Question : What do you understand by ‘failure’ and ‘success’? What is the relation between them?
Speaker : When do you call something a ‘success’? You call yourself successful when you have a goal, and you reach it. It is this attainment of that goal that you name as ‘success’. Right?
We know how confused we often are. We know how divided our minds are. What kind of goals will come from a confused, divided, dependent mind? Confused, divided and dependent goals.
A confused mind can only have confused goals.
Can achievement of these confused goals be called as ‘success’? When the mind is confused, obviously the goals are confused. How can these goals constitute your success? That is your definition of ‘success’. Right? “I target something, I get it, I say ‘success’. And if I do not get it, I say, ‘failure’.” But your targets themselves are dependent on some external person, force or situation. How can the attainment of these targets be ‘your success’. How?
Are you getting it?
