THE REAL PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE or HOW TO DO GOD’S WILL
Fear of change, of the future, is equivalent to being afraid of transformation, which is death.
But if you are calmly transforming at all times, there is no fear. If you are constantly transforming, then you are dying constantly, literally dying while alive.
A good gauge by which one may determine one’s mastery of this constant transformation is whether or not one is living in such a way that one rarely (or never) stops long enough to condemn anything in life. Another way of determining one’s progress is the manifestation of a state of continual (or nearly so) calmness, serenity, and joyfulness. If one maintains a state like that of passive observation, intervening in the affairs of things only when needed and as it is deemed necessary, then one may be assured by this is evidence that one is mastering the divine way of life.
Generally speaking, spiritual people are too busy doing their intended life’s work to even have time to stop and engage in any negative activity that would contribute to severing or otherwise hampering in any way the Divine connection they have spent so much time and effort acquiring. Spoken another way, spending time engaging in condemnation of anything is a fine way to waste time that could otherwise be used towards uplifting oneself and others as well. Therefore a spiritual person prefers to use their time in the performance of some kind of inspired work instead.
Furthermore, be wary of comparing one’s work to that of another, or in some way judging oneself as ‘not doing enough’. The amount of work one does for his fellow beings is not to be viewed as a contest. Each enlightened being that is still manifesting here in a body is doing what they can in as best a manner as is possible for them at any given moment. They are unconcerned with earning a trophy when life is over. So do not be deceived by appearances. There is no competition going on. Each bit of work, no matter how small or big is acceptable to the Universal Spirit. So condemning one’s own self (or others) by thinking that one is not doing enough is pointless and counterproductive. No one needs to work outdoors nonstop for 21 hours a day unless they want to—different strokes for different folks, even in the case of Enlightened beings. Remember, even those who do no outer work are generally doing a whole world of work on the internal planes.
While an enlightened being is alive, he/she will engage in some kind of active work when not busy resting or reinforcing the connection to Divinity thru their personal spiritual practice. However this work manifests for the individual is entirely unique. For example, some Himalayan yogis spend almost all of the hours in a day and night ensconced in meditation, being awake only a few hours during any 24 hour period. Others may do the opposite, sleeping only a few hours. Some don’t ever sleep. Some almost never leave the meditative state. All of these manifestations are valid and acceptable to God—how could it not be? He who is one with God is obliged to do the work deemed most necessary for the time & place in which he finds himself, and according to his abilities. In other words, the enlightened fill the dark vacuums of the world with light. And while the unenlightened may question such work, the spiritual ones know from where their inspiration comes and therefore never need question their own work.
Honestly, how can our devotional work for God ever be invalid or somehow unacceptable in the eyes of the God that was the very Divine Source of our inspiration that caused us to do the devotional work we are doing on behalf of God in the first place?………Now that sounds as funny as it is true.
So establish your connection to God and then do whatever work Divinity inspires you to do with the intention of ending the suffering of humanity. No need to question what that activity happens to be. Rarely are we ever aware of the immense effects that our efforts will generate while we are engaged in the work. The effects will come later, whether or not we are even alive to see it or benefit from it personally in any way. All that matters is that the work is done.
Therefore let us trust whatever work we are inspired to do, knowing that is it acceptable and pleasing to the same Source from which it originated.
This is known as fulfilling one’s purpose.
