Efforts should be properly applied.
You can not drop in the ocean
You endless ocean in a drop ...
Everyone here, in this samsara, O best of the Raghu, a man reached his own efforts, the right application.
As the rising moon fills the heart of a pleasant coolness, because
only through their own efforts achieved the desired result, and nothing
else.
The results of their own efforts are felt by each person, and no one
saw what is called fate, it is - an invention the foolish and lazy.
Own efforts - those mental and physical activities, which are made in
accordance with the instructions of the wise man, then they bring the
result, otherwise - it is pointless stress.
(Yoga Vasishta)