The stories from great epic “Maha Bharat” are one of my
favourite and I have been brought up by listening them from my mother. One of
those story about the great warrior 'ARJUNA' which I have recently shared with
my son- Orian as he is fond of listening them as well. It tells about “FOCUS”
in life. Generally what we miss in this hectic schedule where the priorities
changes after every five minutes is FOCUS. I wish that we all should understand
its importance. So friends, the story goes like this....
Once upon a time when Guru Drona was teaching archery to
Kaurava & Pandavas. He realised to tell them about the importance of focus
so he arranged a class of archery in the jungle. He fixed a toy-bird in the
leaves of a tree. He marked an eye mark over the bird. After fixing it there,
he called all his students with their archery equipment’s there. He instructed
them that they would have to shoot the eye of that bird by the arrow. He
started calling his students one by one. He asked them to pull the arrow and
then to explain what one saw after pulling the arrow at the target. One of them
answered about the beautiful sky, the other one told about the nice scenic view
of jungle, someone told about the large green leafy tree. Someone mentioned
about the mountains, cloud, many birds in the sky. They all mentioned about the
toy-bird as well on which they had to hit with their respective arrow. Guru
DRONA listen everyone calmly and gave them opportunity to hit the eye of the
bird but no one could succeed in doing so. As everyone realised that the given
task was almost impossible to do as penetrating in the eye of that bird is not
only difficult but also impractical. On hearing their views about the given arduous
task, Guru Drona called ‘ARJUN’ and instructed him to fix the arrow in his
arch. ‘ARJUN’ took his bow and put an arrow over the target. On seeing him in
ready position, Guru Drona asked him to explain what he was seeing than.
‘ARJUN’ replied that now what he could see it only the eye on which he had to
target. On listening this all other students laughed loudly and mocked ARJUN
about his poor eye sight. They talked among them that as all of them were
seeing everything still could not penetrate the target. ‘ARJUN’ who hardly saw
a tiny thing would not able to target it properly. Guru heard every one, smiled
and ordered ‘ARJUN’ to shoot the arrow. “ARJUN’ left the pulled arrow and it
was surprise to everyone that it hit at the right place of the toy-bird i.e.
the eye. All of them got surprised and request Guru to explain the reason for
it. The guru smiled and explained that the reason for ‘ARJUN’s success was his
focus over the target. He allowed his mind to see what was required. At that
stage seeing every other thing was useless as the target was small but could be
achieved. He allowed his mind to free from other worldly pleasure things and
controlled it to see what was to be seen.
A great meditator could achieve that through focussing over
the aim. The guru further awoke them to realise the power of mind. The
education does same with us. It is not a tool to 100% sure success but a tool
to motivate. It realises us to understand our potential. A
great mind is not born; it is achieved through sheer hard work, focus and
determination. Understanding our potential and comprehending our limitation
is the key to all success which is ahead of us, waiting eagerly for kissing our
footsteps.
‘ARJUN’ understood that and that is why the KRISHANA- the god
became his charioteer. We all have this inside of us and God is still waiting
happily for another ‘ARJUN’ to become his charioteer.
