Aaj aapka Sarthi kehta hai…
Mehnat karta hoon, par result ki chinta mujhe kha jaati hai
I work hard, but worry about results eats me up
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥
Hindi: Tumhara adhikaar sirf karm karne mein hai, uske phal mein kabhi nahi.
English: Your right is to your work, never to its results.
Kurukshetra ke maidan mein Arjun yuddh se pehle haar maan kar baith gaye hain. Adhyay 2 mein Krishna unhe samjha rahe hain ki karm chhodna hal nahi, karm karne ka tareeka badalna hal hai.
Aapki pareshani mehnat nahi, result ka bojh hai. Is shloka ke do shabd 'ma phaleshu' (phal mein nahi) seedha usi bojh ko utaarte hain: karm aapke haath mein, phal Kanha ke haath mein.
Katha: Bunty aur chidiya ki aankh
Bunty Malhotra, 26, from Ludhiana, gave a job interview on Monday. By Wednesday he had refreshed his email 147 times. He refreshed it at dinner, in the lift, and, his mother swears, even in the bathroom. "Beta," she said, "email ko bhi saans lene de. Woh bhi ghabra gaya hoga."
That night Bunty couldn't sleep, so his Dadi told him a story. Guru Drona once hung a wooden bird on a tree and asked his students what they saw. Yudhishthir saw the tree. Bhim saw the branches and, being Bhim, wondered if there was a mango on them. Duryodhan saw the guru and thought about how to impress him. Arjun said, "Guruji, mujhe sirf chidiya ki aankh dikh rahi hai." Only Arjun was allowed to shoot, and he hit it.
Dadi smiled. "Bunty, tu poora ped dekh raha hai: result, HR, salary, rishtedaar kya kahenge. Arjun ki tarah sirf apni aankh dekh. Agle interview ki taiyari."
Bunty laughed for the first time in three days. He didn't get that job. He got a better one two weeks later, because he spent those days preparing instead of refreshing.
Results are not your job. Your effort is.
- Check your phone for results only twice a day, at 12 pm and 6 pm.
- In between, do one small thing to get ready for what comes next.
Mantra: ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय (Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya), 11 times before starting work.