Philosophy of Happiness in Life

Money Important or Omnipotent

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

We cannot deny the role and importance of money in our modern society, it is responsible for shaping every sphere of our life today, in a way which is unprecedented which has led me to believe that money isn’t only important its omnipotent.

Money is involved in everything that is happening or taking place, its a form of energy which transforms itself from one form to another, from one hand to another, from one profession to another.

Today role of money has changed rapidly from being important to omnipotent, it is more or less a source and destination of almost everything taking place in modern societies.

All the major problems that are making survival of living being on this planet difficult if not impossible today like pollution, global warming, physical and mental health problems, extintion of some species etc. Money itself isn’t bad, its a necessity of life, helps life but the way its misused for apparently selfish motives is distroying peace and harmony of this planet. Its distrubing the natural balance which is forcing nature to take action and reinstate the balance on its own, which is leading to disasters and natural calamities including changing climate.

The way in which money is influencing our life is dangerous, which can lead to a blind society.

Most of our modern problems can be attributed to money and the way it is being used and misused. In the name of economic development we are somewhere getting too much influenced by money, it is creating a number of problems whether its environment problem like global warming, wild life or social problems, health problems. Each and every problem is somewhere connected to money.

Philosophy in Law of Attraction Vs Positive Thinking

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Philosophy Behind Law of Attraction

Today our environment, lifestyle and surrounding is reflected in how we are today interpreting laws of nature, we are looking for shortcuts and easy ways to fulfill our artificial needs and desires, we are not actually willing to understand and work on basics, we simply want to apply those advanced natural laws to get results fast.

It is true that nothing is impossible, but it is also a fact that everything isn’t possible. Today we are trying to do things which will not solve our problem, they will simply add more problems to our life. We are trying to use natural laws to fulfill our selfish desires, we are getting motivated for wrong reasons, which will not result in any real happiness or transformation except making us more greedy and selfish.

What is Law of Attraction?

Law of attraction states that we get what is on our mind. Our thoughts make up our mind and things that exist there, also appear in real world in near future. So, in order to get things that we appreciate in real world we must start thinking about it, start concentrating on them.

According to law of attraction, our dreams, imaginations, views turn to reality, our present situation, circumstances are a result of what we have been talking about, thinking in our mind, doing in our life. When we make a image in our mind and then preserve it using our actions, its likely to be realized in real world. It is like saying imaginations leads to realization.

Positive Thinking Vs Law of Attraction

Positive or negative thinking is actually what works behind the principle of law of attraction, our positive views in life help us to achieve higher goals while negative views create problem and obstacles in every sphere of our life. Thinking in right direction has always helped everyone.

We cannot develop positive thinking by simply looking at its benefits and trying to adopt it to get some results in our life. Thoughts and views cannot be altered or modified to fulfill our dreams or to satisfy our personal desires and we think we are able to do so or if we are aware and still use some shortcuts to modify our thoughts or views artificially then what we get isn’t a positive view or positive thought its an outcome of a negative mentality and thus a negative thought or view, which means that even if we are somehow able to manage the outcome or results, we won’t be able to get the ultimate results, the true happiness as either positive thinking or law or attraction isn’t about material gains (although they are achieved as a byproduct), reaching our personal goals, its more then that.

Honesty Vs Positive Thinking Vs Law of Attraction

Honesty is a real path to develop positive thinking, to achieve results that are today listed under law of attraction. Today we are more or less influenced by market and marketing forces we are so much under there influence that we try to think in terms of pros and cons, benefits and advantages.

If I tell you that whether its positive thinking or law of attraction or hypnotism, we can find each one of them, get benefits of each of them by simply trying to be honest to ourself and our surrounding. I know that we are today so much influenced by negative thoughts that honesty seems to be something which is impossible to follow in modern world, which is in fact wrong and a negative approach of negative thoughts.

Honesty isn’t a difficult thing to follow, its one of the easiest tasks to achieve, where you don’t have to process anything in your mind (in terms of computer science its like an output device, a monitor which simply displays everything that is typed, keyed in via the keyboard, there is no processing or CPU usage).

If we think it is not possible for us to even try to be honesty as it is sure to result in some bad experiences, then how can we develop positive thinking (when we find it difficult to be truthful) and if we are not able to develop a positive attitude, do you think we can get results from law of attraction. Goals which are only limited to our personal welfare will have similar results, goals which are limited to family welfare will show similar results, goals with a broader perspective will have similar results. It is important for each one of us to find success in our life, to reach ideal conditions to fulfill our personal philosophy of life but why should we adopt a path which is materialistic, cumbersome when we have get better results by following a positive, honest way which will not only insure our personal well being but also consider our environment, our surrounding, our planet.

