Purusharthas – Dharma, Artha, Kama Moksha
Dharma, artha, kama, moksha are called purusharthas. Meaning, the WAY OF LIVING life for the purusha (the man). The meaning of life is living by following dharma, artha, kama and moksha elements.
I am sure, by now, you should be knowing what is Dharma. It is already 9th phase that you are in. So by now, some discipline should have come in your life and you would find that discipline, being in harmony with the laws of Nature. I am sure following that discipline, after taking up Manthan lessons, should have brought you some unknown happiness and also calmness in the mind.
Since you understand now, what is Dharma, you should know the next elements of purusharthas which is Artha.
Artha means, purpose of life. When Dharma falls in place in your life, you will start moving towards knowing the PURPOSE of life.
From this month onwards, you will searching for that PURPOSE of life.
Before knowing the purpose of life, you should know what KARMA is.
Karma means . . .
- Action or work
- Karma also means, the work or pain you have to pay back to the world or cosmic womb
So far the karma that you have been doing since your birth has been only for your own personal self. Personal self is small-self, bound to your own body, your own mind and your own family.
You ate for yourself, you studied for yourself, you fought with your parents for your desires, you fought with others for your own desires, you got job for your own survival, you are married for your own sensual satisfaction and expansion of your own personal family and then, you started earning money for your own family and later you would buy and give all the things to your children, your wife and may be your parents. This ME, MYSELF, MY FAMILY, MY CHILDREN, MY JOB has been so deeply written in your system.
I don’t mean, you leave all those now, do not get scared and run away leaving these lessons!
But at least some step has to be taken towards such expansion of your small. From small to expanded “I”” (not big “I” of false ego).
Connecting to the purpose of life is a process of few years. It is an evolution that happens automatically in this path, provided you surrender to the GURU WITHIN. Guru within is the driver. That is what is Lord Krishna right? Lord Krishna was presented as charioteer of Arjuna in Bhagawadgita.
You as Arjuna came here and took the lessons. But when you will become Arjuna so that Krishna can start helping you in your life?
Before Bhagawad Gita, Arjuna spent many years with Krishna, even then, he was not ready for THE ACTUAL WAR. After few hours being with Krishna he got ready for the war.
War, though it was a real time one in the real life, but in the actual spiritual perspectives, the war was meant to fight with the enemies and weaknesses within. You participate in war even after getting ready to give up your life. In the same way, you are required to the get ready for the actual war that has already initiated in you. Meaning, as the guru within, Krishna has been there within you driving you in all aspects of your life so far.
But the question is how long will you befriend with Krishna like this? when will you face the war is the question. But one day that time will come definitely. Then you either get ready to give up your life also to participate in war or you will leave the war zone like a timid one.
When the war starts, that’s when the actual transformation would start. You will be exposed to karma, Gnana, bhakti, deeper levels of kriya yogas.
So as part of that process (before war), you should get ready to at least prepare your mind for THE PURPOSE OF LIFE.
Purpose of life moves you to from personal life to universal life. It does not mean, you will leave your family or probably you will give out all your properties or money. It is about the expansion of family from three member family to 300 and from there to 3000 and beyond. So obviously money also would increase like that isn’t it? Money, living space (more buildings), more cars, more people to work and all will come to assist you in reaching your purpose of life.
The purpose of life is universal work that lets you shine like The Sun.
So do not misunderstand that, if you become universal, you will leave all your family and donate all money and properties to the world!
But it is all about true expansion. When your soul gets rid of the current karma and gets ready for the purpose of life then the whole Nature (the cosmic womb) and the Guru or God would be there around to help you achieve your purpose of life. Because your purpose of life not only shines you but also gives the light to many people around.
That shift will happen. It is not about giving up the house, family money and all. Of course that will happen after totally getting rid of your attachments. The, your family will grow, your money will grow, your house will become so big.
So as part of that, you need to take some step towards the purpose of your life. So even one practical step towards it, will burn down your karma on one hand and also starts expanding you on the other hand.
So whatever you can afford, little donations to orphans or to the Guru or the people around would be a good step.
If you are not able to give up that attachment to money, you can at least do Shrama Daan. Shrama Daan means, you work by mind or by body without expecting anything for the welfare of the world. May be you can do some work on computer to the Guru or to help people on internet or something like that. So take some steps towards them.
Then your expansion will slowly start happening as your karma burns down by such karmas.
