Don't try to achieve; just live in achievement || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Speaker: Achievement will happen, but the mind will remain non-achiever.

Achievements will happen, great achievements will happen, greater than what you have ever dreamed of, greater than your greatest goal but you will not be an achiever, and it is a beautiful thing. Achievements are just happening and I am not even trying. Isn’t that good, nice? All your achievements so far depend upon your hard work. How about achieving without even trying? How is that? The mind is not trying to ‘achieve’. The mind is just attentive and understanding and when the mind is understanding, the body is functioning, taking the right actions, and out of the right actions achievements are happening. Those achievements are not in the future. The right action itself is the achievement. One right action, another right action, after another right action, is the right life.

A non-achieving mind is not the absence of achievement.

Achievement is there, every moment it is there, and when achievement is every moment that means you are constantly full, you don’t even think of achievement. You think of achieving only after the thought of non-achieving comes to you. Do you understand this? If I am constantly in achievement, situated in achievement, living in achievement, when every action is achievement constantly, will I think of achieving? Every action is an achievement, everything is just right. Such a mind does not want to achieve. It just keeps achieving without even trying. It lives in achievement. It knows that it has already achieved, it already has the real thing. It does not even try.

Obviously, such a mind is at peace. It knows the most valuable thing is safe. It doesn’t have to go and achieve. It doesn’t have to look here and there. It says, ‘I am already home’ and that does not mean that it stops functioning, that does not mean that the flow of life stops. In fact, it becomes a more beautiful and a more peaceful flow, which has great energy when required and great silence when required.