The True Goal of Life | Rupert Spira

[@pvsk10]

I had this glimpse during an episode of deep suffering when I felt like I had no escape. I refused to use alcohol and other drugs in order to escape, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. When I had absolutely no other way to escape, I somehow stumbled on this glimpse that freedom from all this required absolutely no effort. It was right there all along and just required the subtlest of shifts in perspective. ✌️

[@mikei5550]

Just finding the same thing. Since getting sober I no longer can delay or mask my suffering so I have to face myself. As a result I am finding my true self.

[@johnnywlittle]

When we’re happy and fulfilled, this is our glimpse into our nature of beingness and in essence our true selves. The mistake we make is trying to manipulate exterior circumstances to achieve this feeling. The irony is that there’s nothing to “try and achieve” because it’s who we are and is our nature. It’s so amazing the games we play to get some place in which we already are. The simplicity of it is almost laughable if it weren’t also so deceptive and painful when not seen.

[@snowdog87]

the kingdom is within you and among you i.e not up in the sky but right here right now

[@timmygaykelley]

Excellent!

[@mo2119]

I love it. We are all already infinitely abundant! The mistake is believing happiness is outside of us.

[@craigj3879]

Couldn't agree more!

[@FR-yr2lo]

The purpose is self-overcoming, not happiness. Happiness is the means, not the end.

[@niraulaj]

I have been listening to this life transforming video every day at least 3 times over past 2 months and every time I listen I come out with new insight. I am 67 and I wish I had it when I was 17. It is just awesome. Thanks you so much Rupert

[@killerklipz]

You did have it you always have 😊

[@samlife9019]

No problem. Dhilai vaya ni sunnu vayaxa.😊😊

[@aksharma4304]

Please do not regret. You as you think you, is not responsible for anything. Happy Thoughts..

[@GabrielGuebo]

"Why do I say with such confidence that happiness is the purpose of life? It's because you know that from your own experience, because when you're happy there's no desire to achieve anything else. When you're happy you're fulfilled. There's no more reason for doing anything, because you've already got what you would seek through doing anything. You've already arrived at the happiness that you seek. " (Rupert Spira)

[@mistysmith5392]

That's awesome and I have felt that numerous times in my life.

[@okmanek69]

When i sleep, i don't have desire to achieve anything else. Therefore sleep is the purpose of life?

[@Johnny_Zoom]

@@okmanek69 does literal sleep make you happy?

[@GoldenArcanum]

@@okmanek69 the difference is that true happiness is conscious. While you are asleep, you are unaware

[@J0nnyTheJ3w]

@@GoldenArcanum I believe you are 'unaware' when you sleep because there is nothing to be aware of (unless you have a dream), but consciousness does not leave. I think of sleep like a deep form of meditation in a way - you are completely at one with yourself, without any veiling. Time and space fall away as the mechanism that is confined by these things (the bodymind) shuts down.

[@1bethchen]

“God is just a religious name for happiness” ❤️

[@FR-yr2lo]

The purpose is self-overcoming, not happiness. Happiness is the means, not the end.

[@victorjcano]

Name for the mystery that we can never know

[@AlfDagg]

@@FR-yr2lo That's not the self. It's overcoming the false limited self that's needed and then there is happiness. So why not do it now.

[@FR-yr2lo]

@@AlfDagg I find the ideal to overcome the self very limited. Even if there is such thing as universal consciousness I don't see why we should spend our time and resources meditating to access the feeling of being one with the whole.

[@MrGister9999]

@@FR-yr2lo Isn't that literally the most unlimited thing you could possibly experience, "being one with the whole".

[@sandraekhoff8937]

I love his teachings!! Echart Tolles talks about the same!! I am so thankfull for Rupert Spira, for Echart Tolle. To have the basic understanding of who I am NOW it is more than LIBERATION, It is PEACE. Nothing can be compare to that, nothing absolutely nothing. I will not change that for all the GOLD, money or poseccions in this world. I have tears of Joy in my eyes writing this!! These Masters have a purpose, yes the purpose of helping the rest of us to unveling the true nature of WHO WE ARE, THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES HERE, these is PRICELESS. They have been chosen by the UNIVERSE, by THE ONE for reason. Infinitely Grateful Dr. Rupert!!

