Purpose of
Life
In this world you desire money, power, prestige,
etc. then you realize the whole thing is just rubbish. Even If you get, you are
defected. If you don't get, you are defected.
Life is beautiful and joyful to the people who just
play in life, Same life is stressful, tension, suffering for the people who
consider life as a game. Hindus have called it a Leela, (a play) it’s not a
game, because game has some purpose, a result to be attained, victory to be
achieved, the opponent has to be conquered, that is why game become serious.
Grownup’s play games, Children only play. Life is a Leela, it’s a play. The moment you are ready to play you are
enlightened.
I have seen fear, suffering, incompleteness, in the
eyes of billionaires. If you are not confident, joyful, and happy in life, why all
the struggle? When will that time come, to be joyful and to celebrate life?
When you have no job, you are dying to get one,
after getting that, you are dying to achieve something, after an achievement,
you are dying for promotion and salary hike, after getting them, you set bigger
targets and struggle to reach there.
Where is celebration in life, where is peace in
life, what is the purpose of your life. Anything you get, again you become poor
and poorer than earlier.
I have seen more poverty in the people who have worked
decades in USA and Europe, now they are in India, they are more unsecured or
poor when compared to the people who are doing daily labor in India.
Let me share my surroundings experience of life:
there are few people who are backward casts and poor, and there are few richest
people.
Both Rich and Poor are living their life. Both Rich
and Poor undergoing with all the phases of life, like: Failure, Success,
Suffering, Happiness, Joy, Sad, Cry, Fear and So on.
Here is the
main difference:
Poor/illiterate are living in huts, Rich/educated
are living in villas, both are eating, sleeping, working, both are married,
both have kids, both will die.
Rich/educated are struggling a lot to get good
education for their kids, later jobs and later marriage and so on. Their life is
full of struggle and stress.
Poor/illiterate they don't even think about
anything, they grow with nature and become adult and get married, have kids and
life goes on.
Rich/educated take lots of pressure, stress and
struggle and die.
Poor/illiterate they live relaxed life, enjoy, celebrate
and die.
Sudha
Murthy (wife of N. R. Narayana
Murthy) gave birth to her children
in Govt hospital only, now people working in their organization / IT /
Corporate are running to Cloud nine / Multi specialty hospitals to get the labor.
In Life most of the things are predefined, nothing can save you, nothing can
destroy you. It is fear that is making you to think a lot and suffer/struggle.
What is the use of becoming educated and rich, if
you don't know the purpose of life? You don’t know how to live life? The
purpose of life is celebration, living fullest of life. Like Trees, like River, like any other
creatures on Earth.
One to enjoy their life, they should learn to own
less. More you own, more of your life spent on securing and maintaining those
assets.
Example: if you have watch, you get unnecessary
load to your free hand. You started caring about watch glass, watch cover,
protecting from water and dust, servicing watch, changing battery, and so on.
Part of your life, you are spending, just for your watch. Also, sometimes you
compare with others watch and suffer.
Similarly, look for the things which you own. How
much of life is going on securing and serving of the things you own.
I have never seen any pressurized cat, look at the
cat, it's always relaxing and enjoying life. As a human being you don't know
how to enjoy life. What is the use of living…?
Life has to be multidimensional. Only then it has
meaning. Try not to make your life one dimensional. Somebody becomes an
engineer, and then he thinks all is finished, he becomes identified with being
an engineer. Then his whole life, he is just an engineer... There were millions
of things for him to do but he moves only on one track. A single dimension. He gets
bored, is fed up, is tired, and weary. He still goes on dragging. Waits only
for death.
What meaning can there be?
Have more interests in life. Don't be always a businessman;
sometimes play too. Don't be just a doctor or an engineer, or a headmaster, or
a professor - be as many things as possible! Play cards, play the violin, sing
a song, be an amateur photographer, a poet...Find as many things as possible in
life, and then you will have richness. And meaning is a by-product of richness.
What so ever that life gives you accept with deep
gratitude, grace happens to you. Life is a purpose less play, play of infinite
forces of the universe, beautiful if you
don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have an ambition to become
something, be something, to do something. ...Relax, forget the future
completely, only this moment exists and this moment is eternity, and only this
life is all. Celebrate every moment in life.
Here is an eye-opening story:
Alexander
was said while he was in India, met a great Master (Sage). Master asked; if you
are in a desert and thirsty and I have a full bottle of water, how much you
will be ready to pay for it? Alexander said I will pay half of my empire in
such a situation. But Master said I will not sell, until you pay me the full
empire. If you are willing to pay half, that is an indication enough customer
is going thirstier and will be paying full empire. Alexander agreed… perhaps I
will give the whole empire! And the Master laughed, and he said than what you
are doing? Wasting your whole life for a bottle of water? Are you stupid or
something? This is the way our corporate people not living life by running
behind money and power, later they are spending all their earnings to the
hospital or children recovery (because of bad parenting).
Last but
not least, whatever may be your life’s purpose (which you defined), Don’t be
too selfish, help others and serve others. Those are the only thing which makes
you happy in your last days of life (when you’re in death bed). You remember: Not
the things you owned, not your properties, not your achievement, not your
medals or certificates.
You
remember only few things: how you helped, how you respected, how you valued,
how you cooperated, how you truly enjoyed your life.
Life has no purpose and No goals! For more details, click on below links...
Source: Most
of the blog content is from Osho teachings.
- Have no goals no purpose in life Osho
- How to Always Know What to Do - Sadhguru - Spiritual Life
- OSHO: Selling Bliss
- Osho Book Creativity
Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)
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