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THE GOAL OF LIFE AND THE MEANS
This talk is about the goal of life. We are all aware of the prayer given to us by our Revered Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj. The prayer is universal, it does not talk about any particular God. That is not restricted to any race or religion. The main point when we say this is not to talk against any of the religious prayers but try to impress upon you that Prayer has to be Spiritual, and when we talk about spirituality we talk about something other than our self. So long as we think about ourself it is selfishness at its worst and most of the time materialistic. When we talk about others it is basically spiritual. The first sentence of the prayer of the Master is "O! Master! Thou art the real goal of human life' When we say that God or the Ultimate or the Brahman, Allah or Khuda is the goal for the human life many of us have been trained to think that it is something that is far off and that is something that we have to reach after labourious struggle. People have often considered this type of awareness or aspiration to reach the Goal as something that is connected with the recluses or for people who need not bother about anything here or who bother only about
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