okay so what's what's really the purpose
of life
isn't it fantastic that if there's no
purpose you have nothing to fulfill you
can just live
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no but you want a purpose and not a
simple purpose you want a god-given
purpose
it's very dangerous people who think
they have a god-given purpose
are doing the cruelest things on the
planet
they are doing the most horrible things
and they've always been doing the most
horrible things
because when you have a god-given
purpose
life here becomes less important
then your purpose
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now life is important
life is important when i say life
i am not talking about your family your
work what you do what you do not do your
party
i'm not talking about that as life this
is life isn't it
life is within you or around you life is
important
because it's the only thing you know you
don't know anything else rest is all
imagined stuff isn't it
the only thing is that this is beating
and alive and that's all there is
not you as a person that's not important
but you as a piece of life it's very
important
because that is the basis of everything
when i say that is the basis of
everything
the universe exists for you only because
you are isn't it
the world exists for you only because
you are otherwise it won't exist
in your experience so
in every way this is important so what
is the purpose for this
see if you had a purpose and if you
fulfilled it after that what would you
do
after that what would you do bored
isn't it it is just that life is so
intricate and so phenomenally intricate
that if you spend ten thousand years
looking at it carefully you still will
not know it
entirely if you spend a million years
looking at it
with absolute focus still you will not
know it in its entirety
that's how it is there is is there a
meaning to it
the greatest thing about life is that
there is no meaning to it
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this is the greatest aspect of life that
it has no meaning to it
and there is no need for it to have a
meaning
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it is the pettiness of one's mind that
it is seeker meaning
because psychologically you will feel
kind of unconnected
with life if you don't have a purpose in
a meaning
if you build a cocoon around yourself
it gives you safety but it also
imprisons you
walls of self-preservation are also
walls of
self-imprisonment
when it protects you you like it when it
restricts you you do not like it
that is why we have doors we like the
walls
because it's protecting us but we have
doors so that we can open it and get out
when we want to
it doesn't matter how nice it is we
still want to go out
isn't it
so that is how it is with every trap
that you set
it doesn't matter how nice it is you
still want to go out
so the psychological wall that you have
built
which gives you some sense of identity
which gives you some sense of being a
person
an individual person and which gives you
security
beginning to experience it like a trap
somewhere you want to break it
so one way of not breaking it
is to find a purpose those who find a
purpose
in their life they become so conceited
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first thing you need is balance if you
have balance
then you can climb if you don't have
balance it's better you stay on the
ground
isn't it it's not safe
for somebody who is not balanced to
climb high
it's best you stay close to the ground
you should not climb
so first thing is to establish a balance
don't look for a purpose because if you
look for a purpose
you're seeking madness if you find one
you are sure mad
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yes if you think you found a purpose in
life
you still you for sure gone crazy
because only the insane people have
purpose
or people who have purpose
are insane in many ways these are things
that you create in your mind and believe
it's true
isn't it right now fighting for my
country
is my purpose right now if it's
necessary i will fight
knowing fully well it's an unnecessary
bloody fight
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yes then you will fight only to the
extent it's necessary
if you think this is your purpose you
would want to destroy the whole world
for what nonsense you believe in isn't
it
something is needed we'll do it
with absolute involvement
there's no other purpose the purpose of
life is to live and to live totally
to live totally does not mean party
every night to live totally means
before you fall dead every aspect of
life has been explored
nothing has been left unexplored
yes before you fall dead even if you do
not explore the cosmos
at least this piece of life you must
know it in its entirety
that much you must do to yourself isn't
it that's living totally
that you experience the whole of this
all dimensions of what this is
you did not leave anything untouched
you just do that that will take a long
time that's enough good enough purpose
for you
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but look at yourself and see right now
somebody else if they determine what
should happen around you you feel like a
slave
but right now somebody else is
determining what should happen
within you is this not slavery
somebody can decide whether you are
happy or unhappy
is this not slavery somebody can decide
whether you will be a pleasant human
being or an unpleasant human being
is this not slavery what happens
within you somebody else determines this
is the worst form of slavery
isn't it isn't it
it is just that because everybody is
like that it seems to be normal
it is not not normal
life around you will not happen will
never happen hundred percent the way you
want it
life around you will never happen
hundred percent the way you want
it and it should not the planet is round
and you are not sitting on top of the
north pole the dam
planet is spinning so if you look up
you're always looking up in the wrong
direction
so in this cosmic space is there
somebody who knows which is up and which
is down
nobody knows which is up which is down
it's just an assumption
isn't it do you know really which is not
which is south
it is just for our convenience we just
fixed it isn't it you do not know
none of these things you know there is
only one thing you can be certain of
right now
this is you know what is outward what is
inward
this one thing you're sure this is
inward this is outward
this is the only privilege you have
everything that ever happened to you
darkness and light happen within you
pain and pleasure happen within you
joy and misery happen within you have
you ever experienced
anything outside of yourself so what i
am asking you is
what happens within you who should
determine how it should happen
definitely you should determine what
should happen within this isn't it
so if you determine what's happening
within this
your whole experience of life will be
determined by
you nobody else but you isn't it the
events around you may not be determined
by you
but how your experience of life is on
this planet
is 100 determined by you if you take
charge of this
if you leave it loose just about anybody
will determine it
they will