Surviving the Storm: Strategies for Weathering Hopeless Periods || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Hello sir, good evening. My name is Bhavya Verma. Sir, my question to you is, many times

00:08in life we go through such period where we lose our hope and there is absolutely no motivation

00:14and we feel very down and no matter how much harder we try, nothing works out. So sir,

00:20how do you push yourself through these worst phases of life? Thank you sir.

00:26Can you hear me? I think I have made sense of your question.

00:33Yes sir, I can hear you. You are asking me how to survive those times, right?

00:40Yes sir. See, all such episodes come in a particular context, correct?

00:48The context has to be of unrelenting struggle. So, I am trying for something and when I am

01:02trying for something, I find myself upon a lean patch. I am meeting failures, things are not

01:12working out, people are deserting me, plans are failing, such things happen, right? And when such

01:20things happen, as you said there is a certain lack of motivation and de-energization and one

01:33wants to still pull through those times. What is it that one wants to remember then? What is

01:41it that one must always remember? The context, the bigger picture and that is that I am trying

01:53for something very important, right? That I am trying for is something that deserves to be

02:03remembered. Otherwise, why would one try for it? I am pushing towards something magnificent,

02:13something beautiful, something valuable and that is the reason I am pushing towards it, right?

02:22Now, along the way I have met with these disappointments. Now, what do I remember?

02:29The disappointments or the thing I am pushing towards. If the thing I am pushing towards,

02:42if the thing that I am pushing towards is not valuable, then even the disappointment has no

02:51worth. The disappointment matters only when the thing that I am trying for is worthy enough, right?

03:01Now, what is more valuable, the thing you are trying for or the disappointment along the way?

03:12Remember that the disappointment is contingent upon, is dependent upon the value of the thing.

03:19So, the disappointment has to be smaller, the value of the disappointment has to be smaller

03:25than the value of your target. Correct? So, in the moment of disappointment, obviously

03:32disappointment will be on your mind. But what is it that you should remember more? Please answer.

03:40The target, that which you are climbing towards, that is what you will remember, right? And when

03:52you will remember that, then this that you are calling as a defeat or setback will simply be

03:59an opportunity to learn. Because that is a non-negotiable, the target. The target is

04:08something so compelling that I have to keep moving towards that at all costs. Along the

04:18way, if defeat or disappointment is upsetting me, so be it. I will not give up on the target,

04:29obviously. The target is love. It cannot be abandoned. Right? So, this has now come to me

04:41and this is annoying me. What do I do? I use it as a resource because I have to go uphill. It's

04:52a steep climb. So, I will take everything that comes along the way as a resource to be used.

04:58I'll use it as a learning opportunity. I'll not use it as something that makes me forget my aim,

05:08my love. I'll rather take it as something that incidentally came to me and now that it has come

05:20to me, it will be put in the service of my destination. So, I learn from it. But all this

05:30that I am saying holds good only if there is love for the destination. Only if the destination is

05:40valuable in the first place. And now you would have sensed why most people are broken irreparably

05:50by the disappointments along the way. Because the disappointments become bigger than the target

05:56itself. Why? Because the target in the first place was anyway already quite petty. If the

06:05target is not worthy enough, then any kind of minor setback will shatter you or at least stop

06:16you. Let the target be very compelling and then all the defeats and the difficulties will simply

06:33be stuff that you will want to take as a learning experience. Alright, this didn't work out. I'll

06:41try something else. Because try I will. Because there is a commitment to the target and it's not

06:52just a desire that I want to fulfill. The matter is of love. So, I'm not going to quit. Obviously,

07:01that's not an option. Come what may, I'll continue moving. Now that I've had this kind

07:10of an unsavory experience, I'll go into it. I'll examine it. What is it that didn't work

07:18out for me? How do I become a better traveler after this experience? Choose your targets very

07:30carefully. Life must have a purpose. Do not give it some petty target. When I say target,

07:36I remember I mean a proper purpose. I mean a destination that can fulfill your consciousness.

07:43When you will have a noble goal, then no defeat can stop you. You will continue to move come what

07:55may. You know, the Vedic literature has a beautiful line. It says, Charanvai Madhu Vindati.

08:07It does not say that the nectar lies at the destination. It says, if you continue moving,

08:19in that there is Madhu. Madhu means ambrosia, nectar. In movement itself is the victory. But

08:34you can continue moving irrespective of the setbacks, only if the target is great. The

08:42has to be something you just cannot give up on. Do not choose anything small or little as your

08:52desire or goal or target. Charai Veti, Charai Veti. Keep moving, keep moving. Not as a duty,

08:59not as a discipline, but as love. Could I make a little sense?

09:13Yes, definitely sir. That's nice interacting with you, sir. Thank you.

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