Why do you want to remain small? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: You really like being so little? || Acharya Prashant, on 'Listen, Little Man!' (2019) ~~~~~~~~~~~~

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00:00The little man is not to be blamed for being little, he is to be blamed for remaining little.

00:07The great man is nothing but the little man who at some point says it's no fun remaining little.

00:14And he is born exactly similar to the little man.

00:18Now that puts the little man in the dock.

00:21If he could say that he doesn't want to remain little, why couldn't you?

00:24If no greatness were possible at all, then there was no justification

00:29in pointing fingers at littleness.

00:32It is materially proven in the shape, form and figure of the great man.

00:37If he could do it, why couldn't you?

00:39The great man is also a little man.

00:42Had the great man just been great, then the little man is allowed to stay little.

00:46But the great man is not just great.

00:48He purposefully, deliberately decides not to remain little.

00:53And if he can decide that, if he can impose that kind of determination and discipline upon himself,

00:58why can't you?