Sir, are you successful? || Acharya Prashant, at SRCC (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Good afternoon and Jai Hind sir, I am Rhea Tiwari, a student of Delhi University and

00:08my question to you is sir that people define success by different terms like influence,

00:13happiness, fame or name fame etc.

00:17So sir when did you started considering yourself success?

00:26First of all thanks for inviting me here, I don't consider myself a success even today.

00:39So your question is founded on an assumption and you say that when in the past did you

00:45start considering yourself a success?

00:48You are assuming that at some point I did or currently I do, no I don't.

00:55I don't think there is any end point called success.

01:07As long as one is alive there is more and more to be done continuously.

01:15One can declare herself successful only if the target is too small, too limited and then

01:30you can get close to the target or win it and say that you are successful but that kind

01:40of declaration means nothing.

01:43One is then just fooling, pampering himself, does not mean much, there can be milestones

01:54along the way.

01:58As you move you can probably see that you are going past a few important points and

02:10even those points are important only relatively, relative to where you currently stand you

02:18might find that a few milestones mean much to you.

02:26But in the overall sense, in the absolute perspective hardly anything that you have

02:37gone past makes much significance or holds too much of a meaning.

02:50So one has to continuously keep moving this notion of becoming successful, this idea that

03:03by reaching a particular point or by having a certain accomplishment one can declare himself

03:11as successful is not very mature and is also dangerous because it limits you.

03:25It tells you that there are certain things to be had and more or less those things are

03:31universal.

03:33You want to have an educational degree, you want to have a job, you want to have money,

03:39you want to have a settled kind of life and you want to be regarded highly in the society

03:47and if you have all these things then you start calling yourself successful.

03:52This is a limiting rather debilitating idea.

04:01It will not allow you to move beyond these things that we just listed.

04:10And even among these things, what is it that counts in the common idea of success, money.

04:19Because if you have money, prestige can be bought.

04:23If you have money, much under the sun can be bought.

04:31So primarily the idea of success as it is prevalent in the youth today and is being

04:37aggressively sold in the market is about having money.

04:42If you have enough money you can call yourself successful.

04:45No, that is not a valid idea because you have to look at yourself and ask yourself

04:58who am I?

05:00Why am I born?

05:01Why do I exist at all?

05:04Is there complete fulfillment?

05:08Isn't there more that needs to be done?

05:12Isn't the fire still burning?

05:16There are frontiers after frontiers.

05:19There are skies beyond skies.

05:22How can you stop at some place and just abruptly, randomly, arbitrarily call yourself successful?

05:36What I have seen from my little experience and when I look at my peers and my batchmates

05:47is that the moment you call yourself successful, you start stagnating.

05:54Because success is like a destination.

05:57The idea that we have been sold is that you move to attain success.

06:09Extend it logically, then it means that success is the end of all movement.

06:16If one moves, that is, if one works to attain success, if that is the idea, then success

06:21will be the end of all movement, the destination.

06:28And if you reach the destination, then what are you still traveling for?

06:38If the train has reached its destination, you are supposed to deboard, aren't you?

06:43And if you don't get down on your own, you are thrown out.

06:47That's the meaning of success, deboard, finished, game up.

06:51Why do you want to finish the game so early, too early?

06:58Life is anyway short.

07:02Life is anyway short.

07:03You can never have too much of it.

07:07And on top of it, you want to end it inwardly at the age of 30, 35 or 40.

07:15That doesn't make sense, right?

07:17So Vedanta says, charaiveti, charaiveti, continuously keep moving.

07:23Don't fool yourself by declaring yourself as arrived.

07:28Don't tell yourself that you have reached any important position.

07:33Don't inflate yourself.

07:36Don't become a big one or a successful one in your own eyes.

07:43Retain that humility and don't douse the fire.

07:51Because that's the fact.

07:53Nobody is yet fully liberated as long as he or she is alive, which means that the mission

08:03still remains unfulfilled.

08:06If you are breathing, if you are still breathing, then the mission remains on till your last

08:17breath.

08:20You are somebody who must keep working, walking, moving.

08:28So first thing I would advise, know what is it in life that you must keep striving

08:38for, working towards and then endlessly work in that direction.

08:47Let there be a direction, but never a destination, right?

08:53So you know the broad direction in which you have to move.

08:57And the movement has to be immense, endless, infinite.

09:04One moves in the direction of liberation without ever arriving.

09:11That's something that does not quite please the ego because the ego likes to arrive.

09:15It likes to settle matters.

09:18It's like to say the end, the matter stands concluded.

09:25Don't fall in that trap.

09:26Thank you, sir.

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