Ensuring Your Path to Success || Acharya Prashant
Video Information:
Context:
~ What is success ?
~ Success where lies ?
~ What goal are we picking for ourselves and why ?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant #success #goals
Context:
~ What is success ?
~ Success where lies ?
~ What goal are we picking for ourselves and why ?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
#acharyaprashant #success #goals
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00:00 How to get success in whatever I do?
00:12 The questioner says, "How do I get success in whatever I do?"
00:20 Success does not lie in doing any random thing.
00:30 That's the first, the most important and probably the last thing.
00:38 The game is not at all about picking up some arbitrary thing to do and then investing yourself
00:50 fully in it, plunging into it, spending a lot of energy and trying to be successful.
01:01 That's not the point.
01:05 Do you know why you are doing a certain thing?
01:12 Are you sure what is worthy enough to be done?
01:18 That's the moot question.
01:23 Choose the right thing to do and in that lies success.
01:31 In that lies immediate success.
01:35 Immediate success implies that you have been successful right in the moment of the choice
01:44 itself.
01:45 You don't have to wait for the outcome.
01:51 In fact, if you have to wait for the outcome to determine whether you have been successful
01:58 or not, then you are already unsuccessful.
02:05 Choose the right option.
02:09 Make the right decision.
02:11 Fight the right battle.
02:13 And now it doesn't matter whether you win or not because you are already victorious.
02:23 Victory lies in choosing the right road to walk.
02:34 It does not quite lie in reaching the destination earlier than others.
02:43 In fact, it's a frivolous comparison.
02:47 Am I reaching there earlier than others?
02:49 Am I reaching there at all?
02:51 It's not about reaching there in a comparative sense earlier than others.
02:59 It is in fact not even about reaching somewhere at all.
03:07 It is about the immediate moment in which the decision is made.
03:18 The concept that we carry is that the real battle lies in attainment of the goal.
03:33 The real battle does not really lie in the attainment of the goal.
03:39 It lies in determination of the goal.
03:48 What goal are you picking for yourself and why?
03:55 If you fight the wrong battle, isn't victory worse than defeat?
04:05 What's the point in speeding down the wrong road?
04:15 What's the point in managing to obtain and eat huge quantities of food that your body
04:29 does not need?
04:31 Do you know your real inner need?
04:37 Is your decision making aligned with your core self?
04:44 That's the question to be asked.
04:50 You must know who you are and what you really need.
04:58 Who you are when you are not defined by others.
05:04 Who you are when you are not ruled by your animal body.
05:09 Who is it that you are?
05:13 Once you know the nature of yourself, you also know what your self is really asking
05:23 for, longing for.
05:27 And that makes your decisions.
05:35 That decides what you would be choosing.
05:42 That is the right decision.
05:45 Now you stand by it because you are choiceless.
05:51 You have known what you really need and there is no going back.
06:03 The game is over.
06:04 The choice has been made and it's the right choice.
06:10 Since the game is over, therefore there is no future.
06:13 Therefore you don't have to look forward to the future to know the result of the game.
06:19 It was all about this moment.
06:22 Did I decide rightly?
06:24 If yes, game over.
06:26 If no, game over.
06:30 If I decided rightly, the game has already been won.
06:35 If I decided wrongly, the game has already been lost.
06:40 The future holds no significance at all.
06:45 Are you getting it?
06:48 The future is now a child's plaything.
06:57 It will show you some situations.
07:03 Things will unfold.
07:08 But they will not hold any deep significance for you.
07:17 You may get some money as a result of your decisions.
07:20 You may lose some money.
07:26 You may gain respect.
07:27 You may lose respect.
07:32 All that will happen but on the periphery.
07:38 Inside you are already victorious if you have made the right decision.
07:44 Outside it may appear to people that you have lost a lot or won a lot depending on how the
07:55 future unfolds.
07:58 But you in your heart know fully well that it's not about how things show up in the future.
08:10 Irrespective of what the outcome of your decision is, the decision is right, you stand by it,
08:17 you live by it and that is success.
08:21 There is no success in chasing a stupid goal and managing to attain it.
08:33 If the goal in the first place is unworthy, what glory is there in attaining it more speedily
08:47 than others?
08:53 And mind you, more often than not, the common usual goals that we find people chasing are
09:06 unworthy.
09:09 The proof of that is that we all are dissatisfied, we all are restless irrespective of whether
09:18 we attain those goals or not.
09:23 Ever seen any person satisfied with the goals that he has attained?
09:30 In fact the levels of dissatisfaction are hardly different between a victor and a loser.
09:41 The victorious one does feel satisfied for a short time and after that the same old fire
09:54 of discontentment comes to consume him again.
10:01 Why?
10:03 Because that which he so effortfully won or attained was probably not worthy of being
10:14 chased in the first place.
10:18 So do not ask how do I get success in whatever I do, you are trivializing action.
10:27 You are saying what will I do?
10:31 Whatever.
10:32 No, no, no.
10:33 Whatever is not what you do.
10:36 You have to be extremely careful about what you do.
10:42 Much more thought, much more consideration must go into what is worthy of being done.
10:51 So pause, reflect, take your time, be open and alert and inquisitive.
11:01 Life is precious.
11:03 Aim is not to be squandered in chasing unworthy goals.
11:17 [Music]
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