Acharya Prashant explains that life is a series of ever-changing stages that occur every moment, rather than every year or month. Because life is constantly new, old laws, patterns, and past thinking are inapplicable to the present. He emphasizes that having a motiveāsuch as a desire for money, power, or specific outcomesāprevents true attention because the mind becomes occupied with greed. Attention requires a clear, light mind that is free from the burden of motives. To understand and respond correctly to any situation, one must be fully present and attentive in the current moment, as past experiences or laurels cannot sustain one's current state of being.