[@anbukkarasimanoharan775]

Yes true. I even dreamt of Rupert lecturing and I listening.. God sent preacher. Heart felt thanks to him. Shedding tears of Joy.

[@douglasdelay]

You really should study Neville Goddard if you want to find ultimate truth.

[@zain4019]

Yes:)

[@AlfDagg]

@@anbukkarasimanoharan775 There is no God. Just the unfolding process of life.

[@anbukkarasimanoharan775]

@@AlfDagg True. No god. I am God. Aham Brahmasmi. I am That I am.

[@HarmonousHappenings101]

Best 20 minutes of my life!!!

[@mistysmith5392]

Mine too!

[@helenorban2609]

So mine too . Its very helpfull to know all those informatívny

[@AragonaAlessandro]

Must have been a rather sad life guuurls 🤣

[@EthernalSoul405]

“God is a religious name for happiness - Rupert Spira”. Wow! Amazing nugget of wisdom from a realized soul. 🙏🙏🙏

[@knowthetruth311]

He really hammered it here correctly 😹😹

[@BlueVelvetBear]

He forgot that God is the Source, The Creator, The Eternal.

[@createa.googleaccount713]

Many years ago, in prayer 🙏🏻 I asked " What's my Purpose?", the Answer was " Be" / " To Be".

[@stephendavis7298]

"The only desire the separate self has is to cease being separate" yes, wow. So true.

[@Der_Langenauer]

My dear, this is so true!

[@MysticMD]

I really resonated with this quote from a book that describes the state of wanting / happiness. It goes well with what Rupert spira said about happiness as well. Here it goes: “The happiness we feel when we get what we want comes from the absence of wanting. For a brief moment, we’ve stopped wanting anything other than what we have.a blueberry can accomplish this just as well as a Rolex” :)

[@MarcMarcel]

I truelly love this quote. From which book is it?

[@MysticMD]

@@MarcMarcel hey :) i had to dig through my notes to find it ! its called "its not about the money" by brent kessel. Great read

[@MarcMarcel]

@@MysticMD 🙏🏼🙏🏼Thanks so much. Didn't really expect it in such a book. But by the look of it, it seems exactly like a book I want to read about finance, since it is seems not just to be about gaining more wealth. All the best, Marc

[@sarhasarhan3558]

love the quote

[@freedommascot]

Mystic Flight Thanks so much for that reference! I looked Kessel’s book up and found the statement on page 20, but he was attributing it to Adyashanti. Doesn’t change the value of the concept one iota, just that I now want to look up more from Adyashanti. Notice that “I want”...the wanting mind at it again!!

[@zeus433]

Man I love when he said there are no different types of happiness. There's only happiness. Continue to do whatever makes you happy regardless of what it is, as long as it doesn't cause others to suffer.

[@GoldenArcanum]

Nothing you can do can make you happy. Happiness is your inherent state. If you feel you have to do something to be happy, the point is missed

[@artugert]

You missed the entire point of what he was saying. Nothing can make you happy. Only you can.

[@zeus433]

You are both right

[@billadama]

This feels like classical teaching. Rupert truly is a top shelf nondualist.

[@habibihadid1620]

Summarising all of rupert’s teachings: When you ask yourself the question “am i aware”...you refer to an objective-quality less experience of being aware and a thought rises “yes”. If you stay with that experience after the thought (being aware of being aware),awareness gradually ,in time ,loses its limitations and the true nature of awareness will shine as it is .This process is called self abidance.It is the path to happiness. SELF ABIDANCE IS THE TRUE GOAL OF LIFE.

[@woopwoop6316]

Goosebumbs and Tears… God is just a religious name for Happiness ❤❤❤❤

[@dorarebelo673]

Yes, totally. The fear of death turns out to be the same as the desire to live - two sides of the same coin. We only fear death when we want to live. And the magic takes us to the experience of living in the moment. 💛

[@yanakord1078]

@@rogelio100147 because the One you call Father and yourself are the same Essence. You with the "help" of your mind build these doors of duality. Where in fact there are no doors at all.

