Burst Two (For the Young):
Finding Meaning and Purpose in Life
- Imitation cannot be the way to find meaning in life.
- Somebody else cannot impose a purpose upon our life.
- Borrowed goals cannot lead us far.
- God created us originals; let us not die as duplicates.
- We must drop our false pursuits first.
- An alert mind can throw light on the artificialities in our life.
- False prestige, misconceived ambition and prejudiced judgments set us walking a wrong path.
- We do not want to climb the ladder fast, only to find it was leaning against the wrong wall.
- We must eliminate all illusions under which we could be laboring.
- Whom are we trying to please, really, through our sweat and toil?
- We come upon the right direction, when we put aside the wrong promptings within us through being aware of them.
- Let us move from the false (asat) to the real (sat).
- Our heart is light, when we put aside the false.
- Illusions cause unnecessary burden upon our bosom.
- Right living has freshness of outlook and quietude of mind.
“Out of purity and silence, come words of power.” – Pujya Swami Chinmayanandaji
Swami Chidananda
Monday, January 20, 2003