Rise Again, though you fall

In a boxing match, a boxer may be knocked down, but only when the fallen player fails to rise does the knock down becomes a knock out.

In our life, we may be knocked down many times; however never become knock out. There is always a scope to rise after every fall.

We are all engaged in a match with temptation, which sometimes gains an upper hand and with a sudden sweeping punch knocks us down. It devastates our intellectual defences, decimates our determination and drags us down to activities that go against our ethical and spiritual principles. Such a knock down can be disheartening.

But we can take heart from the fact that it’s only a knock down, not a knock out.

No matter how badly we fall, we always have the power to rise. Nothing can make us stay fallen unless we lose the will to rise.

But once we lose the will to fight, just a small push, that would otherwise have not even shaken us, can knock us not only down, but also out.

Temptation can knock us down but it can't knock us out,  until we lose the will.

 

Lesson :

The result of our match against temptation is determined far more by the presence or absence of our own will to fight than by the presence or absence of a formidable temptation.