Remember ! No Task is Bigger than Thy power

When i was in Class twelve, my father had put me into a personality development program called MAX Excel. I learned a lot from that program.In particular, the Director of that academy used to say that we should aim for power that are equivalent to our tasks and not for tasks that are equivalent to our power. Promising words indeed? The best way to pray god , no matter what your religion is, is to pray for the power to tackle the tasks at your disposition and not to coax god to make things easy like how we used to cajole a kid into sleep. When I talk about prayer, I remember a story about Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Vivekananda.

Once Vivekananda told Ramakrishna Paramahamsa that he is gonna pray Maa Kali for happiness and material things(I seriously don't remember what it is, anyway that's not our concern here). Paramahamsa laughed and kept quiet. Vivekananda came back to Paramahamsa and told " I went to Maa Kali to pray for material things but what i actually asked was for knowledge and wisdom.This story has the essence of what i set out to say in this post.

But in our daily lives, as human beings we only aim to make tasks simple. For instance, take the case of reservations that our politicians provide for the weaker sections of the society. For a student who belongs to SC/ST category, getting a little more than "just pass "mark is all it takes to get into the much coveted "medicine" or "Engineering". What they should have done is to have provided free coaching classes , expert attention and all the other facilities that their economically forward counterparts have and then made them to compete with the rest. This is where they make them competent and improve their power equivalent to the tasks. By denying the weaker section from competing equally with the rest, they estrange them by indirectly saying " you are not competent enough and only if we relax our standards you can thrive". So next time if your tasks seem to be big, just remember that your power to confront them is also big. Shift your attention to the resources and support that you have to tackle the tasks.