December 30, 2024
As New Year’s Day comes closer, each one of us is filled with great expectations for the new year. Related to this is the question: what is the purpose of my life? I once saw under the table-top of a business executive a big poster with the words: “God! Let me know thy will so that I may do it.” What an extraordinary prayer. Who is to answer that question? Yourself!
How and when will I know what my mission is? When I know myself, obviously. In fact, that itself is your mission - to know the self. If you have already and truly found the self, then just by being the self, you will fulfill your mission! You will not, of course, behave like the silly spiritual aspirant who wrote to Gurudev: “I have attained self-realization; please tell me what to do next.”
A rose is a rose because it is a rose. It is unique in God’s creation even as you are. A rose smells as sweet as a rose because it does not want to be a lotus or jasmine. You can fulfill your mission if you are yourself and not the imitation of Mr. X or Mrs. Y. Measuring up to someone else is a waste of time.
In the new year may you be your self. May you, the unique and fragrant flower in the cosmic garden of the Lord, live the divine life of truth, love and purity.