If you really need success || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: We are all just atoms. Then why do we fight so much? || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)

Transcript

00:00When you want to reach somewhere and you set your GPS, it asks for two things.

00:03It asks for the place you want to go to and also there is something called your location.

00:08If you do not know your location, can any map in the world help you?

00:12When it comes to your physical location, the satellite suffices.

00:15But when it comes to your mental station, where you are as an individual here inside,

00:20no GPS or app or satellite can help you.

00:23That you have to know.

00:24And only when you know where you are, then you can know where you need to reach.

00:30Instead of understanding where we stand, our education system, our social system, the entire

00:35culture, gives a lot of importance to becoming, which is a game of ambition.

00:39You have targets in life and you are hustlers, you want to be quickly reached there.

00:44Is that not what you want?

00:45There is a place and if it is to be reached, I better reach there fast.

00:49Now I do not know where I am standing.

00:50How do I know where I need to reach?

00:53And if you do not know where to reach, how do you know the path to take?