Have you found your Ikigai?

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Have you found your Ikigai?

Living in your Ikigai is the new mantra. It is a way of life for the Japanese, but an idea the world is taking notice.

Essentially it is entering a state of flow where you act as per your basic nature, what comes naturally to you. There is no studied or conscious attempt in your activity but a sense of enjoyment, of being lost in the activity where the activity dictates the action rather than a conscious mind. 

Imagine an artist in the midst of his creation, or a musician in complete flow, a player on the verge of hitting a goal or Rohit at the moment he hit the final six. These are all spiritual moments where one loses oneself and reaches on to higher levels of consciousness from where the action takes place. 

Ikigai is collection of these moments where one is in his essential element. Each one of us has something that drives him, a passion, a natural force that becomes his elemental nature. Any actions done in this state are magical, produce wonders and most importantly give an enormous sense of fulfillment and satisfaction. 

Ikigai would broadly be  'Swadharma' in Indian spirituality, where one follows a profession or vocation that one is most suited for. Thus activities done towards this would flow naturally, from a higher natural state, where the underlying joy from the action would be the reward itself rather than a material reward. In effect you become a karma yogi.

So what is your Ikigai?  You probably know it already and now us the time to take it seriously. There is nothing that can give more meaning and substance to one's life than living in one's Ikigai.

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