What is my purpose in life? I asked the void (my conscience).
“What if I told you that you fulfilled it when you took an extra hour to talk to that kid about his life?” said the voice of my conscience.
“Or when you saved that dog in traffic? Or when you tied your father’s shoes for him?” “Your smile of cheer brightened the faces of an aged couple early in the morning”.
“But your problem is that you equate purpose with goal-based achievement. The Universe isn’t interested in your achievements……just the heart. When you choose to act out of kindness, compassion and love, you are already aligned with your true purpose.
This is explained beautifully in the central message of the Bhagavad Gita which is Nishkama karma which implies self-less or desireless action, it is an action performed without any expectation of fruits or results. So that is the purpose of our life.
No need to look any further!” and remember
So my dear friends please do share your views or your own real life experience of doing a Nishkama karma to inspire our readers.
Bye for now and be very well and safe 😊👍
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Actions done with happiness is yoga and for happiness is selfish and bondage ! My small observation
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I must say that’s very succinctly put. Many thanks Mr. Vijayaraghavan. Kind regards.
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You made various good points there. I had never heard of the life laws and the law of cause and effect. I’m going to use this information to create good karma for myself. I read another blog articles there also some good points. https://predictmyfuture.com/law-of-cause-and-effect/
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Thanks a lot for your appreciation. I find your resolution to create good karma very inspiring. Sending you many good wishes and regards.
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lovely post. I find that if I do something nice for someone, there’s the instant karma of feeling better about myself 🙂
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Very well said da-AL and best wishes to you in your ‘good karma’ journey! 😊
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[…] When I sat down to write this post today, I discovered a comment someone had left on m blog back in June. IN JUNE! When I went to their site today to check them out, I saw this post and it sums up some thoughts I have had so many times and which for some reason are so hard for me to articulate clearly. It is Karma: The Purpose of Life. […]
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Cheers 💐
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It has been a long time since I updated my blog. Today, I am sitting down to write a post and this one of yours is spot on to what I am trying to put into words. I found your blog by the very sweet comment you left on my blog, oh, back in June!! I hope you don’t mind if I link to this blog post of yours as I feel like it puts into words what I am trying so hard to write and failing at miserably so far.
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Hi Terri I am delighted you liked this post and you are most welcome to link it to yours. Your blog is very interesting and I look forward to a more purposeful visit.
Regards and thanks 😊
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Indeed, this is the essence of life, captured in a few simple words. Could not agree more. We should not even taint them by giving them a religious colour. These are just the most sensible words about life.
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Hi Ankur great response as always. Yes as we know life by itself is so simple yet it’s we who make it complicated.
Thanks and regards. Cheers 👍
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Really a great blog 😊🙏🎉
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Hey Rachana ji that’s a beautiful compliment ~ coming from you means a lot. Best wishes to you in your selfless social services. 🙏😀
Regards
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Thank you so much for the kind words Sir. It’s my pleasure to be connected with great people here.
Regards
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Lines compressed with truthfulness, it’s so inspiring! Thanks for sharing. I really needed an upliftment.
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Thank you for this inspiring post, Dilip. “When you choose to act out of kindness, compassion and love,…” –Thank you for the reminder.
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Thank you Amy for your words which are so apt and true. Regards.
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Buona domenica 🙂
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Grazie e anche a te 👍
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Happy Weekend 🙂
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Thank you Simona 👍
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I really like this post, I agree, people get what they deserve, of you are a good person, happiness will come, if not good- you know…When I was a child, my mom always said “do not wish bad to someone, it might return to you and hit you twice hard”
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Thank you. What your mom is right never wish bad for others. Regards.
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I too believe in karma, beautiful post~♥~
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Very thoughtful post. Great work👏🏼
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Thanks for your appreciation. Kind of you. 👍
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I am a firm believer of “Karma”. Whenever I look at my own life, I feel and understand, everything happening in result of something was done before, in most cases. Well, it’s totally my perception about life and I have been trying to do things in a better way.
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Well written 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Love the lightness of this post. Normally, life purpose is such a big exploration but you simplified it and it does make sense!
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That’s a beautiful comment my friends Marcus and Micah. Having visited your website I was quite taken up with your simple philosophy to help people live meaningful lives. And I wish you both the very best of luck in your noble quest 🍀🍀
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Thanks. We do not always have to overcomplicate everything to achieve results that we want, right?
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Oh yeah you are spot on “Life is simple but we insist on making it complicated” ~ Confucius 😉
Thanks and regards.
