Beloved sant shree Sibling of Destiny,
Maman namaskar and dhan nirankar ji in thy lorys feet!
Oh Radiant Lord of All, our lives are blessed when we remember You, and we are miserable whenever we forget You.
Yes, each religion offers stories about creation, but since every creature has a purpose, how can we ever know billions of purposes? How can we even fully understand something so complex? The question of far greater importance is: What is my own purpose in life?
The world was long ago created, and we will never know all of God's reasons for all of different realms of creation. Our little minds could never fully understand the full extent of the Divine Thought. The more relevant question to ask is: What is my purpose in life? That's a more personal question, and one which God will be able to guide you in understanding.
There is nothing in this world without a purpose, and though the place of one in the scheme of life may be different from that of another, yet in the sum total of things we and the lower creation, together with the jinns and angels, have our purpose. That purpose is the realization of truth, and it comes to all in the form of bliss.
Truly there is only one true virtue in this world: To see God in everything. And similarly there is only one true sin in this world: To not see God in everything. But, rather than letting us see God in everything, and thereby diminish our own self-centered ego, the ego strives to keep us running about in busy little circles striving to find the answers to unanswerable questions. Our own human mind is our own worst enemy, urging us to waste our precious time struggling with questions which have no answer; and which really don't help us to improve our lives.
There is only one virtue and only one sin for a soul on the path:
virtue when he is conscious of God
and sin when he is not.
You have a purpose in life, you have a role to play in this grand theater! We may never understand the reason for all of creation, but we can learn to play our own part and thereby live in harmony with the Divine Will, reaping the blessings of peace and joyful ease for our willful participation.
The first step on the spiritual path is when a soul realizes its outer purpose in life. For it is not every soul in the world which even realizes its outer mission in life. And the soul who does not realize it, may go on, perhaps, for its whole life and may not realize it even to the end of its life, but the one who cares to realize it, must sooner or later realize it. For the answer to his question is continually being heard in his own heart. As Sadi says, 'Every soul is created for a certain purpose and the light of that purpose has been kindled in that soul.' If there is already a flame lit even before the person was born on Earth, it remains for the person to find out for himself the purpose of his life, although everything outside him points to that purpose.
One may ask, 'What is the best way for a person to understand his life's purpose?' If one follows the bent of one's own mind, if one follows the track to which one is attracted, if one follows one's own inclination, which is not satisfied with anything else, one feels, 'There is something waiting for me (which one does not know at the time), which will bring me satisfaction.' Besides, if one is intuitive and mystical, it is easier still, because then one is continually told what is the purpose of one's life. For nature has such a perfection of wisdom. One sees that the insects are given the sense to make their little houses and to protect themselves and make a store of their food. The bees, who have the gift of making honey, are taught how to make honey. So nature has taught every soul to seek its purpose. It has made every soul for that purpose, and it is continually calling that soul to see that purpose. If the soul does not hear the call and sleeps, it is not the fault of nature, which is continually calling. Therefore, if I were to say in a few words, how to find one's purpose, I would say: by waking from sleep.
One might ask, 'Would the outer purpose lead to the inner purpose of life?' Certainly it would. Everything a person does, spiritual or material; is only a stepping-stone for him to arrive at the inner purpose, if he can only take it to be so. If he is mistaken, the mistake is in him; he is working toward the inner purpose just the same. For all is created to work as one scheme; and therefore each individual is acting toward the accomplishment of the divine purpose. If there is a difference, the difference is of that particular individual.
There are five aspects which give one the tendency toward the accomplishment of the inner purpose: desire to live, desire to know, desire for power, desire for happiness and desire for peace. These five things work consciously or unconsciously in the profound depth of every soul. Working within one, they prompt one either to do right or to do wrong, and yet these five aspects belong to the one purpose in the accomplishment of which the purpose of the whole creation is fulfilled. When the desire to live brings one in touch with one's real life, a life which is not subject to death, then the purpose of that desire is accomplished. When one has been able to perceive fully the knowledge of one's own being, in which is to be found divine knowledge and the mystery of the whole manifestation, then the purpose of knowledge is attained. When one is able to get in touch with the Almighty Power, then the desire for power is achieved. When one has been able to find one's happiness in one's own heart, independent of all things outside, the purpose of the desire for happiness is fulfilled; when one is able to rise above all conditions and influences which disturb the peace of the soul and has found one's peace in the midst of the crowd and away from the world, in him the desire for peace is satisfied. It is not in one or the other of these five desires that there is the accomplishment of the purpose. It is in the fulfillment of these five desires that one purpose is accomplished, the purpose for which every soul was born on earth.
Life is a journey, a journey toward fulfilling our purpose. A journey takes time, so be at peace, take each step as it comes, do your best, and treat all of creation with loving-kindness and generosity... for it is through loving-kindness, generosity and brotherhood that you will fulfill your purpose and thereby become an instrument of God's Will. That which is most precious; that which is the purpose of man's life to arrive at that state of perfection when he can be the perfect instrument of God.
Once a man has risen to this stage he at first begins to realize at moments; then, as he develops, for a longer time, and those who develop still further pass most of their time in that realization. Then feeling and thought no longer hinder the divine impulse, for it rises freely and results in a divine purpose. The message of the prophets and teachers of all times has been to teach man how to make peace with God. The fulfillment of life's purpose is in harmonizing with God, and this is done by distinguishing the divine impulse.
How can one distinguish the divine impulse? Just as in music one can distinguish the true note from the false, the harmonious chord from the discord; it is only a matter of ear-training. When the ear is trained one can find out the slightest discord; the greater the musician, the more capable he is of finding out harmony and discord, the true and the false note. Many think that what we call right or wrong, good or bad, is something we learn or acquire. That is true when it is man-made right or wrong, but of nature's right and wrong every little child has a sense. The child feels a wrong vibration at once; the infant feels if its surroundings are harmonious or inharmonious, but man confuses himself so that he can no longer distinguish clearly. For man to learn and to know for himself is a great advance along the spiritual path. When man is clear as to the feeling he gets from every impulse, he has advanced far. There are some who say after the result, 'I am sorry', but it is too late then, it was not true ear-training.
The divine impulse is an impulse full of love, it gives happiness; it is creative of peace. The difficulty is that not every man observes the beginning of the impulse, he only observes the result. He is like an intoxicated person and so in time, as in the condition of a drunken man, he becomes confused and depressed, and there is struggle and strife. But man was not born for this. He is born for happiness. Peace, love, kindness and harmony are parts of his own being, and when a person is unhappy it means that he has lost himself, he does not know where he is. Man is seeking for phenomena, he wants wonderworking, communication with ghosts or spirits, he is looking for something complex, and yet the simplest thing and the most valuable thing in life is to find one's true self.
Let your soul soar on the wings of Love, Harmony and Beauty.
It is in the expression of the soul that the divine purpose is fulfilled.
Dusy of the Holy feet is the crown in my head
Mandalji
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