Life needs to be celebrated, constantly, jubilantly, quietly, exorbitantly, masterfully; with dignity, highest respect, always upwards towards something higher, higher ambitions, purer, more essential, to the point, honestly, truthfully, non-hurtfully, sensitively, in an open and accepting way.
The goals life wants to achieve are fulfilling on so many levels of a person’s being. Happiness resides in these achievable goals. There is constant, uninterrupted striving towards these goals at every stage of one’s life.
The driving force behind these goals is curiosity about how things are and what they could be. What are the possibilities one an uncover? How many creations can one produce? How many paintings, novels, songs, etc. can flow from a person’s creative impulses?
These four goals are generally listed in order in which they appear on a Vedic Astrological Chart: Dharma – Artha – Kama – Moksha: Law – Wealth – Pleasure – Liberation.
Dharma is a kind of driving force behind a person’s individual choices and actions. These are the core drives, e.g., what environment one feels most comfortable in, what people one surround oneself with, the basic thoughts that go through one’s mind.
Artha is the material resources we need to exist in this life. How well do we live? How much material comfort do we surround ourselves with?
Kama is the enjoyment we experience while on this earth. What are the pleasures we enjoy and who do we enjoy them with?
Moksha is the end of things, the endings of our undertakings. How well are we able to renounce our attachments to the things we strove towards with our Dharma, that we accumulated through Artha, and that we enjoyed through Kama, because, ultimately, all our undertakings bring about an evolution in spirit, which exists beyond material things.
There is love for life, all of it, with its ups and downs, valleys and peaks, triumphs and defeats, successes and failures, tragedies and happy endings, highs and lows, and everything in between.
There is the celebration of life, with its heartbreaks and reunifications, empowerments and enslavements, material successes and spiritual enlightenments.
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