The Spiritual Purpose and the Voice of the Heart – (The Alchemist – excerpt about “Personal Legend”)

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Every person has a spiritual purpose, which has an inner and an outer component.
The inner spiritual purpose is the realization of the ultimate goal of every being: the creature to know the Creator. These desideratum is known to people in different forms: supreme nodual happiness, liberation, enlightenment, the state of the highest samadhi, nirvana, moksha, salvation.

The outer one is the help that we offer to other beings, consciously or unconsciously, in the multiple existences, so that they too can fulfill their spiritual purpose. The two are related, because we can help others only according to our own inner realization.

Abheda Yoga is an extremely high and, at the same time, very direct and concrete method of fulfilling our Spiritual Purpose, which is, in fact, the stated purpose in this form of fundamental yoga.
Leo Radutz

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“When you want something, the whole universe conspires for you to make your dream come true,” said the Alchemist, repeating the old king’s words.

The boy understood. Someone else had appeared on his way to lead him to his Personal Legend.

‘Then you’re going to teach me?’

Nope. You know everything you need. I’ll just help you find your way to the treasure.

There’s war between clans, repeats the lad.

‘I know the desert.

I have already found my treasure. I have a camel, the money from the crystal shop and fifty gold coins. I can be a rich man at my house.

“But none of these things are close to the Pyramids,” said the Alchemist.

I have Fatima. It’s a treasure greater than anything I’ve been able to collect.

She is not close to the Pyramids either. […]

The lad didn’t want to hear about the Pyramids. His soul was heavy with sadness since the night before. If he continued his search for treasure, it meant leaving Fatima.

‘I will guide you through the desert,’ said the Alchemist.

“I want to stay in the oasis,” replied the lad. I met Fatima. And she, to me, means more than treasure.

‘Fatima is a woman of the desert,’ said the Alchemist. He knows that men have to leave in order to be able to return. She has found her treasure: you. Now wait for you to find what you are looking for.

– And if I decide to stay?

You will be the counselor of Oasis.
You have enough gold to buy many sheep and camels.
You will marry Fatima and live happily in the first year.
You will learn to love the desert and you will get to know each of the fifty thousand dates.
You will notice how they grow, revealing a world that is always changing.
And you will understand the signs more and more, because the desert is a better magister than all.
In the second year, you will remember that there is a treasure.
The signs will start talking insistently about it, and you will try to overlook them. You will use your knowledge only for the good of the oasis and its inhabitants. The tribal chiefs will thank you for that.
Camels will bring you wealth and strength.
In the third year the signs will continue to speak to you of treasure and Personal legend.
You will spend nights wandering around the oasis, and Fatima will become a sad woman because she caused your path to be interrupted.
But you will give her love and she will respond to you with love. You will remember that she never asked you to stay, because a woman of the desert knows how to wait for her husband.
That’s why you won’t find any fault with him. But you will walk many nights through the desert sand and among the date trees thinking that maybe you could have followed your path, to trust more in your love for Fatima.

Because what keeps you in the oasis is your own fear that you will never return. And at that moment, the signs will show you that your treasure is buried forever. In the fourth year, the signs will leave you because you didn’t want to listen to them. The tribal chiefs will understand this and you will be removed from the Council. By that time you will have become a wealthy merchant with many camels and many goods.

But you’ll spend the rest of your days wandering among the date trees and in the desert, knowing that you haven’t fulfilled your Personal Legend and that at that point it will be too late for that. And you will not understand that Love never prevents a man from following his Personal Legend. And when this happens, it is because it was not True Love, the one that speaks the Language of the World.

The alchemist wiped the circle off the sand, and the snake ran away and disappeared among the stones. The boy remembered the Crystal Merchant who always wanted to go to Mecca, and the Englishman who was looking for an Alchemist. The boy also remembered a woman who trusted in the desert and the desert one day brought him the man he wanted as a lover.

They mounted, and this time the boy was following the Alchemist. The wind brought the noises of the oasis, and he tried to guess Fame’s voice. That day he hadn’t been to the well because of the fight.

But tonight, when they were looking at a snake enclosed in a circle, the strange horseman with the falcon on his shoulder had spoken to him of love and treasures, of the women of the desert and of his Personal Legend.

“I’m going with you,” said the lad. And suddenly he felt his heart at peace.

We leave tomorrow at dawn, before sunrise, was the only answer of the Alchemist.”

Excerpt from the novel “The Alchemist” by Paolo Coelho