Success

When effort, Time and Daiva work together there is success.

Effort is in your hands.

Every endeavor has a time span. Have the patience to wait for the span to get completed.
Daiva is not in your hands. It is in God's hands. By prayer you gain the grace of God.

Grace comes as hope.

Pour all your enthusiasm, expertise, talent, tact and knowledge into your effort. Commit yourself to your effort.

Every seed has its own time span to sprout.

Give a reasonable time span for your efforts to fructify.

Pray fervently to God and heartily seek His help.

Surrender

Thy will be done, not mine.
Let me not resist God who expresses Himself as the order of Creation.
Whatever happens is in harmony with God. To accept totally the past , the living and moving present , without any demur or resistance is surrender.
God is the lord of the law of KARMA. He gives us our deserts as per the chart of Karma. He is called the Karma Phala data. What we do brings a result. Where we do works on the result. The forces in creation affect our results. The resolution of all these three is what we get as our deserts. The inexorable law that governs the entire process is called God (Iswara). As we sow we reap. Depending on several factors what we sow germinates and gradually bears fruit. Just as the growth of the seed depends on the nature of the seed, the nature of the soil, the atmosphere, the sunlight, the moonlight, the irrigation we do, so too what we do, where we do, how we do, with whom we do, with what intentions we do decides our deserts.
To know that there is a power unseen which shapes our ends, rough hue them how we will, is surrender.
In Him we live, by His behest which is beneficial to one and all in all periods of time should we do.
O Lord let Thy will be done not mine.
Grant not what I ask, grant what is good and noble. If what I ask is in harmony with Thine will please do grant. This is my prayer.

JAGAT - The world of manifestation.

The indescribable power of Iswara is called Maya. Iswara with his power called Maya manifests thia world. Maya is otherwise called Prakriti. Tigunatmika Maya- maya is made up of three gunas ( modes, preponderences, modalities). They are Satwa, rajas and tamas. Satwa mode makes one seek knowledge. Such a one seeks purity. illumination, clarity. He persues pleasures. Such a one is bound by knowledge and pleasure. A person in the rajas mode is a workaholic. He has a passioon for work. He develops deep attachments and goes to extremes in love, hatred, envy, jealousy etc. By these modes he is bound . A person of tamas mode is lethargic, is given to procrastination, becomes indifferent to priorities in life,is stubborn, refractor yand adament. His mind is always confused.

These modes alternate in the mind and create a pall of thicknes preventing one from recognising the atma, the awareness that he is. These modes find expression in yajna(sacrificial acts) dana (charitable acts), tapas- austerities and in acts that need decisions. Gunas also act in the field of sraddha -faith-beleif systems.

The whole world of transactions come under the sway of these gunas.

The unique power of Maya is reversal. Reversal is to make a noun an adjective and adjective a noun.Maya hides the real and projects the unreal. It makes as it were the anatma as atma and atma as anatma, the attribute of the concrete as concrete and concrete as its adjective. viz: gold chain. Here the concrete is gold and attribute is chain But in the word, chain is the noun and gold is the adjective. this is the reversal.In Sanskrit this reversal is called 'vyatyayaha' . maya gives substantiality to things that don't have substantiality. Maya makes adjectives pull down the noun and make adjectives occupy the throne of the noun. Sat- existence is noun and objects in jagat are adjectives. Maya's pravritti does the reversal.Maya brings out the 'anyonya mithuni karanam ' intermixture. Tne projective power (vikshepa) of Maya is wonderful, this power is the one that manifested the surge called creation. This projective power uses the modes satwa,rajas and tamas and projects the plurality and the variegated variety.

Prapatti - Surrender

Surrender to God has a catch. What are you going to surrender? Will it be of any use to God? Does God need the things that you surrender to Him? If he needs these , then He is a needy person like any of us. Further to surrender everything you must meet God, who then is a personalised entity like you , occupying a place in space and so becomes limited .So then there must be a depth meaning to this word surrender which is free from all these confusions.God here is Iswara who is present in this creation as several orders called Dharma. To conform to the Dharma and to perform our allotted tasks is Surrender. To accept the results of these tasks as a prasada (grace) from Iswara is what is suggested.