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Chapter The Goal of Life
He who wants to be religious, must have the required virtues. We have by now dealt with 20 attributes required for being religious. Religion is a jewel; in order to gain it one needs to be worthy of it. Our indigenous term for religion is Dharma, which denotes morality and righteousness. That term becomes a misnomer when an unworthy person claims to be religious. A religious person, who is equipped with above 20 attributes, would obviously have a goal in his life; and that is the last and the 21st attribute.
What is the principal purpose of human life? Whatever situations we come across in life can be divided in three categories of Heya, Jneya and Upädeya. Heya means worth giving up, Jneya means worth knowing and Upädeya means worth adopting. If we go by those criteria, we can find out that there are many concepts, objects and activities that need to be given up and we wrongly cling to the same.
Dharma (Morality), Artha (Economics), Käm (Satisfying the desires) and Moksha (Liberation) are the four main endeavors in life. If we examine our situation, it would be seen that we give too much importance to Artha and Käm, and ignore Dharma and Moksha. There is of course the importance of money in life; we need it even for livelihood. We should therefore endeavor to earn it reasonably and honestly. Now the people have, however, a craze for getting money
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