The Purpose Of Your Life

Listening, please understand. Listening to what is happening inside you. That's a first step we are going to do. Listen, you constantly talking to you, confusing you, leads to more and more incompletions. Actually you yourself will not be able to control what you are talking to you because of incompletions. Listen, listen attentively now. Many time you will be very seriously thinking about a problem, suddenly you will come to a solution. You will be peaceful, you will be relaxed. After two days, you will forget the solution which you found. Again about the same problem you will be brooding over, brooding over, brooding over. After two days again you will discover the same solution. After two days again, you will forget the same solution and brood over about the same problem. How many of you suffered this? Raise your hand. This is what I call pattern. This is what I call pattern. Same pattern - discovering solution… Monday you will find the solution and Wednesday again you'll forget the solution, same problem Wednesday morning, Thursday, Friday, thinking, thinking, thinking, brooding over, Saturday morning you'll discover the solution. Saturday, Sunday you will have that solution, again Monday morning you'll forget the solution, same problem.

Listen, this pattern is because of incompletions. This pattern is because of incompletions. Basically, biggest problem human beings have is we don't listen to ourselves. We talk, we listen to others. We talk to ourself, we talk to others. We listen to others, but we never listen to ourselves. Some of the basic questions about life we need to listen to us. Where are we heading? What is it that really makes me happy? What is it that really makes me blissful? What is it that really makes me energetic? Some of… some people will be running behind money, but actually name and fame only will make them feel energetic. I am not saying money is right or name and fame is right, which is right, wrong. No, I am nobody to judge you here. I am only here to support you to achieve what you want. Listen, many time actually the name and fame gives you more power and energy, but you will be thinking money only is your purpose and you will be running behind and once you have the money you will feel suddenly empty. Vice versa also, sometimes you will feel it is money gives you fulfillment, but you will be running behind name and fame. Once you have it you will feel empty. “What is there? Yes everyone praises me. But what is there, tomorrow itself they will change their words.” Manytime what you want, what is the Artha-meaning of your life… In Sanskrit the word Artha means two meaning - ‘meaning’ and ‘wealth’.

What is the Artha of your life? And what is the kama? Means what you think as pleasure, desirable. There is so much of incompletion about your Artha-meaning and Kama-desirable. That is why you don't know what Dharma-path you need to practice. Dharma means path, Artha means meaning, Kama means desirable. Now first, let us listen to ourselves, spend little time in listening to ourselves. Ask you what is, what do you think as purpose of your life. You are not going to show to anybody so don't write some big “I wanted the whole world to be happy having whatever everyone wants”. Leave that to Me. You write exactly in the secret corner of your heart what you think as purpose of your life. What you think you can do to make it happen, what you aspire in life? What is that keeps you driving everyday? What is that keeps you alive? Are you alive just because death has not yet happened. No, there are some people. What is it that motivates you? How do you plan to achieve? Provide few minutes of listening to you. Be true to you, authentic to you and answer these few questions. Dig deep, contemplate and meditate and write this exercise, answers by listening to you. Few minutes …

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Instructions shown in video:

Dig deep, contemplate and meditate and write the exercise by listening to you.

1) What is the purpose of your life? What do you aspire to? What is it that keeps you alive? What motivates you to wake up every day? What do you value most in life?

2) How do you plan to achieve what you aspire to? Are all your actions in life aligned to this?

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Sit with yourself, contemplate

Let’s enter into the next game. Pick up a paper and pen. The leader please stand up, leaders should stand up. Paper and pen, write any statement from My teachings. It should be only seven words. Not 6 or 8, only seven words, write a statement. Now listen, first statement you will utter in the ears of the person who is sitting next to you. You will clearly utter, not loudly, third person should not hear, only he should be able to hear. Clearly utter in his ears. If he did not listen and ask ‘ah ah?’ Ah ah only that’s all, nothing can be done. No repeating. Utter only once clearly in his ears. Whatever he heard, let him tell the next person, then next person, next person, let it just go round and come back to you. What comes back note down against that statement. What you sent and what came back. Next send the second statement. What comes back, note down. Send the third one. What comes back, note down. Please start. It's a very simple game. But very interesting.

Team leaders all the 4 team leaders please come to the mic. Yes, team leaders. Please first read out the statement you sent and the statement which came back.

Leader: Nithyanandam, the statement I sent was “You are worthy of what you have” the statement I received is “you are what you are, you are.” Swamiji: Second Leader: The second one: you are responsible for whatever happening inside and outside you. The statement I received is: you are responsible for what you are. Swamiji: Third one. Leader: Always live in the gratitude of... in the attitude of gratitude. The statement I received is : All is to me in gratitude. Swamiji: Not even one came back as it is. Zero. Come on. Here.

Leader: My first statement was: get rid of your incompletions, complete them. What I received is: Hatreds are incompletions, complete them. Swamiji: 😃 Okay. Second one. Leader: From perceptions to truth and from truth to reality. What I received is perceptions is a truth and truth is a reality. Swamiji: 😃 How can perceptions be truth? Leader: The science of completion can be learned and practiced. What came back is the science of completion can be learned and then practiced. Swamiji: Okay, only small mistake, last statement. We will give twenty mark, no problem. Come on. 😃

Leader: My statement was: perception to cognizance to truth to reality. What came back was: Perception, fact, truth, reality. So the conjunctions have been missed and cognizance has been replaced by truth. Second one was: listening not hearing is important in life. What came back was: listening not hearing is important in life. Exact statement came back. Swamiji: Wow, then thirty three mark. Which team? Great! Leader: The last one was: Incompletions come in the way of listening. What came back was: Incompletions come in way of listening. So only “the” was missed . Swamiji: Ok great. That team has done a good job. Come on. Please.

Leader: I just sent out only the words. Like the first word was “incompetence.” Swamiji: No, you can’t send one word, you have to send seven... I think the leader failed 😃 Leader: After that I sent other words like a... Swamiji: No full seven word statement you should send it. So I think you did not listen what I said. What to do, the leader himself failed, so now I can't even tell anything about the group. Okay, you can go. Leader: Thank you.