The Meaning of Life

You are life but you are so covered with a cloud of thought, emotion, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, religions and prejudices that this psychological drama has hugely overshadowed the life process. And today, largely when people say “my life,” you are supposed to understand that they are talking about their job, their business, their family, their car, their wealth, their party; they are not talking about the life that they are. Only because you are a life and you are alive right now, all these accessories mean something.

If you were very blissful and ecstatic at this moment, would you think, “What is the purpose of life?” – No. Only when in some way, life has become burdensome, these questions arise: “To be or not to be?” “Is there a good enough purpose for me to exist?”

Your experience of life itself has not become grand and worthwhile enough. That is why you are trying to find a meaning. If just sitting here and breathing was ecstatic for you, you wouldn’t ask, “What is the purpose of life?”