Can we understand life directly or do we have to experience something to give meaning to our life? Is that element love? Does love have to have a reason? And if there is a reason for love, will it be love?
What is the real goal of life? First of all what do you do with it? The purpose of life is...Can we understand life directly or do we have to experience something to give meaning to our life? Is that element love? Does love have to have a reason? And if there is a reason for love, will it be love?
What is the real goal of life? First of all what do you do with it? The purpose of life is what you will make of it. For example, if you go to a sad person, he will say that for him the goal of life is to be happy. The man who is living hungry, his aim will be that his stomach should be full. If one goes to a sannyasin, his aim is to attain God. So this goal, the inner desire of the people, is the desire to have something that is gratifying and comfortable. They want a kind of safety, security so that there is no doubt, question, anxiety or fear. Most of us want something permanent to cling to.
Can we understand life directly or do we have to experience something to give meaning to our lives? Is that element love? Does love have to have a reason? And if there is a reason for love, will it be love? If we are to give some meaning to our lives, some experience has to happen for that to happen. Does this mean that life in itself is not important? he really
He is running away from himself in search of God. Escaping from grief, beauty, ugliness, anger, pettiness, jealousy and the extraordinary complexities of living. All this is life. Since he does not understand all this, he says, 'I will find something that can give meaning to my life.'
You can weave a lot of words about it. You can read all the holy books on this earth, but it will be in vain because it will not be related to your life, your daily existence.'
what is our life What is that which we call our existence? Not philosophically, but intuitively, it is a series of experiences of pleasure and pain and we want to avoid pain by holding on to pleasures. The pleasure of power, the pleasure of being the big man in the big world of power, the pleasure of dominating one's husband or wife, the pain, the frustration, the anxiety that comes with ambition, the ugliness of being taken advantage of by flattering important people etc. Everyday life is created.
This means that what we call life is a series of memories within the known field and if the mind is not free from the known, the known becomes a problem. Working in the field of the known – the known means knowledge, experience and the memory of that experience. The mind says, 'I must know God.' So it projects an entity according to its traditions, beliefs, its rituals, which it calls God. This existence is the result of the known. He is still within the field of time.
When the mind is completely free from the known, then only can you find out with clarity, truth and real experience whether God is or is not. It is certain that something that can be called God or Truth is something entirely new. is not within the purview of your identity; And if he tries to reach it by mind, by knowledge, by experience, by thought, by accumulated virtues, then he is trying to grasp the unknown while remaining in the field of the known, which is possible. Not there.
All the mind can do is to investigate whether it is possible to free itself from the known. To be free from the known is to be free from all the influences of the past, all the weight of tradition. The mind itself is the product of knowledge. It is shaped by time into 'this I' and 'this not me', which is the duality of duality. It ends completely at the known conscious and unconscious level.
I am saying, and I am not saying this only in principle, that it is possible to end it. Then you will never ask whether God is or is not, because such a mind is immeasurable in itself. Like love, it has its own perpetuity.
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