The Real Purpose of Life - Sri Sri Ravishanker

What is the purpose of life? What is the end product that we want to see in our life? What do we want? Some say the purpose of life is not to come back to this planet again. Others say love is the purpose of life. Why would someone say they don’t want to come back? Because they find there is no love here or when there is love it is very painful.

When someone is pained and troubled, they don’t want to come back. If this place could be so wonderful and full of love and divinity, then the desire not to come back would drop naturally. When we see the purpose of life from all sides, from every angle, then the end product that we want in life is a love that doesn’t die out, a love that doesn’t cause pain, a love that grows and stands forever.

Suppose you could have all the success in the world, even become the richest person or the most famous person, but have no love in life. Then life would not be a success. Life would appear to be barren. From every angle we come to the same point that all we aspire for in our life is love, a divine love, a love that is ideal. The purpose in life is to flower and bloom in that ideal love. Now the question really is how to get there, how to have this, how to find out what obstructs this in our life. We have to see that what is really obstructing us from that innocent love is our ego. What is ego? Ego is like a dream. A dream exists until it doesn’t exist. 

© 'Deccan Chronicle' dated November 27, 2002. Reprinted with permission.

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