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We can try to do what The Gita says can be done. It is possible. Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks yes it is certainly possible depending upon our sincere effort. Kind regards 🙏
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This post really is accurate! You do get what you give. I think nowadays it’s hard to expect someone to do something for you without expecting something in return, but there are people like that out there, and I am glad to know someone like that. They will always be very dear to me
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Hi Iqra it’s worth experimenting by doing something for others quietly and without expectations. The results may change our perspective on life and make us feel peaceful and content.
Cheers and best always 😊👍
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So very true!!
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I love this post about life’s purpose and agree about sharing kindness without expecting anything in return. 🙂
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The quest to find our life’s purpose is not easy because when we help others it’s quite natural for us to believe ‘it’s me or I’ who helped. But really it’s the Supreme power who made it happen. When our life’s purpose is to live without expectations we remain healthy and youthful.
Thank you for the visit Maria. 😊
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Happy Weekend 🙂
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You too have a lovely weekend. Cheers 😊
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I totally agree with your words and experience the same in my everyday life, thank you for sharing as this is the ultimate truth of life we experience
Stay wealthy healthy safe and happy
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I am so glad you experience similar feelings in your everyday life. Thank you very much and regards. You too stay fit and very well. Regards.
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🙏😊pleasure always
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Ciao, buona giornata 🙂
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Grazie mille per la visita. Amo la lingua italiana 😊 Saluti!
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Though it has been said in the Bhagavad Gita, but I think nishkama karma is not an attainable thing for mundane people for us. Whenever we do anything, however hard we tray, we do have some expectations in our mind.
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You are right Nishkama Karma is not easy at all – it is not for a layperson. And for a seeker to learn and practice such a Karma will surely need a spiritual guide.
Thanks and regards.
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This is so wonderful! I am so interested in the topics you share.
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Thank you Deborah it’s nice to know that we share some similar interests.
Thanks and regards 😀
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Very well said Sir!
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Thanks Hemalatha it’s so nice of you. Kind regards 👍💐
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My pleasure Sir!😊
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Wonderful perspective Dilip… It is the smallest things that means the most…
Or what really sticks in my mind was a young man outside our supermarket last year on a cold December morning he was obviously freezing and he was asking for change from people coming out of the shop..
I stopped and asked him how he had become homeless and how long… He looked nervous and was almost in tears I would say he was around 18 or 20 years old… He said he had been staying at a friends as his family had kicked him out, but now he said his friend said he had to find somewhere else… It was the first night he had spent outside… You could just tell,..
I chatted to him and asked him did he know of the shelter up the road, he said yes but he hadn’t been.. I told him to go and they would help him… And gave him a £5 note… His eyes filled with tears again as his voice broke… And he couldn’t stop saying thank you.. He headed straight to McDonald’s across from the store where I hope he got warm and breakfast…
So folks, don’t look the other way when someone holds out there hand asking for change.. have the courage to stop talk to them, you never know what their stories are, not all are drug addicts wanting their next fix… and you never know but for the grace of God, you too could have been walking in their shoes needing help…
Much love dear Dilip…. Great Post my friend… I hope we all go little things to make Great Things happen… And we all right now need to be sending love and unity into the world not Fear and separation.. ❤ ❤ ❤
Sue ❤
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Beautiful words from you dear Sue. I felt very touched by your gesture to help out the needy man. A spontaneous act is always genuine as such the man became tearful in gratitude. Yes Sue I agree that it is the small things which we need to notice and step up to extend help. Even a small but timely act can mean the world to the one who is need of help. Your words “And we all right now need to be sending love and unity into the world not Fear and separation..” are so profound.
With my regards and best wishes to you and your dear family! Be safe and very well XO
Dilip
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Thank you Dilip. Unity, harmony, and respect and love has to be the way forward. Thank YOU my friend 😊
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Yes dear Sue your words “Unity, harmony, and respect and love” are most precious and help to boost our inner strengths. Cheers 😊
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Love this story. 🙂
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Thanks Maria I’m delighted you liked the story. Cheers 😊
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It’s all about living each moment preciously❤️ Enjoying the journey🥰 It took me years to realise this though. Thanks for a wonderful post , love Barbara x
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Hi Barbara yes I agree “living in the Now” is the best way to be in peace and joy! Thanks you for your gracious visit. Cheers 😀
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I typically will give homeless people a few dollars if they are sleeping. The abundance ends up making us both a little richer.
