“Failure is an essential aspect of success,” said Khambatta, a teacher during my teen years in London. Often with a mischievous glint in his eye, he transferred knowledge with what we now call tough love.
At that time of my life I believed in my own possibilities to the extreme level enabled by youth. I allowed for nothing but success in every thing I did. When I failed to get A+ or 100 per cent, my confidence took a little bruising.
Thought is the real action. The material ritual enacts what you have formed in your mind. Have pride in what is within your direct responsibility. Then he delivered his secret:
Success is when you detach from the action, and surrender it upwards in good faith to your god or ideal.
That is the difference between real success and fake success. The power of detaching from the results is what makes what you do great. The size of the thing is unimportant: whether it is to form a country, save a world or make a two course meal. The size and impact of an action is outside of your direct responsibility, so says the one law.
Khambatta said things which live on in my consciousness. He said, Detachment is a deep secret of the law of cause and effect. When done effectively with pure intent detachment activates love; things take on a life of their own and live on effortlessly, multiplying.
It is one of the requirements for true abundance or feeding, say, five thousand people with a small amount of food.
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