Look Under Under Your Foot

Often in our life a time comes when we see all dark around us and we feel that there is no way around. A feeling of stagnancy engulfs us and we feel that we can’t proceed further in life. A person who passes through this state of phase can only understand the state of mind in that situation.

A prolonged phase of such a mental state can be detrimental to one's life. We have seen and heard about ample incidents in the recent past through newspapers and media. A student can be a victim of such a phase of life, similarly can be a very high profile affluent businessman too. Power of money too fails there.

How to hold back and overcome this kind of grim phase of life?

One answer could be: Being Courageous, being bold and having Faith there is light behind darkness.

We give a lot of importance to money in life which is quite natural. But giving undue importance can be fatal too in the journey called life.

What counts for more importance in our life is COURAGE, being bold. In Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna counted courage as one of the Divine qualities.

A lot of time just saying have courage doesn’t work out. But one effective means could be reading stories and keeping them in front of our eyes day and night so that this kind of story inspires us and helps us to get that courage, hold on to that courage which will take us to the sunny days of life again.

One such story is from the life of Swami Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda along with his companion, an old monk, were having a long trek in the Himalayas to reach a particular destination up in the hill. They were half through when the old monk sat down with exhaustion and said with frustration looking at the foot of an upward hill, ‘How can I cross this? I will not be able to cross this hill, I will die.’

Swami Vivekananda listened to his old companion and said ‘Look down at your feet. The road that is under your feet is the road that you have passed over and is the same road that you see before you; it will soon be under your feet.’

These words of Swami Vivekananda emboldened the old monk and gathered courage to walk again to reach the destination.

Yes, whatever the challenge in life, if we look back we can realize that we have crossed so many hurdles in life and came out victorious.

This too shall pass. Just that we have to look under our feet.