One Mentor At A Time!!

!!Namaste!!

SATVIK ARYA
6 min readDec 27, 2022

You must be thinking about the subject also called title😜 “one Mentor at a time!!” YEs, you acquired right meaning about the subject i am going to be with one mentor at a time or long period of time.

But why only choose “One Mentor at a time!!”?

Seriously, i also have no idea why i choose this analogy in which risk, courage involved, why not choose something in which you can shift as soon as you might feel something not right it might help me to be bit relaxed. But the problem is i am already following this strategy unconsciously and result is i am still here didn’t reach to the place where i have to.

So, you know that’s what i have been thinking without even realizing that i am going with such analogy but then today i realized something different. It’s true that going with one mentor at a time or long period is risky but what stupidity is “going with lots of mentor and reaching not a single mentor mindset” so let me give you example why i am choosing “one mentor at a time” analogy.

Example

In India we generally called mentor as a Guru and as a current living creature😁 i also called my mentors as Guru. So here is story for you and me.

Story Begins:

Many people live around the country we called them Society and there are some who lives separated from Society to whom we referred as Rishi, Mentor/Guru and we find them at peaceful land with full of knowledge and light for others in the dark, that’s one of the reason people respect them and sent their loved ones (children) as their student to acquire enlightenment which makes society even better for everyone that’s one of the good deeds that’s society do for others and also for themselves.

In a same manner, one parents decided to send their children “Ram and Shyam” to the one great mentor called “Swami Dayanand” who is famous for the knowledge acquired from Ved (Vedas). Both Children are smart and have a great body so both reach to the Swami Dayanand at night from their living place which took almost more than half day, both are tired but still they show their gratitude to their mentor and touch their forehead to the feet of Swami Dayanand ji and Swamiji give their blessings to them and also provide food, bath and room without a bed for rest.

So fast forward in the morning, both wake up at 4am did yoga, meditations and other stuff,

Now 1st Lecture begins:

Swamiji asked: Why are you here?

Students: To acquire knowledge.

Swamiji: You can acquire the same knowledge at your home place too so then why are you here?

Ram: Here we don’t get distract from someone else and acquire the knowledge.

Shyam: If we get distracted then we are not going to acquire the same knowledge which we are going to acquire here, that’s why we are here.

Swamiji: Hmmm, then tell me if you asked your parents to “do not disturb” Did they not listen to you? When they are ready to send you here, so far from your hometown?

Ram: They might try not to disturb us, but we are not that much able to get focused so we might try to distract ourselves.

Shyam: Ram is correct, we are not that much focused to manage ourselves that’s why we are here.

Swamiji: So, you are here to learn and manage yourself that’s it.

Students: Yes, Swamiji

Swamiji: Then you can pack your bag and sit here until you realize why you are here? because you can acquire knowledge and discipline from anyone you don’t need me. First of all, try to figure out why are you here?

Ram and Shyam: ?????

They both started discussing each other to figure out why are we here? to acquire knowledge but Swamiji said that’s not the correct answer that means we are not here for knowledge and discipline then why are we here
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No answer is coming to their mind “Why are they here?” And day passed away,

Next Day

Students: Don’t know why are we here? we don’t get it, how exactly we figure out the reason why are we here? we thought to acquire knowledge and discipline but that’s not the correct answer it’s just one of the products which we are going to get but not the reason why are we here? so how we supposed to know the answer?

Swamiji: That’s what you have to figure out “why are you here?” your reason that’s the only thing which can solve each puzzle in your life, look outside and inside, you will get your answer soon, if you can see it.

They both start looking with one question in mind “why are we here?” outside and inside but acquired nothing and then both go out to acquire the reason “why are we here?”

Ram saw spider which is trying to catch her pray “flyer” who is flying from one place to another which is frustrating for some reason but spider didn’t give up, if flyer goes from one place to another, spider follows flyer everywhere no matter where it goes and try to catch flyer and the technique which spider using is “going behind the flyer where flyer can’t see the spider and grab it and it workedđŸ˜± spider actually grab flyer so tight that even flyer not able to do anything and become spider pray and spider go to the place where he/she can eat quietly and enjoy the meal.

Talk about Coincidence same situation arise in front of Shyam.

Spider is trying to catch her pray called “flyer” who is flying from one place to another, but spider didn’t give up. Spider follows everywhere each place and used the same technique go from behind where flyer can’t see and attack flyer, but this time flyer flies far from spider eye range and spider not able to catch, so spider pray gone away this time.

So, then Shyam thinks spider is the one who is attacking and flyer escaping from spider attack so what’s the point of trying when you are not getting what you want.

Ram think after trying so much hard spider really gets what spider want, so if you try hard, you will get what you want.

So, Ram and Shyam realized something and came back to tell Swamiji what happened with them, after hearing both Ram and Shyam.
He smiled and said: the flyer which Ram saw got eaten by spider, in the end flyer life end but the flyer which Shyam saw is not eaten by spider which likely to say there is something, sometime left for that flyer so her reason for being here alive is still somewhere and it might end in sometime later but till then flyer is free to fly.

Automatically, Ram and Shyam realize something too, Said:

We both don’t know why are we here? what we did? why we did? we don’t know but what we know is we are here and wherever we go from here is totally upto you, so we are here for you and for no one else. 🙂

Story Ends.

That’s what you do, you are here, if you start climbing each mentor's rope to pull yourself up, at a same time, you might fall but if you pull one rope at a time, one mentor at a time you will reach to him.

Now you might be wondering what happen if rope broke?

Well brother, what happen when you decided to play and to win that time you never thought about how you are going to play? you just played with whatever you can, so start climbing the rope don’t think about what’s going to happen to the rope just start climbing.

That’s my analogy, it’s risky but what next going to happen i don't know right now but i will start updating you about it so enjoy this analogy and any thoughts you have might help others.

So, leave Comments!!

Thanks For Enjoying


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