Success is to realise that failure is the inevitable finality of our ways || Acharya Prashant (2014)

Questioner: Sir, I have heard someone say that real success lies in failure. What does this mean?

Acharya Prashant: What does the mind always want? Success or Failure?

Q : Success.

AP : Success! Right? What are we always running after?

Q : Success!

AP : Success! Right? Running after success, do we ever stop running? Have you ever come across someone who says that “*I am finally successful now?*”

Do you understand the meaning of the word, ‘finally’? Nothing after this, final, full stop! ‘I fully well and finally know that I am successful and my chase stops here. After this no more thoughts of getting this, or obtaining this.’ Have you ever come across such a person?

So, you are continuously running after success, without ever getting any final success. Right? Intermittently you get the illusion of success, that is alright. You did something and you felt successful in that, but it is never final. Is it ever final? Sooner than later you discover,