It is very important to have a goal in life. But that goal
should be set by you independently without fear and coercion. Listen only to
your heart before setting the goal.
When you have a goal in life it brings focus. You know when
and where you need to reach.
There is no age to set goal in life.
But once you set a goal you need to have single-minded
focus.
Always remember the goal is not important. What is important
is each moment you spend in reaching in reaching the goal. When you are
completely honest to each moment in your life, you will automatically reach the
goal.
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Swami Chinmayananda On Importance Of Goal In Life
Knowledge by itself cannot train the mind. Recall Shankara’s
analogy of the donkey and the golden bricks it carries. Human vitality or
Dynamism of the youth has to have a direction.
Dynamism is not only to be generated’ it should also be
conserved. It is like building a dam in a river. Each one of us is a river of
dynamism. You may call it ‘mind.’
Generating, conserving and directing that dynamis is like
the dam building activity on a flowing river. This dynamism of life is not to
be dissipated. Great men conserved their vitality and did not allow themselves
to be dissipated.
Failures of ordinary men are only due to either the non-use
or mis-use of dynamism. The generation of dynamism is maximum when you can give
yourself a goal.
Do not keep that ideal very low. Sustain your dynamism. You need
not reach the goal but keep it tantalizingly high. Vibrant living to reach that
goal is worth its own fulfillment.