Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1117146 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2014 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

What is the end and what is the means? This is an important question that we all face in life. One of the major worldview problems that lead to mentosomatic diseases is the absence of knowledge of the end and the means (equipment). We can select either the end or the means as the pillar of our life. If one's entire lifetime investment is based on equipment such as wealth, power, children, spouse, science, health, reputation, religion, peace, happiness, serving people, serving God, freedom, marriage, love, mysticism and the like, the result will be nothing but loss and harm, because equipment may disappear in a moment and is impermanent. All equipment is only for achieving one [single] goal that cannot be anything other than ‘Kamal’. For instance, education is [an equipment] to follow another goal. Religion is a means for guidance. And serving people is a means for [spiritual] elevation.

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