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May your ambitions be defeated || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)
Acharya Prashant
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Ambition
Atman
Swami Vivekananda
Fickle-mindedness
Wisdom literature
Self-realization
Limited mind
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the nature of ambition, illustrating how it is often rooted in a limited and fickle mind. He points out that just as an eighteen-year-old laughs at their childhood ambitions of becoming a detective or a superhero, a more mature person would similarly see the limitations in the ambitions of a young adult. Ambition is restricted by one's current, narrow experience and cannot capture the freshness of the present moment. He suggests that it is often a blessing when ambitions are not fulfilled, as they are based on a small understanding of the world's vast possibilities.