Path to Success? || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00How to get success in whatever I do?

00:13The questioner says, how do I get success in whatever I do?

00:21Success does not lie in doing any random thing, that's the first, the most important

00:33and probably the last thing.

00:38The game is not at all about picking up some arbitrary thing to do and then investing yourself

00:50fully in it, plunging into it, spending a lot of energy and trying to be successful.

01:01That's not the point.

01:05Do you know why you are doing a certain thing?

01:12Are you sure what is worthy enough to be done?

01:18That's the moot question.

01:24Choose the right thing to do and in that lies success.

01:31In that lies immediate success.

01:35Immediate success implies that you have been successful right in the moment of the choice

01:44itself.

01:46You don't have to wait for the outcome.

01:51In fact, if you have to wait for the outcome to determine whether you have been successful

01:59or not, then you are already unsuccessful.

02:05Choose the right option, make the right decision, fight the right battle and now it doesn't

02:15matter whether you win or not because you are already victorious.

02:23Victory lies in choosing the right road to walk.

02:34It does not quite lie in reaching the destination earlier than others.

02:43In fact, it's a frivolous comparison.

02:47Am I reaching there earlier than others?

02:49Am I reaching there at all?

02:51It's not about reaching there in a comparative sense earlier than others.

02:59It is in fact not even about reaching somewhere at all.

03:07It is about the immediate moment in which the decision is made.

03:18The concept that we carry is that the real battle lies in attainment of the goal.

03:33The real battle does not really lie in the attainment of the goal, it lies in determination

03:45of the goal.

03:48What goal are you picking for yourself and why?

03:55If you fight the wrong battle, isn't victory worse than defeat?

04:05What's the point in speeding down the wrong road?

04:15What's the point in managing to obtain and eat huge quantities of food that your body

04:29does not need?

04:32Do you know your real inner need?

04:38Is your decision making aligned with your core self?

04:45That's the question to be asked.

04:50You must know who you are and what you really need.

04:58Who you are when you are not defined by others.

05:04Who you are when you are not ruled by your animal body.

05:09Who is it that you are?

05:13Once you know the nature of yourself, you also know what yourself is really asking for,

05:24longing for and that makes your decisions.

05:35That decides what you would be choosing.

05:43That is the right decision.

05:45Now you stand by it because you are choiceless.

05:51You have known what you really need and there is no going back.

06:03The game is over.

06:05The choice has been made and it's the right choice.

06:10Once the game is over, therefore there is no future.

06:14Therefore you don't have to look forward to the future to know the result of the game.

06:19It was all about this moment.

06:23Did I decide rightly?

06:24If yes, game over.

06:26If no, game over.

06:30If I decided rightly, the game has already been won.

06:35If I decided wrongly, the game has already been lost.

06:40The future holds no significance at all.

06:45Are you getting it?

06:49The future is now a child's play thing.

06:57It will show you some situations.

07:04Things will unfold but they will not hold any deep significance for you.

07:17You may get some money as a result of your decisions.

07:21You may lose some money.

07:26You may gain respect.

07:27You may lose respect.

07:33All that will happen but on the periphery.

07:38Inside you are already victorious if you have made the right decision.

07:44Outside it may appear to people that you have lost a lot or won a lot depending on how the

07:55future unfolds.

07:59But you in your heart know fully well that it's not about how things show up in the future

08:10irrespective of what the outcome of your decision is.

08:15The decision is right.

08:17You stand by it.

08:18You live by it and that is success.

08:21There is no success in chasing a stupid goal and managing to attain it.

08:34If the goal in the first place is unworthy, what glory is there in attaining it more speedily

08:48than others?

08:53And mind you, more often than not, the common usual goals that we find people chasing are

09:06unworthy.

09:09The proof of that is that we all are dissatisfied.

09:15We all are restless irrespective of whether we attain those goals or not.

09:23Ever seen any person satisfied with the goals that he has attained?

09:31In fact, the levels of dissatisfaction are hardly different between a victor and a loser.

09:42The victorious one does feel satisfied for a short time and after that, the same old

09:53fire of discontentment comes to consume him again.

09:59Getting it?

10:02Why?

10:03Because that which he so effortfully won or attained was probably not worthy of being

10:14chased in the first place.

10:19So do not ask, how do I get success in whatever I do?

10:22You are trivializing action.

10:27You are saying, what will I do?

10:30Whatever.

10:32No, no, no.

10:33Whatever is not what you do.

10:36You have to be extremely careful about what you do.

10:43Much more thought, much more consideration must go into what is worthy of being done.

10:49Right?

10:50So pause, reflect, take your time.

10:55Be open and alert and inquisitive.

11:01Life is precious.

11:03Time is not to be squandered in chasing unworthy goals.

11:10Right?

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