Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 29, 2024
Narration
Translated
What are the goals of human life and what is the best approach to attain them? Bhagawan lovingly instructs us today.
There are four goals in life - dharma (righteous living), artha (material well-being), kama (achievement of desires), and moksha (ultimate liberation). These four can be grouped in pairs. While artha and kama thrive in modern times, dharma and moksha have almost disappeared. Modern man craves for wealth and sensual pleasures and neglects righteousness and salvation. Since dharma and moksha are like the feet and the head of a body, man today seems to be existing without these two essential organs. These four values of life should instead be grouped as dharma-artha and kama-moksha. In other words, wealth should be acquired for the sake of righteous living, and man should aspire only for liberation. Only such a judicious combination of these four goals shall enable man to find fulfilment in life.
- Ch 27, Summer Showers 1979.
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You will lead a blissful life only when the mind is suffused with divine love. Divine love is the ultimate goal of life. - BABA
— Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

