One single solitary task

The Master said, "There is one thing in this world which must never be forgotten. If you were to forget everything else, but did not forget that, then there would be no cause to worry; whereas if you performed and remembered and did not forget every single thing, but forgot that one thing, then you would have done nothing whatsoever. It is just as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out a specific task. You go and perform a hundred other tasks; but if you have not performed that particular task on account of which you were sent into that country, it is as if you had performed nothing at all. So man has come into this world for a particular task, and that is his purpose; if he does not perform it, then he will have done nothing."                                                                                                              ~~~Discourses of Jalaladdin Rumi (11th century Sufi mystic)

What is that special task that is inherent to all of us?
The practice of "presence", some will state, is that singular task.
Presence is an essential means to live a fully human life here and now and to know those qualities that are described as spiritual.
Presence is the point of intersection between the World of Senses(hearing, seeing, smelling, touching, feeling) and the World of the Spirit.
Becoming free, unshackled from being a slave to our own ego--connected to the Source of all Knowledge and Wisdom--that is our task. For me I interpret it as being the State of Consciousness achieved by Jesus who became the Christ, and possibly others,this the task that I seek. That particular connection.

For if all Christ taught could be boiled down to a single task- it would be that each of us is capable of a direct, unmitigated spiritual connection to the Eternal...and that is our task in life...that connection. Then all else would be directed through that asynchronous VPN(Virtual Private Network).
His context was first century Roman occupied Palestine, but the task is available to us in our own context, today.
The journey to that state of consciousness is indeed a substantial challenge...but a challenge I believe must be intentionally adopted as my own.
(Thanks to Kabir Helminski, "Living Presence".)