The River flows with a purpose!
The Sky is limitless
with a purpose!
The mountain is still
with a purpose!
Nothing happens in this
universe without a purpose.
With purpose people
renounce their whole life!
With purpose people
spend all their hard earned money,
With purpose people
sacrifice their Saturday morning!!
Some great person
rightly said, "The greatest tragedy in life is not death but a life
without a purpose".
Fellow Toastmasters and
dear guest! Good morning!!
I will tell my life
story decade by decade!
First Decade:
My father was a school
teacher and mother a homemaker. I was from a typical village in Odisha. The
village environment is such that, you will feel the entire village as your own
house. Yes, I have experienced it and I have lived it. All my childhood days
passed there playing and growing. I grew there as if a plant is growing,
unaware about its outcome into flowers, or fruits or may be just a tree. There
was absolutely no future worriness, neither repent from past; only the blissful
present. What a wonderful purpose of life!
Second decade:
I realised that there
were many must to do things in life without which life will be incomplete,
insecure & incompetent. Schooling was the primary thing in that list.
Remaining all were optional. After half a decade again realised that Schooling
was just a starter but the main-course was still there, the College life. The
main decision maker of life was the PU which would ensure my future status,
which College I would be placed for Engineering. A good college would save the
life being insecure. In Engineering, Kept running with 50 different academic
subjects, 4 years divided into 8 semesters. I passed obstacles like 24 class
tests, 8 main exams and couple of Vivas. I had to complete all those. I was
realising that the world is a stage of competition and world outside me are my
competitors. Every time we need to face wars and that is the way to survive.
Third decade:
Being part of the
competition, I completed all my educations including my MS. Got job in an IT
Company called Novell Software, in Bangalore. To meet other expectations and
fulfilment of life, married to a beautiful girl. Blessed to be a proud father
of a 5 years old boy.
As responsibility increased, so was my need.
To meet other expectations changed the job and finally placed in a world class
technology giant called "Amazon". Gradually as money increased, so
was the ego and the ego often makes the man heavy.
- Earlier a BMTC bus was good enough to commute, but now a luxury car is unable to satisfy my ego.
- A Paying Guest was good enough to stay but now 3 BHK flat is not able to provide a sound sleep.
- A
bun samosa in nearby bakery was good enough but now Pizza is not able to
satisfy the greed.
- Pan shop was good enough to meet a friend for hours, now ego never gets satisfied if I do not go to CCD even for 10 minutes meet.
With each material
expectation met, each goal reached, each ego satisfied; we get some
happiness; which is temporary & short lived. Take a moment and think
through. Can we calculate how much life time, life energy we are spending to
get a single ego satisfied?
Ladies and gentleman,
A Dog biting a piece of sharp bone and it's mouth is completely hurt and bleeding, And it is socking it's own blood, thinking that it is coming from the bone.The current luxurious life is similar to this.
Is going to Office by a luxury Car is Bliss?
Is going to Pub and
drinking a Cocktail is bliss?
Is owning an apartment
is Bliss?
If they are then;
Why is that happiness
not permanent?
Why is the vacuum of
greediness still the same vacuum?
Why does the glass never
look full?
Our culture and
civilisation have been existing since thousands years, So many saints and sages
took birth here. They explored the life thoroughly. They have given us Ved,
Upanisad, Purana, Itihas. They taught us - "sa vidya ya vimuktaye",
“Knowledge liberates you, makes your free”. But today's education binds
you, binds you with EMI. You cannot go, if you try to escape, police will catch
you. What a life!
Swami Vivekananda has told that, I am part of Sat-chit-ananda "Sachidananda", Part of truth, existence and bliss-absolute. Where is Bliss? Where is absolute consciousness?
- I
have to exist, because I have to fulfil others expectation
- I
have to survive, because I have to fight the never ending war
- I have to be because I have to pay the EMI.
So
- Is
not it important to understand the real purpose of life?
- Is not it important to understand who am I and why I am here?
So Friends, a serious thought should be given to our purpose of life and where are we placed. Yes, the main purpose of life is to understand the real purpose of life.
