WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIFE ?
Is our purpose of life is to acquire a lot of wealth, fame, power or to
enjoy all the pleasures of the world. So, we live in delusion and unable to
understand the Lord's play, that he has created everything. This play is
set on a dream stage where nothing is real. We come into this play and, having
forgotten our true heritage, think this is our home, as we weep, cry and
laugh with one another. The realization of the deception of this drama comes only
when we wake up ..at the time of our death.
The moment death closes upon us,everything of this world friends and relations,
wealth and possessions, name and fame, caste and creed is left behind.
Only then do we realize that our time has just been wasted in illusion, in trying
to make ours that which can never becomes ours.
We forgets that our existence in the world is no more
than a bubble that may burst at any minute, and that the body enclosing it will
eventually perish, which is just made up of five elements: earth, water,
fire, air and ether. Our actions, whether good or bad, only result in keeping
the soul in the perpetual round of birth and rebirths.
Human form is great blessing. This form is granted to us only after many
births in the lower species. Many lives we had as insects and worms, And
many lives as elephants, fish and deer, In many lives were we born a snake or
a bird, And countless times, we lived as a tree. We shift from house to house,
from body to body, in the endless cycle of transmigration. The whole world
of transmigration has been called the prison of eighty- four lakh species
( 84 hundred thousand), the jail of chaurasi. After drifting through millions
of births, at last we have obtained this precious human form. This form is
gifted to us for the sole purpose of attaining God realization. It is the only
exit, which the Lord has provided us to escape from this vast prison house of
the phenomenal world. But we get so deeply engrossed in the worldly activities
and sensual pleasures that we completely
ignore the purpose of our incarnation, we chase the shadow, but lose the
substance. Our body is like a top rung of a ladder. If we try hard,
we may succeed in stepping onto the roof, the realm of everlasting
peace and bliss within.Otherwise, we shall slip and fall into the
turbulent ocean of the world
once more.
In order to realize God, we do not need to undertake any
external formalities, such as fasts, pilgrimages and adopting a particular type of
dress or hair style nor to go to forests or mountains, churches or temples to worship
the Lord, because he is not to be found outside. He is within our body. The
body is a temple of living God, so we must seek him within this temple of the
body. The human body is a laboratory in which we have to undertake research for
reunion with Lord, for it is only when we have been given this precious
human form that we can realize God within ourselves. Our soul is the essence of
the Lord, a drop of the Divine Ocean. In the beginning, it was separated from
its source and descended into this world of misery and suffering.
The purpose of the human being should be to reestablish his lost relationship
with God, so to get our soul released from the cycle of transmigration i.e
from the clutches of birth and death. And the soul can become worthy of
merging into the Lord only when all the coverings of karma and sensual
pleasures are removed. Perhaps it is only possible at the time of
meditation when we try to forget all that we are and what we are.
By :- VIKAS JHANJI
Pune, India.
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