KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2026
Self Confidence and Ambition
Ambition indicates lack of self-confidence! When you
know you can achieve something easily, you are not ambitious about it. You are
simply confident about it. Your ambition indicates challenge and uncertainty,
which is contrary to self-confidence. So one you has total self-confidence
cannot be ambitious!!
At the same time a person who lacks total
self-confidence cannot be ambitious either!! For ambition to be, one must have
a little bit of confidence and total ignorance of the Self. It is next to
impossible to have total confidence without Self-knowledge. With the knowledge
of the Self, there is nothing left to achieve, for the entire nature of
existence is mere play and display of one's own consciousness. People take
pride in being ambitious. The wise man will only smile at them. Ambition can
never be for something you know you can achieve effortlessly. You can only be
ambitious about something for which you have to put effort, which poses a
challenge and of which you are not even certain you will be able to achieve or
not. Moreover it takes away the joy of the moment. With the Self-knowledge
nothing is challenging to you, nor you need to put any effort. Nature is ready
to fulfill your intention even before they arise, giving you no chance to crave
or desire. Nature does not allow the wise to have a desire (ambition), and the
unwise to fulfill or get rid of the desire (ambition).
Do you still want to be ambitioum? Or is your only
ambition is to get rid of ambition !! (Laughter)
II JAI GURUDEV II
