Two Faces of things known and unknown

Like every coin has two faces everything in this universe has its opposite. The day has night, the good has evil, success has failure and life has death. Just like the two opposing faces of a coin, opposites are just on the other side or you may say closely follow one another.

Another equally striking thing about these opposites is that the other side is inevitable. You can be certain that night will change into day like life will one day be replaced by death. Death is the most certain among all happenings, in each and every thing that takes birth on earth. Whatever takes life is destined to perish in death.

There are two extremely important lessons to be learnt and many of us fail to learn from death, which I would like to discuss here. These lessons, if learned and worked upon, have potential enough to transform into success any form of failure.

The first thing is to realize that any problem, any challenge, any tribulation, any scarcity, any epidemic, any catastrophe, any tsunami, any hurricane or any pain has a life span. As soon as one of these life shattering events commences its act; its end, its passing away, its death is as certain as is its devastation. The bad time will pass.

It’s a great relief to know, to understand and to realize this truth that even the worst crisis will come to an end and the deadliest threat will recede and pass away. The realization of this fact will not only give you courage to keep fighting against adversity, but also keep the lamp of hope burning brightly.

But this is just part of the lesson.  This too has an opposite.  As do the bad times pass away, so also the good times. This is the lesson; nothing is permanent except change. The lesson is to use this knowledge and persist through difficult times to reach success and happiness.

Once you have overcome your challenges and become successful, it’s already time, start preparing for the bad times because the not so good times may be lurking somewhere behind the next turn.

Most of us do neither and hence suffer pain and anguish.

Now, you know that the end of all things is certain and death is the most inevitable event in the life of every living being. The timing of this event though is most uncertain. No one knows exactly when death may strike. All of us know this; most of us don’t acknowledge this fact and continue to live in fool’s paradise.

 Realizing this fact and living each coming moment of your lives as if any one of it could be the last, can transform the remaining days of your life. There would be so much more to do in the present moment that it would force you to do only the most vital things right now. This single action of doing the most important thing required to be done in this moment is the most powerful secret of success.

I promise myself, to follow this idea every moment of my starting from now…the 2^nd of October 2015 ; 6.05 pm IST, Nashik, India.