Philosophy of Manifestation Vs Law of Attraction

Today both terms philosophy of manifestation as well as law of attraction are used to convey the same message, that there is a secret, an alternative approach to find success in life, to get better results in life, without actually explaining the basics of these laws on which the nature works.

Trying to fulfill wild desires without actually attaching it to a social cause can never result in real satisfaction (true happiness). It is true that we can change our life by simply changing our views, our beliefs, our thoughts and it takes time to change them, it requires lot of patience and hard work.

We cannot change our self easily as we are not living in isolation, most of our time is spend in environment which is not conducive to such thoughts, we watch tv, movies, browse web, work in an office, talk to our friends and all these things push and pull our views, our thoughts and if we really want to make them positive, try things discussed about power of manifestation or law of attraction then we must first learn the tricks which can help us to keep our mind isolated from negative views and thoughts as and when we confront them (its like developing an immunity system, and most great saints, yogis master this only after years of practice).

Happy Christmas

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Wish you all a very Happy Christmas, best time of the year for intro-inspection in an environment filled with joy and happiness. Right now, I don’t have much to say as most of us are already busy in celebrations but I can convey my feeling using a Youtube video of Celine Dion sung “So, this is Christmas”, this is not just a video song, its a brief introduction to philosophy of Christmas, which can be only enjoyed when we are free from all our worries, problems, fears.

Please spare some time to watch this Video.

Yogic Mind in Spiritual Progress

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Yogic mind in spiritual progress is a part of last post titled “Mental Purity & Three Fold Yoga”.

The next stage is the level of intellect where the power of discernment between what is right and what is wrong, is exercised. This includes the reasoning faculty and in general, the development of intellectual mind which imparts the right knowledge about the material world. This is the scientific mind that thinks rationally to filter truth from untruth in the phenomenal world, up to this level both science and spirituality share the common objective of knowing the truth unclouded by emotion and self interest. In spiritual terms, this is the gnosis or the Vijnana level where knowledge about the reality of material existence is obtained, upto this level one’s thoughts and actions are connected with the material world. In terms of Yogic techniques, one could associate Bhakti Yoga with emotional purification while intellectual pursuits could be covered in the Jnana Yoga, both the processes of emotion and intellect purification involve an effort towards identification of the supreme reality of existence. The lead to the realization that material existence is not the ultimate reality. There is a higher existence of intuitive life, that of universe mind and universe will, that is more creative, more powerful and free from the opposites and dualities of nature like pleasure and pain, good and bad, likeness and dislike etc., this life of spiritual intuition is blissful, beyond material limitations and always intuitively right in thought and action. In this life, one is in tune with Prajna, knowledge of cosmic existence and is always at peace with this knowledge. Here one is not affected by pettiness of material desires, limitations and restrictions of a conditioned mind, but enjoys the freedom of a universal life where personal desires are elevated to the universal will to do good to all. The transition from the intellect level to the pure intuitive level marks the change over from reasoning mind of materialism to complete surrender to the supreme power.

Normally, for a man of intellect, to do devotional surrender to God since he lacks the emotional back up to do so. But, if the intellect is used to know the infiniteness of absolute reality, and if the surrender is done out of respect for the vastly powerful entity, its infinite and eternal existence, the surrender is likely to be much more effective and everlasting. The knowledge brings all doubts to naught and gives a sense of insignificance to the individual in the vast universe. When a person with the knowledge of the reality surrenders, he becomes a true devotee. Such a person is the Jnani Bhakta, who is a devotee not because he is helpless and wants protection but he knows that this object of worship is truly infinite and eternal.

In the supramental existence, the operating laws relate to the unified whole rather that individual entities. The decision of good and bad, right and wrong, concerns the existence as a whole and not for any specific individual, group or subgroup of individuals. In a sense, it is the will of God that is supreme and not the rationality of the individual mind. Therefore, what happens intuitively is for the whole creation and is inherently for the betterment of every one. God is impartial to our preferences and dislikes because universal mind is, in its very nature, pure and uninfluenced by human ego. The whole exercise of spirituality is about merging our mind with the universal mind, for then we think as He thinks. The threefold Yogic Path (Karma, Bhakti and Jnana) brings this transition by making our mind move over from being body centric to emotion centric and then to intellect based discernment, with the knowledge acquired about the Reality, the mind sheds its materialism and surrenders to intuitive reality.

