Effort And Understanding

There is no meaningful effort without an understanding

There is no understanding without a meaningful effort 

We achieve meaningful effort only by failing and trying again

Effort teaches you to be practical

Understanding will bring trust and patience

Understanding is needed to examine WHY and WHAT

Effort is needed to achieve WHAT by doing HOW in accordance with WHY

Focusing only on effort leads to rituals as mind enjoys choosing and making single sided decisions

It will make you a machine which has only a fixed purpose

The Goal is almost forgotten and The Path becomes everything

Focusing only on knowledge of understanding lead towards hallucination and laziness as mind enjoys the imagination, you will become a pundit, a scholar.

You will excel in debates, logic, philosophy but you will fail to experience life with full potential

The Path is almost forgotten, The Goal becomes the only desire 

Most of the times, the time spent in doing the effort and gaining understanding are not equal in proportion

You might have to take many meaningful steps before you arrive at certain understanding

You must do not an extra effort outside your understanding unless needed

The key here is not to identify yourself with either effort or understanding

The more directed effort you make towards your optimum subjective path to realisation less time spent in failure

If someone who already walked the path is available, Always seek an understanding

But never directly adopt the understanding, seek the method to arrive at it on your own

People who have higher understanding tend to ignore effort they made to get there

It is why they give advice of adopting the understanding directly than to preach a method to arrive at it

They should focus on both, especially a method

Effort and Understanding must embrace each other to achieve the realisation, the ultimate understanding.

After realisation, action is needed but becomes effortless.

So the balance HAPPENS it cannot be brought. It happens when you are open to both effort and understanding.

It is applicable to any area of your life, personal, corporate, social and especially spiritual.