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

00:08The questioner says, how do I get success in whatever I do?

00:16Success does not lie in doing any random thing.

00:25It's the first, the most important and probably the last thing.

00:34The game is not at all about picking up some arbitrary thing to do and then investing yourself

00:45fully in it, plunging into it, spending a lot of energy and trying to be successful.

00:55That's not the point.

01:00Do you know why you are doing a certain thing?

01:05Are you sure what is worthy enough to be done?

01:13That's the mood question.

01:19Choose the right thing to do.

01:23And in that lies success.

01:26In that lies immediate success.

01:30Immediate success implies that you have been successful right in the moment of the choice

01:40itself.

01:42You don't have to wait for the outcome.

01:46In fact, if you have to wait for the outcome to determine whether you have been successful

01:54or not, then you are already unsuccessful.

02:01Choose the right option.

02:04Make the right decision.

02:05Fight the right battle.

02:08And now it doesn't matter whether you win or not because you are already victorious.

02:17Victory lies in choosing the right road to walk.

02:30It does not quite lie in reaching the destination earlier than others.

02:38In fact, it's a frivolous comparison.

02:42Am I reaching there earlier than others?

02:44Am I reaching there at all?

02:46It's not about reaching there in a comparative sense earlier than others.

02:55It is in fact not even about reaching somewhere at all.

03:02It is about the immediate moment in which the decision is made.

03:13The concept that we carry is that the real battle lies in attainment of the goal.

03:29The real battle does not really lie in the attainment of the goal.

03:35It lies in determination of the goal.

03:43What goal are you picking for yourself and why?

03:50If you fight the wrong battle, isn't victory worse than defeat?

04:00What's the point in speeding down the wrong road?

04:11What's the point in managing to obtain and eat huge quantities of food that your body does

04:25not need?

04:27Do you know your real inner need?

04:33Is your decision making aligned with your core self?

04:40That's the question to be asked.

04:45You must know who you are and what you really need.

04:53Who you are when you are not defined by others?

04:59Who you are when you are not ruled by your animal body?

05:04Who is it that you are?

05:08Once you know the nature of yourself, you also know what your self is really asking for, longing

05:20for, and that makes your decisions.

05:30That decides what you would be choosing.

05:38That is the right decision.

05:40Now you stand by it because you are choiceless.

05:46You have known what you really need and there is no going back.

05:58The game is over.

06:00The choice has been made and it's the right choice.

06:05Since the game is over, therefore there is no future.

06:09Therefore you don't have to look forward to the future to know the result of the game.

06:15It was all about this moment.

06:18Did I decide rightly?

06:19If yes, game over.

06:22If no, game over.

06:25If I decided rightly, the game has already been won.

06:30If I decided wrongly, the game has already been lost.

06:36The future holds no significance at all.

06:40Are you getting it?

06:44The future is now a child's plaything.

06:52It will show you some situations.

06:57events will unfold, but they will not hold any deep significance for you.

07:12You may get some money as a result of your decisions.

07:16You may lose some money.

07:21You may gain respect, you may lose respect.

07:28All that will happen, but on the periphery.

07:33Inside, you are already victorious if you have made the right decision.

07:39Inside, it may appear to people that you have lost a lot or won a lot depending on how the

07:51future unfolds, but you in your heart know fully well that it's not about how things show

08:01up in the future irrespective of what the outcome of your decision is.

08:11The decision is right, you stand by it, you live by it and that is success.

08:16There is no success in chasing a stupid goal and managing to attain it.

08:29If the goal in the first place is unworthy, what glory is there in attaining it more speedily

08:42than others.

08:48And mind you, more often than not, the common usual goals that we find people chasing are

09:01unworthy.

09:04The proof of that is that we all are dissatisfied.

09:10We all are restless, irrespective of whether we attain those goals or not.

09:18Ever seen any person satisfied with the goals that he has attained?

09:26In fact, the levels of dissatisfaction are hardly different between a victor and a loser.

09:37The victorious one does feel satisfied for a short time.

09:45And after that, the same old fire of discontentment comes to consume him again, getting it?

09:56Why?

09:58Because that which he so effortfully won or attained was probably not worthy of being chased in the

10:11first place.

10:14So do not ask, how do I get success in whatever I do?

10:17You are trivializing action.

10:22You are saying, what will I do?

10:25Whatever.

10:26No, no, no.

10:28Whatever is not what you do.

10:31You have to be extremely careful about what you do.

10:38Much more thought, much more consideration must go into what is worthy of being done, right?

10:47So pause, reflect, take your time.

10:50Be open and alert and inquisitive.

10:56Life is precious.

10:58Time is not to be squandered in chasing unworthy goals, right?

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11:08It can be.

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