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 will that help?
LetтАЩs take the extreme and crass example of a drunkard. ItтАЩs an extreme example. I understand. So, just stay with it.
If one is drunk and one is thinking of improvement in his drunken state. (When you are drunk, you think of a lot of things that you usually donтАЩt think of). If one is drunk and one is thinking of improvement and one is thinking of improvement precisely because one is drunk, then what would be the quality of that dream or vision? I have already declared myself as lacking poor or deficient. And if I am lacking or poor or deficient, how will I dream of a total and complete and whole future?
My vision, too, would just be a polished version of who I already am. And I am, in my own estimation, not good enough. My dreams would only be a refined version of my current state. They will not be able to take me beyond myself. And that is why dreamers keep failing. And that is why the progress that dreams give us is only cosmetic. Yes, something changes but only on the surface. Real change never comes.
When you make a goal for yourself, pay attention to the state of the goal-setter as well.
