Page 321 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 3

WISHING AND WILLING
Making choices means choosing among alternatives. This is a very important factor that has influence in our success in any field of activity. We find that we have conflicting priorities in our life. For instance we want to meditate more so that we can wake up to our own Real-Nature. This we find is not possible as we have to spend more time at work to earn required amount of money. Similarly we would like to spend more time reading spiritual books but we don’t want to miss our favorite TV show or movie. We want to do some spiritual work so that we can help others in the real sense but our friends and relatives say that is non productive and we can as well spend that time for earning some more money.
This is where we need to have firm choice and that is possible only when our will is developed. We should have clear idea as to what we want and this may be another way of looking at the goal of our life. We should know what we want out of life. If we find that we are stuck with lots of conflicting priorities in our life we need to seriously contemplate on what can make our life meaningful. In such contemplation we can discover what we want to get in our life.
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