Questioner 1: Namaskar Acharya Ji! My question is, how should I control my emotions, so that they don’t become too extreme in positive as well as in negative situations. Actually, it happens to me every time that whenever I achieve my goal, I feel so happy. But if I fail, I’ll start cursing myself, I’ll start crying.
So how should I behave in a normal way? How should I behave in a neutral way?
Acharya Prashant: Remember the real goal. Remember the real goal. Whatsoever you have achieved, is too little in front of the real goal, so there’s no need to be too happy. And irrespective of how little you’ve achieved, there is all the potential to achieve the real goal, so there’s no need to be too sad.
You forget the real thing and you start taking small things as big. So, when you get those small things in your palm, you feel as if the entire world is there on your palm, it’s nothing. It’s a globe, not the world, worth very little. The celebrations are misplaced. Equally, irrespective of whether the little thing is a globe, or a kid’s little plastic ball, the fact is that you’re born to achieve the real goal. That is the purpose of your birth, otherwise you wouldn't have been born. So, there is no need for any gloom or despondency.
Misplaced celebration is just as bad as depression, no? Misplaced celebration is foolish happiness. And depression, if I may say, it might sound insensitive to some, but I’ll proceed, is just foolish sadness, right? You’re never in too good a position as long as you’re alive. Because you’re alive, so the work is still incomplete. So, you can never be in such a good position, that you think that the work is complete and you start partying and put a full stop to the journey. No!