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Spot on. It’s so nice to help the needy silently and in humility and without expectations.
Thanks for stopping by and regards 👍
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Life… time– together, fascinating jewels composed of More Than Everything.
Art
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Thanks dear Art so kind of you to say so. Regards.
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Purpose of life.. it has been going on in my mind now a days and I haven’t been able to find any satisfactory response.
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Yes most of us think about this. Having read Eckhart Tolle’s the Power of Now I do believe that we pursue goals and targets which are the Secondary Purpose and are dependent on the changeability of time. Whereas the Inner purpose is the ‘Now’ which is deep within us and anchored to our soul. If we focus our mind be in present moment we become stable and calm and we get the clarity needed to achieve our secondary goal/purpose.
Thank you and regards. 🙏😳
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Nice to see your take, Dilip, on such a vast subject. The process of action and reaction on all levels, physical, mental and spiritual, is karma, which is the result of a person’s actions as well as the actions themselves. It denotes the cycle of cause and effect. Karma lays it down that what happens to a person, happens because they caused it with their actions; it anticipates Newton’s third law of action and reaction where every action of any kind including words, thoughts, feelings, the totality of our existence, will eventually have a reaction, same type of energy coming back to the one that caused it. In spiritual development, Karma is about all that a person has done, is doing and will do. It is not about punishment or reward. Karma makes a person responsible for their own life, and how they treat other people. Dharma, referring to the power which upholds the universe and to one’s lifelong duties, and Karma, referring to one’s everyday actions and the negative or positive obligations these actions bring about, and Moksha, referring to ultimate liberation from worldly life, are the foundational values on which all Indian religions are based. Dharma is universal and ‘Sanatana’, meaning ‘for all time or eternal’; which is why it is described as ‘Sanatana Dharma’. The dogmatic concept of God as defined by many organised religions may be rubbished as cultural mumbo jumbo. In today’s strife-ridden world further shattered by C-19, the only shining essence is the increasing relevance of Dharma or the order that sustains, structured by the cumulative of good Karma. Hence one’s life purpose is the pursuit of karmic goodness.
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As always Raj you words have have amplified the Karmic approach beautifully. And the explanation of Dharma and Sanatana is clarified beautifully in simple words. However your last line on the pursuit of karmic goodness perhaps implies not allowing the I to creep in unknowingly as it may not then remain Nishkama Karma.
Thank you so much for your wisdom. Kindest regards 🙏
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Beautifully written Dilip. Thank you for sharing this wisdom 💛
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Thanks Val your appreciation means a lot. Your thoughts on yogic practices and spirituality are always a learning for me. And I look forward to your posts.
Kind regards 🧘♂️🙏
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Nice post Dilip.
You would find more on Karma and Jnana Yoga
Go to You tube and go to Param Vedanta Channel..
Bhagavad Gita by Team of Doctors.
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Ho Sang thank you for being so thoughtful. I will surely visit the Param Vedanta Channel. 🙏
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Beautiful and very insightful post, my dear Dilip! 🙏🙂
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Thank you my dear Marina I’m so glad you like the post. In my previous visit to your websites I found Belle et Sebastien song on Oannes site so very beautiful. I am a dog lover myself.
Thanks and regards 😊
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The Bhagavad is one of the books always on my nightstand [and wherever I travel ;-)]
That was such a beautiful series [B&S]and the song… so moving. So glad you enjoyed it, my friend.
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Wonderful dear Marina! The Bhagavad-Gita as you may know is called the Song of God. The complexities faced by us in life are explained beautifully.
Regards and best always 🙏
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They are indeed! Best regards to you too! 🙏
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Nishkama Karma is the essence of Karma Yoga (A gateway to Self-realization)
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Indeed so sir Nishkama Karma sure is a gateway to liberation. A thought discussed in spiritual circles is “How can one believes he is doing nishkama karma when the doer is someone else. To believe ‘I am doing nishkama karma is itself bondage’!
Thank you Surinder sir 🙏
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The world certainly could use more selfless acts from the heart these days.
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Thanks dear friend it’s always so nice to hear from you 😉 and warm regards.
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Indeed, these are very true word, ones selfless actions do fulfill the purpose of life and brings a great sense of satisfaction 👍😇😇
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Thanks Aushi you’re spot on. Cheers to that and have a lovely day 😉
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Great words!!
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Thanks kind of you.
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Not at all, you are very welcome!
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