"The Goal is to achieve the Original Condition
that was prevailing before this creation came into being.
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In modern life most people would appear to have lost sight of the Ultimate goal. The endeavour of most human beings is restricted to the attainment of a full material existence saturated with material comforts and sensual satisfaction. This has necessarily created a sense of loss of purpose in existence, and a bewilderment as to the purpose of life. The Sahaj Marg system of yoga, by its emphasis on right thinking, right conduct and right living, sets out to re-define the goals of human life, and thereby establish in the heart and mind of man, the Ultimate purpose of the individual's existence, and to establish in proper perspective the values of all the material and other affluence that surround him. According to my Master, everything in creation has a place and purpose, but man must recognise precisely what the scheme of things relates to, and what his own part in the whole drama of creation is. When man understands his place in existence, understands his purpose and comes to realise his goal, it is possible for him to abstract from nature what he needs for his existence, forgetting all superfluities, throwing aside all unnecessary things, leaving behind all that has been spent and done with. He is thus made capable of proceeding on the evolutionary path untrammelled by the physical and mental drudgeries of today's existence.
The abhyasis aspiring for the Highest alone can be said to be the true
members of Shri Ram Chandra Mission. One does not become a member of the
Mission by just walking into our centres, taking three meditation sittings,
practising it in a rather haphazard fashion without devotion, without dedication,
without interest, nor by wearing badges that we are all wearing on our hearts.
What is essential is that the teaching should be inside the heart. We should
receive the transmission here, right inside the heart. So no lesser aims
can qualify us for membership. No lesser aspirations can qualify us for
membership. He who seeks the highest alone is a true member of the Mission.
First we have to establish what is our goal. And if the goal falls something short of what we should truly aspire for, then it very often happens that our search ends unsatisfactorily. It does not satisfy us, and we can't reach the real goal because we have reduced the goal in our own eyes. People who shoot with rifles know that when you shoot at a distant target you have to raise the sights. Similarly for an examination, if you want to come first, you try to be first in the country or something like that. You see, you have to set your sights higher than the goal, which you have to achieve. If we start out by lowering the goal itself, then our achievement will fall short not only of the actual goal but even of the lowered goal that we have set for ourselves. So the first and most important thing is to determine our goal.
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