Acharya ji, You Are at the Top. How Does It Feel?

Questioner: Namaste Acharyaji. My question is that, when you achieve something, you see a lot of behavioural changes in people, like they act differently from what they usually were. So, when it comes to you, you have done your graduation from IIT Delhi, you have done your MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, then you were a civil servant and now you are guiding and motivating people. So, how does it feel Sir? In my definition, these three are the dreams of many people and you have achieved everything. So, how does it feel to be at the top Sir?

Acharya Prashant: Nothing special really. I mean, because you are asking this, so I have to think about all those so called accomplishments, otherwise they do not remain in my memory or consciousness. I have been speaking to you all since hours now. My accomplishments, or my own life, or my degrees, or other things, or awards; they didn’t occur to me even once. In fact, if I look at the last two days or last one week, I will have to struggle to remember when I was thinking of my degrees or my past, even the recent past.

Because there is work to do. One is a traveller and one is still on the road; one cannot keep thinking of the milestones gone by, right? It’s a long journey, endless journey probably and you have come just so far, may be five hundred miles and there are five thousand more to go. What’s the point in pondering too much about what happened at milestone two fifty, three hundred fifty, all those things. So, they were never the end; they were almost accidental things that came along the way.