You can make hay even at midnight if you so wish

You can make hay even at midnight if you so wish. What you wish is very important to you. You wish something because it is good ? No. You consider it good because you wish to have it or attain it. What you wish is good or not will depend upon your sense of morality, ethics and wisdom.

Morality is a sense of conduct that helps one to differentiate intentions and actions between those that are right or wrong.

Ethics is the branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality — that is, concepts such as holy and evil, good and bad, justice, virtue, etc.

Wisdom is the deep understanding and realization of people, entity, events or situations, using one's principles, reason and knowledge, so as to choose and act to produce the optimum results. It is also the ability to ascertain what is true or right.

Keep these three senses very, very sharp and positive, and your wishes and longings will always be good, either for yourself or for others.

You will surely pursue something only when you know that it will help you to persevere, to strive. Here your reasoning, your intellect and your wisdom will play a big role. Because these three things can only make you independent, or so to say, autonomous. A person is said to be autonomous or independent when he becomes matured, matured enough to think for himself also. He now possesses enough reasoning power, intellect and wisdom to break all barriers, imposed or otherwise, and come out of his self-imposed exile. He comes out of the fallacy that these is no harm in thinking about his own good. That does not make him selfish. This takes him to an enlightened path. Just a plain and simple thing to understand - how will one do good to others if he himself is not fit and strong enough ? So first take care of yourself - then turn towards others and do good for them also.

How earnestly you long for something decides whether you will be able to attain it or not. In all your endeavours you will come across obstacles, not one or two but many, and also not very easy ones. You have to overcome each, one after another. The more noble is the cause, the more obstacles you will face. A time will come when you may feel that everything is going dead wrong, and then you may feel like giving up. Never!!!!! Because this is your hardest obstacle - the feeling or urge to give up. You have to overcome this also as your success is very near to you. After this point you will meet with total success. So never give up. A ball does not bounce up until it hits the floor. That's it.

Enlightenment is not possible without knowledge. Knowledge is an all-pervasive affair. We first acquire knowledge to become educated, so that we can earn enough to make a decent living. Further knowledge makes us more educated. Till this stage knowledge is need-based. When acquisition of knowledge ceases to be need-based, an educated person starts getting transformed into a learned person. Now he learns out of sheer joy!

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