What Are The Ancient Teachings Of The Purushārtha? (The Four Goals Of Life)
There are four goals to life. These goals are as follow:
Dharma (purpose)
Artha (household)
Kama (pleasure)
Moksha (enlightenment)
Typically these goals will come in this order. It is what we should strive for so we can experience this life to the absolute fullest.
Dharma (1st goal)
Dharma is our divine path and purpose. Our call to reason for being here and our path in existence. By living our life in alignment, our purpose, we are following this 1st goal of life.
There are two ways this can be done:
Internally (through intense longing and devotion inside our hearts)
Through the essense of karma (playing out life as compassionately as possible)
Our first goal is to find our calling and live through it with compassion, love and devotion. To commit and to not doubt ourselves or to question our purpose but to fine something we are drawn to achieving.
Artha (2nd goal)
Artha is all about raising a family and living a bountiful life. Though Artha talks about materialism, it’s what you do with it and how you use it. It’s purpose is to build a community and create connections with other individuals. To raise the next generation of healers. To build a higher vibration within our surroundings.
The Artha is a product of following your Dharma. Artha is manifested when you follow your goals in life.
Kama (3rd goal)
Kama means spiritual pleasure. To enjoy the experience of life through all its stages and cycles. To enjoy existence with compassion and truth in our hearts. Live life with intention!!! Partake in the pleasures of life consciously and without the intentions of doing any harm. Allow yourself to enjoy the existence of you and the energy and beauty that flows within and around you.
Moksha (4th and final goal)
Moksha is pure liberation. It’s freedom and realization. It is considered to be the goal of existence. Some call it nirvana. It is the liberation from the ego. Both the ego and indentified self coming together as one and merging with all that is being. This realization follows the other three goals usually. Once we’ve processed our way through those stages of life consciously, we find gratitude in what was offered to us and realize that we didn’t need all these things to have a geniune human experience. It’s about having a sense of soul completion. There is nothing else to do but to go within. We can allow ourselves to strip away the ego and see the inner truth that only remains.
Nuk pu nuk khu ami khu gemam kheperu M NTR hau
~ I am that I am; a shining being dwelling in light, and I come from the limbs of the most high creator
:)
