Thursday, April 12, 2007

D5. MYSTERY OF LIFE

Let us talk of about an age-old mystery-------
The mystery of life lies in realizing the purpose of our existence. Are we mere drifters on the sands of time? We begin our life with a stage when we are absolutely dependent on others for everything, we have no control over our actions. Slowly and slowly we learn things, learn them in the way they are taught to us by others, for some time whatever is taught to us, as far as we are concerned, is the gospel truth. This stage again soon passes away; our intelligence takes a hand. We try to reason out things and form and test our own ideas. Somewhere at this stage a thought strikes that there must be a goal which we have to strive for! The search begins, we start with short term goals and choose and discard, and the mystery remains.
It indeed is a great moment, if it ever comes, when we see, however distant the ultimate goal of our wandering. The mirage of our imagination then suddenly becomes a part of our tangible world. It matters not how many rangers, rivers or parching dusty ways lie in between! It is ours now - forever. We achieve it or not is immaterial. The mystery is solved and peace, real mental peace, descends.

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