PURPOSELESSNESS OF LIFE🔗

Drop the goal

Guru Purnima is the day when we give gratitude to all the enlightened Masters who have happened on planet Earth. Guru is the one who dispels the darkness that is your ego and brings in light. Gu is darkness and ru means dispeller. What is ego? According to the Upanishad, as long as you think that life has got a purpose and run behind the purpose, you are an egoistic person. When you realize the beauty of the purposelessness of life, you have dropped your ego. Guru is the one who makes you understand the purposelessness of life. Whatever you think as worthy now is not the real worthy thing. A man with ego searches with purposes and misses reality. He misses the beauty of Brahman or Existence.

Death clearly shows that whatever mind you lived with all your life has no real existence. When you realize the purposelessness of life, a new consciousness starts blossoming in you. The moment you experience that there is nothing to be achieved, that all the diamonds you were protecting are not diamonds but stones, that all your great things in life are mere toys, you will understand the purposelessness of life. You should understand that money is not the mani - bliss that is found inside the lotus. The real purpose of life cannot be understood by ego. When the ego is dropped, you will understand the divine purpose of life - the leelas or the Divine play. You will enjoy the drama!

If you keep thinking that life has a purpose and wait to achieve something, you will miss life itself. Life is the path, not the goal. When you have a goal, you will run; your feet will not touch the ground and you will miss the beauty of Existence. When you drop the goal, the emphasis will be on the path.

When you understand the purposelessness of life, you understand the meaning of living. Until then, you are just living dead. A person in coma lies in the hospital bed. A person who walks on the road is also in coma but walking, that's all. Both live without the right consciousness. Guru is the one who makes you realize this truth. The meaning of living is the meaning of life or Existence.

A scientist is a man who creates a formula to reproduce something that he has discovered in the outer world for others to experience. A Master is a man who creates a formula to reproduce something that he experienced in the inner world for others to experience. The bliss or the Eternal Truth that he experienced in his own consciousness, he creates a formula to help others experience.

Sacrificing one's life for the sake of the goal is not the way to live. If you live this way, only the payday will be sweet. Life has to be lived with satisfaction every moment. Else, once you achieve your goal, you will repent that you have wasted your life on something insignificant. Drop the goal and enjoy life. Meditate on this teaching again and again. The Truth will dawn on you and the nithyananda state will flower in you - the state which is the very meaning of life.