Universal
Vision
By
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Human experiences are commonly a cacophony of voices, thoughts and
emotions. Most of us are in this state of confusion; there the mind
is captivated by wrong perceptions of reality. 
This
is why pain and suffering are integral to our lives, in spite of material
conveniences and facilities that science and technology have provided
us. The noise that human beings make in the form of negative thoughts
and emotions – is evidence of the absolute mess they have made
of themselves and their lives.
Part of this confusion arises from the fact that most people go through
their lives without understanding what they really want. Even it they
do know, they neither have the will nor the vision to create lives
of their choice and so settle for whatever is easily attainable and
within reach. At any given moment in life, if you go by past experience,
or if you trust your mind to decide what is possible and what is not,
then you will end up settling for mediocrity.
We are always trying to create our life based on the reality that
exists around us at that particular moment. Where we want to go tomorrow
need not be connected with where we are right now.
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Our
highest goal in life need not have anything to do with our present
situation. If we enslave our vision to the current situation, then
we are once again settling for what is attainable, what is easy, what
we think is possible. What is possible and what is not is not bound
to our thinking. But we do need to have a vision with which to seek
the highest aim.
If man has a vision of what he wishes to do with himself and the world
around him, it is not beyond man's capacity to create it. It may
happen in this lifetime, or it may take a couple of lifetimes, but
what is wished for will definitely happen. This is because we will
seek our vision every moment of our life. Then the highest things
in life will fall at our feet. It is only because man is a bundle
of confusions and spends most of his time seeking what he doesn't
want that things he really wants never come to him. This lack of vision
and will is fundamentally because of a distorted understanding of
reality.
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