Your Problems Feel Huge Because Your World Is Tiny || Acharya Prashant (2025)

Your Problems Feel Huge Because Your World Is Tiny || Acharya Prashant (2025)

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(00:00) As teenagers, [music] it is really difficult for us sometimes to comprehend and navigate through our emotions and we end up thinking my problems are much bigger than what they actually [music] are. Somebody uttered a bad word to me. Some wedding is approaching so I must get new clothes for myself.
(00:17) I didn't get enough likes on my last Insta post. Nothing is enough. Nothing is enough. We are all born probably to be mediocre. Greatness is a rare thing. Greatness has to be earned. You will have to make special efforts to go to them. But when when you are with the great and you look at them you look at the challenges that they happily endorsed and then you look at your own troubles and what do you find? It is an extremely rare thing to find the rare one right next to you.
(00:50) And that rare event should actually not happen because when the rare one is right next to you, then for you he ceases to be Uh greetings Acharya sir. I'm Navami. I'm a student of class 12th and I would feel that you know this age that we're in all of us students here we're quoted as teenagers and my question would be that as teenagers it is really difficult for us sometimes to comprehend and navigate through our emotions especially >> emotions.
(01:21) navigate through our emotions what we're feeling >> emotions yeah. especially as a lot of these emotions that we feel are really unfamiliar and new to us. And we end up thinking oh my problems are much bigger than what they actually are. So what advice would you give to all of us here? Thank you. Very pertinent question. See until you have seen the Himalayas even the little hillock in your backyard uh appears like Mount Everest.
(01:52) You get this? Mhm? The mistake that we make as as young people is that we take our surroundings as the universe. And we take tradition as the truth. We feel that if something is not visible in our surroundings, it probably does not exist at all. And the way the human species is
(02:39) it is very very probable almost 100% certain that what any of us will have in our surroundings in our in our vicinity will be dwarfs. And that's not an insult to the society that we have around us. That's the fundamental human condition. That's the fundamental human condition. We are all born probably to be mediocre.
(03:12) Greatness is a rare thing. Greatness has to be earned. And very few people display the commitment to rise to greatness. Consequently, what you will usually find yourself amidst is is a large number of very small people. What you'll usually find all around you is a large number of small people. And the mistake that you make is that you start thinking that what's near you is universal.
(03:49) Hm? So, you have somebody around you. And for this person and this fellow is a senior. You're 15 or 17 or 18, a teenager, and this fellow could be 40 or 60. Hm? He appears experienced, respectable. And you're seeing that even for this fellow some petty matter becomes huge. And he is totally engaged with it, totally consumed by it.
(04:19) So, what do you start thinking? You start thinking that this petty thing is indeed something so significant, something so colossal that it deserves this kind of consideration and attention. Because that's what you find people doing all around you. Are you getting it? No. We said greatness is rare. So, go to the rare ones.
(04:49) And those rare ones, by definition, will be rarely found around you. You will have to make special efforts to go to them. Hm? It is an extremely rare thing to find the rare one right next to you. And that rare event should actually not happen because when the rare one is right next to you, then for you, he ceases to be rare. And then you turn kind of indifferent or even contemptuous.
(05:25) You say, you know, he's he's right here. How can he be the rare one? So, it's best then to go to the rare ones through their works, specifically books. Books is where you will find those who could who could just ignore the petty and little things of life. And you look at them and you see what all they stood through.
(05:52) What all they took in their stride. You look at the challenges that they happily endorsed. And then you look at your own troubles and what do you find? You find your troubles are tiny. Puny. And then you say I don't need to give too much attention to my troubles. Look at this one. Look at this one. This one in the book.
(06:16) And I'm not talking of fictitious figure here. We are talking of real people who have lived, breathed and died on this planet. Look at them. But they won't be found in the neighborhood. Hm? It's it's going to be uh very difficult if you look for these figures in the neighborhood Hanaji or Tauji. Difficult. Not maybe impossible, but the probability is like one upon Avogadro's number.
(06:47) Are you getting it? If you do not come in touch with as they as they talk of in Hindi the Kupmanduk. The frog in the well. Huh? What does he know of the ocean? If you have not known the ocean, at least know those who have known the ocean. AT LEAST YOU'LL HAVE >> [applause] >> AT LEAST YOU'LL HAVE SOME idea of the ocean and that will maybe encourage you to leave your own little well one day and move towards the ocean.
(07:26) Otherwise, the petty affairs of the little well will consume you totally. And that's a grave danger. All these little petty things of daily life. Getting it? I have to buy a new shirt. The vehicle is to be serviced. I'm not saying these things must not be done. These things must be done, but it must also be remembered that these are very trivial things.
(07:50) The vehicle needs to be serviced. Somebody uttered a bad word to me. Some wedding is approaching, so I must get new clothes for myself. I didn't get enough likes on my last Insta post. Nothing is enough. Nothing is enough. But when when you are with the greats through their work, through through through documentaries made on on them, through their biographies, through their autobiographies, hm? Then you realize what life really is about.
(08:22) Hm? Then you feel like standing in front of the real Mount Everest. Hm? And saying like, here here is where the earth meets the sky. Hm? Yes? Without reading, you will you will be you will be consumed. The world is such that it'll suck you in and destroy you. Just download the Acharya Prashant app, and there you go to the community section.
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