Always Falling Short? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The success stories of ambitious people: Be careful! || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

Transcript

00:00What's the point in having a great car if you do not know where you are and where you must go?

00:05All this braininess that you have, the IQs that you might be proud of are just a car, a vehicle that has been given to you.

00:13What of no use is the vehicle if you do not know where you are and where your love lies.

00:19The vehicle is there so that you can drive your way to your...

00:23That goal is called love.

00:24If there is no love, what kind of goal is there and what's the point in living your life for any goal?

00:29Therefore, the knowers have said that love itself is the goal.

00:32Let your love decide your goal.

00:34We are not talking of love of the man-womankind necessarily.

00:37We are talking of something that would bring your inner discontentment to an end.

00:42That's called love.

00:43Spend a lot of time just deciding the right thing to do.

00:47If you do not know your own interiors, you will never know what your life must be about.

00:53Then you will be just obliged in a compulsive way to run behind crowds.