Love Vs Ambition || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The success stories of ambitious people: Be careful! || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

Transcript

00:00Have you seen dogs fight over their territories?

00:03Have you seen how one dog gets bitterly furious

00:06when another dog encroaches over its territory?

00:09But then a great king captures 10 lakh square kilometers

00:13and you say, oh, the great, Mahan.

00:15He's doing what dogs have always done, capturing territory.

00:18That's ambition.

00:19What do ambitious people want?

00:20Please tell me.

00:21More and more of the material, right?

00:23That's what animals also want.

00:25What's there in that?

00:26What's there in that?

00:27You have a life to live.

00:28You are very young.

00:29Can you work for something rather worthy?

00:33Can your energy come from love rather than ambition?

00:37And when you are very ambitious,

00:38obviously that inspires energy within, right?

00:41All that energy is very cyclical.

00:43One moment you feel motivated,

00:45the other moment you feel demotivated

00:47and then you run towards some motivation pill.

00:50Can you live in the energy that comes from love?