DEFEAT THE
DEFEATIST WITHIN
by Dr. Gautam
Chatterjee
THERE is a self within, which cruise along and talks to you everytime be
at the time of decision taking or going for a crashing action. With this
self you can discuss any issue without any veil. It pushes your decision
and sometime deter your action. This is simply called the inter-play of
conscious . And this conscious is a pyramidal building erected out of
bricks called moral and ethical values. So the interplay and guidance
within are determining factor for Karma.
But we often encounter the
question of "to be or not to be" and ‘right and wrong’ and most of the
time we take an impulsive decision to act. Once you become shaky about
some action you are termed as "defeatist". Does this mean the inner voice
which deter you from taking some action is the defeatist? No. Decisions
and discussions within are normal process where in pros and cons of an
issue is analyzed and finally one half your self agrees and other
disagree. On voting within some part of decision looks worth listening.
Here come the play of optimistic character and defeatist nature. When a
person who has seen many ‘successes’ takes a decision with the aura of
impulse of that particular time. If finally he gets success the credit
goes to this optimistic character. And if one experience a negative
result, then one says ‘its part of the game". On the other hand a person
who has lost or experienced negative results many a time he tends to be
reluctant. This obviously create the defeatist character. Be it at the
level of advisor or actor himself he nurtures this nature to invite the
‘defeat’!
But a series of negative
experiences are not uncommon. Then one can ask ‘how can I ignore my past
negative experiences...and becoming defeatist is normal for me. So I am
shaky!’ The answer is experiences are not enough to take a decision but
one has to hear the inner voices which actually analyses a thing with pure
and transparent angle and there is no colour glass which can also be named
as passion or impulse. Actually we limit our decision to a context and we
ignore our inner voice.
If our value system has a
sound footing and knowledge of good and bad , right and wrong are not
based on narrow ground of pity gains then your inner voice cannot be
wrong!
Let us take decisions not as
optimist or defeatist and we be guided by the principles of universal
rightness. And our individual life is a karmakshetra and life with others
is the dharmakshetra. And there is no dilemma of dharmakshetra only action
from within to interlink the supreme soul of cosmic dimensions. Thus
defeating the defeatist is no problem as long your karma is also your
dharma