Saturday, August 16, 2008

What is the Purpose of Life?


The "purpose" very word itself mean nothing if the subject do not have the thinking ability. For example, can a stone ask another stone what is the purpose of being a stone? No! Then to have a purpose it has to be a person or a life. Otherwise, there will never be a word purpose. ( I hope you understand what I mean) Because the purpose will be validated only with the association with the pursuer.

Therefore, a purpose can be there when a thinker is there. then there will be a forward flowing path but there never can be a final goal. If there be a final goal, then we will be back in the square one! what is the purpose of the purpose of achieving the goal?
Therefore, the "purpose" only can be, a never ending flow of events to validate the purpose. Otherwise the purpose of the purpose is no purpose.

Then, when you apply the above concept to the life, there is no finite purpose in life. There only can be reoccurring or never ending flow of events.

So, what is this never ending flow or reoccurring events? That is nothing but fulfilling the desire of our sensory organs! As the desire could never be fulfilled permenantly, the purpose will be there forever.
That means, we are living because we need to fulfil our desire of our sensory system and that urge has become the very purpose of life.
One can also present this as to be happy. But the fundamental source for the desire to be happy is our sensory organs.

The sensory system included, five senses plus the Brain.

Just imagine that if we do not have any of the above six senses, do we care if we are in heaven or hell? and there is no purpose of anything at all. it is just like being a stone. Nothing else!