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The real Goal dissolves you along the journey to the Goal || Acharya Prashant, on Swami Vivekananda
Acharya Prashant
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9 years ago
Swami Vivekananda
Goal
Success
Surrender
Totality
Spiritual Growth
Purpose of Life
Sublimation
Description

Acharya Prashant discusses Swami Vivekananda's teaching on dedicating one's life to a single idea. He emphasizes that for an idea to be worthy of such total commitment, it must possess immense gravity and weight. Most random ideas fail because they lack immensity and are soon replaced by others. A true idea must be timeless and irreplaceable, arising from the heart rather than being a passing wave of the mind. If a goal is smaller than the individual, the individual remains the master and can change it at will; however, a true goal must possess and own the individual entirely.