Why You Keep Failing at Your Goals
Ancient Secrets from the Kenopanishad on Spotting Self-Sabotage and Rewiring Your Mind
You know that feeling when you’re stuck in a loop you can’t escape?
You set five alarms to wake up early, only to slam the snooze button every morning. You vow to stay calm today, only to snap at your partner over something trivial. You promise to finally start that project, only to binge Netflix instead.
The problem isn’t laziness. It isn’t a lack of discipline.
According to a 2,500-year-old spiritual manual — the Kenopanishad — your real enemy is something far more insidious: blind spots. Invisible mental patterns that masquerade as “who you are,” quietly running your life like a puppet show.
But here’s the twist: The text claims these blind spots aren’t flaws. They’re clues — if you dare to look.
The Second Verse of Kenopanishad: A Mirror to the Soul
śrotrasya śrotraṁ manaso mano yadvāco ha vācaṁ sa u prāṇasya prāṇaḥ |
cakṣuṣaś-cakṣur-atimucya dhīrāḥ pretyāsmāllokād-amṛtā bhavanti || 2 ||
Understand, the most sophisticated of answering a question is, giving you the methodology you will find experience, the most sophisticated way of answering a question is as an answer giving you a methodology, through which you will find, the experience.
śrotrasya śrotraṁ manaso mano yad |
The whole verse is not giving you any point you can hang around, any visualization, any possibility for imagination, no. It’s very clear. Your pure questioning is turned towards you; your pure questioning is turned towards you. Listen, pure questioning is one of the most powerful way of integrating you.
Pure questioning is one of the most powerful way of integrating your intellect, mind, emotion, thought currents, everything, body.
śrotrasya śrotraṁ manaso mano yadvāco ha vācaṁ sa u prāṇasya prāṇaḥ |
cakṣuṣaś-cakṣur-atimucya dhīrāḥ pretyāsmāllokād-amṛtā bhavanti || 2 ||
Dhīrās, who micro manage the inner space, are Dhīrās. Dhīra means who is not stuck in any pattern inside. If you lose the fight outside and come out and give a 10-day lecture on why you lost, you can’t be a Veera, nobody is interested in giving you any respect by listening to your lecture. Oh it was too hot, and I always feel energetic in the A/C and cold area, but in hot I lose my sense and control, I was so irritated I could not tolerate the other fellows sweating smell and I lost it. Who cares? Loser even if he gives a 10-day lecture on the reasons why he lost is not get the title — Dhīrah. He is not going to be Vīrah (veerah).
Dheera means who conquered inner space, who micro manages inner space, who looks into every thought current, thought pattern. Understand, any problem persists because you are not interested in micro managing certain thought currents in you, certain pattern currents in you, If you are not able to break patterns, thought currents, it can be as simple as a morning waking up call.
When you go through all the homework, the assignments, so many blind spots, which you do not want to see, correct, work, will be exposed to you. Understand, even body, even body needs to be healed. If your body is not cooperating with you for waking up in the morning, it is sick. It is having, entertaining certain blind spots. Don’t let that happen in you. You need to address it, you need to heal it, you need to cure it.
Most subtlest, subtlest patterns do not expose themselves as patterns to you. They try to convince you, you are them, they are your characters, they are your beauty, they are your colors, no no! Any sympathy, any sympathy for your patterns in any form is a crime against yourself, atmahatya, understand.
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Sometimes we say, “why, everyone is suffering with certain pattern, why not me also, let me have this, this is my character.” No, everyone suffering cannot be the justification for your stupidity. Pattern when it convinces you, it is your character, it is your quality, and derives your sympathy, you have committed suicide, you entered into the suicidal space, over. Most, listen to this word, most stupid suffering comes to you by you, not recognizing the source of that suffering as your pattern. Look in, look in, justifications do not bring you result. Long theology philosophies do not bring result.
Who do not compromise in the inner space, who feels their inner space is like their chastity is Dhīrāh.
Understand a grihistha, householder, even if he has multiple physical relationships, even if he is a womanizer, it is not cosmic crime, it is only a social immoral activity, so if somebody suffers because he being a womanizer only that suffering will come to him as karma. If nobody is suffering because of him being a womanizer no karma comes to him, I am not saying be a womanizer, I am just telling you the facts as it is. A declared grihistha even if he is a womanizer as long as he does not cause suffering for anybody, because of his womanizing, no karma, cosmic karma comes to him.
