Bhakti means desire to unite with the higher being and for that purpose one has to immerse one’s mind in bhakti all the time.
While one is discharging one’s day-to-day work one should always think about the real intention. Why are we born? What is the purpose of life? You do not know. You have a house or a family; you have a job or a shop. You marry and have children or go and enjoy yourself. Is it for this you are born or is there some other purpose? That is the first thing you have to find out. Unless you discover this, you cannot know the way. First you must find out that this is the road that goes to the airport. Then only you should walk on the path.
The purpose of life must be decided. The purpose of life cannot be materialistic. Nature is resourceful. If procreation were the object of life, it is not necessary because Nature can create without the union of men and women. So many insects are born directly. If sleeping and eating is the purpose of life, then everybody is doing it, all the animals are doing it. How are you different from them? If sex is the object of life and if maithuna is the object of life, then animals also are doing it. Then where is the difference between you and the animals? There has to be some difference, isn’t it?
There is a difference. In the body, the mind, in civilization and culture there is a difference. Therefore, there ought to be a difference in our performances. The most important thing I think is we should try to discover why we are here. You may not get the answer very fast, because the mind will delude you again and again. It will give you all wrong answers, but if you keep on chasing for the answer, you will one day realize that the purpose of man’s incarnation in the physical body is spiritual.
The human body is Nature’s greatest miracle and it is in this body that you can think of light. It is in this body that you can eliminate the animal. It is in this body that you can realize the highest form of this creation. That is the thing which you have to understand.
1983, Spain