The Purpose

Health is not just about food, detox juices, sleep or movement. Ultimate health is gained by having something to look forward to each morning.

Your purpose is a combination of two things. Swadharma (your Innate strength) – Purpose (your reason for being), Service (usefulness to others)

Swadharma:

1. These are the strengths we are born with, things we are naturally good at.

2. We all have different things we are naturally good at – for someone it could be doing business, while for someone, it could be writing blogs.

3. Many of us today don’t live in alignment with our innate strengths. We may realize that we are great at poetry but our family expects us to lead the family business and we somehow start doing business but it leaves us unfulfilled from within.

4. When we don’t work on our innate strength, the following things occur.
->Internal frustration starts building
->Praanshakthi gets wasted in handling the stress
->Health starts deteriorating.

The power of living in accordance with our innate strength is beautifully explained in Bhagavat Gita ”Better is Swadharma, one’s own duty. Though devoid of merit than Paradharma duty of another, well-discharged. Better is death in Swadharma, Paradharma is fraught with fear”

Swadharma means your own duties and strengths. Paradharma means another person’s duties.
Lord Krishna tells us that living in Swadharma is very important, that it is better to fail in your Swadharma than succeed in your Paradharma, as Paradharma is always full of fear.

A second important component of purpose is “Service”

Service simply means performing your duties for a higher cause. You can follow your passion and that may make you money, but if you want to feel a deep sense of satisfaction which will bring you most joy in life then your innate strength should be used to serve another person or entity.

When something serves only us and there is no intention of anyone else benefitting from it except us it is considered as a selfish action. When we perform actions in which we see not only our benefit but also that of our near and dear ones we expand the scope of our service. When we work with an intention of helping our society or our world, that’s when we are performing the highest service.