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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Why Has God Put Us in the World?

Are you searching for your purpose in life?

Sri Ramakrishna taught that the world is the field of action and that through action one acquires knowledge. As we seek to contact and abide in the goodness of our soul, we find our dharma, what our soul would like to do through us. Discover how doing one’s dharma leads to a life of wisdom, goodness and ever-new joy.

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What Your Soul Wants to Do

Let life teach you as you go out there every day and live. Gradually your soul reveals the ideal personal actions that your soul would like to perform through you. Seek and abide in your soul. Enjoy this prayer and meditation, introspection time. Seek to know the actions that are positive and then seek to know what the soul wishes to do through you.

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  • Through action one acquires knowledge. What knowledge are we acquiring from our daily actions?
  • Yogis seek to know what the soul wishes to express through them
  • We can contact and abide in the goodness of the soul through prayer and meditation
  • Soul activities are our true duty, our dharma
  • Soul-attuned action frees us from selfish motive and is the antidote to ignorance and ego

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