Aim for the highest! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Sir, why this after IIT-IIM-UPSC? || Acharya Prashant, LIT-Nagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00Most people ask, you could have had anything you wanted in the worldly life.

00:05Why did you leave all that and change sides to come to Vedanta?

00:09No, I have not changed sides. I have just risen.

00:12You want good things, right? So I have the best thing.

00:15It's just a long and arduous journey towards finding the next better thing.

00:22I have this. What is higher than this?

00:24And if I want to find something higher than what I already have, don't you too want that?

00:29Please tell me. Don't settle down. Don't commit yourself too early and too easily to anything.

00:36Don't allow yourself to be blocked and bounded.

00:41And that's the one thing I luckily did. I didn't allow myself to be constrained.

00:46I said I want to retain my freedom so that I can move on. And I kept moving on.