Some of you may be already doing this kind of universal karmas. My intention is to expand your true-self. Nothing else, do not think that I am trying to explore you or trying to get money from you or something. I am not at all interested in all those. Everybody acts as per their own mind, will and various other constraints in life. Corporate leaders give big talks about giving back to the society which they again do so logically at the end of their careers. They accumulate money at the end of their careers after lot of struggle and hard work through their careers of lives. But all their life or through their lives, they struggled, worked hard and experienced lot of stress and pains right? So the point that needs to be understood here is, as you earn, if you give out money, then that is quite challenging and that also eases your struggle and pain through the career. If you give out as you earn, then such act also gets MORE MONEY, MORE OPPORTUNITIES, MORE GROWTH in current span of life and also for future years to come. Because technically, such act actually burns out your karma. So such action keeps burning your karma which actually paves the way for better benefits in all aspects of physical life and also for spiritual life. Such act is divine and bold act. Giving out money after earning lots can be done easily but as you earn giving out is quite difficult and challenging. What is challenging is divine and that BUILDS DETACHMENT and kills attachment for money . This act as per technology of yoga, it moves you faster to the purpose of your life as you keep burning your karma. Also a huge bank account of name, good will, love will be built for your children and next generations. They will get great benefits (though they will not do all these great acts in their lives), because of your such acts. This is how the children of some great ancestors still enjoy the fruits of their names, good will and love they earned in the society. So the good act you do will always be a great BANK ACCOUNT for your own soul, your current life, your future live and also for your future generations.
Again, I say all these to build such thoughts in you, but I am not expecting anything from. You can act as you want based on your circumstances in your life.
The last two elements of the purusharthas, Kama and Moksha are like byproducts of the dharma and artha. When you have dharma in place, you will meet purpose of life after getting rid of certain amount of karma and then you will meet the kama (to create something for the welfare of the world without expecting anything) and that creation will fetch all things (money, people, things, buildings and all) with the support of Nature, Guru or God in this path. Such desire of creation is called Kama. Kaama means desire. So far your desire was to buy cars for yourself, to buy properties for yourself, to buy unnecessary clothes for yourself and many more.
The purpose of life does not have to be always, setting up orphanages, or teaching yoga and all. Basically the DEEPLY WRITTTEN TRAIT OF YOURS such as developing a software, setting up a business, becoming an author, setting up a school kind of things will convert to be the purpose of your life. Setting up business though it was your dream but it was a selfish dream. But as you expand your consciousness, that will develop to be a business for the welfare of the world. Example – to take care of poor women or low educated women, may be you will set up a business where they work. They not only earn their livelihoods but also their work will produce some products which are useful to the world. May be you will write great encouraging books like an author. Like that your desire would change its shape from personal side to universal side and that is how THE THRIST of desires are realized and that is when your karma goes away.
So do not always think about setting ashrams of spirituality or becoming gurus and all. They are far less useful to the world than you setting up a business as said above. Already the world is mushroomed or all wrong gurus and let us not grow the crops of gurus anymore in the world! Nature does not need them.
Nature needs more Krishnas, Ramas, Arjunas, Bhishmas, Karnas and all and only through them, the world would have real prosperity in all aspects. Else the saffron clothing ones would make the material world dull and make all sit under trees. Also, the truth is such sitting would not get them anything unless they really get into the MUD OF THE WORLD. So, no point in growing such saffron clothing crops. The time of lecturing, preaching and all are over in the Nature and people have lost energies to not to listen to them and change. They will grow again, when NATURE needs them. But the current need of Nature is as said above, at least for many hundreds of thousands of years. So if anyone has such thoughts of becoming gurus, setting ashrams and all are not encouraged in this path.
Another thing is Guru with energy are needed now, just by thought, just by gaze, they bring change in others and the Manthan path is of that.
That is the reason why I am a mixture of material plus saffron. I appear to be like a sanyasi but yet samsara and I appear to be like samsara but yet sanyasi. So I don’t have any spiritual ashrams as such to teach yoga. Yoga is taught definitely by me but indirectly through my actions and way of living life. That is why I have an orphanage instead of spiritual ashram, where I live with all children (my own child is also there along with them). Anyways, let me drop talking about myself which I do not like.
But after getting rid of the attachments and after meeting the purpose of life, your desire will be a selfless desire for the welfare of the world and the people. Then the creation you do will be just like the creation of god. Whatever you want to create as part of that selfless desire will start happening. However, even then in certain journeys, MAYA keeps on pinging you in the background to say I am there. So every situation, every talk, every person you meet would be challenging you to pull you into Maya. Then that selfless dream would start falling again to personal desire. Then you will start doing some mistakes in that process. Then obviously those mistakes will push you do actions against the laws of Nature and the laws of governments. One day, you will be trapped and you will definitely bear the fruits of such bad karma again. The stories you hear about all spiritual gurus and other people happen this way in the real world.
So till the last breath of life, even for the realized one, every situation, every person, every act has to be as per the dharma and art of yoga. Else, he will get into karma again.
The greatest of the greatest yogis, Krishna, purposely buy the karma and he will bear the pains of that karma and he would purposely purchase those karmas again ONLY FOR THE WELFARE AND LOVE OF THE OTHERS.
The last element of purusharthas is Moksha. Moksha is liberation from this cosmic womb. You wont come back into this womb of world once you pay back all you had to give. It is the result of your actions in life through dharma, artha and kama elements of purusharthas.
When you did perfect selfless karmas through dharma, aratha and kama obviously you would do all those by merging already in the ocean of cosmic consciousness. So at the end you just strip your clothes of this body and remain as cosmic ocean. So are you ready to take the dip in that ocean?