Hari Bol.....
4.
Listen to Heart - Over Confidence Leads to Lack of Confidence ……..
In my school we had lots of
extra-curricular activities. As a student I also enjoyed sports. We had lots of
matches & competitions. The season
was of soccer. A friend of mine came very excitedly that a match has been
decided with Marigold House.
Immediately the group assembled at a place. We knew that Marigold House was better than our Lavender House. They had better players. In
fact it is tough for their captain to decide the first 11 players. It means his
extra players are also better than our playing 11. We were discussing among
ourselves that we should refuse for the match. The message went to House Master
who was himself a good soccer player & was Coach for the school team also.
We call were called & were asked to take up the challenge. He asked us to
finalize the date. It was decided to be played on 27th July. Today
was 3rd July. He started guiding us. We were working out. The
practice started every day with some extra time & the extra tips. We
analyzed the opponent strength & weakness and started acting on ourselves
to their weakness as our strength. The coach decided the strategy. On the other
hand Marigold House was
confident that they had a better team which would no doughtily lead them to
success. The final date was getting closer & our anxiety was on upward trend.
Finally on the great day of 27th July the field was packed. The
house flags were flying. A big crowd gathered including the students from other
houses also. The team of Lavender House
entered in line after taking the blessing from their Guru but the team members
of Marigold entered
from different locations. 2 Players of Marigold House were not in football boot. The teams arrayed in the field.
The teams were formally introduced to the chief guest. There was a sound “Buck
up Marigold” and to
that was a reply “Buck up Lavender”. The
sound of Buck up Marigold House was
full of over confidence and it was not a sound of team togetherness on the
other hand the other team cheering was full of confidence as a team. The team
decided to follow the coach guidance. Finally the match referee blew the
whistle. The kick was taken by Marigold house.
The Center Forward (CF) passed the ball to right-in & then to Center Half
(CH). He took the ball single handedly & managed to reach near the goal
post. The game was going on and the first goal was shot by Lavender House in the 18th minute
of the game. The game became tense. Whistle blew for half time. Our coach told
us to continue to cover the key opponent players and play the way we were
playing i.e. by passing ball and moving ahead as team. The second half started.
The opponent players were getting annoyed & were losing patience due to
which they were irritated. They were continuing making the same mistake of not
playing by passing ball and moving ahead as team. They were playing individual
game with over confidence. Due to anger & fear of losing they were not able
to control themselves and continued to make same mistakes. Finally the match
was over.
Both team played well & the match
was interesting. Everyone enjoyed watching the match. No one expected the Lavender house to play so well. But the team
followed almost all what was told by the coach with strong belief &
confidence. I still remember the words of our coach – “Enjoy the Game. Do your Best (Karma) & play as a Team”.
Really hats off to the coach. On the other hand they were over-confident, less
disciplined, full of ego (all negative vibrations surrounded them). The Lavender House followed the coach & they
believed the Master.
Duryodhana had many great warriors.
Bhishma was with Kauravas. Bhishma was referred as Grandsire. He was respected
by both Pandavas & Kauravas. Duryodhna was in fear so he needed the support
of Bhishma. Duryodhana due his materialistic mind he chose Krishna’s formidable
armed forces. He knew his force was full of strength but lacked strength &
conviction to face the Pandavas as Pandavas had chosen non-combatant Krishna on
their side. The world is pointless without Krishna not that Krishna is
pointless without the world as positive vibration is always with Krishna.
Bhishma observed the fear in Duryodhana & to cheer him he blew his Conch
with great force. In reply to the conches were blown by Krishna & Pandavas.
The sound of conches of Pandavas was deep. It gave a signal of threat to
Kauravas. Sanjay warned Dhritrashtra about the steps taken by him &
Duryaodhana due to their deep blindness. Due to Dhritrashtra & Duryaodhana
over confidence of winning they lacked confident due to which Duryadhana was in
fear & his senses & intellect was not acting in positive, due to which
they could not recognize that Krishna was with Pandavas. The power of supreme
was not considered. They forgot that the Powerful was with Pandavas. Arjuna requested
Krishna to place the chariot in the middle to observe them with whom he had to
fight.
Courtesy : Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (by
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ) , Srimad
Bhagavad-Gita
( by A. Parthasarathy & www.gitadaily.com ) Chapter 1 : Text 12 - 22
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