Most of us worship success: success in this world or becoming psychologically successful. To be successful, there must be imitation, there must be copying, there must be a continuity of what has been. If you observe yourself, that’s what you want: you want success, outwardly or inwardly. You want to achieve a result. This desire to achieve a result implies that you must have a pattern to follow. When you have a pattern to follow, no fundamental change can be brought about. Any departure from the pattern creates fear, and in order to avoid fear, you follow the lines laid down by an authority, and you pursue that authority – whether it’s the Gita, a political leader, your guru, or whatever it is – in order to be successful, in order not to have any trouble, in order to avoid any conflict, always bearing in mind that you want a result which will be satisfactory, which is success.