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PRABUDDH JEEVAN
JUNE 2015
THE SEEKER'S DIARY
Purpose
The morning after the 3 wonderful days of the Shri life created for? Eat, drink, sleep, procreate, Uttaradhyan Sutra vivechan; I woke up with this void-' procrastinate, relationships, work, hobby - or Now what?
something else? What is the purpose of this life; what Elated by the three months work leading upto three is it for? days of Gurudev's Satsang; I did feel the positive after Muslihuddin Sadi - A famous Sufi Poet said: effects of the glorious happy feelings in my heart but "How are we to know our life's purpose? Can also felt a deep sense of a' now what? What do I wake anybody tell us? No, no one can tell us, for life in up and get out of bed for today?
its very nature is self-revealing and it is our own Nothing stays for too long; each moment is so fleeting; fault if we are not open to that revelation that life so any event or moment one has been in; will eventually offers to us. It is not the fault olife. Man is the be over.
offspring of nature; therefore, his purpose This article is going to be about this elusive thing called belongs to nature. But the artificiality of life 'Purpose', 'Goal' 'Aim' 'Lagshya' (c ) or whichever brings obscurity, and this prevents him from
receiving that knowledge which is the revelation name we call it. Many of us have it and many more of us dont have or question it till we are old, frail and and
of his own soul. at the end of the life path-what has been the purpose If asked how one should proceed, I would advise of my existence?
the study of every object, whether false or true, I had asked Gurudev on the final day of the three day
which holds and attracts us, either outwardly or discourse in Mumbai - 'what do i do now? And he in
inwardly. his gentle simple manner he had shared with me that We are here for a purpose, everyone for a since he was young, he made daily goals, weekly goals, particular purpose. Each one of us is an atom of monthly goals and goals which were do-able goals as this universe and completes the symphony: and well as difficult goals, every single day. One must go when we do not strike our note, it means that into the day knowing what one wishes to accomplish note is lacking in the symphony of the whole. from it and go about doing exactly that. To even have
When we do not fulfill our life's purpose in the a tiny lakshva and about ensuring that it is scratched way for which we were created, we are not living off at the end of the day from the to do list.
rightly and consequently, we are not happy. Looking back in retrospect; for years I have floated, - Our happiness depends on living rightly, and done good things. done nothing, utilised some time and right living depends on striking our note. The wasted a lot of time but since these last few days with realization of that purpose is in the book of our Gurudev, everything iust became more streamlined and heart. Open that book and look at it. The aim of seeing how he has such a purpose, it feels ridiculous all meditation, concentration and contemplation not to have one.
is only to open this book, to focus our mind, and Anyway, since I am a commitment phobic, I decided
to see what purpose there is in our life. As soon to deal with my phobia by making day to day purpose,
as we see that our ultimate goal, our life's object small purpose with an overall larger sub-concsious
and happiness, our true health and well being, purpose of making my life and mind in such a way so
and our real wealth lie in the fulfillment of our as to not to miss the bus in the form of samkit/ self
purpose, then the whole trend of our life will." realisation/ liberation.
Emerson says-""The purpose of life is not to be Purpose- what is it? The dictionary meaning of it is happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be the reason for which something is done or created or compassionate, to have it make some difference for which something exists.'
that you have lived and lived well." I have and am constantly wondering what is this human And yet, so often I am sunk in the feeling that all of my
