Living in Hope

TRY, TRY, TRY AGAIN The only condition of success is continuous effort. That is, to make such unflagging efforts, as are essential to achieve the desired objectives in the world of God according to the law of nature set by God. A person who was employed as an ordinary worker in a Bidi (tobacco) factory soon learnt the entire art of the business and set up his own factory. He initially invested only Rs. 5000/- in his business but then by dint of fifteen years’ hard work, his business progressively increased until it expanded into a big factory. One day, narrating his life story to his friends, he said: “Just as a young child grows into boyhood after fifteen years, so does a business. I have not reached this stage in one day. It has been a fifteen-year struggle.” In truth, every piece of work is accomplished in “fifteen” years, be it of an individual or a nation, be it a business or a social service. Those who long for a recipe for instant success are, in fact, living in a fool’s paradise. It is all very well to say that a hop,