Goal of LifeEvery man wants to have a clear conception about the way and goal of life. If this conception is not proper explicit and unclouded, his run of life becomes chaotic. Much of his energy is wasted due to lack of consciousness about the goal of life. Often a man advances so far towards blunder and distortion that remedy becomes almost impossible. So in this regard Sri Sri Thakur has declared the following in no uncertain terms, so that man is not confused about the objective of his life ;--“The goal of life is god-realization,--or in other words attainment of a personality in which the urge of upholding and protecting others, is firmly established ;
the means to it is active adherence to the Ideal and from this flow self-adjustment ;
adjustment of the family, society and the state ;
and from this adjustment of the state begins advancement towards becoming—
forging a link with the whole world,
and there from springs the urge of finding fulfillment of everything in God ;
and this is the supreme consciousness of God-realization.”
The Secret of Life
The source, course and goal of our life are the selfsame God. The word God connotates mastery. Mastery means thorough hold over the faculty of upholding and nurturing beings. Our being is the gift of God. We are not the creator of our own selves. God is the creator and behind this creation He has a profound purpose. We exist and move on the strength of the resources endowed by Him. He has granted us free-will. The evolution or devolution of our life depends on how we use our free-will. If we like we may follow in His footsteps and we may also deviate from Him with the aid of the strength provided by Him. To deviate from Him is to emaciate our being by yielding to our complexes according to our whims. But the being wants to live and grow. This urge is hampered if we become averse to the Supreme source of our life. “Blunder over takes us as soon as our move of life becomes averse to the source.” Whenever we develop aversion to the source, we fall under the clutches of delusion. And it is just then that ignorance, oblivion and lack of proper consciousness begin for us.
The Eternal Nature of Man
Fundamentally we are the very essence of consciousness and bliss. Conscious life and growth constitutes our basic nature. But we have allowed ourselves to be averse to the source and drawn outwards and in this process we have covered ourselves with various gross and fine veils—thereby losing the memory and consciousness of our real self. And in this way through innumerable lives we have acquired so many habits and instincts that are hostile to our divine attributes that nurture being and becoming. To get rid of these inimical habits, concepts and instincts we are to be inclined to the Supreme Source, i.e., God. And it is through this that our divine consciousness will gradually revive and we shall regain our lost heritage i.e., the divine nature.
God-realization means assimilating the character of God. “God created man after His own image.” If man fails to have acquaintance with his real nature and if he cannot firmly establish him on that plane, and then whatever he may do turns out to be utterly futile. In fact this sort of go of life only serves to multiply bondages for him.
Know Thyself
So all the scriptures exhort—“Know Thyself”. To know self is to dwell in self. If there is anything that may be called our eternal nature, its stay is in God. He is the creator of our being. We have sprung from Him. In the process of creation we are the legitimate heirs of His divine nature. He is the upholder and protector of all with a mastery over upholding and nurturing all existence. In a word He is the one and only master of our being. He alone has full right over us. We belong to him alone. This is the real truth. Subservience to ego is negation of freedom and that is also self-deception, ingratitude, ignorance and devilishness, because it illegitimately denies the sovereign right of God over us and seeks to move independently and arbitrarily extirpating God and usurping His place in the domain of our life. And to recognize God as the sole Lord of our life willingly and gladly submitting ourselves to Him with a sense of active responsibility to uphold and protect all, is at once devotion, self-knowledge, liberation and bliss. It is this that is the Supreme Goal of our life. So when surrender to God, belonging to Him and fulfilling His will in the divine way become the objects of our life, it can be safely inferred that we have been able to comprehend the essence and keynote of the entire creation. It is heard that God has created himself into many simply to realize and enjoy Himself.
So if we can completely surrender ourselves to His feet with unconditional devotion and unrepelling adherence and love coupled with active pursuit and service, then we can reach the culmination of spiritual realization and enjoyment in our life. Spirituality means ceaseless dynamism of life with an untottering stay in God.
Supreme Love
“The desire that is directed towards gratification of one’s own senses is called lust, but the desire that wants to please the Lord alone is called love.”
This quality of love is the only objective of human life. Then our whole being is consciously centered in Him. He becomes the focal point and the foundation of our ego. At that stage a man does not take even a single breath for himself. When his whole soul is thus absorbed in God, he becomes just an instrument in His hands and constantly seeks to fulfill His will, i.e., he becomes ceaselessly active in upholding nurturing every being of the universe.
There is no room for narrow selfishness, ego or self-establishment in this divine move. And when a man becomes untainted, empty, selfless and holy to this degree, the infinite power of God does find a dynamic manifestation in and through him according to his capacity and characteristics and it is employed in promoting the welfare of all people. It is needless to say that when a man thus dedicates himself to the propitious service of humanity he naturally becomes abundantly resourceful.
It is in this way that human beings find the fulfillment of all their desires along with their environment through selfless love for God. so it is obvious as to how deep and indispensable is the need of a man to advance towards God-realization in his actual day to day life.
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