Are there times in your life when you feel dissatisfied with what you have achieved or rather failed to achieve and who you have eventually come to become?
Are there times in your life when your feel anxious about the fact that you don't have many years to live and something bad may happen and derail your life and what is going to happen with you and in your life in the future?
Did you answer "yes" to all the three questions above?
If yes, that means you are a normal person.
You could be that common man one would very often come across on the streets outside and most other public places.
So why do you feel unhappy, dissatisfied, and anxious at times?
And why does almost everyone feel unhappy, dissatisfied, and anxious at times?
The answer lies in the fact that you are living your life assuming, quite mistakenly, that you ought to have some purpose in life.
And when that purpose is not met or poorly met, you will tend to feel unhappy, dissatisfied and anxious.
When you fail to achieve the purpose that you think you were born to achieve in our life, you end up thinking that the very reason for you to live is no longer there.
Hence, the feeling of being unhappy, dissatisfied, and anxious.
Let us talk a little more about the purpose of life.
The question "what is the purpose of life" is not the right question.
The right questions are:
"Why should life have a purpose?".
“Why should anyone and more so the nature be bothered about someone's life having a purpose?”
All animals are born, live through their life and eventually die.
Nature does not care who is born, who is alive and who is dead.
One animal has made it look like as if he is an exception to the above rule.
And that animal is human being.
Humans think their life is special and it ought to have some purpose.
Nature does not think so at all.
For nature all life is same.
A human life is no different or special than the life of any other animal.
If all human beings were to die at this very instant, the universe and the cosmos will continue to exist.
If all living beings also were to die at this very instant, the universe and the cosmos will continue to exist.
Sun will shine tomorrow as it is doing it right now and as it did yesterday.
Rivers will flow tomorrow as they are doing it right now and as they did yesterday.
Wind will blow tomorrow as it is doing it right now and as it did yesterday.
We think too much about having a purpose in life.
That thought is the basic reason for being unhappy, dissatisfied and anxious.
The best bet is to keep on doing things without worrying about the grander things like purpose.
This is best explained by Bhagavad Geeta, the sacred, holy, and ancient Hindu text.
You focus on Karma (work and duties) in accordance with Dharma (morals and righteousness) and do not bother about the Phal (results or outcomes).
So, what is the Mantra one should follow?
Do not get trapped by and in the mirage of purpose.
Focus on doing the right things and doing the things right.
Just that much is what truly matters.
Live each day with complete and sole focus on Karma and Dharma.
Also live each day as if it were your last day in the world.
And most certainly, you will be right on that one day which will be your last day.
If you live with no greed for any grander purpose, you will not feel unhappy.
If you live with no greed for any grander purpose, you will not feel dissatisfied.
If you live with no greed for any grander purpose, you will not feel anxious.
Leave purpose behind.
Focus only on following Dharma and doing your Karma.
The rest is all Maya, simply an illusion.
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