THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
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The real danger of rajas is that we are constantly focused on a goal and we forget to be in completion and enjoy the path as we pursue a meaningless purpose. Life has no purpose. It only has meaning. The meaning of life is to be in the space of completion; to be in restful awareness, to realize our inner Divinity.
To be divine and to realize that inner divinity is our true meaning in life. Anything less than that is meaningless. Being aggressive, being restlessly active, or being constantly on the move does not help us understand or realize this meaning. We will be running after one thing or another. We are just plain greedy
If we are driven by mere
possessive obsession, we
are bound to become tired
sooner or later. Aggression
results in deep depression.
This is what is called as the
'depression of success'.
People struggle to increase
their material wealth,
disregarding everything
else. People change cars
every year, houses every
third year
WHAT IS TAMAS?
People run after material
possessions and trophies without
knowing the right context of 'why
they are doing, what they are
doing'. One day when they have
acquired and reacquired so many
things and still feel incomplete,
unhappy, uneasy and listless, they
wonder why they acquired the
things that they struggled for. They
go into deep depression, deep
incompletion or what we call
tamas.
The depression of success is difficult to address. To experience failure when we have always been successful and worked so hard is difficult to accept. What results then is depression, tamas. Tamas is generally born out of the ignorance of our true Self. Sometimes tamas can arise out of an effort to move out of that ignorance. A highly rājasic person, one who has been aggressively pursuing material gains, when moving into a spiritual path can easily move into tamas for a while.
