Planning is a product of fear || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)
Questioner: Sir, you said that life is going from the last two thousand years or so, and we are here for just sixty or seventy years. So, how can we change anything?
Acharya Prashant: Do you require two thousand years? Do you require sixty years? If you really, really want to do something, you would do it right now. Why do you think of sixty years or six years, or even six months or six minutes? You wanted to ask the question. Were you worried before asking that "I am going to live for only sixty years"? Did you think that "what is the point in asking this question"?
Q: But you just said that what can you do in the sixty years.
AP: Of course. For sure you can do nothing in these sixty years. But you can do what is important right now. You can do what must be done right now. If you think of sixty years, then those sixty years are nothing. But why must you think of sixty years? I am speaking to those who plan ahead, who think of this and that. I am speaking to those.
If you must think in terms of time and years, then please realize that there are only sixty years. But somebody who is not at all thinking in terms of those sixty years, he is good, fine, alright. How does it matter whether it is about six months or six minutes or sixty years?
Q: If you say that there should not be any plan in life. If there is no plan in life, then there would be no goal. What do I do then?
