WHAT IS SO PIOUS ABOUT EFFORT EVEN IN THE FACE OF DEFEAT?

When you know, it is highly likely that you are going to get defeated, it is very common sensical to give up or to start preparing for the next trial. What is interesting, however, is that where common sense stops giving answers, there is a need of philosophical reasoning. What will a Karm yogi do on the face of defeat? He will keep putting effort or doing his work. What is so pious about work that it renders defeat also pleasant. It is assumed as common sense that one will get sad that even after all attempts, he couldn't succeed. But the piety of Pure effort is that it moves you beyond victory and defeat. 

And within the dimensions of victory and defeat, it is remorseful. What is that you have achieved? You are lingering in this game of defeat and success because you hope that one day, even you will get a chance to flex your superiority over others. And till now, what have you got is just defeat and the emotion of inferiority. 

Pure effort, even on the face of defeat, is the most philosophic a human can get in real life. Bhagat Singh is an example of that. Pure effort has a mysterious dimension of redeeming itself. One finds oneself within sphere of solitude with the work. That is where God lives. In solitude with the world, his creation. 

What, on a hindsight, is the difference between created and the creation. Both are words to denote something external to the creator, but creation has a sense of complete externality that is absent in created. You created an art. Ok, fine. But this art is your creation. This is something, we can name as you. This is Picasso, this is Dali. 

Similarly, I say, this is the paradox of creativity. Someone who puts pure efforts, gives rise to a creation that is so external to the creator that sometimes creator cannot even claim that it is his. That is, the residual ego that the creator gets of the created is absent in a creation due to pure effort. 

The problem with talking in terms of terms that I keep on defining on the way of my write-up is that people get a very long-time getting grasp of it. 

There is Created, there is creation. There is pure effort. There is effort within the dimension of victory and defeat. There is finally the paradox of creativity which merges all these concepts into one.

The paradox of creativity is that a pure creator lacks the residual ego that is found in someone who is not a pure creator. Someone who dwells in the dimension of victory and defeat. Whereas the creator who does pure effort and is beyond the dimensions of victory and defeat, envisions a creation that is so external to him that, it humbles his very act.