 130. Purpose Of Life |
The Divine purpose of creation, so far as man's reason can grasp it, is expounded in the "vedas." The Rishi's taught that each human being has been created by God as a soul (individualized universal soul) that will uniquely manifest some special attribute of the "infinite" before resuming it's "absolute identity:" all people, endowed thus with a facet of "divine individuality," are equally dear to God.
-Yogananda
Many feel the urge to create a new and better world. Rather than let your thoughts dwell on such matters, you should concentrate on "that, by the contemplation of which there is hope of perfect peace." It is man's (mankind's) duty to become a seeker after God, i.e., truth.
-Amanda Moyi Ma
"Our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth."
-Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"There is a reason to life, we can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill, we can be free, we can learn to fly!"
-Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour or a million, or flying at the speed of light, because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there." (i.e., pure consciousness existence in the form of inner self awareness absolutely in the present moment of the here and now which is prior to your thoughts and egoic outer psychological false self.)
-Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Spiritual vision and social service should go together. The double purpose of human life, personal perfection and social efficiency is indicated when Plato prophesied that there would be no good government in the world until philosophers (men of virtue, i.e., enlightened, pure in heart, etc.) became kings. Plato meant that human perfection was a marriage or union between high (virtuous) thought and just action (based on insight and wisdom).
The emperors of ancient China had attained perfection (i.e., enlightenment, Satori, Nirvana, Tao, etc.), and were correctly called the "sons of God," not because of their "ego," but because of their self achievement and purification in a state of God-self-realization.
Spiritual evolution is the true occupation of mankind.
