LIFE AND DEATH – FINDING THE REAL PURPOSE OF OUR LIFE
As a Human we believe that we are born to excel in materialistic life and constantly try to roll up the wealth and materialistic desires, we run hard in our lives to accomplish the best of this world. Since birth we motivate our kids to surpass in their study get the best marks and to have best career where they can realize the utmost. If you see as a one side of the coin it looks perfect what is wrong in thinking in such a way, after all, most of us think in that way and it looks right as well. But it has other side of the coin which no one has time to explore in their busy materialistic life. The million $ question is how you define what is faulty and what is right.
“The Real Purpose of our life” – we start with a normal Human being, they born work hard in their life to reach where many dreams. They earn and amass good wealth and then one fine day they die, but thereafter can they do anything with their wealth. We all born with empty hand and we leave this world in the same way. What will go with us is our Karma account, what deed we did in our life, how many times we cheated, how many times we bring the happiness in others life. It means what we are doing is not hundred percentage right, did we ever introspect what we are doing, why we are not in peace, why we have so many problems. We all are trapped in our own web which we have created for ourselves in the name of society, peer group or due to other reasons. We just want to justify our actions because we don’t want to follow the right path we all are slaves of our desires.
It doesn’t mean that we should not have desires, but more important is what we do to fulfill them. Whether we are doing the right Karma or we indulge in wrong doing. It means, we should learn how to balance the life where you can do your right Karma in such a way that greed will never overpower you and satisfaction and peace will always stay with us. To understand this I would like to start with the very important aspect of life who we are, we are nothing but the soul trapped in the leased Body for the period decided by the supreme GOD. Once you died the soul will leave the Body and as per the destiny it will re acquire another Body and this cycle will go on and on continuously. It is mentioned in the Grun Puran (Indian Vedic Text) that when the soul comes in the womb, it has full knowledge of ultimate reality, the soul prays to the God that why you are again sending me in this materialistic world and why you want me to again become the slave of my desires and greed. But once the birth takes place the knowledge will subside in your sub-conscious mind, buried deep inside and with your first cry you will start your life like a new book. The process is endless.
Now does it really make a difference if I follow the right path or the wrong path as in any case we have to re-born in this endless cycle. To understand further we have to understand the theory, as there is no guarantee that in your next birth you will be a Human, as per Vedic Texts, it all depend on your Karma. After Death your account of bad Karma and good Karma is evaluated and based on that you will send to hell or heaven for a temporary phase. Further, it is decided based on your Karma that in your next birth you will get a Human Body or of Animal Body, and once you are in Animal form then it will take thousands of birth to get the Human Body. It means Human Body is precious and difficult to get and Human is the only living form where GOD has given Intelligence to understand and unfold the ultimate truth of life through religious and spiritual way and can try to come out from this endless cycle of birth.
“Does it make a difference for me as a common man” if you have no problem in your life, you can go ahead do whatever you want to do. But ask yourself one question are you happy with your life, do you have peace, do you have tensions or stress. If the answer is yes, then it’s the high time you should think over what you are doing in your life. In real life we have so many examples of big personalities who earned a lot, but in the end when they died other people are enjoying on that money and they just left this world with empty hand. Do you want to enjoy your life with the real nectar of life or you just want to work hard and amass wealth for others to enjoy (it includes your children, for detail reasons I will write in next blog).
To summarize this we can say nothing in wrong to have desires, but you should not have greed you should know what are you doing to earn money. You should not be involved in bad Karma or any wrong doing which may be harmful to others just to get your own selfishness. Don’t be a slave of your desires. You should try to devote part of your time in exploring spirituality and God it will help you in your life to have a satisfied and peaceful life.
