Working for success

Many thanks to B. Bh. - reproduced from a private communication:

All activities in life, large or small, get broken into just three elements – and only three ‘energies’ or ‘capabilities’ are required to achieve it.

1. Iccha Shakti: this is the power of ‘Resolve’ or Sankalpa. It helps define the goal. It is required to believe in the goal, and the firmness with which we decide to achieve it.

2. Gyana Shakti: The knowledge of how to reach the goal. The need for meticulous planning. The need to discover the alternate ways, if any, to achieve it.

3. Kriya Shakti: The actual work to reach the goal. Just setting the goal, and knowing how to reach it will not achieve it.

Gyana and Kriya Shakti should only partially influence Iccha Shakti. Otherwise, we will never set great aspirations. At the time of setting the goal, we may not know how we are going to achieve it. We may not have the resources to work to achieve it. But, if we are determined, we will ‘find out’ how to do it, and we will create the necessary action or work for it.

The importance of all three are sometimes not understood – and people focus only on Gyana and Kriya. But without the resolve, it is easy to change the goal because our knowledge or capacity made us think that it is unachievable.

Iccha Shakti ensures that we may need to change our plan or execution, but that we never change our goal.