how should one determine one's goals in
life I am struggling with this please
guide there's a hole you go to Barnes &
Noble you'll go goal setting in the
books and books and books no but it's
good one should have a goal in life so I
move a kundus said have your own highest
goal what should be the what should be
the goal in life first of all it should
be your own goal own goal means read
about it listen to people but then what
appeals to the heart there was a lot of
things appealed to the heart I want to
do good to people I want to have that
cookie I want to have I'd rather have
the parking spot and not give it to you
all of these things appeal to the heart
so we're kinda says the noblest of all
of them in all the things that appeal to
you what is the highest and noblest what
you feel is high and Noble you'll often
see these things involve other people
also generally it's not limited to an
individual generally but a high and
noble goal need not always be like
social service it can also be something
like art or science are so high and
noble goal have a goal you see if you
get into a cab there and the guy asks
where to just drive
no you don't do that and yet in our
lives we do that you know where are you
going if you ask what's the goal
especially students have seen in India
there so what's what's a goal in life
leave your lecture and what should be
the goal in life but what is their goal
in life apart from what they have been
programmed by the parents you have to be
a doctor or engineer or something like
that
apart from that what's your what do you
want in life to look at you blankly
they've never been asked to think for
themselves and see what is the dream in
life personal goal in life it's like
getting into a cab and just drive big
man we know the story of the man who is
galloping through the village and on a
horse horseback and somebody asks her
where are you going in such a hurry
and he said I don't know ask the horse
that's our life as the horse if you
don't know where you're going you won't
like where you get to because you never
wanted to go there
so always definitely and because there's
a Vedanta Society it's not a group of
young people for that I recommend Tony
Robinson things like that but because
it's a Veyron to society the goal in
life should be enlightenment God
realization in whatever way you
understand it my own real nature it
always seemed to me if this is true what
the religions of the world say what we
learn to say is if it is true then what
else is worth having in life this is
what's having in life if this is not
true what else is what's having in life
nothing is worthwhile so this should be
the goal in life right now you might say
I need to get an education I need to put
my financial affairs in order I need to
my job all these are pulling the demands
on me yes Dharma Atacama they have the
pull on you but overall goal final goal
in life always should be enlightenment
keep it it's a great blessing even to
formally acknowledge to yourself what
the Buddha wanted what Vivekananda
wanted I also want that it's open to me
it's open to everybody they wanted and
they said it's open to everybody that's
the goal of humanity so I've ever kinda
said the goal of life is to manifest the
divinity already present within us it's
not just the goal of religion religion
is the way to do it spirituality is the
way to do it but our goal is that simple
and direct and truly speaking truly
speaking whether we know it or not that
is our goal when we say I want to be
happy I want to be fulfilled I want to
be successful what are you really asking
for you're asking for enlightenment you
may not see the link if you see the link
you are a spiritual seeker don't see the
link you're just living you say I'm just
living my life that's why Aurobindo said
life itself
Yoga life itself is your if you
understand light deeply what is
happening personal life and the way
civilization is going it is yoga it's a
kind of vast cosmic yoga after some time
we awaken to this process and then we do
it consciously when we start reading
books attending lectures starting to
meditate pray philosophy spiritual
practices become conscious we start
doing it consciously then you call
yourself a spiritual seeker this is a
video Maya - with dia Maya from Bogota
pavarga remember those ancient terms
bogus experiencing life a power there is
a conscious decision to reach
enlightenment yes
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