[@coryharasha]

@@rogelio100147 if you think it costs a lot and is difficult, I would say you have still not made it home to the Father yet. The only cost is giving up your sinful ways which is fundamentally giving up what is worthless. Travel back home, then there will be a big party, and then you will understand.

[@FR-yr2lo]

The purpose is self-overcoming, not happiness. Happiness is the means, not the end.

[@coryharasha]

@@FR-yr2lo The end is realizing the means are the end. :)

[@FR-yr2lo]

@@coryharasha I'm not sure this is the end. It's just a state of mind. But I understand

[@naomikehat]

I love Rupert. He knows how to put abstract ideas into concrete daily life. Did you know that the word happiness and happening are related? It is all about the now. Happiness is about the now.

[@GavJHawk]

This is absolute Gold. Thank you Rupert 🙏

[@TruepathTarot]

Yes! We are all trying to return to the remembrance of connection to oneness, to love. We intuitively remember our source and long to return to it. I never connected our behavioural attempts at "happiness" to that longing before. Mind blown!!

[@jonathangregory5016]

Ramakant Maharaj told it thus: when Happiness is no longer required you have reached the destination. This life in human body is an opportunity to realise Ultimate Truth - That You Are. You are not a body or mind with a purpose to find happiness - these are concepts related to the body -Your Ultimate Truth is Prior to Beingness, prior to body, prior to mind.

[@maxly7997]

Very profound.

[@decid3]

Agreed. I think however, in order to access this "Ultimate Truth prior to Beingness", one needs to get right in this body/mind, by seeking through concepts and practices/disciplines, the "happiness" we all think we know...until we find out our concepts aren't the Ultimate Truth. Yep, fun stuff, this so-called life. :)

[@bigLOSdog]

This is very well put. Very reflective of the non-dual teaching. Thank you.

[@of8ightandse7en16]

@@decid3 Yes.. thorn to remove the thorn.. all we could think is from the ego, yet we need "concepts" and "teachings" in order to remove all concepts. ironic but true.

[@decid3]

@@of8ightandse7en16 I like that, the irony of the "thorn to remove the thorn." Thanks!

[@fiziwig]

I need to watch this one every morning until it sinks in! :)

[@danyelicamata6963]

I feel like the student that already understood the exercise, Thank you master.. I see you..

[@Alexemeel]

There is nothing you can achieve which you not already are. It is who you are. That is the reason you recognize happiness, because you are it.

[@gwenelbro3719]

Brilliantly explained. Nothing else to say. Gratitude for your teachings.

[@pipenorth9230]

We modify our experience with drugs, alcohol, thrills, sex, all to reach release, surrender, and freedom from our division. We couldn't be given more precise and exact signs from our experience and our natural world, that this is our habit to surrender to who we are. Even our unhappiness is misinterpreted. What an extraordinary direct way teaching.

[@Swati_1112]

His teaching is just something i really love. This made me happy. Thankyou 🙏

[@victorgabriel3600]

Quão claro, lúcido, compassivo e radiante foi esse vídeo! Essa é a Compreensão Absoluta, é só isso, apenas isso. Gratidão Profunda!

[@HomewithAurora]

So that was what I felt when I gave up and dropped the fear! My situation was...armed robbers stormed the house where I was a visitor...hands tied...gun on my forehead. I just told myself "This is it." I have thought about that feeling for 30 years and psychologists had the gal to call my experience PTSD. It was the feeling of missing myself. Thank you Rupert.

[@Untilitpases]

There's also Post Traumatic Growth. You achieved integration through an epiphany.

[@jayxcv5409]

I hope your okay now and atleast better. Must be crazy your life was an inch from being taken away. I actually have a bestfriend who I saw had a gun literally on his head, in my old car when we were 18 across the street from this party we left from and were hanging out fooling around with these girls. They were all the around the same age. some wanna be gangsters in high school. They actually just wanted to take this thing worth a bill and our hats lol. but yeah I seen everything. I didn't get it pointed at me, cause the one holding it just tapped the door and I knew I had to open it. It was crazy though and I'm sure it was much more crazy for my close friend. I think that really changed him. I think at first in a bad way but for the greater good eventually.

