Inner Truth: Ask Him for Help

"Why do we have failures at all?" someone asked me. "Why did God not create a world in which there was only success? What a wonderful world it would be!"

But when you come to think of it, it is failures that give a meaning to success. Wherever you have success, there is bound to be failure. The two go together. It is failure that draws out the best that is within us. It is failure that unfolds, unlocks our hidden powers. In the measure in which we face failures in the right spirit, in that measure the tremendous power that lies locked up within us is unfolded.

In a certain cotton factory, a notice was put up on the walls of the workroom. It read as follows: "If your threads get tangled, send for the foreman." 

One day a new worker got her threads tangled. She tried to disentangle them, but only made them worse. Then she sent for the foreman.

He arrived quietly and looked at her threads. "You have been trying to do this yourself?" he asked her.
"Yes," she replied.
"But why did you not send for me? Those were your instructions."
"I was doing my best," she said.
"No, you were not," the foreman said. "Remember that doing your best is sending for me!"

How often do we act like this worker! When we are in trouble, we often make things worse for ourselves. We run from pillar to post, appealing for help. We turn to our relatives; we entreat our friends for their support; we knock at the doors of our bank manager; we appeal to our business associates. We are only making things worse. We should call upon God for help, for that is the best thing we can do!

The author, head of Sadhu Vaswani Mission, is a spiritual master. 

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