Real hard work is a result of a really happy mind || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 So, you are assuming that the happy one does not work hard.

00:15 Yes, only happiness and happiness excludes hard work.

00:25 Is that so?

00:26 You read that happiness excludes hard work?

00:33 Yes, happiness is the key to success.

00:38 Correct.

00:39 But does happiness exclude hard work?

00:44 If happiness excludes hard work, then all those who work hard surely must be very sad

00:54 to add.

01:00 Can't you work hard happily?

01:04 Can't hard work emerge out of your joy?

01:12 I am so happy that I am working very hard.

01:15 Or must you work hard only with a long face?

01:18 I am so frustrated that I am slogging.

01:30 Yes since childhood we have been told about effort as a duty, hard work as an obligation,

01:43 hard work as a result-oriented investment, work hard so that you can have dividends later

01:52 on.

01:53 But there is another kind of hard work, very energetic hard work, which arises from your

02:12 happiness, which arises from your completeness.

02:27 And it's not result-oriented.

02:28 It's like a pack of, a herd of deers running in a jungle.

02:37 It's not that a tiger is chasing them and it's not that they are running towards the

02:42 grassland.

02:43 They are just running and they are running terribly hard.

02:47 You can't catch them.

02:48 Have you seen at least video recordings of animals running very very fast in a jungle

02:55 or birds soaring high?

02:58 It's not necessary that they are hungry.

03:03 They are just soaring high.

03:06 They must have climbed to that height and that requires energy.

03:12 They could have decided to sleep.

03:15 Why put in so much of effort?

03:17 Why climb to that height?

03:19 Why keep gliding?

03:26 Why flap your wings?

03:29 No, I am happy so I am working hard.

03:39 Our hard work is just labor.

03:45 Labor done to get result.

03:51 And the result that you want never satisfies you.

03:55 The proof is that you want more.

04:05 At no point do you stop and say that I have had enough.

04:12 And because you want more, you have to put in more labor.

04:18 So in all your life you are just a laborer.

04:40 I am talking to you right now.

04:42 Even this involves some expense of energy.

04:49 Does it not?

04:50 Coming over to your place took me two and a half hours.

04:56 I invested time.

05:03 But as you will go back, I will not even know your names.

05:09 In fact, your faces are not even imprinted in my memory.

05:17 Time is too short.

05:18 Tomorrow if you meet me in the market, I may not even recognize you.

05:30 I cannot really expect anything from you.

05:32 I don't even know your name.

05:34 Neither name nor face.

05:37 So it's alright with me.

05:46 If one of you does not belong to this course and is yet sitting here, it's alright with

05:53 me.

05:55 No count has been kept of that nature.

05:59 I suppose the whole thing was optional.

06:01 Somebody could have come.

06:08 So work is happening without much of an expectation from the future.

06:17 I may never meet you again.

06:20 We may never come to this university again.

06:24 That's alright.

06:30 But the work that is happening, because it is happening without any expectation for result,

06:42 is hence of a very high quality and is therefore fit to be considered, to be recorded.

07:10 And same on your side.

07:12 You have not come here for the sake of marks, right?

07:16 This particular session does not hold any academic credits.

07:26 You too have invested time.

07:27 You too have walked some distance to come over.

07:31 And work is happening.

07:33 And beautiful work is happening.

07:37 It is happening out of our mutual happiness.

07:40 You are not compelled to come here.

07:42 You are happy to be here.

07:43 Or so I suppose.

07:50 I am surely happy to be here.

07:53 And out of this happiness, work happens.

07:56 So get rid of that assumption that happiness excludes hard work.

08:00 It does not.

08:07 Happiness that excludes hard work is just lethargy.

08:27 A fellow who says, "I am happy only when I don't work" is surely a free rider.

08:47 What can you do?

08:48 You have worked hard only when you are afraid and sad, right?

08:52 Somebody comes and pulls you up.

08:54 Exams are coming.

08:55 You will fail.

08:57 And then you start working hard.

08:58 So what is your engine?

08:59 Sadness.

09:03 The more sad you are, the harder you work.

09:06 Is that not so?

09:09 The more afraid you are, the harder you work.

09:16 Like a dog that is chasing you.

09:21 Or like being chased by a dog.

09:28 You don't even know how fast you can run.

09:32 All you need is that rabid dog.

09:39 And you work so hard.

09:42 And when the world gets to know that that is the way to get you to work hard, then it

09:47 only has to let some dogs loose after you.

09:52 Oh, she is not working hard, Tommy?

09:58 And she starts working hard.

10:05 Don't let this become a habit.

10:10 Don't let this be known that you can be made to work hard through pressure or frustration

10:18 or sadness or fear.

10:19 Otherwise, you are giving the world a handle over you.

10:39 Be happy and run hard.

10:42 How does that sound?

10:46 Like somebody who jogs for pleasure.

10:50 [Music]

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