“Yogic mind in spiritual progress” is continued from previous post titled “Mental purity & Three Fold Yoga” written by Sh. V. V. Rampal which were published in “Kalyana Kalpataru” a monthly for the propagation of spiritual ideas and love for God.

Mental Purity & Three Fold Yoga

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

5 Layered Concept of Human Development

The Panckosi(पंचकोशीय i.e. five layered) concept of human development towards perfection, occupies an important place in the Upanisadic thought. This five layered structure of human personality underlines the course of mental and spiritual development where one rises from pure body consciousness to the ultimate subtle states of self realization. This structure describes the steps in the path that leads one from animal mind to the state of human perfection where the person identifies oneself with the universal existence of one mind and oneness of whole creation. Having known the path to perfection, one obviously needs to know how to follow this path.

The threefold Yogic path is the practical solution towards achieving this goal. The knowledge and practice have to go together in order to succeed.

Three Fold Yogic Path

Movement of Mind from Body Centric to Activity Centric

The movement of mind from being body centric to activity centric is the first step (movement from Annamaya to Prananmaya). Here one tries to offer all his actions to the supreme power by dissociating from the fruit of his actions. He acts because actions are necessary in the material world for existence. Desiring the fruit of action increases his attachment to the individuality consciousness.

Renouncing the Fruit of Action

By renouncing the fruit of action, he moves from individual consciousness to universal consciousness which is a step in the right direction towards spiritual growth. It helps him to reduce his ego-involvement by thinking of others in preference to himself. Any movement in thought from self based desires to universal good is a step towards spiritual attainment. In spiritual terms, linking the Jivatma with Paramatma is the essence of spirituality. In layman’s terms, it means shedding individuality and linking the personal self with the universal self. Selfless action helps in achieving it through performance of actions in the material world. It amounts to saying that when you do the action, do not associate it with the ego of being the doer. Think of yourself as part of the universal will that needs actions for sustenance of life.

Selfless Actions & Patanjali’s Eight Fold Yoga

When actions are done in selfless manner, the quality of action will automatically improve. This will improve one’s conduct both in personal as well as social context. This much desired improvement in conduct is a common theme in most religions; be it part of Sila or the Yama and Niyama aspects of Patanjali’s eightfold Yoga.

Purification of Emotional Content of Human Personality

The next step is the purification of the emotional content of human personality (movement from Pranamaya to Manomaya) through thought control. The level of mind, that includes desires and emotions, is purified through the process of concentration of thoughts to one point, a process in which wandering thoughts are ignored and full concentration is applied to the object of concentration. This means giving full attention to one thought to the exclusion of all others. Both Bhakti and meditation relate to this process that purifies the thought stream and develops the capability to provide full attention to whatever you think to do. This is the preliminary stage of Samadhi where one can move inwards by shutting off external sense inputs and concentrate on one idea or image.

… to be continued in 2nd part titled “Yogic Mind in Spiritual Progress” … which will be published later in this blog…

This article Mental purity & Three Fold Yoga was written by Sh. V. V. Rampal which was published in Feb 2007 edition of “Kalyana Kalpataru” a monthly for the propagation of spiritual ideas and love for God.

Spirituality is The Basis for Happiness

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

When you do not need Anything, you have Everything. – Lord Buddha

In the present times of gloom and doom, when values are declining and morals are reclining and the celebrated values like honesty, integrity, nobility, morals, ethics, virtues, justice and righteousness are proving hollow giving way to corruption that has impoverished the whole societal set up, solace lies in spirituality.

Spirituality brings out the divinity in every individual. Spirituality is a love affair with God. It focuses a person’s attention to the divine effulgence radiating from one’s own heart. God is not something external, he is inside us. The mind is the key instrument in a human being’s body, a proper regulation of which, with meditation and spiritual guidance, can help one evolve spiritually to the highest.

Only spirituality can initiate the process of inner expansion and eventual freedom from finite existence and supreme self realization. True spirituality could be achieved through selfless service to humanity and leading a life of righteousness.

The core message of the Vedas is for man to strive for liberation from the perpetual cycle of birth and death. This is achieved when the living being realises its true self, the soul and re-establishes its forgotten relationship with Super-soul or God.

