Surviving the Storm: Strategies for Weathering Hopeless Periods || Acharya Prashant (2023)

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.

00:29Yes sir, I can hear you. You are asking me how to survive those times,

00:38right? Yes sir.

00:41See, all such episodes come in a particular context, correct? The context has to be of

00:52unrelenting struggle. So, I am trying for something and when I am trying for something,

01:03I find myself upon a lean patch. I am meeting failures, things are not working out, people

01:13are deserting me, plans are failing, such things happen, right? And when such things happen,

01:21as 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?

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

01:51I am trying for something very important, right? That I am trying for is something

02:02that deserves to be remembered otherwise why would one try for it? I am pushing towards

02:11something magnificent, something beautiful, something valuable and that's the reason I

02:18am pushing towards it, right? Now, along the way I have met with these disappointments.

02:28Now, what do I remember? The disappointments or the thing I am pushing towards. If the thing

02:43that I am pushing towards is not valuable, then even the disappointment has no worth.

02:51The 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,

03:31obviously disappointment will be on your mind but what is it that you should remember more?

03:36Please answer. The target that which you are climbing towards, that's what you will remember,

03:51right? And when you will remember that, then this that you are calling as a defeat or setback will

03:59simply be an opportunity to learn. Because that's a non-negotiable, the target. The target

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

04:18if 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 a

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

04:59it as a learning opportunity. I'll not use it as something that makes me forget my aim, my love.

05:11I'll rather take it as something that incidentally came to me and now that it has come to me,

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

05:31holds good only if there is love for the destination. Only if the destination is

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

05:50the 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 target is

06:06not worthy enough, then any kind of minor setback will shatter you or at least stop you. Let the

06:19target be very compelling and then all the defeats and the difficulties will simply be

06:33stuff 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

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

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 charanvay madhu vindati. It does not

08:11say that the nectar lies at the destination. It says if you continue moving, in that there is

08:21madhu. Madhu means ambrosia, nectar. In movement itself is the victory. But you can continue

08:35moving irrespective of the setbacks only if the target is great. The target has to be something

08:43you just cannot give up on. Do not choose anything small or little as your desire or goal

08:53or target. Charai veti, charai veti. Keep moving, keep moving. Not as a duty, not as a discipline,

09:00but as love. Could I make a little sense? Yes, definitely sir. That's nice interacting with you

09:22sir. Thank you.

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