The real Goal dissolves you along the journey to the Goal || Acharya Prashant, on Swami Vivekananda

Take up one idea.

Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone.

This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

~ Swami Vivekananda

Acharya Prashant(AP): Wonderful!

It’s just that not every idea will be able to fulfill these conditions.

The idea must have some worth, the idea must have some weight, the idea must have some gravity. Otherwise, you will not be able to make the idea your life. Otherwise, you will not be able to live, eat, breathe, sleep by that idea.

Mark the words, “Take up one idea.” That one idea has to be about — ‘The One’. It has to be an idea, that is arising from ‘The One’.

Every other idea would fail these conditions. Have you not had ideas aplenty, already? Have those ideas really served you well? Have those ideas survived? Have you ever been deficient in ideas?

In fact, you have far too many ideas for your comfort. So, you must be very clear about…