Siddhartha’s Suicide
My prayers to V G Siddhartha, the departed soul, founder of CafĂ© Coffee Day. Now what we can learn is that life is not worth committing suicide for. Life is worth living. All of us should learn one thing: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently, produce productively. First, we need to set our goals, and, second, we need to audit our effort. How we are going towards the goal and realise that more than working hard, we should work smart. When you are working smart, you will audit your life; you will also learn how to be flexible. Agility, mobility and stability are important dimensions in doing business. If we can learn to be flexible, to enjoy what we are doing, then, we teach ourselves that we are bigger than the result. Success should not define us, failure should not define us; one should become bigger than the outcome. When we become bigger than success and failure, there is fulfilment. The Bhagwad Gita says fulfilment is what we need to see. If a person can learn to love what they do and do what they love and if any failure happens in life, just learn from it. If we look at Siddhartha’s life, his assets were more than his liabilities. He could have clearly solved his problem. Somewhere we have to train our mind to healthy options; better options and not bitter options. Let us all pray for Siddhartha, such a good soul and who did good work. Let us all be alert
Source: Economic Times, 13/08/2019
