Q: Swamiji namaste
A: your mike is not on. Actually only a person who is a little loud can be heard.
A small story.
One young artist, he gets a role in a drama. And he rushes to the house with tremendous excitement and he tells his mother, 'mother, mother I got a beautiful role. Mother asks what role. He says I got a husband's role'.
Mother immediately says, 'you've not got a speaking part',
Only if you are loud I can hear you. So please be little loud.
Q: You've been talking about purposelessness; life must be purposeless. Having been born in this world, we have to grow, we have to have some commitments and we have to end our lives also when the time comes. Given this situation, when there is a feeling that we have to cultivate that which is purposelessness, then we have some commitments in life, we have some goals in our practical day-to-day lives.
How are we to compromise this, how do we understand this?
A: First thing, I am not asking you to cultivate the feeling of purposelessness. It is the pure truth. You don't need to cultivate; it is the simple truth. You understand the purposelessness; the attitude of purposelessness need not be cultivated in you. It's a simple truth; all you need is to understand.
Whether you believe it or not your life is not under your control, am I right? Whether you believe it or not, you will not know when the end will come, am I right? Are you sure you will reach the house safely? At least I am not sure; I don't know about you, I am not sure, whether I will reach the ashram safely in this Bangalore traffic. That is different.
Whether you understand or not, accept or not, believe or not this is the truth. I am opening the truth; I am opening the truth, which is the ultimate truth. Let the truth take its own course.
Why should you be so much afraid? Why are you afraid to enter into the truth, let the truth penetrate you? Let it work. Se before entering into the truth itself, you are afraid; no, no, no this is there in my life. This is there in my life. If I enter into the truth, what will happen to this?
The small wave is afraid what will happen to it, if it drops into the ocean, what will happen to the bubbles, which it collected. And when the wave was rising it was asking the next wave, you are my wife, please stand here, you are my daughter, please stand here, you are my son, please stand here. I have a commitment for all of you, I have to do this, and I have to do that. Suddenly the wave disappears; not only that wave, all waves disappear into the ocean.
What I am saying, the truth if you can enter into the truth with courage, you will be a much better husband, much better father, much better family person, but only after entering into each you will be able to understand.
Now the question which you are asking is again hypothetical question, just like how the blind person is asking, I will get my eyes, I understand, but how will I walk without my stick? And I tell you, without this fear, if you understand the beauty of purposelessness, you will be able to do your commitments beautifully.