So, What’s the purpose of my life? Is it just sitting alone, never bothered about what happens in this world, and keep meditating? Like this guy:
Or is it actively participating for the welfare of human and animal kind and doing what is defined as ”good” and living an impeccable life? How do we find out what that task really is and what we are doing is exactly what we have been assigned?
One of my good friends, Gauri Shankar from University of Madras, who is screening Thallassemia mutations from hundreds of samples (doesn’t sound much fun!) these days says after finishing many books of Osho and Swami Vivekananda - “There is a supreme power who has engineered you and all of us. Our bodies have a part of that supreme power who guides us in the form of our consciousness.” Who commands us to stop urinating as soon as it spots a small bug in the urinal which will flush down to death if you proceed with the motion (stopping at such crucial moments is not an easy task you know!). Proceeding further with his sermon, Gauri Shankar told me that – “The pupose of our lives is to reconnect that part back to the supreme power, which you may call, for operational purposes, as God.”
There is one very thoughtful post I found on a blog called Exploring the infinite Abyss. It says – “So often we are praying and praying and praying and yet, we never take the time to listen. If I were to just never break in there, be the one always talking, how could I ever get an answer from you? I couldn’t. The same goes for God. So often we are pouring our hearts and constantly praying (which is a great thing) but we so often forget to listen (sometimes never even taking the time). How are we supposed to hear God’s answer if we don’t give him time to answer? That requires us to be silent at some point. And that is exactly where we’ll hear God’s answer”.
I completely agree with this that we need to take time and Listen to the God. I believe that God is continously talking to us in the form of our consciousness. Telling us what is good and what is bad at every step of our lives. We just have to listen to that inner voice and act accordingly.
—————————————–
17 Nov 2008, Chandigarh
I was going through this article which said that often some of our ways are pre-destined by rules of society, for instance, getting educated, doing a job, getting married, raising children and washing our old wrinkled bodies in winter sunshine!
Continuing with the theme of the post, I would say that getting married is certainly not one of those things why we are here. Rather, it has never been. To rationalize this, scientifically, I would agree on things like sexual reproduction favors better adaptation to immediate environment by promoting recombinational events so and so forth but who said bacteria reproduces sexually? And they too adapt to their immediate environments pretty well! Ask anyone working on Drug resistance! Point here is that – for sure, getting married is just one of those social norms which are made just to keep us going on with our lives and is certainly not the purpose of our lives. I just wonder how much creative and constructive activities one can do in all the time one spends with his/her married life! However, if one gets a partner who shares his/her passion of finding him/her self and do activities which he/she would rather do without getting married, than perhaps they both can complement each other and travel a meaningful journey of life instead of washing dirty diapers! I hope mom never reads this post! 
-To be continued…
Liked the Post?
