If we have a million options to choose from how to decide?

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You know if we have a million options in front of us which option do we choose? Generally it is purpose that provides perspective.
Purpose means what is it that I am trying to do? That brings perspective. Say if after this program some of you want to talk with me. If I am here to talk with you, I will spend time.
If say I have another meeting immediately after that I will talk briefly and move on. If we are going to a meeting to meet someone important, other people want to meet us say okay, we can meet later. I am going here.
So which thing is more important, which thing is less important that if we don’t have overall purpose, it becomes very difficult to decide. If I am just going, wandering for a walk and somebody just comes and we start chitchatting. We may spend two hours chitchatting over there.
But if I have a purpose, okay I have to get to my class in half an hour. Till then I can walk along and go slowly. Then I will talk but I will talk for some time.
So we need to do some introspection. In the heat of the moment we might just make some decision based on impulse. And that time it will be difficult for us to make a sound decision if we have not done some deliberation before.
The deliberation means that we look at ourselves and try to determine what our values are. What is it that I truly value in my life. The values are not just some abstract concept.
Values are simply things that we value in our life. So what is it that is truly important for me. What is it that I want to do in my life.
If say 30 years down the line I am old and I am just a few months away from my death. What would I have liked to have contributed in my life. These are not the kind of thoughts we normally have.
But we need to do this kind of deliberation by which we will understand what is truly important for us. All of us are having given certain gifts, certain talents, certain interests and all these we are meant to use to make a positive contribution. And if we don’t do this internal homework of determining what our actual values are.
Then we will simply choose whatever is the most insistent external. Whatever is most prominent, most insistent we will choose that and we will not be able to do what we could have done in our life. So more than a specific decision in a particular situation, what is going to determine us more is whether we have done the deliberation of the basis for making those decisions.
From the spiritual perspective we are souls who are on a multi-life journey of spiritual evolution. And the more we spiritualize our consciousness, the more we evolve further. So if we give time for our spiritual nourishment through meditation, through study of spiritual books, through coming through spiritual programs like this, then that gives us greater clarity.
Sometimes if we ask ourselves, what is truly important for us? We might just say, I don’t know. Because there is so much of inner fog inside us that we don’t even know what is important for us. So our spirituality brings clarity.
And then what is our, spirituality talks about ultimate destination beyond this world. We belong to eternal realm and that is where we are meant to go. But how we are meant to go there and while we are living, while we are on the journey there, how we are meant to contribute.
That also, the clarity for that comes through our spirituality. So we need to give adequate time to do some internal homework and determine what are our values. And if we give some adequate amount of time for our spiritual nourishment, then we will be able to determine our values also better.
And then making decisions in specific situations will become easier. And even if a particular decision goes wrong, we will be able to do course correction easier, faster. So that deliberation to determine the life values is foundational for having the framework with which to respond to specific situations in our life.
If I am not going anywhere, can I come to a crossroad, intersection, should I go left or right? Well, if we have nowhere to go, then no road will take us there. We are going to just choose any road. So first of all, we have to do this homework.
Then we can make decisions.