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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sikh80" data-source="post: 65879" data-attributes="member: 5290">Re: Goal  Of Human LifeListen, listen to my advice, O my mind! only good deed shall endure, and there may not be another chance" (GG, 154). So, realization of God and a reunion of atma (soul) with paramatma (Supreme Soul, God) are the ultimate goals of human life.  The achievement ultimately rests on nadar (God's grace), but man has to strive in order to deserve His grace. As a first step, he should have faith in and craving for the Lord. He should believe that God is near him, rather within his self, and not far away. He is to seek Him in his self. "Your beloved is close to you, O foolish bride! What are you searching outside?" (GG, 722), and "Recognize yourself, O mind! You are the light manifest. Rejoice in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru" target="_blank">Guru</a>'s instruction that God is always with (in) you. If you recognize your Self, you shall know the Lord and shall get the knowledge of life and death" (GG, 441).  The knowledge of the infinitesimal nature of his self when compared to the immenseness of God and His creation would instil humility in man and would rid him of his ego (a sense of I, my and mine) which is "the greatest malady man suffers from" (GG, 466, 589, 1258) and the arch-enemy of nam or path to God-Realization (GG, 560). Having surrendered his ego and having an intense desire to reach his goal (the realization of Reality), the seeker under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru" target="_blank">Guru</a>'s instruction (gurmati) becomes a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurmukh" target="_blank">gurmukh</a> or person looking guruward. He meditates upon nam or sabda, the Divine Word, while yet leading life as a householder, earning through honest labour, sharing his victuals with the needy, and performing self-abnegating deeds of service. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Sikhism" target="_blank">God in Sikhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></blockquote>

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