How to succeed in getting a good quality life? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Question: Acharya Ji, how to lead a quality life in this materialistic world? What should we do to attain higher things, or to be at a higher level?

Acharya Prashant Ji: You see, we have a concept of ‘success’, and there are certain things entailed in the concept – a certain amount of money, a certain social prestige, a certain excellence in one’s chosen field of work. And all that comes. But it is still quite possible that all that may be there, and one is still discontented.

It is because all that which we have achieved, is within our self-defined concept of ‘success’. One has to go beyond it.

Obviously if our concept of success includes four things, and all those four things have been ticked against, and still there is dissatisfaction, it means the concept is not quite working.

One has to then go beyond it.

Then one has to aim for something higher than success. Then one has to ask, “What is it that matters more than success?”

One sees that all the success that one has tried to obtain has been primarily for himself. You say, “My educational qualifications,” you say, “My love life,” you say, “My son,” you say, “My profession.” So success is in general defined with the ‘me’ at the center.