Eastern Wisdom -23 Living Life with Purpose: An Eastern Wisdom Perspective

Purposelessness Leads to Discontentment

Eastern wisdom suggests that living without purpose inevitably leads to dissatisfaction and anxiety. When life lacks meaning or direction, people tend to make short-sighted choices, chasing momentary pleasures. This causes stress, emptiness, and self-centered behaviors that fail to uplift self or others. For instance, someone lacking purpose may indulge excessively in social media, junk food, mindless entertainment, or other fleeting gratifications, trying in vain to fill their inner void.

Failing to Nurture Inborn Gifts is Self-Defeating

The Eastern perspective highlights the importance of identifying and nurturing one’s innate talents as part of living purposefully. They negate their human gifts if someone denies their calling in music, arts, writing, service, leadership, or other domains matching their Swadharma (personal duty). Following external agendas rather than your inner truths causes regrets later when opportunities have passed. For example, if you have natural skills in healthcare, avoiding medical school to pursue engineering just for money may leave you feeling unfulfilled.

Reactive Living Breeds Negative Karma

Eastern schools speak strongly about consciously chosen goals and actions versus simply reacting to situations unconsciously. Living and deciding things thoughtlessly means getting swayed by momentary emotions, ego, and instincts rather than timeless wisdom. Such reactive patterns breed narrow-minded conduct, interpersonal friction, and selfish behaviors that return as negative karma. As an illustration, frequently lashing out angrily while interacting with people creates enduring relationship rifts.

Chasing Outer Goals Without Inner Work Causes Emptiness

Finally, eastern thought examines the motivation behind all pursuits and goals. Shallowness steps in if life’s purpose fixates solely on materialist objectives like wealth, assets, status, or power without balancing inner work. Many wealthy, accomplished public figures have admitted to the inner void despite having ‘everything.’ Without minding your integral needs alongside worldly goals, outer sparkle lacks depth and fulfillment. This emptiness spills over, shadowing other successes when purpose stays veiled.

In conclusion, the Eastern perspective strongly cautions against drifting through life passively, governed by outer situations or impulses alone. Rather, it prescribes proactively crafting a purpose incorporating self-knowledge, creative actualization, and conscious living for sustainable fulfillment.

( References from Upanishads, Yoga Sutra, Gita, Life Divine etc.)

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