Victory and defeat are activities of life, not of life.

The Olympics is over. The winners have returned to their home countries and so are those who could not make it to the winner's line. All the people who dreamed of joining the venture have returned from that journey. The world saw him, saw his journey, but remembered whom? Who will be remembered? If someone asks you how many people from India had participated in this Olympic tour, you can hardly answer it, but if someone asks you the names of the winners, then you will count the names falling down. Or maybe you forget some names but your good will is to remember all the names, but for losers this feeling does not come to mind. We only remember the winners in any walk of life, not just the Olympics. The most beautiful words of language, the most advanced forms of rhetoric and the most effective rules of grammar are spent on them. And for those who do not have a mark of victory on their foreheads, some pretty seemingly hollow words and blessings wishing to 'win further' are used. You might be wondering what is wrong with that? When everyone's effort is to win, then the determination of success and failure will also be in the same way? There is nothing wrong with the notion of winning from this point of view, but there are serious difficulties in making losing synonymous with dismissal.

In fact, modern society has firmly established the notion of progress as an ideal of life that the individual is ready to go against himself in order to achieve it. Or going a little further, a person's psyche has been prepared to consider words like success/victory etc. as bigger than his existence and he is encouraged to go beyond his ability for this. You see, not only a person is prepared to face the torture of 'hard labor' for success, but the society also appreciates this preparation. How much you appreciate it when you know the journey of an Olympic champion who was 'working hard' to win, isolated from the world away from his kinsmen. You think that this sacrifice of a person is of a high order and such efforts are required for success. Do you ever consider how appropriate it is to prepare a person for suffering against himself in order to succeed in a single sport? After all, how did it decide that it is best to break away from your world and work hard for success in a vacuum? How is its value determined? How was it determined who was successful and who failed in this process? Perhaps there is no satisfactory answer for this or we never think in this way because only by the reaction of the society, the determination of success and failure is considered fixed and this determination is quite clear.

The compulsion to live for material achievements in opposition to one's inner connections is the reality of modern life. The irony of this fact is that this compulsion is often taken for granted. When an office worker looking for career heights in his life does not get a handful of time to live, then on what basis can his hard tenacity while seeking height be called success? How can people who are living a cultured life in a foreign geography outside their kin for a slightly better physical environment be called successful even after they have increased their economic status? How to say that the desire to pursue a material goal from a lonely life, except friendship-love, is said to be meaningful? Without inner peace, without the joy of life, it is erroneous to evaluate the worthiness of any attempt at natural participation in this karma-yoga. Material achievements can be piled up even at the cost of being empty of the inner self. Victory and defeat are activities of life, it is wrong to make it life. With the pace of life, these activities keep on being done automatically, but it is wrong to place one action on the forehead and reject the other. Defeat is not acceptable, but it is bad to prepare yourself for suffering in order to win. And even more so when this suffering does not cause any positive interference on public welfare. The coherence of outer life and inner life should be at the root of the field of action. The joy of life, the life of bliss, lies in this. Words like 'move forward', 'success' and 'progress' have to be given new meanings and have internal-external coherence at their core

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