A thought for those who want to overcome their circumstances in order to succeed.

“Sometimes we can meet for a cup of tea”….That is all I can offer…. Nothing more. Everyone has to fight their own battles… And one has to climb the stairs nearest to him….No lifts are there.

Over the years, I have learned that no one can help anyone. A man’s battle is basically with his circumstances. His circumstances and his conditions are more powerful than his capacity and Will to Overcome those circumstances.

Gandhiji used to overcome his obstacles by following two principles

1) I will observe fast for certain days unless my obstacles give in.

2) Whether, my Will to Overcome my circumstances can actually overcome my circumstances or not is entirely in hands of God. So I will keep chanting his name during my fast. I will keep calling Him to help me during my fast”.

How far his method can work today is a big question.

Experimenting on theories is the only by which scientists try to discover principles that work. Experimenting with whatever suggestion you may think will work, is the only way to test it.

Summary : The Will to Overcome circumstances has to be made stronger than the strength of obstacles.

🤔 “Always wear a raincoat while entering in a courtroom”.. About 36 year ago, a senior advocate of Junagadh District Court gave me this advice.

I liked this advice so much that till today I follow this advice.

In courtrooms, judges are often brewing with disturbing facts of their cases. Sometimes they get angry over advocates. It is natural. In psychology it is known as “Transfer of Anger”. A judge may have been angry over a case. Then sometimes his anger spills out on lawyers. Lawyers feel hurt when they come out from the court.

On one such day, as I came out from the court of a short tempered civil judge, the senior lawyer advised me, “Never bother about what judges say to us during hearing of a case. Just wear a raincoat. After coming out from court, just forget words of judges as if they are rain drops on your raincoat. His words will slip away from the raincoat and you will never feel hurt by words of a judges, which they might have spoken during heat of a bad case.”

Till today, I have followed his advice and I have never felt hurt by words of any judge.

I wish that all seniors should give such advice their to juniors.