[@Shunya0101]

I love this man. He’s a softly-spoken surgeon that goes directly to the point. He leaves nothing for the concept of a separate self to grasp. 🙏🏻

[@Shunya0101]

@@2msvalkyrie529 you came down from your clearly elevated state to grasp the drivel to comment! One day, I’ll be as enlightened as yourself to move from this. One day…🙏🏻😂

[@wendymonette9958]

Incredible. We are just conscious awareness, veiling itself for the purpose of experiencing this physical platform. And awareness by turning our attention to what "I am" really means (being aware) returns us to true happiness (the knowing of our true being). And that the false self is merely trying to reconnect by having all of these heightened physical experiences in order to fill the void it feels? Thank you for this insight, what a crazy ride life is!! What a transcending experience!

[@gillianlim3395]

So thankful theres KZbin so that i can listen to Rupert Spira's enlightening teachings! ❤

[@astrophonix]

Love these talks, Rupert is always so simple and clear in his expressions.

[@andilemlozana489]

I'm so glad that I came across this incredible man's videos! Been listening ever since I found him

[@OnlyNewAgeMusic]

Yes, the experience of Being Aware, Peace, Love, Freedom, Truth, Happiness and Beauty is always the same. Thank you Rupert!

[@janicebeare8127]

I love his explanation. Well said!

[@eisteachbhinn]

Infinite awareness ~ happiness, peace, love is our true nature. It is always present in the finite self (it’s omnipresent) and yes it gets covered over by ‘life‘s experiences’….. we are constantly trying to get back to it.

[@carrietoo]

Profound. Happiness is always the same experience, just being triggered by objects/experiences, but it is not limited to them. Yes, that is truly a revelation.

[@Paula_jadeee]

I have just found Rupet. I love that new feeling of learning from someone, when you feel that they are talking another language and that something about them kind of frustrates / irritates you - only to realise that it is showing you something about yourself. I mean this kindly, with reflectiveness and honesty. I'll keep learning. Thank you.

[@vitorferreira9549]

besides Rupert, very beautiful flowers !

[@HomewithAurora]

The flowers are also part of the experiencing of love.

[@jassykaur9129]

i love rupert spira and cant stop. you nourish me with your words...ever grateful. eternal blessings...

[@kamalkumarattinagaramu8065]

Hats off to this man, perfect answer of purpose of life!!!

[@mistysmith5392]

Oh my goodness! I just stumbled on Rupert Spira last night and I love this video and the information in it! I have never heard anything like this before. I am a fan!

[@mistysmith5392]

@@2msvalkyrie529 That's wonderful advice. Than you 🌞

[@lucystewart6472]

The purpose of life is to grow. Consciousness/source/creative life has no desire or need to be happy. An individual may desire to be happy but life needs to grow in order to live so the purpose of each individual life is to learn how to grow under different circumstances and pass on that lived knowledge to life itself. Life has learned how to live by continually growing and adapting.

[@bildencarlia6924]

People of this planet lets dive into the profound knowledge of this exceptional human being and start the biggest revolution there is;the transformation of ourselves !

[@Simon0]

Is that the only purpose? Yep. Lol! That was awesome.

[@FR-yr2lo]

The purpose is self-overcoming, not happiness. Happiness is the means, not the end.

[@Andrew-yw6kt]

@@FR-yr2lo you're over complicating things

[@offchan]

When he said that when you are happy, you don't have any purpose or goal you want to achieve anymore. That's true logic. That's why you cannot say "what is the purpose after you are happy?" Because once you become happy, there's nothing left to do anymore!

[@letgo1064]

A religious word for happiness aka knowing of being who I am aka... knowing of the “l - nature”... I love that ❤️

[@the12288]

Wow ! I just realized all these hours studying prepared me for this video

[@bharatpatel4955]

Jnana Yoga the "direct path" explained beautifully. The unvailing in 20.01min!

[@BE-ms5cn]

Wowwww what a phenomenal way of thinking n being. I have to listen to this 18x a day!

