Resh­ma Ra­goonath

Sis­ter BK Meera Na­ganan­da, Brah­ma Ku­maris South East Asia re­gion­al di­rec­tor, says she knows the se­cret to suc­cess and will share it to­day at a free pub­lic lec­ture at the Raj Yo­ga Cen­tre, Ed­in­burgh Gar­dens, Ch­agua­nas, at 6 pm.Na­ganan­da, 63, of Mysore, In­dia, in an in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian on Fri­day, said re­search showed that on­ly ten per cent of peo­ple were suc­cess­ful, while the oth­er 90 per cent were still wait­ing for suc­cess.

This, she said, had left many peo­ple un­hap­py be­cause they "think when you ac­quire some­thing in plen­ty, ac­qui­si­tion of wealth, of po­si­tion or any­thing that is plen­ty, that is called suc­cess."In the rush to at­tain wealth and suc­cess, she said, peo­ple were com­pro­mis­ing val­ues be­cause they were fight­ing to be suc­cess­ful.Na­ganan­da said: "We are com­pet­ing with each oth­er. We are los­ing val­ues. We are los­ing hu­man­i­ty and hu­man life and that is why our so­ci­ety has be­come more com­pet­i­tive. Every­one wants to prove them­selves bet­ter than the oth­er. I think that is not re­al suc­cess when you get so much stress. The re­al suc­cess is when you are with­out stress, when you can en­joy what you have achieved."

Na­ganan­da, who joined Raj Yo­ga Cen­tre at the age of 19, said for one to be­gin trav­el­ling the road to suc­cess he or she had to de­ter­mine "what is suc­cess.""Suc­cess, ac­tu­al­ly, is al­so be­ing con­tent­ed in your life and bring­ing con­tent­ment to oth­ers," she said.Suc­cess is be­ing able to keep up your promise in life what­ev­er promise you make, if you are able to keep up that promise, that is a suc­cess."She added that one could ex­pe­ri­ence suc­cess in life on the ba­sis of cre­at­ing cer­tain steps and fol­low­ing them."The se­cret I want to share is how to ex­pe­ri­ence suc­cess when you are a fail­ure," she said."Most of us are not al­ways suc­cess­ful...that does not mean we have to give up."

Na­ganan­da, who is in Trinidad on the last leg of her Caribbean tour, did not want to re­veal too much in­for­ma­tion be­fore this evening's lec­ture, but ex­plained three el­e­ments nec­es­sary for suc­cess."The foun­da­tion of suc­cess is faith and be­lief...If we do not have faith in our­selves that we can, then we can­not," she said. "Sec­ond­ly, suc­cess is based on de­ter­mi­na­tion...You need to have willpow­er to make things hap­pen and car­ry them to con­clu­sion."Na­ganan­da said the third el­e­ment of suc­cess is "con­nect­ed with com­mit­ment. More el­e­ments, she said, would be re­vealed at the lec­ture.For more in­for­ma­tion you can con­tact the Raj Yo­ga Cen­tre at 653-9642 or email anand@bkin­fo.net