"And the distance between that 'more' and that which you have got will remain constant.

"This is one of the most constant things in human experience: everything changes, but the distance between that which you have and that which you would like to have remains constant.

"Albert Einstein says: The speed of time remains constant – that is the only constant. And buddhas say: The speed of mind remains constant. And the truth is that mind and time are not two things, they are both the same; two names for the same thing.

"So if you want to succeed, you may succeed, but you will not be content. And what is the meaning of a success if you are not content? And this, I say, is only coincidence that you may succeed. The greater possibility is that you will fail because you are not chasing success alone, millions of people are chasing.

"In a country of six hundred million people only one person can be the prime minister – and six hundred million people are wanting to be the president or the prime minister. So only one succeeds, and the whole crowd fails. The greater possibility is that you will fail; mathematically that seems to be more certain than success.

"If you fail you feel frustrated; your whole life seems to be a sheer wastage. If you succeed, you never succeed; if you fail, you fail – this is the whole game.

"You say that you suspect that I am against success – no, I am not. Because if you are against success, then again you have another idea of being successful – that is, how to drop this nonsense of being successful. Then you have another ideaagain the distance, again the desire.

"Now, this is what makes people monks, makes people move into monasteries. They are against success. They want to go out of the world where there is competition – they want to escape from it all so that there will be no provocation, no temptation, they can rest in themselves. And they try not to desire success – but this is a desire! Now they have an idea of spiritual success: how to succeed and become a buddha, how to succeed and become a christ, how to succeed and become a Mahavira."