I’ve been thinking a lot about some heavy-ass stuff like what our real purpose is and more specifically, what’s my own real purpose and came across some pretty revealing stuff in a copy of the Bhagavad Gita which I bought off a nice Hari Krishna woman in Edinburgh about this time last year.

What is our purpose?  Apparently this is known as Dharma.  The inherent purpose of any thing is known as it’s Dharma.  So the Dharma of fire is to burn and change things from one state into another, the Dharma of water is to help life to take form and also to quench fire, etc.  So what’s the Dharma of living sentient beings such as ourselves?

Well, apparently it’s to serve.  To be in selfless service to all of existence.  I guess that makes sense, really.

I often try to take a very (very) wide view of things and look at the world as though I wasn’t a part of it and try to figure out what the point of it all actually is.  And looking at it that way, our only real purpose can be to just take care of creation itself.  To just help it to happen.

We’re obviously all powerful beings with the ability to create or destroy on a vast scale (as we’ve seen by the current state of the planet) so it would make complete sense for our purpose in life to be to facilitate acts of creation of any kind whatsoever.

It’s strange – I find myself quite attracted to the ideas in this book, the Bhagavad Gita, but if I’m honest I don’t think I’ll ever become a fully fledged Hari Krishna devotee in this lifetime.

Never say never though.

But I just don’t think it’s in my Dharma!  It all seems bit too cultish and naive for me, so just not quite my cup of tea.  I feel as though my own inner compass direct me well enough to figure out what feels right in life and what doesn’t.  The only problem I have is in getting round to doing whatever it is I need to do – whatever my Dharma is.

Yoga’s certainly in my Dharma.  It was essential to establish a solid personal grounding for myself after I left home and Yoga helped me to do that.  But I’ve learned that there’s only so much grounding you really need and in actuality, grounding is all relative because we’re not the ground per se, nor are we the energy that seems to link us to the ground – we’re just the decision to become grounded or the decision to move energy in a certain direction, etc.  We’re conscious entities.  We’re awareness.  And that’s what’s next for me – doing something with that awareness.

Once I get my dodgy joints sorted out.

More soon,

Ryan.