Pranam
LIFE AND ITS PURPOSE by Sri Swami Sivananda
1 Have you understood the significance and the glory of human life?
Have you realised what a precious gift and veritable divine power this
human birth is? Do you not feel that life is meant for the fulfillment of a
most sublime purpose? Truly it is meant for the attainment of a lofty goal,
namely divine perfection and perennial peace and bliss. You all know quite
well that life is not merely the act of breathing, digesting, eliminating,
thinking, feeling, knowing, willing, etc. Life is not meant for eating,
seeing, sleeping and dying miserably in the end.
2 You truly live your life when you strive manfully for working out and
driving the mind to spiritual realisation and service of humanity. A little
toast, butter and jam, a little stylish clothing, a bungalow and a motor
car and a round of cinemas, attendance at parties—these do not really
constitute life. This is not the end of the real man who has been ‘made in
the image of God.’ Mere sensual life is after all only the life of an
animal. Every day you must polish it and make it look divine and be divine.
Egoism, desire and sensuality—all this is ignorance; it is deep delusion.
Can material comforts elevate the souls of the people? Can gross physical
prosperity alone confer upon you solace, courage, peace, joy, immortality
and eternal perfection in the spirit? Certainly not.
3 O blessed children of immortality! Reflect yourself over what I say.Think
deeply. Discriminate. You will realise the truth about this most transitory
pain-filled life on earth. In the dizzy whirlpool of fleeting sensual
pleasures and ceaseless seething desires, do not forget the true purpose of
life and its real goal. No greater blunder than to think, to feel, to
mistake the unreal for the real, the transitory for the permanent and to
forget the most important duty in life. What greater folly, what greater
tragedy is there than when a man neglects to reach the goal of life?
4 Through ceaseless discrimination, reflection and enquiry attain the
Wisdom of the Self. Love, give, purify, meditate, Realise. Be good. Do
good. Be kind. Be compassionate. Enquire ‘Who am I?’ Know the self and be
free. The one Lord indwells all beings. Feel his presence everywhere. See
Him alone in all men and things. Give up all distinctions and differences.
Feel oneness with all beings. Embrace all. Love all. Feel the bliss with
all in a spirit of brotherhood and live to kindle the light of life in your
heart. Be all-inclusive. Radiate pure love throughout your life. Start the
good life right from today and fight from now. Cast aside all doubts, fears
and misgivings.
5 Do not hesitate, be bold; life is short. Time is fleeting. You have
to be practical O man! Do not be weak in thy faith. You must have faith
that can move mountains. Never forget your Immortal nature. Never forget
your true purpose in life. Wake up from your long sleep of ignorance.
Realise thy hidden real nature. Stop not till the goal is reached. Stop not
till you attain the wisdom of the Self. O Wanderer in this quagmire of
Samsara! Overcome all evil. Annihilate all lust, greed and egoism and come
back to your sweet original home, the abode of eternal peace, eternal bliss
and eternal sunshine. Through sincere struggle with the lower nature and
the lower self and through a life of practical goodness and Yoga, attain
perfection in thought, word and deed in this very life. To whatever nation
you belong, to whatever race you belong, to whatever society you belong,
your real duty and the most important work is this, the attainment of the
highest spiritual perfection and bliss. May the Lord, the one God who is
known variously bestow upon you all the highest bliss and perfection in
this very life. May love alone prevail everywhere. May peace and prosperity
be unto all living beings. {EMOTIONAL CONFLICTS ARE MAN MADE GETTING OVER
THEM SAILING ALONG IN HIS BOAT IS SELF-MADE EFFORT.}.
6 न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचि नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूय: | अजो नित्य:
शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे || 20||CHAP 2// na jāyate
mriyate vā kadāchin nāyaṁ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ ajo nityaḥ śhāśhvato
’yaṁ purāṇo na hanyate hanyamāne śharīre//*BG 2.20*: The soul is neither
born, nor does it ever die; nor having once existed, does it ever cease to
be. The soul is without birth, eternal, immortal, and ageless. It is not
destroyed when the body is destroyed. EMOTIONS WEAKEN THE BRAIN AND
DESTREOYS THE EQUILIBRIUM. KR IRS 23522
On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 06:33, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> *Mar**Biosphere, the Arena of Symbiotic Successes*
>
>
>
> Every life in living is emotional and not mechanical without feelings. In
> thick, lush and free nature, every inhalation is inspiration, filled with
> reinforcing messages from the other organisms via smells. Your exhalation
> is automatic happy response, the inspiration for the other organisms.
> Organisms do not Darwin each other but help and reinforce each other.
>
> Success is inbuilt in nature and there simply is no scope for failure or
> the creation of the low graders as long as nature is free and not
> poisoned-industrialized and as a result polluted. Breathing automatically
> becomes the flow of feelings of successes and continuous rapture. And every
> life form is a complement for rapture. Nature sings happily in diverse
> tunes. There is a basic Determinism of rapture in nature. God took
> continuous care.
>
> From that wonderful arena of automatic symbiotic success, now we are
> deviated and damned by the low grades and marks sheets, only very few being
> allowed the bloated ego by being given the good marks and grades sheet. You
> have to Darwin every other life form to succeed in life by competing and
> not by complementing.
>
> Today, economic life is man’s continuous war with nature. It is the basic
> repudiation of the human’s partnership with and as nature. In economics,
> the human is mechanical, the subject matter of the half defunct Newtonian
> Physics. The economic man has no emotions, can be played with econometrics,
> and assumed away as being obedient to mathematics and mechanics.
>
> The economic man strives to be scientific or mechanical or unbiased, by
> not inhaling the basic inspiration from nature or symbiosis with the other
> organisms. And that man is fast sliding into the abyss and dragging the
> whole nature with him into that great pit.
>
> We need very urgently the creation of the islands of sanity, where nature
> is free, lush and thick, where economics is not allowed. Barter based on
> sanity, based on the urge to give what all one can to the society, and
> receive from the society, what one needs, without the intervention of money
> has to be tried in these islands of sanity.
>
> Once in thick forests every organism received the welcoming and inspiring
> smell messages. Those forests are gone. They are replaced with huge
> urbanized mechanically driven human societies where the air demoralizes.
>
> Today we fear forests, and simply refuse to breathe in the inspiration a
> forest if surviving gives. Breathing has become mechanical and not
> inspirational.
>
> YM
>
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