The Purpose of Life-7.

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Without the recognition of this reality, life loses life and becomes an emptiness, devoid of meaning and purpose, dead, as it were.

To live in the divine is to die to the narrowness of the sense-world; and to be confined to the latter is to ‘destroy oneself’ (in the words of the Ishavasyopanishad).

The present trend of life has to be overhauled, and a re-orientation in it brought about in the light of morality, ethics and spirituality.

The change that is required is not merely in the outward form but in the very perspective and the inner constitution of the system of living.


This can be done when man’s ideals are based on the truths of the spirituality of Oneness, lifted above blind beliefs, differences and materiality.

When this is achieved, man would have fulfilled his great duty here.

For the man scorched in the waterless desert of worldliness, the only hope is in the cool waters of the Ganges of wisdom, flowing from the Himalayan heights of the sages of the Upanishads.

Drink from this perennial fount, and refresh yourself.
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Sri Swami Sivananda