Acharya Prashant: Let there be wealth and fame, and you will discover that wealth and fame are not the answer. In itself that is not an incorrect statement. The only thing is that it is a very inefficient approach. It is a very inefficient approach, especially the thing about fame.
You see, what is fame? Fame by definition is exclusive. If everybody is famous then nobody is famous. Fame must exclude. Right? Which means that if a thousand people try for fame only two can be famous. Right? It's a clear mathematical limitation. It does not depend upon social conditions or anything. It is like a law of nature. You cannot alter it.
If a thousand people try for the fame, really two can be famous because fame is not a material commodity. Fame is space that you occupy in somebody's mind, correct? And the mind's space is limited. You cannot store forty thousand people in your mind. Which mean you cannot make forty thousand people famous.
How many people can you remember as important - two, four, ten, twenty, fifty? So, only these many can be famous. Forty thousand people cannot occupy mind's space of others. So, forty thousand cannot be famous.
Forty thousand can be wealthy but cannot be famous. I'll come to wealth as well but first fame. So, a thousand people tried for fame, two succeeded, for the remaining 998 it was a sheer waste of effort, correct? That's what I'm saying.
