00:00I really wanted to ask you, what do you think is the purpose of one's life, like is it inside
00:15us or is it present in the outside world for us to find out, like is it our individual
00:20growth as a human or is it something other than our being and is something bigger than
00:25ourselves and I really wanted to ask you and if you can share this, if you find your purpose.
00:36See, what you call as life is experienced moment to moment, even the memories of the
00:47past and the imaginations of the future, you experience them in this moment.
00:53So essentially, life is nothing but your experience as it is right now.
01:02So when you talk of the purpose of life, it has to be related to your lived experience,
01:08how you are experiencing life as it is for you currently.
01:14Ask yourself, as you are living, what is it that troubles you?
01:23That which troubles you, go deeply into it.
01:28Finding a solution to the core of your troubles can be the only purpose of life.
01:35What else?
01:38What else?
01:43Let's say you are sitting on a chair that's very uncomfortable to sit on.
01:53There are needles jutting out and you are sitting on them or it's just too small for
01:59you let's say or one of its legs is cracked and shaking.
02:06And I tell you the purpose of life is universal brotherhood.
02:10How does that help you?
02:13What is your problem?
02:14Your problem is the chair you are sitting on.
02:17It is hurting you, at least your body and therefore it is disturbing your mental peace
02:22as well.
02:25So you have to go into how your life is and the troubles of your life.
02:32If you can look clearly and honestly at them, the troubles of your life will tell you the
02:37purpose of your life.
02:40Otherwise sitting on a chair that hurts and preaching of universal brotherhood makes no
02:48sense, no sense at all.
02:54Those who have known have taught us that the purpose of life is to gain freedom from everything
03:00that keeps you small.
03:02Do you want to stay small?
03:04You want to be big in every terms.
03:09In fact, all human desires are in some way the desires to challenge one's limits.
03:18We are born limited and as we grow up we face several kinds of limits.
03:24You look into any desire you have, in some way it would be challenging some limit you
03:30encounter.
03:32So that's the purpose of life, to grow big, to challenge your limits, to overcome everything
03:43that keeps you in bondages.
03:47Freedom is your essential nature and therefore that alone can be the purpose of life.
03:53But before you talk of freedom, you must know where your bondages are.
03:58Therefore I talked of the chair.
04:01Now by that I do not mean to turn the whole thing very casual.
04:06I do not mean to say that the purpose of life is to buy a comfortable chair for yourself.
04:12I said when you encounter troubles, hurts, problems, suffering, you have to go into the
04:21core of that suffering.
04:25The core of the suffering is the core of your enemy.
04:32That enemy has to be fought against and overcome.
04:37That's the purpose of life.
04:39What is it that keeps nagging me incessantly?
04:47What is it that troubles me so much in this form or that form?
04:52You will get up from the chair and walk out and the chair would cease to be a problem.
04:56But then some other problem will arise.
04:59There is always something or the other to trouble.
05:02Going deeply into the problem means that you want to know the central problem that gives
05:09rise to the various problems.
05:12What is the central problem?
05:13Figure that out.
05:15That central problem is a central weakness, the central limitation.
05:20If you can figure out your central problem, you know the purpose of your life.
05:25If you do not know your central problem, then figuring out the central problem is the purpose
05:29of life.
05:31Full stop.
05:37Do not in any case remain embroiled with superficial problems.
05:45Because the superficial problems are deceptions.
05:49The superficial problems exist so that you can never see the mother problem.
05:57We keep fighting the small problems and the big, huge problem remains hidden.
06:09Stop fighting the little ones, they are pawns.
06:15Fight the mother operator.
06:17See where that queen is and target her.
06:20Firstly, figure it out.
06:22Secondly, overcome her.
06:24That's the purpose of life.
06:26Namaskaram Sir.
06:30I am Sarthak Mehta from 1PA.
06:33My question is, whatever we have planned for success, like if we got success, after that
06:39getting success, we feel like we have failed in some point of time.
06:44So please address this issue.
06:47Simplify it.
06:49I was asking, if we have planned a success, we received it.
06:54But after that success, we took it negatively and we feel like we failed in our lives.
07:01After getting success, it feels like we have failed some point of life.
07:07So that's my question.
07:09That's the reason why goals must be very carefully thought of before you invest yourself
07:19in your goals, else this is the result, rather the punishment.
07:27You will spend a lot of time, let's say two years, chasing something and when you obtain
07:34it, you will find you are still disappointed.
07:39So first of all, you invested two years and now you will have to again invest a lot of
07:44time just remaining in the disappointment.
07:48And you will have to start from scratch, look at something else.
07:53Don't just randomly turn something into your goal or target.
07:59Your target has to be something that is closely related to your internal condition.
08:08If your goals are being dictated by somebody else and then even if you attain those goals,
08:20how can you call that attainment your success?
08:25I used to ask, if a master dispatches a servant to the market to bring some salt or sugar
08:38and the servant successfully brings salt and sugar to the master, would the servant call
08:45himself successful?
08:49The task has been done successfully but what has the servant received?
08:55If at all there has been a success, it belongs to the master, not to the servant.
09:00Don't be a servant.
09:02Don't perform others' tasks.
09:06Don't invest your energy in something that others want you to do.
09:13Otherwise, your failure is your failure and your success is not your success.
09:20That's a bad place to be in.
09:21Where there is failure either side of the result.
09:28You fail, you fail.
09:30You succeed even then you fail.
09:33On the contrary, there is another kind of effort, action and challenge possible where
09:43you know what you really want to do.
09:45You have thought it over.
09:49You have looked into your own mind.
09:53You have talked to as many people as possible to get diverse opinions.
09:57Peacefully, you have taken stock in your aloneness of where you stand and what you need without
10:04being afraid and then you pick up the right challenge for yourself.
10:12When you do that, then even if you fail, you have still succeeded because you took up a
10:18worthy challenge.
10:20So pick up something like that where even failure is a success.
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