Be compassionate towards yourself, and have faith that freedom is possible and that life can be enjoyed really. Life need not be a melancholy song; it can be a symphony of ecstasy. That faith has to be there.
Do not surrender so easily to the forces of littleness. They will… read_more
Questioner: Good evening everyone, my name is Saurabh Sardana and you are watching the first episode of season 2, ‘Recast.’ I’m so glad to have you with me today, Acharya Prashant Ji. I’m pretty sure, that most of you that most of you sort of follow him on one of… read_more
Acharya Prashant: If I am incomplete, then sitting where I am, what would be the quality of my actions, thoughts, and imagination? They, too, would be of an incomplete nature.
So, incompleteness is projecting more incompleteness for itself and then trying with all its might to reach more incompleteness. How… read_more
Acharya Prashant: Those of you who have tried to chase success in this world know very well that all that you have received is fear. Kindly do not punish your children now. Kindly do not push them to make the same foolish mistakes that you kept making all your life.… read_more
Questioner: My name is Rohit. My question is related to failures. At certain moments of life we feel that we have had enough of failures and we are tired of it. Similar goes with me, like I have been trying my best in my life to do everything that I… read_more
Questioner: Sir, I am pursuing MSc in physics. After watching your videos and reading the Bhagavat Gita, I understand that whatever in this world we achieve to please ourselves does not really give us peace. I also find that doing science might be just pleasing myself or my ego. It… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, किसी भी काम को करने में मन क्यों नहीं लगता है?
आचार्य प्रशांत: अभी कल ही एक लड़का आया था मुझसे मिलने। वो मध्य प्रदेश के सागर जिले में खाद्य विभाग में काम करता है। नया लड़का है, अभी-अभी नौकरी का एंट्रेंस क्लियर किया है और डेढ़-दो… read_more
Acharya Prashant: Service will not probably fulfill this restless ‘I’, but service will enable you to forget this restless ‘I’. That is beyondness—not quite the fulfillment of the little ‘I’, but a certain forgetfulness towards the little ‘I’. You say that you are serving a cause bigger than yourself or… read_more
Acharya Prashant: How to get success in whatever I do? The questioner says, “How do I get success in whatever I do?” Success does not lie in doing any random thing. That’s the first, the most important and, probably, the last thing. The game is not at all about picking… read_more
Speaker: Do you really want to understand what this whole business of ‘achievement’ is? If you really want to understand, only then we can go into it. If you are into it superficially, out of an obligation, then you will not understand anything. So do you really want to understand… read_more
Question : What do you understand by ‘failure’ and ‘success’? What is the relation between them?
Speaker : When do you call something a ‘success’? You call yourself successful when you have a goal, and you reach it. It is this attainment of that goal that you name as ‘success’.… read_more
Question : Sir, according to me, ‘success’ has no true definition, it varies from person to person. For a kid, riding a bicycle can be a form of success and for an adult getting a good job can denote success.
So, can we ever say that success has a concrete… read_more
Success and failure are two sides of the same coin. The one who does not believe in success can never fail. The one who does not believe in failure can never succeed. You first have to believe in the concept of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ in order to succeed or fail.… read_more
Questioner: Sir, I have heard someone say that real success lies in failure. What does this mean?
Acharya Prashant: What does the mind always want? Success or Failure?
Q : Success.
AP : Success! Right? What are we always running after?
Q : Success!
AP : Success! Right? Running after… read_more
Acharya Prashant: What is meant by ‘Success of this moment’?
Rajat is asking, “What is meant by succeeding in this moment?” Why was the statement like “If you are not successful right now, then you are not successful at all.” Why was the statement like that made? What is meant… read_more
If we want to know whether we are successful or not, then we have to ask ourselves: Am I really getting better off compared to my previous stage, not compared to somebody else? Am I now better off compared to what I used to be? After all, my restlessness is… read_more
Questioner (Q): The theme of today’s interaction is inner growth. Usually when we talk of growth, we talk of external growth. For example, for an individual growth usually means job promotions, better income, or more comforts, etc. For a company, growth may mean growing in profits. For an institution, it… read_more
All the expanse of discipline is built upon the foundation of the goal. The goal comes first.
