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secured liberation which is the state of freedom from bondage and that is the end of our pains and miseries. The natural yearning of the soul is to be free from bondage. Thus the minimum goal of life shall be liberation though a lot remains to be achieved beyond it.
The goal of life means nothing but the point we have to finally arrive at; it is in other words a reminiscence of our homeland or the primeval state of our present solid existence which we have to return to. We need to fix our goal as the highest possible so that we may not stop short of the final mark. Generally persons worship the two incarnations Sri Rama and Sri Krishna with faith and devotion for securing union with them. This then becomes their goal of life and at the utmost they can secure approach up to the level of the respective incarnation. Master reveals a little known secret of Nature when He asserts that the Incarnations generally descend from the sphere of Mahamaya which is the state of Godly energy in the subtle and hence, the most powerful form. The Incarnations were unique personalities vested with supernatural powers to work as medium for the accomplishment of the work demanded by Nature at the time and for which their descent took place. The highest possible human approach is far beyond the sphere of Mahamaya and it is where every kind of force power or activity or stimulus disappears and a man enters a state of complete negation; Nothingness or Zero. This is the final goal of life.
Before we move further to discuss the stages of progress further, it will be appropriate to consider some other practical perspectives from which the goal of human life may be viewed for facilitating successful sadhana. The prayer states that the Master is the goal of human life. Thus the idea of the Master as the goal of life may attract many ideas about God/ Master we have been habituated to through study or cultural inheritance and come in the way of attaining goal clarity. The most mature idea in this regard is to view Him as a Samavarthi who does just.
Another view of the goal having enormous practical utility in one’s sadhana is taking the total fulfillment in letter and spirit of the 9th Commandment which exhorts the abhyasi to mould his living in such a manner so as to rouse a feeling of love and piety in others. The Master is asking all of us as expressions of Divinity to live in the way He Himself lived motivating every one to think in terms of Divinity. We are to live in such a way that we are the most humble servants of the Divine who is trying to express fully through us and we are allowing only the Divinity to express itself rather than allowing our creation to be expressed. As long as our creation is in tune with His and used solely for enhancing the beauty of His creation it will be in order. That will be the playing our proper part in His creation and the fruition of His purpose wherein we are purifying and dedicating our individual wills along