My life and death should have a Purpose
We should live a life full of purpose. The only way to 'moksha' is a life of purpose and a purposeful death. Life without a purpose is worthless. A purposeful death is just the death of the body, not the soul.
TODAY I had a chance to see the Telugu movie ‘Vedam’ with one of my best buddy Seshu. After watching the movie, I am flooded with many thoughts, which disturbed me a lot. I have decided to pen down them to have more clarity and to have a reference for the future to check my state of mind, if I am lost in my life.
We all know Vedas (Vedam) are the sacred scripts of Hindu religion, but I feel Vedas are not confined to a single religion; they are sacred scripts of all religions. And I would even feel that, Vedas are the sacred scripts of the religion called ‘humanity’. Vedas teach humanity and my religion is humanity.
We are humans. The very important and core trait of the humans is ‘humanity’. But we sometimes forget to show the trait in our lives. The only difference between humans and animals is ‘pragna’ ie, the ability to think. I feel we are not inline with the laws of nature. Nature laws say humans must show humanity. If I don’t have this obvious trait in me, I would consider my soul is dead. One more difference between humans and animals is this humanity.
I want to have a purposeful death. I feel the purposeful death is just the death of the body, not the soul. I want to live forever. For me the only way to ‘moksha’ is life of purpose and purposeful death. My purpose is to help the people around me. I pray to God to give me a chance to die for a cause and live for the purpose. I sometimes postpone the things which will give me the feeling of leading a purposeful life. I should say to myself that, “It is now or never”. There is no tomorrow, everyday I sleep believing that there will be tomorrow but I always wakeup in today. I have never seen tomorrow, it is always today.
We all have aims in life. We all want to achieve many things in our life. We all want to be recognised in one or the other way. We want money, fame, happiness, and success.
We are humans. The very important and core trait of the humans is ‘humanity’. But we sometimes forget to show the trait in our lives. The only difference between humans and animals is ‘pragna’ ie, the ability to think. I feel we are not inline with the laws of nature. Nature laws say humans must show humanity. If I don’t have this obvious trait in me, I would consider my soul is dead. One more difference between humans and animals is this humanity.
We often see animals show this wonderful trait of humanity by sacrificing their lives to save their masters and we humans often behave like animals by betraying, cheating, backstabbing and killing each other. Sometimes we hesitate to help people or animals, as we feel that, we might get hurt or die in the process of helping. I feel the death which comes to you in the process of helping others has an ultimate value, rather than dying at your 100s not helping anybody through out your life. My life doesn’t make any sense to me, if I die without influencing and helping the people around me in a positive and correct way.
I want to have a purposeful death. I feel the purposeful death is just the death of the body, not the soul. I want to live forever. For me the only way to ‘moksha’ is life of purpose and purposeful death. My purpose is to help the people around me. I pray to God to give me a chance to die for a cause and live for the purpose. I sometimes postpone the things which will give me the feeling of leading a purposeful life. I should say to myself that, “It is now or never”. There is no tomorrow, everyday I sleep believing that there will be tomorrow but I always wakeup in today. I have never seen tomorrow, it is always today.
We all have aims in life. We all want to achieve many things in our life. We all want to be recognised in one or the other way. We want money, fame, happiness, and success.
Above all we have one thing in common, ie, death. Everybody is afraid of death and most of us want to live maximum years of the human life expectancy. We know that one day we have to die. We have to leave this world empty handed.
All these facts are known to most of us because we are very good at collecting facts and are interested in collecting facts rather than believing them. If you believe in the fact, that you have a purpose to fulfill, we will live up to the fact. We know many things in life, but we believe very few things. Most of us don’t want to accept the truth. We often cheat ourselves on every walk of life by not giving enough time to introspect and analyse the situations around us. And not do the things which add value to life. Most of us are in search of instant gratification, not the permanent and proper solution. We are only bothered about only one thing: “Are we happy for the moment?” Just think for a minute that you are on your death bed and try to recollect journey of your life and ask one small question to yourself, “Does my life add any value to the world around me?”
For me being useful matters than being successful, successful means useful.
Recently during the 26/09 attacks, a brave soldier Sandeep from Bangalore had sacrificed his life. I feel he is not dead, his body is dead. He still lives in the hearts of all Indians.
On Sandeep’s death, his parents response was: “We feel bad that Sandeep is our only son, if we had one more son, we would have sent him to serve the country.” I salute the proud parents of Sandeep. All Indians are proud of him.
“Death is not death, when we live in the hearts of people”
My best friend always says, “Concentrate on the higher purpose of life the lower things will fall in order. Life should have a purpose and that purpose should dominate everything else.” I am still in the process of getting the clarity of my purpose.
All these facts are known to most of us because we are very good at collecting facts and are interested in collecting facts rather than believing them. If you believe in the fact, that you have a purpose to fulfill, we will live up to the fact. We know many things in life, but we believe very few things. Most of us don’t want to accept the truth. We often cheat ourselves on every walk of life by not giving enough time to introspect and analyse the situations around us. And not do the things which add value to life. Most of us are in search of instant gratification, not the permanent and proper solution. We are only bothered about only one thing: “Are we happy for the moment?” Just think for a minute that you are on your death bed and try to recollect journey of your life and ask one small question to yourself, “Does my life add any value to the world around me?”
For me being useful matters than being successful, successful means useful.
Recently during the 26/09 attacks, a brave soldier Sandeep from Bangalore had sacrificed his life. I feel he is not dead, his body is dead. He still lives in the hearts of all Indians.
On Sandeep’s death, his parents response was: “We feel bad that Sandeep is our only son, if we had one more son, we would have sent him to serve the country.” I salute the proud parents of Sandeep. All Indians are proud of him.
“Death is not death, when we live in the hearts of people”
My best friend always says, “Concentrate on the higher purpose of life the lower things will fall in order. Life should have a purpose and that purpose should dominate everything else.” I am still in the process of getting the clarity of my purpose.
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