Have You Decided Your Goals in Life? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00The only genuine goal is the one that fulfills your life.

00:10Obviously when you are talking about having goals, you are talking about having goals as a person.

00:22You are born, you are living, you take yourself to be a person and you are talking about goals of that person.

00:31Essentially you are asking what is worth doing. Essentially you are asking what is worth taking as a goal.

00:38What is it that we are usually engaged in?

00:45Feeding our stomachs and feeding the stomachs of those who are related by blood to us.

00:51That's what our life really is. Fundamentally that's what we live and work for.

01:02So what must be the goal of life then?

01:06The goal of life is liberation.

01:08There is no other reason why you are born.

01:17You are born into suffering and you want to totally lapse out of the suffering.

01:23That is the goal of life. Nothing else.

01:29This is the month March when Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged.

01:34Do you know what was the age of Bhagat Singh?

01:3721 was when he lobbed that bomb and 23 was when he was hanged.

01:46The goal of life is to not end as that which began the journey.

01:52You started your life journey with wails and tears.

01:56The goal of life is that when you go, you should go with a smile.

02:02When you die, you must have known that the purpose of life is fulfilled.

02:10You are no more carrying the same tendencies, the same sufferings, the same attachments, the same illusions that you were born with.

02:22You need to look sharply, be very attentive, not have prejudices in mind.

02:29Forget for a while that you are meant to behave in such and such way.

02:35Just look at the facts and then it will be all very very clear.

02:42Then you decide what your goals must be.

02:44Then you decide what your work must be.

02:46A work is worth doing if it liberates you.

02:54If it doesn't liberate you, it is going against the overall purpose of life.

02:58And you will have only more suffering as a punishment.

03:03That's how you should look at your work.

03:05Is it liberating you?

03:07Is it challenging you?

03:09Is it breaking you down?

03:12If not, then that work is not worth doing.

03:16Work that doesn't challenge you, change you and destroy you is not work at all.

03:24What do you mean by selfless work?

03:29Work that dissolves the self.

03:32That is the meaning of selfless work.

03:36Otherwise, there is nothing called selfless work.

03:41You have talked of the freedom fighters.

03:43The greatest of freedom fighters, the real freedom fighters had an all-encompassing vision.

03:51Their vision definitely included the freedom of the political country but went far beyond that.

03:58I think it was Bhagat Singh when his mother asked him, why don't you get married?

04:03He replied, I am already married and her name is freedom.

04:08Now, it behoves a Bhagat Singh not to get married to a woman because he has committed himself to freedom.

04:16They wanted freedom for man himself.

04:23It was not merely freedom for a political unit.

04:26Of course, freedom for the political unit is important.

04:29But one doesn't stop at that.

04:31Man must be liberated.

04:34And for man to be liberated, all that which challenges and subjugates man must be fought.

04:41And therefore, they fought.

04:44Go and ask a Bhagat Singh what he doesn't like.

04:47He will say, I do not like chained individuals.

04:50Go and ask a Tagore what he wants.

04:52He will say, where the mind is without fear.

04:57It's such a beautiful poem.

04:58A mind without fear.

05:01That's what the greatest freedom fighters fought for.

05:07It requires the guts of a Bhagat Singh.

05:09You know, chicken-hearted people.

05:11If you are adamant upon remaining that, then remain that.

05:13You are on the hot seat.

05:15Your life.

05:19Choose your work with care.

05:22Selfless work means work that leads to dissolution of the self.

05:29Because dissolution of the self is the only genuine purpose of life.

05:39Figure out in your case what really challenges you.

05:44Figure out what is it that you need to do to fight and overcome the subjugating falseness.

05:56And that's how one should pick up profession, work and goals.

06:00It cannot be the same for everyone.

06:02Work will differ.

06:04But whatever work you choose must lead to liberation.

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