Who am I? Why I am? What is my purpose? I must first find pupose before I embark on a journey of doing something and achieve something.
If I spend time, money and energy to do something and then achieve something out of it but if it does not give me eternal happinnes or an eternal bliss then probably I didn't achieve the purpose, I intended to achieve. The task executed might have gone waste.The results obtained did not make my eternal self happy.
Many times reflecting back after completing a task where I didn't get an iternal bliss, I found that the true purpose of that task was not understood by me. So knowing the true purpose of what my self, my mind, my thoughts want was very important for me. So I embarked on a journey in my mind where my aim was how to find a purpose which is correct, relevant, generates eternal bliss. Then on one fine Sunday morning, I had been reading an article in Speaking Tree by Thich Nhat Hanh where he wrote about a glass of orange juice with pulp. A child refused to drink that juice because it was cloudy in appearence. But when the same glass of juice was offered to the child after the glass of juice was kept still allowing the pulp to settle down and a clear juice appeared in the glass, the child gladly had that juice with a sense of immence happiness.
Here I told myself, why don't I remove the clouds inside me, inside my mind, inside my thoughts. So that I will be able to see things with a better and clear perspective, so as to find a clear and true purpose probably. With this objective in mind, I looked around and happened to come across a small , pocket sized, red coloured, beautifully bounded book called "Bhagwad Gita" published by Times Publications.
The red coloured cover, the small and convenient size of that book, inspired me to carry it in my pocket on way to office.In the twenty minutes of journey from my home to office each day, I setout to read atleast two to three pages of sanskrit slokas beautifully translated into english. I don't know why but I got addicted to reading the book each day. If I missed that book any day, I didn't feel good on my way to office. I felt I was missing something very eternal, a feeling which was very hard to explain in words. The journey of reading and completing the book "Bhagwad Gita" came to an end in approx 3 months. But after completing that book, I had a strange feeling. As if I am able to feel about a thing which in itself detects, identify, measures qualitatively or quantitatively feelings in our mind and body. It was like a feeling when I am looking at a flowing river, lush green gardens, beautifull landscaping on the horizon, when helping the needy or like the feeling when I see the sparkle in the eyes of small kids just before getting any gift.
From that moment onwards, I felt as if knowing a true purpose has become easier for me. I felt as if I know who I am, why I am and what purpose I have. And then the weekend arrival of Speaking Tree supplement helped me to remove the cloud in my thinking.
Decision making has become faster, tasks generating more eternal bliss, able to appreciate the each momement, able to appreciate the beingness.Conflict resolution has become easier, ability to handle complexities has become better, able to relax better and most important of all able to achive that feeling of eternal happiness and eternal bliss.
Embarking on a journey of knowing the unknown has become lot easier. Knowing the true purpose has become faster and better. From the next moment the thought which takes over is "Find purpose and the means would follow".
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