When heroism is a way of living then, every action is an opportunity for building an ideal.<\/p>\n
Integrity to an ideal implies that \u2013 whatever be your ideal \u2013 each task is one more opportunity to reach the ideal. The profundity of one\u2019s approach to day-to-day life is what is important. To another person an interaction is just another conversation, but to the heroic mind, every interaction is about shaping the mind to the ideal.<\/p>\n
Every conversation becomes a battlefield \u2013 of clarifying what am I really saying? What does this mean in the light of my ideal? What do I stand for? The hero does not live life pragmatically. He or she does not say, \u201clet\u2019s compromise and move forward\u201d. For the hero, every action has to be such that the highest ideal reveals itself.<\/p>\n
So, there is a profound difference between a \u2018pragmatic\u2019 view and the view of \u2018looking at one\u2019s life as a shaping towards an ideal\u2019.<\/p>\n
The hero’s stance\u00a0to life is that every moment is a moment of truth. ‘Every moment in my life I will be conscious of my highest ideal and struggle to live it’.<\/p>\n
To such an individual, life is not a battle with others or with circumstances. The real battle is a battle of the mind \u2013 of reshaping of the mind towards the ideal. Thus, heroism is about shaping your own responses and reassessing yourself \u2013 that reshaping of the mind, untwisting it, getting it ready \u2013 all the while retaining integrity to one\u2019s own ideal.<\/p>\n
The hero says: Whatever be the cost, whatever be the circumstance, whatever be the energy and the effort \u2013 I have to live the ideal and I have to struggle to live the ideal in every small part of my day-to-day life. <\/i><\/p>\n
Y<\/i>et, a hero is always willing to change one\u2019s own point of view, willing to listen – as long as it is a \u00a0step closer to the ideal.<\/em><\/p>\n It is this willingness to transmute oneself through every single encounter with life that enables such heroes to realize their ideal.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The hero says: Whatever be the cost, whatever be the circumstance, whatever be the energy and the effort \u2013 I have to live the ideal and I have to struggle to live the ideal in every small part of my day-to-day life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}