REALIZE THE TRUE GOAL OF YOUR LIFE

In the world, we are continually experiencing the same round of days and nights. You perform the same ablutions and indulge in the same process of filling the stomach. Thus you go on from year to year.

But what efforts are you making to lead a purposeful and ennobling life? You are going through the same mill of experiences again and again. If you go on in this way,...what is the worth of your life?..What is its primary purpose? Few care to enquire into this basic question.

Hence what we have to examine is how we can lead an ideal, bliss filled, spiritually-oriented life which will serve an example to others. But most people never recognize the basic purpose of life. They seem to consider that the sole aim of life is to acquire wealth eat and drink and enjoy material comforts. This surely cannot be the main purpose of life. To recognize the primacy of human birth among living beings and yet fail to realize the true goal of his life.

Man needs a healthy body for a healthy mind, filled with good thoughts. It must be recognized that sports and music have been designed to confer health and happiness on man. But physical fitness alone is not enough.

Mental health is equally important. Please remember! Together with the gross physical body everyone has a "Subtle body...soul". One has to take good care of this subtle body also. For this, spiritual exercises will have to be performed which will help one to realize the Divine.

Al-Quran, Scriptures of any religions are guides for practical living... of what avail is it merely to know how the Quran or Scriptures have described, but this book lore is not reflected in his life. He is like a blind man who hears about the existence of the world. But cannot see it. There is no difference between this physically blind man and the spiritually blind person who merely studies the Quran or the Scriptures. The Quran or the Scriptures are intended to provide guides for practical living and not merely to be learnt by rote.

How much love and goodness is there in you?
When there is no 'Love and Goodness', how God can be understood? Remember!

For understanding anything subjective experience is essential.

In the fast-flowing river, a small fish is able to swim freely and joyously, without fear of the depth a swift flow of the river. But in the same river, a big elephant is likely to be swept away by the current. One should know how to keep afloat in the current and protect oneself.

A tiny ant, for instance, is able to get at the sugar that is mixed with sand, because it has the ability to distinguish between..."sand and the sweet sugar in the mixture", another animal or man, however big it may be if it does not possess this ability, it cannot separate the sugar from the sand. Likewise, if man has experienced the bliss of the Divine, will he go after worldly pleasures?

So, realize the true goal of your life.


From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman Bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

5 OCTOBER 2009

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