Enhancing Your Capabilities

A participant asks a question about fear and the role it plays in becoming successful or not. Sadhguru answers, "Do not even think of success, just enhance your capabilities." He continues to explain that by focusing on enhancing your being to its highest possible level, success will be the natural outcome.

Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.

Transcript

Please relate fear,

Apathy and success.

How to conquer fear and apathy on the way to success?

That's all.

Okay?

Fear about whether I will be successful or not.

Where is apathy coming?

No,

Your individual fear about whether I'll be successful or not,

Is that what you're talking?

See,

That's exactly what I've been telling you till now.

Do not even think of success,

Just enhance your capabilities.

Strive to enhance who you are.

Then what you can do,

You will anyway do,

Isn't it?

Right now,

You have an idea of success,

But you don't have the competence for that.

You want to go somewhere,

But you don't have the legs to get there.

Now naturally there will be fear,

Naturally there will be all kinds of unnecessary struggles and emotions.

Instead of that,

At this stage in your life,

If you just focus on seeing how to enhance this human being to the highest possible level that you can,

Success will be a downhill run,

Not an uphill task.

So,

If you are going downhill,

There's no fear,

Isn't it?

Because whether I can get there or not,

Whether I can get there or not,

You're working towards somebody else's idea of success.

You're working towards somebody else's idea of success.

That is not success.

Your success is,

You as a human being,

You found your full potential.

This is your success and that's all you can do.

Whether you stand on your head or you stand on your feet,

The best that you can do.

If this human being finds his fullest potential,

That's all you can do.

No matter what you do,

You cannot do more,

Isn't it?

Certain circumstances sometimes will loft us up,

Certain circumstances sometimes may not.

But in the given circumstance,

If you have blossom to your fullest level,

You will do well,

Isn't it?

Don't think of success and be fearful about it.

Just see how to make this one more and more capable.

If the competence and capability is there,

Success will come as we deserve it.

Reviews

A good reminder not to focus on success but to do whatever it takes to become capable and competent….good timing for me. Thank you Sadhguru.

Just what I needed & wanted to LEARN as well as SHARE! www.gratefulness.org, ahimsa

I'm grateful humble beautiful inside and out.im a Christian Actor model with Love life and a Purpose in Jesus name amen 🙏

Short and sweet! Thanks and good day to you Sadghuru!

A truly humble view of success. 🙏🏻

Excellent advice!!... This little bit of advice has actually changed my mindset!

Needed this thought. Thank you.

I love your insight and straight forward messages...they are truly inspirational and force me to refocus my attention on what is real vs my flawed perception...namaste🙏🧘❣️

I always love the simplicity and truth of these recordings.

I like this idea. Instead of striving for material success, try to be the best you that you can be

the idea of success in my own mind has been made complecated but listening to this has taught me just to be the best me I can be rather than thinking how success is unattainable and when I work on being the best me success is inevitable and the fear of not living up to expectations of success is removed

Great point about success! Namaste!

“If competence and capability is there, success will come as we deserve it.”Thank you!!! 💛

An awesome reminder that the principle of success shouldn't be a cause of worry but an inspiration: it's all about perception.

Great, very helpful for people who fear failure.

Wise perspective.

Always enlightening ❤️

Short, Sweet, honest and true 💖