Akram Youth

October 2023 English Dada Bhagwan Parivar

Success and
Failure

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 Table of Contents
What Is Success and Failure?
04 17 Thomas Edison
According to Youth

What Is Success and Failure? According

06 to Parents and Teachers 18 Gnani With Youth

08 How Intense Is Your Desire? 20 Success or Failure?

10 Winning Attitude 23 Poem

12 The Ethical Triumph

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 Editorial

Success and failure – Today we are going to talk about these two words.
A huge importance has been placed on these two words in worldly life. We
always want success in everything we do, whether it is an exam, sports, a job
or a business. We work hard to achieve only success, right? However, even
after working hard, we do sometimes come across failure. Everyone must have
experienced this to some extent. We must have been proud of our successes
and sad because our failures. In addition to this, we may have even become
jealous upon seeing someone’s success!
It is natural to feel this way since we don’t know the main reason behind
getting success or failure. But I am sure that after reading this edition of
Akram Youth, you will receive the right understanding of the true effort that
is required to achieve success. Along with that you will also gain an
understanding of how to digest success or failure, which will be helpful in all
the circumstances that you come across in the future.
- Dimplebhai Mehta

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 What Is Success and Failure? According to Youth

- Money
What Is Success?

- Fame
- Achieving whatever you decide on.
- Learning from failure.
- Living life mentally satisfied and happy.
- Dying without any regrets.
- Achieving your goals.
- Fulfilling the dreams of friends and parents.
- Having a happy, healthy family.
- Having time, space, financial freedom, and peace of mind in life.
- Happiness
- To be able to help others.
- Success varies based on age…

• From age 5-10... Walking

• 11-16... Making friends.
• 17-18... Passing the 12th board exam.
• 18-21... Not failing the college exam.
• 22-25... Getting a job.
• 26-40... Successfully staying in that job.
• 40-60... Travelling all over India without any health issues.
• 60-70... Living life without anyone’s support.
• 70-80... Living life without any health issues.
• 81... Dying without any pain and burden on others.

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 - Failure is just an experience, to become stronger for the challenges that
lie on the path to success.
What Is Failure?

- Not accepting your mistakes.

- Not having gratitude and a sense of satisfaction.
- No matter how hard you work, the result will be negative. I think this is
called failure.
- When we try hard, we may or may not get enough resources and support.
Eventually we will not achieve our goal so that is failure in life.
- Losing hope, feeling helpless and having self-doubt about being able to
do anything.
- Depression
- Suicide
- Failure is a part of success.
- Believing that ‘I have failed’ is failure.

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 What Is Success and Failure? According to Parents and Teachers

- Peace and prosperity.

What Is Success?

- You can face any situation without fear and tackle it

courageously; that is the ultimate success in life.
- Achievement of a goal.
- To experience the Self.
- All the time to learn new things, adopt, and go forward
from where you stand.
- Daily progress towards moksha.
- To help others.
-Success means solving difficulties in one’s life,overcoming
one’s limitations in times of hardship and reaching the
goal successfully.
- Being happy in doing what you want to do.
- Contributing to society.
- Various principles and qualities, including knowledge,
devotion, self-realization, association with saints, pure
thoughts, pure speech, virtues, forgiveness, prayer,
wisdom, pure character, etc.
- Nobody is hurt by me and everyone is happy with me.
- Happiness
- Good income
- Job satisfaction
- Following the Five Agnas given by Dadashri in every
situation is true success.
- Balance between material and spiritual life.
- Even if you fail in any field, without getting discouraged
or anxious, if you give your heart and work hard in that
field, success will come one day.

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 - Something desired and not achieved.
- To be afraid of any situation or not being able to face it is a
major failure in life.
- Failure is nothing but a step towards success.
- Not knowing oneself.
What Is Failure?

- Making decisions with a short temper without considering

the long-term vision leads to failure.
- Failure is giving up, quitting, and losing hope.
- Failing to attempt is the biggest failure in life.
- Not achieving education, wealth, and humanity.
- Ignorance
- Not being able to help others.
- Failure means to be irresponsible in life and not care about
it...
- Blindly chasing success and being overly ambitious, and losing
health and family in the process.
- There is no failure; it is called learning.
- Failure to strive for a goal but not succeed in it.
- Losing confidence is the biggest failure in life.
- Having no satisfaction is a failure.
- Not finding peace in old age due to guilt and regret.
- A life without any spiritual goal is a failure.
- To lose hope.

