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How should we live our life, especially in the modern world and in general🤔?

Stay rooted within in your own truth. Be clear about your ultimate aim and the steps that will take you towards it. Be conscious of your inner motives and lead a life of integrity so that people can trust you and your word. Live meaningfully for higher goals than simply material comforts and pleasures of the body and senses. Be full of goodwill for all and have complete faith in the Divine. Be not afraid of life and do not shrink from challenges, they help us grow. Value progress over happiness, excellence over ambition, trust over doubt, idealism over immediate success, the joy of effort over the success one expects. love over selfish personal gains and have faith in God’s greater plan. Live fearlessly and cultivate courage and faith as the two indispensable virtues. Here are few lines from one of Sri Aurobindo’s poem ‘The Rishi’ that help us answer this question. 

‘We are but sparks of that most perfect fire,     Waves of that sea:
From Him we come, to Him we go, desire
    Eternally,
And so long as He wills, our separate birth
    Is and shall be.
Shrink not from life, O Aryan, but with mirth
    And joy receive
His good and evil, sin and virtue, till
    He bids thee leave.
But while thou livest, perfectly fulfil
    Thy part, conceive
Earth as thy stage, thyself the actor strong,
    The drama His.
Work, but the fruits to God alone belong,
    Who only is.
Work, love and know,– so shall thy spirit win
    Immortal bliss.
Love men, love God. Fear not to love, O King,
    Fear not to enjoy;
For Death’s a passage, grief a fancied thing
    Fools to annoy.
From self escape and find in love alone
    A higher joy.’

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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