Manifest Infinity with Spirituality

When we liberate ourselves from the limitations of phenomenal existence and obtain oneness with the absolute, we attain infinite freedom, power, peace, joy and perfection. Transformation of our entire inner nature, of our thoughts, emotions, energies is a wonderful way of acquiring tremendous spiritual powers.

Problems & Set-backs Are Lessons from Life

Spiritually, all our problems and set-backs are merely lessons for us from life, acted out through people, events and places and leading our self evolution. There are no full stops in life, only commas. And sooner we learn our lessons, the faster our life moves forward in a more harmonious manner. Treat life not as an imposition but as a gift from God to be loved and to be cherished. Move on the pathway of life with faith and courage, and the confidence that He is with you. Accept life with all its trials and tribulations. Acceptance of whatever is, will solve half of your problems.

Love, mercy, forgiveness, peace, compassion etc., are the essence of the Sattavic path. It is important to use them to attain the ultimate goal -salvation.

The Four-fold principles of human existence are

The body is for benevolent living,
The mind for contemplating on God,
Discriminative intellect for distinguishing between right and wrong and
Life itself for acquisition of divine knowledge leading to self-realization.

Being spiritual minded is practical, as it helps a person develop a proper mental attitude towards the changing circumstances and problems of life. Through science deals with energy and matter, there is a spiritual science which deals with the ‘beyond mind’ state of a human being. While material science enhances ego, spiritual science annihilates it.

“Enjoy every moment of life and live it to the fullest. Live the ‘present moment’ with zest and not worry about the past or future.”

Peace of mind arises out of spiritual growth. It is true that spiritual growth is an inward process, that spiritual life is an inward life. But it is equally true that such inward growth is greatly aided by external support and greatly marred by external incompatibles. Hence, importance of Sattvic diet, Sattvic dress, Sattvic reading, Sattvic company, Sattvic habits and Sattvic environment.

We rise above darkness and sin to see the eternal light and realize the presence of the Most Enlightened one. Rise higher and see brighter light; a step still higher and realize omnipresent God who is the pristine source of Enlightenment.

As the new age dawns, materialism will automatically lag behind Spirituality and people will live the Vedanta in their daily lives.

“Faith in God, faith in religion and faith in one’s self make a man an enlightened being. Faith in holy scriptures helps a man rise above darkness and see the Light. Faith is a source of inspiration too. Many a time in life, one feels that one is down in the dumps. Morale sags. One sees and feels darkness all around. It is here that faith in God and the Vedas helps one see light at the end of the tunnel. Faith gives one a breather when it is needed most. Faith can even bring a man back from the fallows.”

Considering its importance, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in a striking contrast organized a Millennium All Faith Summit, which was attended by 1000 religious and spiritual leaders of the world to achieve the objective of coordinating the religious leadership for building tolerance, fostering peace and encouraging inter religious dialogue among all religions. This remarkable gathering was without precedent in its 50 years history of UNGA. Now, with nearly 83% of the world’s population adhering to some religious or spiritual belief system, religion and spirituality would be the dynamic force that the World Peace Summit wanted to seek to develop for peace, advocacy and resolution.

An individual or a nation must strive for material growth and scientific advances but material prosperity can lead to true happiness only if there is a base of spirituality. Secular spirituality helps one to progress in the worldly affairs and still helps one realize at the experiential level that material comforts, worldly pleasures, fame and power are fragile and ephemeral and they alone cannot give lasting happiness. Happiness is present in our life yet because we think that happiness comes from outside we constantly loose touch with it.

Social studies reveal that high spiritual and emotional quotient are normally associated with high degree of integrity, honesty, responsibility and care and concern for others and accounts for nearly 70% of over all rating.

“Spirituality is the Basis for Happiness” is written by Dr. B. L. Tekriwal which was published in Kalyan Kalpataru in July 2009.

You can read similar views in Philosophy of eternal bliss-fullness and Role of Difficulties & Problems in Our Life.

10 Tips to Create More Purposeful Living

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Purposeful living is also an important aim of life, it gives a meaning to life, makes life an entertaining journey, here is an article in form of easy tips which can help you to get more from life, make life more purposeful.

Many people strive to achieve positive, happy living through persuasion, so they learn the definition of persuasion in their everyday lives and activities. Many of them achieve it with no problem but many more find that they need someone to help point the way and provide some good personality development tips.

Hopefully this article will help to start people out with their development and finding out what their definition of persuasion is.

1: You wear what you feel

You can tell a lot by a person’s clothes. Those people who feel down and out usually wear darker clothes, and on the other hand, those that wear bright colors tend to feel better about everything.

