Rama was pushed away from His throne to lose His wife and roam around for Her. Close to death several times He overcame His troubles ... Even at the instance of His fight with Raavan He is over come with doubt as to killing Raavan and has to be taught by Sage Agastya to focus on His energies for the fight.
Even before going with Vishwamitra Rama had to be coached by Sage Vasishta on the principles of Truth to dispel the self doubt of Ram.
Krishna on the other hand though aware of the Truth did not have a cake walk. He was constanlty on the run in His childhood and had to fight hard from that age in Vrindaavan, in Dwaraka and even with his relatives.
This sudden realization was the fact that in these characters I had laid so much of faith and deified belief that I had somehow held back on so many ventures in self doubt that its not possible at this age and time. Yet everyday we come across so many success stories of men and women who have withstood great inhuman difficulties to be recogonized as leaders in society.
Though I had been brought up being told that the movies are not true somewhere in the back the mind there is an intense longing to be perfect ... Be superb .. Be able to do those magical things that are stuff on the screen. Yet the fact that failure is also a part of life seem to be missed out in most narratives.
This has had a constant frustration in the mind as how to overcome this notion of failure ... I have always considered failure in a sense of doom though knowing fully the phrase 'Pillars of success'.
This sudden realization that its ok to fail ... Its ok to take a beating for a bad decision, its ok to feel the pinch, the heat of an unexpected turn brings about such a relief. What seems to matter most is to feel reselient, to hang inside to the dreams and work tirelessly to realize the possibilties that the failure has taught.
Subroto Bhagchi explains in his book 'Go kiss the world' that success is more getting out of the comfort zones that we have created around ourselves. I have been deifying my Ram and Krishna to the extent that I always have been asking 'Why me' rather than look at the reselience and decision making of these two men in their times. They are Gods for they persisted .... That was their Tapas
What a relief .... Thank You Mr. Bhachi
Go kiss the world
