The real Goal dissolves you along the journey to the Goal||AcharyaPrashant on SwamiVivekananda(2017)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, dream of it, think of it, live on that

00:16idea.

00:17Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea

00:23and just leave every other idea alone.

00:26This is the way to success and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

00:31Wonderful.

00:32It's just that not every idea will be able to fulfill these conditions.

00:40The idea must have some worth, the idea must have some weight, the idea must have some

00:45gravity.

00:46Otherwise, you will not be able to make that idea your life, otherwise you will not be

00:51able to eat, live, breathe, sleep by that idea.

00:57Mark the words, take up one idea.

00:59That one idea has to be about the one.

01:03It has to be an idea that is arising from the one.

01:08Every other idea would feel these conditions.

01:12Have you not had ideas aplenty already?

01:16Have those ideas really served you well?

01:23Have those ideas survived?

01:26Have you ever been deficient in ideas?

01:31In fact, you have far too many ideas for your comfort.

01:38So you must be very clear about the quality of the idea that Vivekananda is referring

01:43to.

01:44Don't be deceived.

01:45Vivekananda is not saying take up some random idea and give your life to it.

01:51Not that it is bad.

01:54It is impossible.

01:56Because you will not be able to give your life to any random idea.

02:03Sooner than later, that idea will wither down.

02:05Sooner than later, you will become bored of that idea.

02:09Sooner than later, some other idea will come to substitute that idea, as happens with us.

02:16You have an idea to go to Nainital.

02:20Next day you have an idea to go to Ooty.

02:22What happened to Nainital?

02:23Nainital had no immensity.

02:26That idea was not arising from your heart.

02:30That was just a passing wave.

02:34It went away, it disappeared.

02:37Now Ooty has come.

02:38Do you think Ooty is going to survive?

02:43You have an idea.

02:44Let me start a business in real estate.

02:50Next day you receive some other news.

02:53The first idea is gone, finished.

02:57Vivekananda is saying live by that idea and die by that idea.

03:02That idea therefore must have some timelessness.

03:05That idea therefore must be irreplaceable by any other idea.

03:11Hence it cannot be an idea about the so-called little things of the world.

03:17This idea has to be an idea of the immense.

03:22And you cannot really have an idea of the immense.

03:25This idea will then be something arising from the immense.

03:31You must of course give yourself a goal.

03:37But that goal has to be so total that it totally possesses you, it consumes you.

03:43If your goal is smaller than yourself, then very soon you will find that you are on top

03:49of your goal in the sense that you are the master of your goal even without achieving

03:53it and hence you substitute your goal.

03:55Don't we do that often?

03:58You set up a goal and because the goal is your goal, you feel that you are the controller

04:04of the goal.

04:07You have decided the goal and if you have decided the goal, you have the power to let

04:12the goal decide you, let the goal be on top of you, let the goal own you fully.

04:23That is possible only when the goal is God.

04:25That is possible only when the goal is totality itself.

04:31Then you will not be moving towards the goal.

04:33Then the goal would be drawing you in.

04:35Then there is no question of boredom.

04:38Then there is no question of shortage of energy.

04:42Because now the energy will be supplied by the goal itself.

04:46Now there is also no question of confusion because you are now a slave to the goal.

04:53Let the goal clear the confusion.

04:56You are just allowing yourself to be moved.

05:01You are not really moving.

05:03You are not the doer.

05:05The doer is the goal itself.

05:09As long as the goal is not tremendously big, life has no real purpose.

05:21If your goals are small, they are no goals.

05:24You will be frustrated if you do not achieve them and you will be doubly frustrated if

05:28you achieve them.

05:30Having achieved them, you will find that the next goal is waiting for you.

05:36And that is deep frustration.

05:39You will feel as if all your investment in reaching up to the first goal has totally

05:44gone down the drain.

05:49Give yourself a goal that is the final one.

05:51Give yourself a goal after which no more goals will be needed.

05:56Give yourself the goal after which the goal setter himself would be no more.

06:02That goal can only be that of your total annihilation.

06:06Let me disappear.

06:08Let me surrender myself to something so worthy that it deserves my total sacrifice.

06:18As long as your goal is that magnificent, that worthy, that tremendous, you will be

06:25just frustrated.

06:36Normally when you have goals, you go to the goal to gain something.

06:46You go to the goal to succeed.

06:56The mark of a real goal is when you reach there, you won't be gaining something, you

07:00will be just losing.

07:02And you know that the movement to that goal is a movement in loss.

07:10So you are being made an idiot and yet you move to the goal.

07:16That goal has to be so enchanting, so enamoring.

07:28Unless you are completely owned, enamored, you will not allow yourself to be looted and

07:39destroyed.

07:40The real goal dissolves you along the journey and you know that you are being dissolved.

07:49You know that you are paying a price every step you take.

08:00Why will you pay a price?

08:03That goal has to be extremely attractive.

08:09You get this?

08:11Know whether or not your goal is worthy by this test alone.

08:17Do you expect to gain something upon reaching your goal?

08:21Then that goal is worthless.

08:22Do you know that you are only losing and losing and losing as you go are proceeding towards

08:30the goal?

08:32Then that goal is worthy.

08:35If your goal gives you something, dump that goal.

08:42Real success then is your total failure.

08:49You have totally failed in preserving yourself.

08:51You wanted to preserve yourself and you totally failed, that is real success.

08:57Only a real goal can give you real success.

08:59False goals will give you a false failure and worse still false successes.

09:13False successes are worse than false failures.

09:25You are not in this world to beef yourself up, accumulate, fatten and then die an obese

09:40man.

09:42You are here to burn yourself out and you must burn yourself doubly fast.

09:51The image that I love is that of a candle burning from both ends, matter turning into

09:57light, sublimation.

10:01That is the purpose of life, burn fast, turn into light and disappear.

10:10Do not carry a lot of wax, a lot of fat, a lot of material, burn it fast, burn it fast.

10:17You were born with a lot, die empty.

10:24You were born with a lot of clothes.

10:26Every child is born from the mother s womb, wearing just too many clothes.

10:35The purpose of life is to die naked.

10:38Keep on peeling off the clothes one after one, layer after layer.

10:49Such a goal must be there, a goal that denudes you.

11:11A lot of it I know sounds like plenty of madness.

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