Here below is a conversation that took place in the comment section of this blog itself. I feel its something that will be beneficial for many of us here. That’s why posting it as a separate post. Hope you enjoy it! 🙂
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Question: I have contemplated and designed, but couldn’t reach on any firm conclusion. Without desire, the force to act perishes.
What is the permanent practical solution which is applicable in today’s era.
And before deciding anything would you prefer to include The Subject of Birth Chart Psychology which we human gets fitted underlying but in fact overlapping the well appreciated specially given human “Awareness/Consciousness”
Let’s find something Pragmatic, something Functional, Biological or best said Empirical.
Answer: Desire comes from selfishness. We want something for ourselves, to satisfy our own self ( Even caring for the family is also very much a part of it, becoz our family is nothing but an extension of the self. You love your wife becoz she is YOUR wife. You love your son or daughter becoz he or she is YOUR son. So, that is also something born from selfishness).
What we need is purpose and responsibility. Each one of us has been given a certain gift by nature. What we should think is, How can I contribute my little bit, to make this planet a better place, even if its negligibly small. Its the intention. When we do something to make others happy, and that other being not capable of giving us anything in return, and nor is that other is anyhow related to us, that’s when things get in to a higher consciousness, a higher dimension of divinity and selflessness.
Only when we are able to ACT and DO OUR DUTY for such a conscious purpose, we are in our prime. That’s how excellence is achieved in any field. Doing just for the sake of doing it, to contribute something better and do better, but not to gain or achieve something. That’s purposeful or meaningful living!
The “intention” matter. Doing something for the love of doing it (What will I give?), or doing something for a profit intent (What will I get?).
If a lover loves you just for the sake of loving, but not becoz of any gain, that’s pure love. When the doctor treats you just to take your pain away, but not for profit, that true service.
Selfless action, or Nishkama Karma, is performing duties or helping others without expecting personal gain, rewards, or recognition, often driven by love and compassion. It involves acting with a pure intention, aiming to reduce egoism and foster the greater good.
That’s what true spirituality is all about, to lose this false lower self, for the sake of realization of our true higher self. We break the confinement of “ME” or “I”, the constricted EGO.
Everything else is just illusions, “Maya”!
These are not just ideas, but concepts derived from practical experiences of life and its complexities.
About the “birth chart psychology” aspect, I think that the very differentiation between we humans and other species. We can always consciously break out of that psychology, with awareness and will. In modern psychology, NLP is a good example of that, where we can rewire our thought patterns, beliefs and behaviours. We have the ability to re-frame our psyche. We are not confined to our birth constraints.
Hope that answers your question.
