Purpose Summary
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What is the Purpose of Life?
The highest aim is to unite with the Divine and fulfil His work, but that, that's right at the top of the ladder. the discovery of the Divine in oneself and uniting with Him and accomplish His work is the highest and most disinterested aim, and the least selfish. [1]
Why we need to move towards our Purpose?
...according to very old traditions, the Earth, from the deeper spiritual point of view, has been created as a symbolic concentration of universal life so that the work of transformation may be done more easily, in a limited, concentrated "space"—so to say—where all the elements of the problem are gathered together so that, in the concentration, the action may be more total and effective. the purpose of terrestrial existence is to awaken, to develop and finally to reveal in a total manifestation the Spirit which is hidden at the centre of Matter and impels this Matter from within outwards towards a progressive development which will liberate the Spirit working from within. [2]
...to transform oneself integrally, it is to have a single aim in life [3]
How to Move Towards our Purpose?
...the discovery of the very purpose of existence and life, to learn what one is, why one lives, and what there is behind all this. This is the first step: to be interested more in the cause and goal than in the manifestation. That is, the first movement is a withdrawal of the consciousness from this total identification with outward and apparent things, and a kind of inward concentration on what one wants to discover, the Truth one wants to discover. This is the first movement. [4]
If the secret psychic Person can come forward into the front and, replacing the desire-soul, govern overtly and entirely and not only partially and from behind the veil this outer nature of mind, life and body, then these can be cast into soul images of what is true, right and beautiful and in the end the whole nature can be turned towards the real aim of life, the supreme victory, the ascent into spiritual existence. </ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-double-soul-in-man#p10</ref>
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Read more about Discipline from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. |