10 Things You Could Learn From Gandhi To Be Sucessful

Do you know the most sucessful man on this earth ever.
Yes,It's Mahatma Gandhi.
I have listed 10 lessons from his life to be sucessful in life & this sucess is much greater sucess than,sucess in business.

1. He was aflame with love.
"Gandhi was a pioneer in these new realms of consciousness. Everything he did was an experiment in expanding the human being's capacity to love, and as his capacity grew, the demands on his love grew
more and more severe, as if to test what limits a human being can bear.
But Gandhi had learned to find a
fierce joy in these storms and trials.
. . .By the end of his life he was
aflame with love."

2) He expended all his energy in
service of others.
"Late in Gandhi's life a Western
journalist asked, 'Mr. Gandhi, you've been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you ever feel like taking a few weeks off and going for a vacation?' Gandhi laughed and said, 'Why? I am always on vacation.'
Because he had no personal irons in the fire, no selfish concerns involved in his work, there was no conflict in his mind to drain his energy."

3) He gave his mission his best
shot.
"Full effort is full victory,' said
Gandhi. You need not be troubled if you have made mistakes, or if your ideal has slipped away. Just
continue to give your best. If you
fall, pick yourself up and march on. If you cannot run, walk. If you
cannot walk, crawl. Nothing in life is more joyful or more thrilling. The effort alone brings a continuing wave of joy in which every personal problem, every suffering and humiliation, is forgotten."

4) He reframed greed.
"There is a story told about
Mahatma Gandhi. On his train trips he used to get off at every stop and collect money for the poor. A friend said of him, 'If you want to see somebody consumed by greed, look no further.' Of course, instead of being greedy for himself, he was
greedy for the poor."

5) He practiced compassion in
creative ways.
"One day Gandhi stepped aboard a
train as it started to move, and one of his shoes slipped off and dropped on the tracks. Unable to retrieve it, he calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first. When an amazed passenger asked why he had done that, Gandhi smiled and said, 'The poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track will now have a pair he can use.' With the eyes of his imagination, Gandhi saw a man with bare feet, saw him coming across a lone shoe and desperately searching
for the other, and saw the
disappointment on his face when he didn't find it; seeing these things, Gandhi did what he could to help."

6) He redefined success.
"Without realizing it, Gandhi had
found the secret of success. He
began to look on every difficulty as an opportunity for service, a
challenge which could draw out of
him greater resources of intelligence and imagination."

7) He emphasized the privilege of
giving. "Gandhi reminded us that it was everyone's privilege to give. We should thank the poor for giving us the opportunity to undo some of our karma."

8) He showed us how a mantra
could be one's staff of life.
"Rama, Gandhi's mantram, is a
formula for abiding joy. Gandhi used to walk for miles every day repeating it to himself until the rhythm of the mantram and his footsteps began to
stabilize the rhythm of his
breathing, which is closely
connected with the rhythm of the
mind. When fear or anger threatened him, clinging to Rama used the power of these emotions to drive this
formula for joy deep into Gandhi's
mind.
"Gandhi said: 'The mantram
becomes one's staff of life and
carries one through every ordeal.'

9) He was the essential pioneer of
nonviolence.
"In its positive form, nonviolence
means the largest love, the greatest charity. If I am a follower of nonviolence, I must love my enemy. I must apply the same rules to the wrong-doer who is my enemy or a stranger to me, as I would to my wrong-doing father or son. This active nonviolence necessarily includes truth and fearlessness. The practice of nonviolence calls forth
the greatest courage."

10) He passed on his spiritual
legacy to all of us.
"I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort, and cultivate the same hope and faith.Gandhi, who always claimed he had no more than ordinary capacities, is proof that these spiritual laws do work, and
that by obeying them we can
transform our character and
consciousness. Gandhi belongs to
our own century and faced many of the problems we ourselves are facing today, and even though physically dead, he still continues to give new direction to our civilization."

(Source: Eknath Easwaran )