’ puzzles.

It doesn’t mean that you should adjust and live like a slipper irrespective of others’ whips and beatings. There is something called ‘Assertive’.

Let’s look at that first situation. The common view is:  ‘If you don’t run for your life, the monkeys will attack and kill you forcefully.’ If you only run, the monkeys will keep chasing you.  It happened to Swami Vivekananda. He was instructed by a random monk “Don’t run. Stand against them.” His words were received by Swamy Vivekananda as god’s words. He stopped and stand against those monkeys. They too stopped. He stepped forward and they started going backward. He took one more step faster with greater confidence, they ran in different directions for their lives.

In the second situation, He reached the spot where the child was standing, she quickly stepped forward one step, looked up into his eyes and screamed at the top of her shrill voice, ‘MY MAMMY’S GOTTA HAVE THAT FIFTY RUPEES!”.

The man stopped, looked at her for a minute, then slowly laid the barrel stave on the floor, put his hand in his pocket, took out fifty rupees and gave it to her. The child took the money and slowly backed towards the door, never taking her eyes off the man whom she had just conquered. After she had gone, the man sat down on a box and looked out the window into space for more than 10 minutes. He was pondering, with awe, on the whipping he had just taken. That was the first time; the assistant happened to see the child deliberately mastered an adult authority figure.

Be assertive – don’t leave your rights for the sake of anything. Don’t let any authority or any stranger to dominate or take control under your jurisdiction.

Remember “Strength is life; Weakness is death”

-Swami Vivekananda

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Instant social confidence korea method

Instant social confidence korea method 

How to overcome social anxiety instantly?

Whenever I feel anxious, like social meetings, marriages, conferences and functions, I will think and feel one personality. That personality will pour me a huge amount of energy and I will become instantly confident. His name is ‘korea’. Yes, you heard it right, korea. 5 feet short round face, light blunted nose, peculiar accessories with sharp eyes. 65 years old, belonged to a tribe. That tribe is distinct in terms of cultural traits. If we change the accessories and dressing style of those tribe women, no miss India or miss universe can come near to them. Such gorgeous women, they are.    

Korea’s main job is hunting. There is a saying, A man without a tool is a half-man. He had his virgo web, uli-like tool and additional instruments. He preferred to go alone for hunting during ‘no moon’ night. Animals couldn’t see due to darkness and they become vulnerable. Korea is an opportunist. He went one such night and prepared his hunting. He looked for a strategic place to start and started pinning his web at certain points. He continued till dawn. Around 5:45 am. He stitched his final point at a certain location and started going back to see if any animal being caught. No animal can escape from korea’s web. Once it is entered, there is no exit point.

This time, he started looking for animals those got caught. He was looking. He was looking. He reached the point, where he started. Alas! Not even a single animal got caught. He couldn’t take it up. It hasn’t happened in his 55 years of exclusive experience in hunting. He came back with empty hand and withered face.

I, a timid shy 10 year old guy, was standing with my father. He saw korea and shouted at him.

“KOREA. What have you got?”

Korea replied non-verbally, by raising his left hand and twisted left and right thrice.

My father identified his mind-set and asked him to get ready for a function.

He belonged to a tribe and they always live with their group. They were ostracized by the common society. He felt very uncomfortable and didn’t want to be a part of that function.

My father forcefully took him to the function. Everybody started giving strange looks and signs. Korea felt bad and I felt worse for his situation.

To comfort him, my father gave a relevant example for him. How a fox jumped into the bucket of blue painting, its color got changed, all animals looked the fox with fear. One day, it got wet because of rain. Its secret revealed and all animals became comfortable by seeing its true color.

Father continued “They are doctors, engineers, advocates, collectors and businessmen but they are basically human-beings. If you talk to them casually and behave normally, they will treat you with respect”.

Korea nodded his head as if he understood. I too got the confidence.

When korea started explaining his amazing experiences of hunting at forest, many of them got inspired. He almost forgot his shyness and his eyes were bright while he was explaining. That was my bulb-moment.

If I feel nervous in attending any function or meeting, I will shout silently to myself KOREA. I will gain energy and confidence instantly.

Why was he named ‘korea’? I asked him at one point of time. I will share that in other video.

I call this ‘Korea method – For instant confidence’. Try this for your next gathering and let me know your experience in the comment section.

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