One fundamental question in life is "What is life's purpose?" This is a very important question to ask yourself, as the answer changes everything! It significantly changes the way you view things, changes your pursuits, and changes the way you live our life.
Here we find ourselves, within this context of life and the universe, seemingly separate, ego-centric individuals with the ability to desire things, and achieve things. We have a few basic ideas circulating in our collective experience as to what our purpose is:
Some say our purpose in life to learn certain lessons and to grow.
Others maintain that life is a test - if we pass this test, we go to heaven, and if we fail, we go to a hell of eternal damnation.
Some say that we are born so that we can purge ourselves of karma (the effect of all our past actions in previous lives), and after many lifetimes, when we eventually 'wipe the slate clean', we liberate ourselves from the recurring cycle of birth and death.
Another theory is that life simply has no purpose, and that it is merely the result of some accidental process taking place in the universe.
When we begin to analyze these theories and beliefs, we see that some of them are true, but only to an extent, and some simply do not stand the test of logic. They are mistaken ideas or mere myths that have crept into our current human culture, into our minds, and thus into our collective experience. Beliefs color experience, and our beliefs can be accurate mental constructs of the way things are, or they can simply be inaccurate or mistaken. Erroneous beliefs can restrict and constrict us (as some of the above beliefs do), while more enlightened beliefs can liberated us.
I'd like you to consider the possibility that your purpose for taking human birth is to experience qualities and aspects of who you are in essence, and to re-create yourself continually according to your highest ideas by experiencing, expressing, deciding and re-creating who you are, and who we are always becoming. As an extension of source energy you also take thought itself to new levels through your desires and choices. These experiences serve Ultimate Reality, the Divine Essence. And so you are continually fulfilling your purpose for being born, irrespective of what you are doing.
On the one hand is life's integral and intrinsic purpose which is guiding the process forward. On the other, there are your beliefs about your purpose. These two can be closely aligned (and you will experience expansive freedom and power when they are). Yet even when they are not aligned, your beliefs always serve the greater purpose of life. So even if you say your purpose is to gain entry into heaven, for example, or to climb Mount Everest quicker than anyone else, or even to chase maximum enjoyment, it is fulfilling life's purpose because in and through these beliefs, you are becoming, experiencing, expressing, and creating what you are, and what you are continually becoming.
Your own chosen purpose in your life (or more accurately your deep desire or main intention) right now may not be fulfilled, but your purpose for existing is already being fulfilled, in each and every moment of life.
And so there is nothing you absolutely have to do or be in order to be complete and whole. You are already so, except in some of your ideas. And nothing is required of you, other than that which you choose to require of yourself.
There are things you can choose to do, intend to do, desire to do, and certainly there are things you can do which would improve your experience, your life, and maybe improve this world, but do not confuse this with a requirement - that you have to do something in order to fulfill some purpose which is imposed upon your life. To be really simple about it, your purpose is to experience and create. Didn't you achieve a whole lot of that already today?
So I invite you to think again about the question of purpose, and contemplate the possibility that you are already complete and whole, and that the purpose for which life and the universe was created is being fulfilled right now and in every moment of time. This will bring you more freedom. It is like removing a huge weight off your shoulders. And this is very empowering too. And in truth you are always at choice and essentially free, except for the beliefs that we hold to the contrary. The only limitations you have are those which you choose to impose on yourself. Yet it is an inner knowing and decision to make, and when you make this decision, you can choose to free yourself, and be your Self again.
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Article by Devin Iyer, a Spiritual Philosopher and Awareness Coach who was strongly drawn to the path of contemplation and spent 3 years in a monastery in India, where he was exposed to the Advaita Vedanta philosophy. He shares deep insights on his website about life and the power of awareness.
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