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 There are numerous stories and examples which provide a special
viewpoint on the concept of success in the Zen Buddha religion. This
viewpoint is truly different in comparison to the traditional definition of
success. Today, we will read about one such Zen story, which depicts the
concept of success in a unique way.

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 How Intense Is Your Desire?

Once, a young and ambitious disciple were you thinking about when you were
approached his Zen master and asked, underwater?”
“Master, what is the secret to success in The disciple, still catching his breath,
life?” replied, “Air, Master, I was thinking only of
The Zen master, a venerable and air.”
wise old man, looked at the disciple and The master nodded and said, “When
replied, “Come with me.” you desire success as intensely as you desired
He led the disciple to a nearby river air while underwater, then nothing can stop
and gestured for him to sit by the water’s you from achieving it.”
edge. Then, unexpectedly, the master This Zen story illustrates a profound
grabbed the disciple’s head and pushed it lesson about success. It emphasizes the
underwater. The disciple struggled and importance of unwavering determination
tried to break free, but the master’s grip and focus. Just as the disciple’s single-minded
was firm. focus on air was the key to his survival
As the disciple’s struggles grew underwater, similarly, success often requires
weaker, and he felt that he couldn’t hold an unwavering dedication and a singular
his breath any longer, the master finally focus on one’s goals. In Zen philosophy,
released him. Gasping for air, the disciple success is not necessarily about material
emerged from the water, coughing and wealth or fame but about the commitment,
sputtering. determination, and mindfulness one brings
The Zen master calmly asked, “What to their endeavors.

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 Winning Attitude
An Interview With a Businessman

Host: What kind of attitude should today’s youth have to be

successful in business?
Businessman: Young people between the ages of 18 and 21
these days often think they know it all. They feel their seniors are
out of touch, their juniors are clueless, their parents are outdated,
and their teachers are irrelevant. They believe that they alone know
what’s necessary to succeed in the world, what they should do, and
how the world should be run. The general perspective of today’s
youth is quite self-centered.
Having enrolled in college but not attending classes makes no
sense. Let me be honest, when I was studying in Grade 11, I had a
100% attendance record. In my opinion, today’s youth is losing a lot
by thinking they know it all.
If you are absent in one place, it’s crucial to be present in a
better place. If you’re absent from the classroom, then where are
you present? If you’re learning something more valuable elsewhere,
gaining better knowledge, teaching yourself something new, or
acquiring a new skill, then that’s great. But sitting idle in the hostel
or at home, and wasting time watching movies with friends serves
no purpose…
If there is no sincerity towards your goals, then how can
you expect to succeed in life?

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 The Ethical
Triumph
His journey began.
His friends and family were also
amazed by his creation and began
to believe that he was destined for
great success.

In the bustling city of Ethica, where values were held higher than material gains,
lived a young man named Arjun. Arjun was known for his exceptional skills in technology
and innovation. He was highly ambitious and dreamt of becoming a successful
entrepreneur.
Arjun’s journey began when he developed a ground-breaking app that could
revolutionize how people connected with each other. His friends and family were amazed
by his creation and believed he was destined for great success. As the app gained
popularity, Arjun’s fortunes started to rise, and he was offered a lucrative deal by a large
tech company.
However, as Arjun delved deeper into the contract, he realized that the company’s
terms were ethically questionable. They wanted to exploit user data and compromise
users’ privacy for financial gain. This presented a moral dilemma for Arjun. He faced
immense pressure from his family, who saw the financial benefits of the deal, and his
friends, who encouraged him to stand by his principles.
Conflicted, Arjun sought advice from his wise grandfather, who had always
emphasized the importance of ethics. His grandfather shared a story from his own youth:

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 “Once, in the heart of a
dense forest, lived a group of
kind-hearted animals. Their
leader was a wise old owl named
Ollie. One day, a sly fox
approached the animals with a
proposition. The fox promised
them bountiful food in exchange
for their cooperation in a scheme
to deceive unsuspecting
travelers. The animals were
tempted by the offer, as it would
bring them short-term rewards.
But Ollie, guided by his ethical
principles, refused to participate.
Years passed, and the
animals observed that as
they continued deceiving
unsuspecting travelers, the
forest around started withering
away. The fox, having profited
from his scheme, disappeared,
leaving the forest in ruin. Only
the area surrounding Ollie’s tree
remained lush and vibrant.
The other animals
regretted their decision,
realizing that short-term gains
had led to long-term devastation.
Ollie’s unwavering commitment
to ethics had not only preserved
their integrity but also protected
the forest they called home.”

