Me, My Guru – On purpose of life!

Me, My Guru – On purpose of life!

During Covid pandemic most of us had time to read lots of articles about and on ‘purpose of life’. We too had heard it often here but it still wasn’t clear to us and so we decided to get an answer. That would be easy to understand and apply in our lives or so we thought!

Today, I asked her the question when we had settled comfortably “Guruji, can you please tell you about how to know our purpose of life?”

“Oh! That’s easy” said Kshama “We found it in our class. Our Guruji asked us all to get one balloon each to our class. We did. She asked us to write our names on the balloon. Once we were done we were asked to leave our balloons in one of the rooms for this exercise. Later, she went into the room and came back 10mts later. She said “Now, go and get your balloons”.

We found this exercise stupid. Why leave it in the room if we had to get it back in 10mts? Nevertheless, we entered the room and in the room filled with balloons came back tired and empty handed after more than an hour later.

Now we were more than determined to get back our balloons. So, we asked her to show us a way. She smiled and replied “That can wait. First go and pick a balloon and give it to the person whose name is written on it”.

We went in dejected.  We picked the first balloon that we saw and gave it to its owner. In 5 mts, each one of us was holding on to his balloon. Then it looked so simple!” Kshama looked at us pleased.  

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# purpose of life, sharing and caring, selflessness, 

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Questions addressed and points to ponder : 

• What is the purpose of life?
• Each person has a purpose to his life. Either he can find it and live it or take up a purpose and make it his own. Choice is his to make!
• Sometimes, all we need to do to live a purposeful life is to bring a 'smile' on someone's face.
• How to find purpose of life?

Today's miracle :

Saw a flock of birds flying in the sky. They were pigeons. And they were flying in the formation. Even when they changed the direction, there was a rhythm to it and it looked like a aerial dance performance. How to they communicate so fast and how come no one is out of sync in that performance? I wonder! This is not the first time I am watching it and yet it doesn't stop me from wondering about its beauty, complexity, mystery and reason.

The birds being pigeons were grey in colour and in the centre of that group was one beautiful white pigeon. Oh! what a beauty it was to behold that dance of pigeons!