What should be our GOAL of life ?

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To know the sweetness of the Infinite within us.
That is the cause, the reason, the purpose,
the only purpose of our being.

- Nicholas of Cusa

 

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Desire means something that we(or our mind) want to achieve. Goal can be one of these many desires or achievements. Goal-of-Life( or Ultimate goal of life) should be that achievement beyond which there cannot be any scope for further achievements . Its a kind of achieve-all situation .

Our mind is restless . We can not stop , not doing things . So, we do things .

Its our ambitions, motivations which drives us to do things with the hope for some mental satisfaction .

Its our well-being . Everybody wants to live well . Everybody wants to exist. Everybody wants to survive . As it is said , " Life is struggle for existence and survival of the fittest " . So for life , every moment is a struggle and every breathe is some achievement . Our achievements give us some sense of satisfaction . This sense of satisfaction makes our life worth living .

 

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Its self-realization .

 

To disrupt your tedium.

 

JESUS. Life? A goal? You're kidding, right? Life, being subjective in and of itself cannot have an objective goal for us all to seek and discuss. Your goal is subjective, and your own. My goal is the same. What is your personal goal? Is it to mate with a Texas Steer? Paint a painting to shame Picasso? Discover a new element? Save the life of another? Or is it more reasonable? To simply live your life, find happiness, and hopefully spread a bit around? It's nothing specific, but unless you are a nice healthy sociopath, generally this goal is one that can be said to be sought.

Consider this, if life is a game, how does one tell winners from losers? If there are no objective winners or losers, then it's not much of a game, is it?

 

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Ok. Would that person be a winner or loser in life, and why?

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No, they do not.

If we agree that devotional service can be in the four modes (as some scriptures suggest), that means that the mode alone does not dictate whether someone will render devotional service or not.

The mode may affect how a person under its influence will go about devotional service, but not whether they will do it or not.


You'll need to provide some other explanation as to why some people believe in God and others do not.

 

the modes interact with other modes - hence one can talk about a person dominantly in the mode of goodness turning a leaf towards ignorance or passion and so on and so forth

 

You're simply excluding God Himself from all this, as if He didn't have aything to do with it.

Religious faith is not a matter of karma. The three modes are a matter of karma, but not religious faith.


As stated in Bhagavad-gītā, intelligence and forgetfulness are both supplied by the Supersoul sitting with the individual soul within the body. When He sees that a conditioned soul is very serious about getting out of the clutches of the material influence, the Supreme Lord gives intelligence internally as Supersoul and externally as the spiritual master, or, as an incarnation of the Personality of Godhead Himself, He helps by speaking instructions such as Bhagavad-gītā. The Lord is always seeking the opportunity to reclaim the fallen souls to His abode, the kingdom of God. We should always feel very much obliged to the Personality of Godhead, for He is always anxious to bring us into the happy condition of eternal life. There is no sufficient means to repay the Personality of Godhead for His act of benediction; therefore, we can simply feel gratitude and pray to the Lord with folded hands. This prayer of the child in the womb may be questioned by some atheistic people. How can a child pray in such a nice way in the womb of his mother? Everything is possible by the grace of the Lord. The child is put into such a precarious condition externally, but internally he is the same, and the Lord is there. By the transcendental energy of the Lord, everything is possible.

http://vedabase.net/sb/3/31/18/

 

Do you think , there are no winners or losers in life ?

Winners are known by their achievements .

Loosers simply remain unknown .

 

Winners and losers at what, exactly?
If one's goal is to be happy, but their achievements do not make them so - are they winners?
If one's goal is happiness, and being unknown gives them the stress-free life they like, are they losers?

 

Our goal in life should be to burden no one, accomplish nothing, consume minimally and leave without a trace.

 

You might as well start building a bridge to the Moon then ...

 

Wouldn't that be an accomplishment? By the way, the space elevator has already been invented.

 

The goal of life is to enjoy it.
Alone on a desert island, can you be happy? (The question wants to emphasize the importance of social life.)

 

Building a bridge to the Moon (a bridge made of steel or bricks) is as possible as "being a burden to no one, accomplish nothing, consume minimally and leave without a trace."

 

to live under the modes (ie to be satisfied with them) is to have everything governed by karma

 

Are you by this suggesting that when people are upset over the apparent misbehavior and ill will of people who claim to know God,
this means that those upset people are fully governed by karma?