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 Arjun’s eyes were opened by
Arjun’s story his grandfather’s story. He realized
that compromising his ethics for
became an success or money would only lead
to a hollow victory and long-term
inspiration for regret. He turned down the
unethical deal and decided to
the youth of build his own company, one that
valued user privacy and ethical
Ethica. He practices.
Despite facing challenges
showed them and setbacks, Arjun’s dedication to
his principles paid off. His company
that success grew, attracting like-minded
individuals who believed in his
achieved vision. Together, they developed
innovative solutions that
through ethical positively impacted people’s lives
while upholding their ethical
means was not standards.
The youth of Ethica learned
only more from Arjun’s story
compromising ethics might lead
that

fulfilling but also to momentary gains, but the

lasting impact of doing what’s
sustainable in right far outweighed the allure of
quick success.
the long run. The youth came
understand that success achieved
to

while upholding one’s values was

the true measure of triumph.

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Failure is not the opposite of
success; it is a part of success.
 Thomas Edison

Our greatest weakness lies in

giving up. The most certain way
to succeed is to try just one
more time.

When you have exhausted

all possibilities, remember
this: you haven’t.

Many of life’s failures are

people who did not realize
how close they were to
success when they gave up.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

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 Gnani
With
Youth
Questioner: Do we achieve
success through hard work? Or
through merit karma?
Pujyashree: Actual success
is the result of past merit karma. If
one does not have merit karma,
then he will get failure and if his
merit karma is on the rise, then
even with less effort, he will
achieve success. If one does not
have any merit karma, then he will
get failure, even if he works very
hard. If you want to understand
even further… Live for the
happiness of others. There is no
need to live for the benefit of our
own self. If you take benefit by
hurting others, then you will
definitely bind demerit karma.
Dada says, “If you give happiness
to others, then you will bind merit
karma and if you hurt others, then
you will bind demerit karma.”
The result of demerit karma
is failure, difficulty, obstacles and
obstructions, whereas the result of
merit karma is happiness, peace,
wealth and success.
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 Stop hurting others. Don’t
commit any offences. Our life today
is the fruit of past life’s seeds, which
will either give us success or failure.
Don’t go out of control with pride if
you achieve success. Understand
that it is due to good circumstances
and past merit karma. If you get
failure, try again and understand
that you are settling your past life’s
account. Try more and slowly finish
that worldly dealing.
Questioner: Pujyashree, I have
seen for many people, that they do
not achieve success even if they
work very hard, and some just
achieve success without any effort.
Pujyashree: This is all due to
the past life’s account of merit and
demerit karma. What do people do?
They run after success. What do we
teach? We teach you to live your life
without hurting others. The result of
which will bind merit karma and that
will automatically yield benefits as
per your wish. We can never achieve
happiness by hurting others. So, live
your life with just one goal, ‘I do not
want to hurt anyone.’ If you give
happiness to others, that is best. If
not, at least don’t hurt others. Do not
hurt anyone for your own benefit.
Decide that ‘I do not want to hurt
anyone for my own selfish reason,
for money, or for my own comfort.’
The result of which you will gain
everything, including success,
happiness, peace and wealth.

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Success or Failure?
Are the following people a success or a failure? And why?
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Amitabh Bachchan
Success Failure
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Nick Vujicic - Motivational Speaker

Success Failure
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Sudha Murthy

Success Failure

Why

Sant Kabir Das

Success Failure
Why

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 Safin Hasan - First youngest IPS officer
Success Failure
Why

Captain Vikram Batra

Success Failure
Why

Dada, Niruma, Pujyashri

Success Failure
Why

Karna - (Mahabharat)
Success Failure
Why

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Success Failure
Why
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 Anil Ambani
Success Failure
Why

Pramukh Swami Maharaj

Success Failure
Why

Bhupendrabhai Patel
Success Failure
Why

Sundar Pichai
Success Failure
Why

Ranveer Allahbadia
Success Failure
Why

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 Poem
Sahuni potani, alag alag vyakhya chhe...
Sahue mapdand, alag alag ankya chhe...

Koi mane, safaltane purusharth jaruri chhe...

Koi mane, safalta prarabdne abhari chhe...

Nishphalatane koi pachave, koi dur bhage chhe...

Koine nasib, koine potani bhul lage chhe...

Gnanine anusarva, samajvu jene satya chhe...

Safalta nishphalatanu mul, pap-punya chhe...

Sansare kharo safal, je sukh bijane aape...

Swa-par kalyan kaaje, bhav potano kaape...

Baki karvun etlu, koine dukh desho nahi...

Sukh shanti safaltathi, vanchit rahesho nahi...

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