I might be a very violent man, and my goal is to blast a building off. To learn how to do it, I will have to live through stern discipline. I will have… read_more
When thoughts of your personal success stop mattering to you, when you say, “There is something more important than my personal success,” then you have really succeeded.
It has to be so big that you forget about your failures, your happiness, your sadness.
Somebody comes and tells you, “But you… read_more
It is when you give without having much that you realize that you have much. You must give from empty pockets. It is only then that you realize your pockets are not empty.
You have to fight without strength. It is only then that you realize you are not without… read_more
Every young person who is about to choose a career, decide on work in life, must keep this in mind, my humble advice: See what is it that really, really troubles you, and then work should be the medicine for your trouble. That’s the way you must choose work.
Therefore,… read_more
Questioner (Q): Recently you had a talk at IIT Delhi, and now you are here at IIM Ahmedabad, and both of these universities are your alma mater. Today, your batchmates would be at various corporate positions, but you have taken an unconventional path of becoming a spiritual teacher. So, how… read_more
Questioner: You advise us to have a purposeless, aimless life. But if we will not aim for anything, then how will I crack my exams? In your younger days, you too prepared for exams like MBA, IIT JEE, Civil services, etc. But now you say having aims is no good.… read_more
Questioner: Recently, you had a talk at IIT-Delhi and now you are here (IIM- A), both of these universities are your Alma-mater. Your batch-mates today would be at multiple corporate senior positions and you are a spiritual leader. So, how do you look at them and whom would you see… read_more
Going from class six to class seven in three attempts, having been kicked out of four schools, you manage to find some kind of a fraudulent certificate from one of those shady institutions that say, “Even if you are class seven fail, we will still give you a high school… read_more
That which we usually call as worldly success is nothing but the success of the world upon us. It is not worldly success; it is the world’s success in winning us, defeating us, trampling us. The world is all over us—and that we call as our worldly success!
So, what… read_more
Question: 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 Ji: You see, we have a concept of ‘success’, and there are certain things entailed in the concept – a… read_more
Acharya Prashant (AP): Ashish wants to understand failure and success, and the relation between them. When do you call something a ‘success’? You call yourself to be successful when you have a goal, and you reach it. And the attainment of that goal, you name as ‘success’. Right?
Now, we… read_more
Questioner (Q): Whenever I want to do something new, I am always afraid that I might fail. So, I keep a backup plan for myself, that in case I fail, I will do this another thing. And I don’t know if this is the right way of thinking or approaching… read_more
Pick the right battle, and then even defeat is victory. Whereas, if you have in the beginning picked the wrong battle, then how is defeat distinct from victory? Having picked the wrong battle, how does it matter whether you win or lose?
So, it is not about winning or losing;… read_more
Questioner: How to get success in whatever I do?
Acharya Prashant: Success does not lie in doing any random thing. That is the first, the most important, and probably the last thing. The game is not at all about picking up some arbitrary thing to do and then investing yourself… read_more
Choose the right thing to do, and in that lies success. In that lies immediate success. Immediate success implies that you have been successful right in the moment of the choice itself; you don’t have to wait for the outcome. In fact, if you have to wait for the outcome… read_more
If no greatness were possible at all, then there was no justification in pointing fingers at littleness. But greatness is possible. Greatness is possible, and it is materially proven in the shape, form, and figure of the great man. If he could do it, why couldn’t you? He had all… read_more
Success does not lie in doing any random thing. That’s the first, the most important, and probably the last thing. You must know who you are and what you really need.
Victory lies in choosing the right road to walk. If you fight the wrong battle, isn’t victory worse than… read_more
Acharya Prashant: (Referring about the questioner) Studied The Fountainhead, and from there she has compared the qualities of the creator and the repeater- which she (the questioner) has called as the second-hander. And in a tabular form, she has presented a comparison of the qualities or attributes of these two… read_more
Questioner (Q): (referring to a previous discussion) So, there is something untouched, his insight, that he is using to actually improve the whole system, the general business idea which all others are following. So, that is the reason I came to the point that it is a mix of both… read_more
