Questioner: Acharya ji, in Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna says, “I am the highest in all the vidyas.” He says, “I am the Everest in mountains”; that way he denotes all the powers. He says, “I am Atman, the highest thing, absolutely”.
There he does not say the potential but the absolute. So, if I say, “I have to be Atman, does that mean the highest potential I have as this body or the absolute possible.
Acharya Prashant : When you exhibit your highest potential, you find that the absolutely highest becomes possible to you on its own.
So, you don’t have to worry about the absolutely highest. You worry about the highest that you can be, and keep reaching there continuously. The Absolute will then pick you up on its own. You can only be relatively better; you keep becoming relatively better day after day.
You remember ‘The ninety-nine floors of consciousness’ (referring to a particular lecture)? You keep climbing up. You have to reach the ninety-ninth floor and from there the sky picks you up. Beyond that, you cannot do much. You keep doing the utmost possible to yourself. And remember that you being small, tiny, even the maximum you can do would always be insufficient. Still, that display of the maximum you can do is needed.
You display the maximum you can do and do a little more because you can always do more than what you can think you can do, and then strange things start happening. You find much more is happening. More than you hadn’t planned or even asked for. But all that happens only when you are doing your utmost. You first show your desire and your preparedness to pay the maximum price. And then something beyond the price you can pay is gifted to you.
