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by: DevinIyer
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What is the purpose of life? This is a fundamental question in life, and a very important one, as the answer could change everything! It could significantly change the way you view things, change your pursuits, and change the way you live our life.

Here we find ourselves, experiencing life in this vast universe, seemingly separate, ego-centric individuals with the ability to desire and achieve things. We have a few basic concepts in our collective consciousness regarding our purpose:

Some say we are born in order to learn certain lessons and to grow.

Others say that the purpose of life is that it is a test - if we pass we gain entry into heaven, and if we fail we suffer the eternal damnation of hell.

Some say that we are born so that we can purge ourselves of karma (the effect of all our past actions in previous lives), and after many lifetimes, when we eventually 'wipe the slate clean', we liberate ourselves from the recurring cycle of birth and death.

Another theory is that life has no purpose at all and that it is just the result of an accidental process which is taking place in the universe.

When we begin to analyze these theories and beliefs, we see that some of them are true, but only to an extent, and some simply do not stand the test of logic. They are mistaken ideas or mere myths that have crept into our current human culture, into our minds, and thus into our collective experience. Beliefs color experience, and our beliefs can be accurate mental constructs of the way things are, or they can simply be inaccurate or mistaken. Erroneous beliefs can restrict and constrict us (as some of the above beliefs do), while more enlightened beliefs can liberated us.

I'd like you to consider the following: that you are here essentially to experience aspects and qualities of who you are in essence, and to continually re-create yourself in your highest ideas and imaginings by expressing, deciding, creating and fulfilling who you are, and who we are always becoming. As an extension of source energy you also take thought itself to new levels through your desires and choices. And these experience serve Ultimate Reality, the Divine Essence. Thus, in every moment you are fulfilling your purpose for existing, irrespective of what you are doing.

On the one hand we have the purpose of life which is always guiding the process forward. On the other, we have your beliefs about what your purpose is. These two can be exactly or closely aligned, and you will experience expansive power and freedom when they are. Yet even when they are not aligned, your beliefs serve your greater purpose. Even if your own chosen purpose is trying to gain entry into heaven, for example, or climbing Mount Everest, or even chasing maximum enjoyment, it is fulfilling your overall purpose because in and through these beliefs, you are experiencing, creating, expressing, and fulfilling who you are, and who you are continually becoming.

Your own chosen purpose (and in other words your intention or desire) may not right now be fulfilled, but your purpose for existing is always being fulfilled, in each moment of life.

So there is nothing more you have to do or be in order to be whole or complete. You are already so. And there is nothing that is required of you, other than that which you choose to require of yourself.

There are certain things you can desire to do, and choose to do, and there are certainly things you can do which will improve your experience in life, and maybe improve the world, but don't confuse this with any requirement - that there is something you have to do in order to fulfill some purpose which is imposed upon your life. Simply put: your purpose is to experience and create. Didn't you achieve a whole lot of that already, even today?

So I invite you to think again about the question of purpose, and contemplate the possibility that you are already complete and whole, and that the purpose for which life and the universe was created is being fulfilled right now and in every moment of time. This will bring you more freedom. It is like removing a huge weight off your shoulders. And this is very empowering too. And in truth you are always at choice and essentially free, except for the beliefs that we hold to the contrary. The only limitations you have are those which you choose to impose on yourself. Yet it is an inner knowing and decision to make, and when you make this decision, you can choose to free yourself, and be your Self again.

About the Author

Article by Devin Iyer, a Spiritual Philosopher and Awareness Coach who was strongly drawn to the contemplative path and spent 3 years in a monastery in India, where he was exposed to the Advaita Vedanta philosophy. He shares deep insights on his website regarding life and the power of awareness.

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