By Being Disciplined
One, who aspires to the highest, must be prepared for the highest discipline. Not because the discipline will lead him to the goal, but because the goal sets these limits without which you can't achieve it. It is like this - you know you can travel in a bus with your windows open, but you can't fly in a plane with your windows open. You may say, "I want air, I would like to wave to my wife who is standing outside." So this restriction, rather these restrictions, seem to narrow the way a little, and put in a squeezing pressure from behind, so that we have only one way in which we can possibly walk, and that is to the destination.
What I have been trying to tell you is: discipline does not lead automatically
to achievement, but achievement is not possible without discipline. Now,
this rather paradoxical statement, I would think, some of you would be able
to work out, remembering that, for petty trivial things you don't need much
discipline. That is why I think most people who have lesser aims are so
indisciplined. Because they don't need discipline for those achievements.
I can become a millionaire by doing something (hooky-cooky) in a hanky-panky
way. According to the Vedas, you can have a 'pisacha ' marriage by
doing anything you like. But a Vedic marriage should have the sanction
of society, the sanction of parents, the sanction of Divinity itself. So,
there is a tradition in everything, you see. One can get away at the lowest
level with no discipline at all. At the highest level, lack of discipline
means probably death.
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