The More We Are Aimless The More We Become Shameless Gita 02.41

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the more we are aimless the more we become shameless all of us have a certain sense of right and wrong and when we do something that is wrong we feel a sense of shame and that protects us from doing wrong deters us from doing wrong what we don’t often realize is that the sense of shame is also associated with the sense of our aim for example if we are driving somewhere to get to a particular destination by a particular time if we get late then we start feeling annoyed apologetic and then when we get there we may say I’m sorry I got late because of this traffic or because I lost the way or whatever basically it is the aim that creates a sense of shame and when we have no aim in our life overall we may do things which are approachable which are even reprehensible but because we have no standard against which to measure ourselves then we won’t feel bad about it at all of course not that just having any aim will stop us from doing shameless activities because sometimes what we aim to do might be shameful but just because that’s not a universal principle it’s not that just having an aim protects us from shame but not having an aim certainly frees us from shame we feel we have wasted time when we had something to do with the time and we didn’t do it so for all of us we need a sense of direction a sense of purpose and aim the Bhagavad Gita in 241 states that so if we are one pointed those who are on the spiritual path are one pointed and they move forward steadily but Bahushakha but those who do not have any such aim their intelligence becomes many branch Bahushakha in fact not just many branch but Anantasya you can have unlimited branches oh maybe I should do this maybe I should do that maybe I should do that and that way we end up doing nothing so if we want to do something meaningful in our lives then we need to first look at our aim and solidify that aim within our consciousness once that aim is solidified then that will create some boundaries for us just as if we have to go in a particular direction to get to a particular destination then we won’t take any left or right turn just because it looks attractive we won’t turn away from our road just because it looks boring or difficult so by recognizing the importance of aim in providing us boundaries and providing us a sense of shame that creates boundaries for us we can make sure that we always have an aim for ourselves and of course we can have our own particular aims in our lives but Gita Wisdom offers us an overarching objective aim it explains that we are souls and we are on a journey of multi-life spiritual evolution and our ultimate purpose is to attain spiritual realization and supreme satisfaction thereof so when we strive to serve our source Krishna in a mood of loving devotion then that is the aim we can persevere with in all situations and thus make sure that we make our life meaningful and successful thank you