[@brothajack1993]

Purpose of life is yes be happy. Once youre happy, bask in it and enjoy. All other matters after this are irrelevant.

[@MikeEClarinet]

I think this is my favourite flower arrangement of his... Oh, and Rupert is brilliant too!

[@jameshetfield5894]

Got a genuine snicker out of me.

[@lemostjoyousrenegade]

It's my favorite too!

[@ashlee7831]

It is lovely, isn’t it?

[@gridspir]

I keep seeing an growing aura of light around Rupert and the flowers. Is that the lighting in the video? Do you guys see it too?

[@jacobking369]

God is just a religious name for happiness.......AMEN! I love that line

[@dnimon936]

most glib explanation i've ever heard...falls to pieces with a moments reflection, but then Rupert makes a lot of people happy when he talks like this so everyone seems to have fulfilled their destiny.............

[@HalfPro]

Trigger of Happiness is very important so as not to add more unhappiness because of it. That’s what religious do’s and don’ts are. The beauty of Direct path is that it manifests happiness without external triggers, avoiding negative side effects and the dependencies they may have. Exceptions are, surrender or knowledge help from a Guru as Divine triggers, if the right one. Mr. Spira is just Awesome gift to the seekers of Happiness.

[@jeffrourke2322]

This is easily the most effective lecture I’ve heard Rupert Spira give, and easily the one that elicits a sense of pause; what he’s saying is exactly right. How do you reconcile that? I’m still seeking.

[@aphysique]

We all must keep searching for the light!🙏👌

[@SSingh-qd6ie]

No goal. No purpose. Keep moving...!

[@wuznyme9702]

Cant stop smiling 😊 Om Shanti Rupert ❤🙏❤

[@wendy-leemorrissirrom8636]

Inner knowing feels Blissful Truth

[@teijeiro74]

The purpose of life it's to experience life itself. Happiness like any other feeling is subjective and depending on the chemistry of you brain, so it can change at any time. We're are not here too find anything, we're are here just to experience.

[@mariolastepaniuk4957]

I have only recently come across this channel. I've never heard anyone teaching like Rupert does - wow, just wow! ❤

[@rupertspira]

Glad you found it! Warm welcome, RS Team

[@mariolastepaniuk4957]

@@rupertspira Thank you 💛

[@debswall]

If our true nature is Light, joy, and One-ness with all, then why did we choose to leave that in favor of this current suffering? And why do some people truly want to act in love, and can’t seem to?

[@karinlease6355]

I am happy when i am looking at you and listening to you!

[@iouliapentziki1956]

Rupert, beautifully said! Bravo, my good Sir

[@KlausHendryck]

Always straight to the point. Awesome :)

[@mereunetulburat8022]

"A Happy Broccoli"...That's great! Ahahaahahaa...! Good gracious! I love the name of your You Tube channel...Not to mention that it's well suited to the subject of this video :) :) :)

[@KlausHendryck]

mereu netulburat You are what you eat, right ? haha :D

[@VinceMenger]

Thanks for calling me a nut.

[@adunnou2075]

Broccoli man made vegetable wont make you happy

[@Simon0]

@@KlausHendryck nooooo you killed homer Simpson! 😭

[@kilifischkopp1442]

He's so right. Even when crushing an enemy on the Playstation in "God Of War" or any other game, there is this slight letting go. I've done it! :) And then the seperate self starts up again.

[@blue_planet_vision]

I love you and your wisdom, Rupert. Thank you 🙏❤

[@michaelwynne7513]

Spira is an interesting mixture of authenticity and phoniness.

[@DanielColageo]

Ooooohhhh....many times watching this and I finally got it.

[@wadhwanin]

Just hearing him makes me feel wow

[@onepathmypath2935]

If there is one video for the seekers, this is the one.

[@justinjoylife]

The true goal of life is to help others... that is how to remove the limited mind and expand consciousness.. that is happiness.

[@sleepydank8330]

Serenity is the natural state the original nature of the soul

[@modeob88]

This guy is amazing, no words!

[@santim2341]

Spiritual bliss not same as happiness, has no cause, and much greater. Can only speak from experience

[@ThePonderingPiper]

..and happiness is the knowing that God is the source and centre of all that is. In him we, our personalities, have our origins - and through the experience in time and space, on our way back to Him, our God consciousness (souls) evolves..

