“Value Education for

Consciousness Transformation”

- Jeevan Vidya, ‘Coexistence’

Workshop

Faclitator: Shriram Narasimhan

zshriram@gmail.com

Based on the Coexistential Philosophy (Madhyasth Darshan) by A.Nagraj -

www.jvidya.com
 Module 1:
Identifying the Questions of life

Chapter 2:
Why do I live

Lecture 3: My goal of life

Why do I live?
• Let us take up our ‘first question of life’ for discussion here:
1. Why do I live? - My basic-desire/aspiration/Goal
Or
1. What is the Goal of My Life
My Goal for Life
Doctor

01
Engineer
Collector
Businessman
Banker TO
Scientist BECOME
Actor
Dancer
And so on…………
 01
TO
BECOME
02
Money
Respect
Post
Power
TO Mobile
GET Car
Bungalow
Cloths
Physical things
And so on…………
 01
TO
BECOME
02
TO
GET
Happiness
&
03
TO
Prosperity BE
Why do I live?
• What if we asked, what do we get from all these aspirations or
categories of desires? What is the end state of becoming,
acquiring or doing something, anything?
• We can make a simple observation at this stage: It is
‘happiness’.
• Our end state is what may be called as ‘happiness’ and all
these above examples are ways in which we become happy.
Why do I live?
• Be it via sensory pleasure or material comfort, or a successful
action or the contentment or via becoming/achieving what we set
out to – the sensation, peace and contentment or contentment
we derive are cumulatively experienced as 'happiness'.
• Our main purpose in life thus appears to experience a ‘good
feeling’, or 'sense of wellbeing' which we call as ‘happiness’.
• This is true for each and every one of us. What we do to achieve
this may differ depending upon what we value and therefore
aspire for.
Why do I live?
• Happiness is thus the underlying expectation behind every aspiration we
have. The most powerful and universal human yearning is to be happy.
• We can look deeply within ourselves and will be amazed to find that the
underlying expectation behind our every activity and every thought is
the desire to be in a state of liking, to be happy.
• If we explore it more fully, it becomes apparent that not only do we
desire happiness but we also long for it to be un-interrupted.
• Indeed, can anyone claim that they would like to stop being happy even
for an instant?!
Why do I live?
• This basic aspiration is behind our activities, our work, our relationships
and our thinking. Our hope is that through these activities, work and
relationships, we will achieve for ourselves a ‘state of happiness’.
• There is always an underlying anticipation of that happiness as being a
continuing and sustained experience.
• Along with feeling happy, we also want to feel materially secure or
prosperous. I.e. we want to live with a feeling of abundance, – of there
being more material things available than we need.
• We humans don’t like to live in a state of deprivation, of poverty.
Conclusion
• Our ultimate goal of life is happiness and prosperity
• We can choose various paths to get the happiness and prosperity
• We think that the path itself is goal
• But path is not the goal
• If we are not getting the goal with one path we can use different path
to achieve the goal
• We think that every person is having different goal
• But every person is having same goal all have different path to
achieve example: our family