How to put in efforts without thinking about the results

Shri Babaji explains what is the best approach when putting in efforts to achieve a goal; if you remain focused, keep positive, try again and never give up – you will find success one day.

When you develop a desire, then your mind starts thinking, “What should I do, how to work?” Convert it into applying the wisdom. “What are the best methods that I have to adopt and approach?” So, see if there is any expert in that field, take the expert’s advice, then follow. Follow the methods. When you follow the method, remain focused. In spite of all this, if it does not happen, your castle collapses, never mind. That is all you need to think. “Never mind. I will build up again. I am not going to give up. I will build up a group again. I will do work again.” Keep working. Because you are alive. You are not dead. If you are alive, your mission is not complete. You have to put in effort again.

So, when you keep yourself so busy like this, where is the time to worry or feel sorry for yourself? That is what is needed in karma yoga. Convert your mental energies into positive, positive thinking, positive efforts, trying again, all these things keep doing. So, like this, you see, twenty-five years after I completed my tapas, and I am just doing my work. Not every time we are not successful, that great Self-Realised souls have been born and become my students, or they are helping in my mission. There are some who are helping me also. There are some who abuse me also. Both are there equally. But I just don’t mind, keep going. My castle gets built up. That gets broken again, collapses. Then again, I keep trying to construct another castle. Because constructing is my job. If somebody wants to break it, let them break it. I will construct again.

See, from a small bird when it builds its small nest. If small something happens, if a fire picks up or a wind comes or some human being removes it and cleans it up, it doesn’t give up effort. It goes again, collects all the materials that is needed. Comes back again, put it, goes and comes back again. Then again, builds the nest again. Because it needs. That when the understanding that it needs, then it will not give up. It will need to have the nest. Otherwise it cannot remain without the nest. So that is when it keeps putting effort.

This is one important thing. A human being also needs to understand that we need it. When we need it, we will not give up. If our body has some illness, then we understand we need a doctor, we need a medical expert’s advice. We will go to one medical expert, if we don’t get, we will try to take another opinion. We will go to another. We will not give up. Because we know that we need it, otherwise we cannot live peacefully. In the same way this also, when you understand that you need it, till the last breath, come what may, you will not give up. Never become frustrated at all. No frustration. That is not in our dictionary at all. Being a yogi also, I am also facing the same like you all in the life. Not that everything is smooth and successful in my mission work. Human beings after all; some are helpful to me, some are troubling, some want to destroy me. So many things, it keeps happening. This is a part of life we have to think. But attitude is important. Your mental attitude. “No problem. A problem is no problem.” That attitude will keep you going. Never mind hundred times the castle collapses. You are alive. You have to build one more time, a hundred and one times. You are alive, you build one more time. As long as you are alive, you take it as a mission work and keep doing. You will find the success one day.