Do we truly take time to ponder about one of the most important questions about life: What is the true purpose of life?
Is most of humanity busy living, enjoying, seeking happiness, or are they actually introspecting and trying to find out the meaning of life? What is the true purpose of life? Why are we here? Who brought us here? What is the purpose of coming here? What should we do before we end this journey?
People go to a supermarket to buy stuff. It is very common. They may actually go to buy bread, but when they enter the supermarket, all the displayed new merchandise overwhelms them. They buy their chocolates, beer, wine and fruits. But at the end of the shopping trip, when they leave and reach home, alas! They have forgotten to buy bread. It happens! It happens very often because we get distracted.
How can we truly find the meaning of life if we don’t take time to ponder, contemplate, and introspect? Some people say that the purpose of life is to be happy – very easily answered – but is it so easy to be happy? People may have all the wealth and all the pleasures in the world, but they are still miserable and unhappy. Do they take time to think and find out what truly makes them happy? Do you think seeking happiness and finding the true purpose of life are two different goals? Or are they one? Is it that when we seek happiness and get happiness, we have achieved the true goal of life, or is it when we find out the true goal of life that we get all the happiness in the world, in fact, do we “become” happiness?
It is a very interesting thought to ponder on: What is the true purpose of life? It requires one to sit silently and think – not browse or read – just go deep within think… And the answers will surely come!
AiR
I often ponder this based on what little knowledge i've acquired.
If everything and everyone on this planet is connected to a conscious source whos purpose is to create, Could the human mind as a receiver with the most potential to store and apply that sources knowledge be the material vessel the source intended to evolve and expand its ability to create in the material world? If so, it would mean the vessels "our bodies" purpose is to serve the source.
This brings me to the religious ideas spirit vs flesh. If we can't become masters of our fleshly desires and emotions than they will rule our spirit and not serve its purpose. On the other hand, if we can master those desires and emotions, the flesh would serve the spirit.
That accomplishment would unveil the source or as some would say, you would achieve enlightenment and would no longer be yoked to the flesh.
With that in mind, I also ponder existence as it relates to everything else we observe.
For example, hot and cold, light and dark, etc... Are all just varying degrees of the samething.
What if our existence in this world is a plain somewhere in the mid range of a scale of varying degrees also. As we learn here, in the next life we either move up or down the scale to physical existences on plains.The scale would go in both directions for infinity.
I look at this in terms of frequency of emotional state of a person. The lower the frequency, the lower in scale, the higher the frequency, the higher in scale. Not based on societal concepts of good or bad.
Just a thought
