My question is that, one day a person is born and one day he will die
So why does life exist?
For fun.
What is the purpose of life, anybody's life?
I am here. So what is the purpose of it?
Well, it can be tackled in many ways.
One is to do your best.
And having done your best, achieve the best.
That is, in a worldly sense, what we understand.
I often used to think that if
the soul that was separated from the Source
is born many times and goes back
f it has to attain the same condition again,
then where is the fun?
You came with certain potency let us say you came with X potency
and return back with X potency, there is no fun in it.
I think it is a foolish game being played out by God, “I send you.
Go and come back as clean as I sent you”
But we have to, through our sadhana, through our practices
let that X be multiplied many times. Life after life, we can increase the potency of our soul.
The biggest problem with Hinduism is this [assumption that] the soul is changeless.
It is an assumption
Soul is completely pure. If it is completely pure
then why do you have to purify it further? Why should you?
So the idea Sahaj Marg says,
“Let that potency with which we descended be incremental.
May it grow infinitely, so when you return back you have that infinite potency.”
And what is that potency you are carrying yourself with?
It is an increased level of Consciousness.
Your perceptivity, your responsiveness - they increase
I have defined it in a very simple term ‘the consciousness’.
Consciousness can be defined as degree of awareness
to what extent you are aware. That also means to what extent you are unaware
With human beings, we have awareness and also, we have the ability to respond.
A tree cannot respond. If you try to cut a branch, it will not respond with another branch slapping you back
So, appropriate response is also required.
That is why the elevated consciousness that we enjoy.
But often our responses towards the loved ones are often erratic
parents for example, how we respond to them.
We are hijacked by our own emotions and our own temperament and our ego
and reject their suggestions often and the relationship gets spoiled.
From a parent’s side, it is always good. But from a child's side
the child remains tormented. “Why did I do such a thing?” And often if it gets repeated,
then the relationship can really get spoiled, unfortunately
the kinds of responses we carry out in life
So not only to perceive things but to appropriately respond to various situations
that makes us human
And how to take this further, more and more, more and more towards it?
It is automatic that when someone curses you, you may respond with anger.
You may perhaps give a blast and break his jaw also
But then, if you are elevated like Buddha, for example,
with a high level of awareness, then you say, “It is all right.
He is cursing me, that is his problem. It is not my problem.” Right?
So with that understanding, you will remain silent and you will remain in your blissful state
So we need to increase that – our level of awareness, level of understanding
level of responsiveness under all situations, you see.
And that increases the potency of our soul that we cherish so much.
It gives us life and we owe that much
Your father gives you, let us say, one million dollars, and after 50 years if he is still alive,
you have to give the account to Papa and say, “Here is a million dollars”
But he will be very unhappy
In 50 years at the rate of depreciation, it has already become negative.
You must multiply it. What has been given to you must be multiplied.
Same thing: the soul and its potency﹘ whatever has been given﹘ it must multiply.
Otherwise, there is no purpose.
So you can understand the purpose of life from many angles.
Do the best you can under all situations and whatsoever you do, do it with your heart
Then you will flourish. Of course, there are times when you are emotionally drained out and say,
“Okay, enough. I am tired, and I am depressed
and I feel like crying”.
That is also part of our existence
Nothing wrong in crying,
nothing wrong in feeling sad at times. It is okay.