2: Don’t forget to smile

No matter what is going on in life, things will always seem better if you remember to smile. Smile is a very persuasive thing and can easily be considered a great definition of persuasion.

3: Explore all the possibilities

Finding the means to purposeful living through the definition of persuasion is sometimes a ever-growing journey but one that is interesting and fulfilling. You need to get out and explore what is out in the world, never settle for the comfort zone.

4: Focus on what is important in life for You

There is one personality development tip that resonates like a mantra, focus on what is important. No matter what happens when you get caught up in life, always remember the things that remain true; family, friends, whatever.

5: Overcome all sorts of distractions

One of the biggest obstacles in the quest for a purposeful living is distractions. We can easily get caught up in health, careers, hobbies or other things that make us forget the reasons we have for living. Having a good definition of persuasion and how we want to get things done will greatly help.

6: Appreciate the little things in life

No matter how good or bad life gets people who “stop to smell the roses” seem to be the happiest. Take that advice and enjoy the little things around you, roses, the sunset, a child’s laughter or just the evening at home watching a movie with your loved ones.

7: Embrace Changes

To prevent the hindrance of progress of following these and other personality development tips through definition of persuasion you must learn to embrace change and accept its gifts and curses the same.

8: Embrace love and joy not status and money

No matter how rich you may become, your life will amount to nothing without learning to love. Love those around you, your family and friends. Take your love and joy and spread it around you, you will feel fulfilled and at peace with yourself like you never believed possible.

9: Remember Nothing is forever

If you wish to live with meaning you need to learn to let go of the materials in life. Knowing the definition of persuasion that we set for ourselves can teach us that when we’re gone its not what we have that matters, but the imprint we leave in those who knew us.

10: Love yourself

Before you can embrace any of the other personality development tips you must successfully love yourself. Come to terms with your flaws, imperfections and faults and open your eyes to the beauty that is life.

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Learning Meaning of Life from Nature

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Natural Law of Nature Prevails Everywhere

Nature holds answers to a number of our questions, it even provides answer to our query what is the meaning of life.

We do not need the help of any book or tutorial or anyone else as they will only deviate our attention from the real answer/solution, which is lying before. Most theories and concepts will not help right now to understand life and its meaning, we have to conceive this our self directly from the nature, our surrounding, present and past, once we have developed our own convincing view we can extend this knowledge, refine it further with additional material, other sources.

We can start looking at nature’s reply to this question anywhere, anytime as nature pervades every thing, it exists every where. Even when we try to keep nature at bay with our so called intelligent artificial creations, nature presents itself in the most suitable form for that environment.

You must have noticed bed bugs, termite, cockroaches etc. in modern scientifically designed apartments, which are designed by keeping comfort in mind, easing life, eliminating common problems that are usually found in a resident. Yet, even after taking all the precautionary measures, we find that they can only stop nature from implementing its laws for some time, they do not have a permanent solution and even if they law of nature will reappear there in another form.

We may try hard to wipe out law of nature, take services from the experts in these fields but none of them can provide a life time solution, they only have a temporary solution which has to be applied again and again after some time. It is very difficult if not impossible to isolate nature and its natural processes.

Learning Meaning of Life from Plants

We can try to understand meaning of life from plants around us. We can start watching any plant, a shrub or even tree, try to find a purpose/meaning of its life, what are its requirements, how does it react to problems, what are its basic necessities, is it happy with what it has, satisfied with its present circumstances.

We’ll notice that plants actually live a life, they enjoy there survival with the nature. They are healthy, fit for performing there every task that is expected from them with whatever resources they have, in prevailing circumstances and conditions.

There greenery, beauty is an indication of there health, well being, happiness. They do what they ought to do, perform there every duty and later give way for others to survive.

What is the meaning of life for them?

In one word we can say it is to protect and preserve nature and life, help nature to help life, it takes from and gives to the nature, makes it possible for others to survive naturally, without any artificial support, produces more of its own kind to make it possible that at least some of its species carry on this task of nature in future.

This is all that is meant to be achieved and is actually achieved in there life cycle. Just like human beings these plants too show reaction when they are treated harshly, there is a question of there survival, when they are unable to fulfill there basic need required to perform there tasks or duties. In such condition we can notice some uncommon/unnatural behavior.

Imitating Characteristics of Nature to Stay Focused in Life

As a human being we too try to imitate the characteristics of nature, using other means some of which are natural and thus helpful while others are artificial and thus harmful. Some people move towards spirituality, they take some time to meditate, which helps one to concentrate on there main task, helps to close mind to unwanted distractions, helps to focus on natural goals of life and thus helps in enjoying happiness in current circumstances.