It’s only a immoral activity as per the society, so he has to face society that’s all — but a Sannyasi, who is a declared Sannyasi, who takes the vow, of sannyasa, brahmacharya, aparigraha, asteya, satya, who takes the vow, even if he cherishes, the desires which are not in tune integrity with these 5 vows of ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya, Aparigraha, even if he cherishes mentally something which is not integrated to this 5 vows — brahmacharya, aparigraha, satya, asteya, even if he cherishes it becomes crime against himself, ātmahatyā,, it is not even socially crime, if somebody cherishes, a Sannyasi cherishes certain thought currents which is against his 5 vows, it is not socially immoral or socially crime, society nobody is even going to know, but it is already cosmically crime because it is ātmahatyā, it is against his integrity, he becomes pathita, understand.
Most powerful micro management is micro managing your thought current, only a person who has mastered the micro management of your thought current can be a Dheera, only that person can be a pure real Sannyasi, till then calling yourself Sannyasi is a joke, crude joke you are playing on yourself, not on anybody else, crude joke, understand, it is so crude, it is so crude equal to ātmahatyā, suicidal. A Sannyasi even missing morning spiritual practice is equivalent to patita [fallen person], because today if you miss the morning spiritual routine, to completely fall from all the 5 vows, it won’t take, more time, it’s only question of few days, Ahimsa, Satya Asteya, Aparigraha, Brahmacharya, this 5 vows, falling from them, is not far away.
The level of integrity, the way you micro manage your inner space, that makes you Dhīrāh, that makes you Dhīrāh. Here Upanishad declares Dhīrās are those who discover the ear of the ear, mind of the mind, speech of the speech, prana of the prana, and realizing that, they achieve, the immortal eternal, amrta bhavanti, they achieve, immortal and eternal.
Contemplate, where are the blind spots? Continuously look in, if you are not able to attend the morning yoga, the blind spot is somewhere else; somewhere else, you are deeply cherishing the second thought current, some other thought current, unless you break penetrate into that thought current, you are not going to free yourself, you are not going to liberate yourself, your anger, your discomfort, your vengeance, unless you look into that and break, you are not going to become Dhīrāh, and life is only worth living when you become Dhīrāh.
śrotrasya śrotraṁ manaso mano yadvāco ha vācaṁ sa u prāṇasya prāṇaḥ |
cakṣuṣaś-cakṣur-atimucya dhīrāḥ pretyāsmāllokād-amṛtā bhavanti || 2 ||
Go on micro-managing your inner space, go on micro-managing. The moment you diagnose the thought current, thought pattern, immediately the pattern will melt. The moment you diagnose if it is not melting, that thought current is not a real problem, still you have not put your hands on the real problem.
I tell you, many time when the people are not able to wake up in the early morning they try to put more alarms, more cold water, sleep early, all that does not work, the gastric and stomach ulcer need to be healed, because, the problem is there, putting more alarms, putting more cold water on yourself, putting more people to call you, sleeping early, nothing will work, till you put your hand on the right problem, with everything, with every situation, with every problem, putting your hand on the right thought current, the moment you put your hand on the right thought current, the problem dissolves, problem disappears.
Please understand most of your problems are not straight as you think. If you are not able to wake up in the morning you think, you have laziness as the problem, no, not surely, you must be having gastric and ulcer problem in the stomach, kadukkai pudi [haritaki herb] is the solution, that heals, but your pattern will be such, even that few pills you will never swallow, forget about taking it as a powder, even the few pills, somehow you will find the reason, it’s not there, it’s not, in the galleria, it’s not there in the shop, it’s not there in my bedroom, it’s not there next to my bed, I forgot, I thought next day I will take it, I will take it tomorrow. That’s what I call blind spots, tons and tons and tons of blind spots, tons and tons and tons of blind spots, when you heal your blind spots, even your fingertips will act as eyes.
The Verse That Changes Everything
यदिहास्ति तदन्यत्र यन्नेहास्ति न तत्क्वचित्
yadihāsti tadanyatra yannehāsti na tatkvachit
“What is here is elsewhere. What isn’t here is nowhere.”
Translation: Your blind spots run your world. Master them, and every realm bows to you.
May your questions turn inward.
May your mirrors reveal, not judge.
May your alarms wake not just your body — but your soul.
For the snooze-hitters, the self-doubters, and the brave souls rewriting their inner code.
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