For those who already have a certain level of financial, social, intellectual, and familial attainment but are still not satisfied, the only thing that can fulfill them is forgetfulness towards their personal success. Serve a cause bigger than yourself, and there will be no time or opportunity to keep wondering whether your demands have been met. This is when you have really succeeded.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, how to lead a quality life in this materialistic world? What should we do to attain higher things, or to be at a higher level?
Acharya Prashant: You see, we have a concept of ‘success’, and there are certain things entailed in the concept – a certain amount of money, a certain social prestige, a certain excellence in one’s chosen field of work. And all that comes. But it is still quite possible that all that may be there, and one is still discontented.
It is because all that which we have achieved, is within our self-defined concept of ‘success’. One has to go beyond it.
Obviously if our concept of success includes four things, and all those four things have been ticked against, and still there is dissatisfaction, it means the concept is not quite working. One has to then go beyond it. Then one has to aim for something higher than success. Then one has to ask, “What is it that matters more than success?”