Some people who look for a quick fix start using unnatural means like drinking, entertaining themselves using modern ways which do not help to stay focused or calm in reality, they only help one to occupy his brain with something else which looks soothing at that moment, but when its effects are gone, a person returns back, the situation reappears in its original form.

Learning Meaning of Life from Nature to be continued…. some existing posts on the subject are :-

Sadhaka’s of Hinduism and Spirituality

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

About Sadhak Group

Sadhaka is a Yahoo Group which discusses Spirituality in Hinduism using texts and messages of Swami Ramsukhdasji.

This group was founded on Dec 28, 2003 and as on today it has 32334 active members, which is too low for such high class spiritual service, the main reason for such a low membership in Hindu Spiritual Group is due to the fact that it is not well promoted and most of its members are also delving deep in spirituality and therefore do not care about marketing and promotion of there message and group.

Now, its on us to do something for this group and make it accessible to all those who are a real seeker of spirituality and want to learn from the perception of Hinduism.

It is really surprising to note that a number of books and study material are sold online and offline which may or may not have the real depth of true spiritual seekers, while this wonderful group is hiding behind the veils of modern materialistic world, where spirituality isn’t a mission of life but a subject, a book, a profession, a reason to divide humanity based on religious beliefs.

This group has been providing selfless services to those who are interested in Hinduism and Hindu Spirituality.

Discussions are primarily based on Bhagavad Gita.

More books on Hindu Spirituality and Hinduism can be had from Gita Press, Gorakhpur.

Managing Messages from Sadhaka Group

Posting Messages : sadhaka@yahoogroups.com

Subscribe : sadhaka-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Unsubscribe : sadhaka-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

You can also visit Swami Ram Sukhdas Ji‘s site:

Hindi : http://www.swamiramsukhdasji.org/

English : http://www.swamiramsukhdasji.net/

Daily Messages in Hindi : http://www.satcharcha.blogspot.com/

Daily Messages in English : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sadhaka/

Facebook : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sadhaka/

What Is the Real Purpose and Meaning of Life

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Well, we cannot restrict meaning of life to our limited power of imagination, as life even exists there where we have no reach or have not reached yet, even beyond the level of our imagination, even beyond the reach of modern science and scientists. Our knowledge is limited (although we always constantly expanding and improve it with our growing experience & learnings), we do not know everything about our surrounding, we do not know even about things we have with us or even about our own self (there is a branch of Yoga which tries to explore one’s own self and those who are successful on this path become self-realized). So, under these circumstances it is not possible to give a universal definition of life, its meaning and its purpose as it needs to be customized, adapted & adopted as per our individual priorities, preferences, understanding as well as circumstances.

Can We All Have Similar Purpose or Meaning of Life

A single definition of life and its meaning cannot be applied for each one and everyone of us, cause we are all so different, so unique that even things that look similar in each one of us are actually different.

Something which is common (seems to be common feature) in each one of us, may not be as such, it may not hold the same importance or have similar use, have same structure or attributes (in fact nothing is same or similar, even our own handwriting keeps changing, words or phrases that we speak or write too change over time). For example, each one of us normally has four fingers and one thumb but for each one of us they have slightly different characteristic (which is studied in a branch of astrology for predictions based on several factors).

Doesn’t Uniqueness of Evey Individual’s Thumb Impression Indicates Uniqueness of Our Meaning and Purpose

Now, if we leave other four fingers in our hand and even thumb to some extent and only consider thumb impression, we will be surprised to note that even thumb impression of every individual is unique, it is not possible for two individuals to have same thumb impression, leave alone thumb. Look at the vast ever expanding population and how nature is designing unique design for each one of them without even a single case of duplicate and look at the internet and how it is struggling with the menace of duplicate contents. This is the reason why thumb impression has importance in legal matters for establishing identities of individuals.

Just like the uniqueness of every thumb impression, our individual meaning of life is also very unique, even if we are not aware or have identified ways to express it. Our thoughts shape our life and its meaning for us. What life means to us depends on whether we have a positive or negative thinking, level of our confidence, our views about our own self and about the society, what is important to us, how do we measure success.

This post “What is Real Purpose and Meaning” is a part continued from the post titled “What Is the meaning of the life“, “Making A Meaningful Life” ….. to be continued in …. updated …. in this post or next post…later.