[@tafariamadi8768]

i wish i could like 1000 times but seing as how i can't i shared it on Facebook so i can go there and react to it with love and hopefully some of my Facebook friends would watch it and wake up to the truth of there own being. thanks you for reminding me of me .

[@loveistruth5713]

The purpose of life is to love and be loved nothing more and nothing less

[@kathrynphillips3710]

Rupert Spira is simply awesome 💗🙏💗

[@cwlpubent]

The purpose of life is to explore the purpose of life. The act of trying to find the purpose is the purpose. It is our gift to be able to do that and to know that.

[@musicisthelanguageofthecos8266]

There is no goal in life. Life is its own goal.There is nothing outside life that you have to achieve.All achievements is the projection of the ego and all purposes and goals are by-products of identity. Life is too sufficient to require anything.

[@FR-yr2lo]

Yes. The purpose is self-overcoming, not happiness. Happiness is the means, not the end.

[@marion4549]

Why don't we KNOW where we came from, why we're here, or where we're going. This whole talk, albeit wonderful, is a group of us in a moment in time, stopping and playing with the eternal question, trying to find meaning. Is it possible we're in a simulated reality? Nothing more and nothing less.

[@sherry876]

I am not as awe inspired as everyone else listening to this. sure he has a soothing voice, but most of it is superfluous to me... maybe I am unenlightened. I think it more about dopamine... thats why people plunge themselves into near death experiences.

[@TheJooberjones]

Love rupert! Almost all of our behavior can be traced back to this same longing, certainly my own.

[@sslovetoyou]

For ACIM students "being aware" as Rupert speaks of is what Jesus refers to in A Course in Miracles as the happy dream state. That is the goal of ACIM to undo the belief in separation and to be happy. I love Rupert's clarity!

[@jenniferabel2811]

I wish Rupert had given his perspective on why the infinite consciousness would deliberately separate itself into bits whose only purpose (he said) is to escape that separation/rejoin the infinite.

[@Forestofhappiness]

Wow, Rupert is a true blessing!

[@avolikateshwara]

I find the visual example of the veil: being the finite I covering up the infinite I very clear. Thank you Rupert

[@kristoffdawn8407]

I have always been saying : i am here to experience what it feels like to experience

[@kateevans4886]

Rupert is just so right!! 💖💖💖

[@christinea.2123]

I like to use the word contentment rather than happiness. Happiness is getting - contentment is not wanting.

[@richardjacoby8425]

I am God and God is more than I am

[@letgo1064]

Thanks @1:00 G.O.D = HAPPINESS/knowing of BEING or the nature of “ I “ 👌👍 It’s not a person, not someone’s name ❤️

[@seaspoke]

Just keep listening to Rupert and you will eventually get it. Once you get it, his brilliant pointing skills will make you laugh and cry.

[@RogerDrayton]

WoW...As Rupert expressed previously, the suffix - 'ness' - means the presence of, therefore, happiness simply is the presence of being happy which is our essential nature, which is the goal or purpose of life...Great Video...Thanks for posting... I A(nama rupa)M !

[@kieranflynn7582]

I believe happiness is meaningless fulfilment is what we we try to aspire to

[@blablblaaaaaaaaa]

ruper is the best master i ever heard and i listen a lot,but he is way to explain it is so simple and clear that it is really something else .

[@bobmolavi]

This is very deep, rooted to the Self: True Happiness Thank you

[@1light4love]

I didn't even get to 1:41 and I was hooked. (Never even heard of this guy before... & yet have never heard someone say that exact thing I always knew and could never express that he just did. Ver. effin. betum.) done. I'm good. thanks Rupert. 🙏

[@carmenl163]

I thought: that sounds familiar, "the goal of life is happiness". And then I realized it's a famous quote of the Daila Lama. What a wonderful idea!

[@upstreamrose1536]

From 6:45 on walking through redlight district, great insight on sensation versus merging separation of self

[@Zeeshan-bv7mo]

So Calming and Peaceful... 🌿🕊️