62. Purpose of Life and Enlightenment.

This is a interesting topic. It is also a most often asked question either by the seeker or by a teacher to the seeker. It is also the most important question that one is always brooding about.  Parents seem to grow their children on this and children seem to be intrigued as they grow up, if there was any truth in this at all.

The age old guy, seeking Moksha, the Doctor trying to establish himself, even after the age of 80, yearns for the answer, 'What Life Is'. If you could not know what life is, all these years, one can never know there after. If one could function, sanely, without having to know what life is, how does it makes a difference now. They need definitions. Does definitions define  'being'. Does the definition of happiness or sadness, be used to feel happy or sad?
Before we go any further in arriving at answers, It is important to understand the basis of such questioning itself,  completely.  ‘Why’ is simple question making word, that gives a ‘feel of a purpose’ whilst making the question. This word or such reasoning questions,  feels very important in life. Most of the time, our lives keep hovering about answers to questions with a ‘why’.  When we frame  questions with ‘why’, it seems that it has becomes the very basis of living as humans. It gives a sense of purpose to all that is asked or being done and we fool ourselves with the answers and make them the very basis of our way of living.

Questioning, is the minds way of seeking importance, of its own existence as limited separate entities. Questioning becomes a basis of rationality and rationality begins to propel the life styles. Once this becomes an habit, life is then lived as an answer to rationalise the way of living and flows in that way. It becomes an addiction of the mind  that succeeds in claiming its survival as the most important element of life. We support the system of questioning, because it makes us feel more separate or unique or individualistic and seems to give importance to such living. We make a patern of such rationale individuals and make a group of them. The groupism gets to be known as religion, politics, nationality etc and groups also seems to exist as entities, having a group rational, propelling  a group mind, seemingly functioning as a separate entity.  Seeking answers to a ‘why’ and living those answers becomes from then on a standard way to follow life. It feels precious, noble or whatever it is compared to those that do not question.

There are simple questions that do not  interfere with life. Like for example, where is the post office.  These types of questions are not for satisfaction of the mind. They just happen to complete a movement that has been started. Questions starting with a ‘why’ are more delicate. These change the way life is experienced from the stand point of their answers, because it is taken for granted that answers exist and more commonly,  such answers that come up are agreed to be correct by more or less, most of the human segment.

To find a purpose doing anything in life other than the very joy of whatever is being done, is to imagine that life has a purpose other than enjoying what is being done. Doing such things for a purpose, is planning for a secure future and has to deal with a certain insecurity of the mind, regarding future. This sets in motion an entity at work to secure a good future and feels that such is a purpose of life. It makes the sense of an entity very strong whilst making the sense of purpose also very strong. Its a double edged sword. Either way, it has a purpose.
Purpose seeks to enforce living as a separate individual. So the purpose of life, playing out people as individuals is to create a sense of individual with a freewill and choice, even though there is none of this as truth. But the purpose of the game is to hide the truth. Life enjoys this game, even though it seems crazy on the level of separation. However, in the absence of separation, life is playing with itself, keeping itself occupied effectively all the time. Reasoning causes separation and plays the role by having this theme of purpose as the key to secure living. However, Life is a free fall with no ground, and always a state where sureness is only imagination. Why or reasoning  is a cause to better the effects in a game to bring about separation. There are no answers to why, as life is being just played out by life. The mind which is interpreting life, has an axe to grind. It make life purposeful and makes way for questions to arise. What is meaning of purpose? Purpose and meaning are one and the same. They are just two words with one meaning. Making meanings to life then seems to be the purpose of life. We then make meanings to all that we see, hear, or sense and then get into a trap called conceptualising. The basis of conceptualising is meaning making.  We then start seeing the world as a set of meaning made out of it, each for himself. As in a dictionary, we take the right hand conceptual world with a purpose.This then becomes the world of separation or duality as if this world is made of parts, even when parts do not have independent existence.

Purpose of life is to watch life in its unique expression of living itself as 'we'. Purpose of enlightenment is to step out of subject object format of the world and just be an experiencing structure, that life wants to use, to experience itself. The world there, feels an experience out here. Its a feed back mechanism with a self correction. When change is chosen to be done by the feed back mechanism itself, it can happen so. Saves time.
Purpose is more of a game than a word. Once we go to the root of the word ‘purpose’, we can see through that, that this word was the cause and effect of seeing the world in duality that was an illusion or separation that was an illusion. 

A singer experiences his singing or becomes one with the song. So is an artist or a drama character. He feels the play. We are created to feel the creation, which is also happening. However, just like a singer is engrossed equally in a happy song or a sad song, creation is meant to get involved with, whatever may be the created content. Just for the love of it, to see how it 'feels' as an experience. Falling in love with the various aspect of creation is the purpose of life, if there was one. This requires a non-judgemental 'attitude'. So best we can do is to get out of the way, trying to judge, as if there is a 'me' apart from life, as a person affected by life. 'Just be' so that life reveals its purpose to us.