How can we seek higher purpose when things are going right not just when things start going wrong?

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normally when things start going wrong, we start looking for a higher purpose.
But when things are going right, we just move along with life. So, how can we change and see that higher purpose even when things are going right? Yes. See, in nature, there is a law of inertia.
So, things stay in the situation they are unless they are forced out of the situation. Similarly, for us also, we rarely change unless the prize for staying where we are is more than the prize of changing. So, that’s the way our mind is made.
But we are not our minds. Our mind is a part of us. It’s like, if we consider the body, mind and soul, it’s like the hardware, software and the user.
So, the mind is programmed in a particular way. But we can change its programming. So, that means, let’s say, if I open my computer and if I have visited a particular website many times.
As soon as I type my n, it goes to n y times. But now I want to go to some other site. I want to go to a new Indian express.
But it’s auto completed n y times. So, what I have to do is, I will consciously change and not go along with the auto completed. So, our mind has a particular tendency right now.
So, how do we change that tendency? That is by conscious intent. Now, when circumstance pushes us to inquire about life’s higher purpose, that is good. But, that is circumstantial spirituality.
And circumstantial spirituality is not sustainable. We all need to rise from circumstantial spirituality to intentional spirituality. Intentional means driven by conscious intention.
And what takes us from, if this is circumstantial spirituality and this is intentional spirituality, what acts as a bridge is intellectual spirituality. If we study the philosophy, if we understand life’s purpose philosophically, then the intelligence acts as the motivating force. So, one of the great spiritual teachers, Jiva Goswami, he explains that for those who are very spiritually advanced, it is their love for the supreme that keeps them on the spiritual path.
But, for those who are spiritual seekers, it is not priti, it is not affection that keeps them on the spiritual platform, it is priti. That’s why, it is vital to study spiritual books and to associate with those who are studying spiritual books and learn from them. So, that buddhi is what will nourish us and that will raise us from circumstantial