The Ultimate Purpose of Life –Karun Bhattarai

    a gentle touch with so called life         28^th Chaitra,2073

“The first question, which you have said; there are no goals in life, no purpose and yet we are all here with enlightenment as our goal.”

     If we are here with enlightenment as our goal, we may have just appeared physically on this divine earth. The goal of our life lies in the future and our mind which is goal oriented is bounded to be in the future. I know we are here to attend something, that’s why we are missing it!

     If you drop this goal oriented mind and there are none other goals, you are enlightened. Enlightenment is not a search, it is a realization. It is not the goal; it’s the very nature of life by itself. As life, it is enlightened; it needs nothing to be added, to be improved. Life is perfect. It’s not moving from imperfection to perfection; it’s moving from perfection to perfection.

     You are here to attain something that is functioning as a barrier. Drop that barrier, just be here. Forget about any purpose. Life cannot have any purpose. Life is the purpose. How it can have any other purpose? Otherwise you’d be in an infinite regress and that purpose will have another purpose; and that another purpose will have another purpose. Life has no purpose and that’s why it is so beautiful. Hindus have called life as a leela, a play. Sometimes a play becomes a game and it becomes serious. Grownups play the game, children only play.

       Life has an intrinsic game attached within. Life is a leela and the moment you are ready to play, you are enlightened. Try to understand from some other dimension. You are already that which you are trying to be. The more you try, the more you’ll miss. You simply accept yourself, you just are that and suddenly it is there. It has always been there. But you were seeking so seriously, that was the only cause of missing it. The realization of the truth, as it actually is. Perceiving the truth as truth not the way you want it to be.

     In the world you desire money, power, prestige and so forth then you get fed up with it, and then you see all these whole as rubbish; if you get, you are defeated and even if you don’t, you are defeated. And you could feel that all these things are nonsense! Now suddenly, you start playing new games, enlightenment, Meditation, Yoga, Sadhanas, and Samadhi. Again the mind is attached; the new world of desires has opened now you’ll be after these. And money is not so elusive as meditation. Now you are in the deeper ditch than before!

     With the first you could realize that it is useless, with the second now it will take a millions of life that too is useless. When one gets to discover that our goals are useless with no exception, then there is nothing to do, one just have to be. One relaxes.  One relaxes so totally because there is not any stress. Suddenly your boundary melts as snow melting in the morning sun. With nothing to do, you disappear, the ego disappears. With nothing to do, nothing to achieve, who you’ll be? The whole identity evaporates! This is enlightenment, then you start a totally different way of life, you start being alive moment to moment. Nowhere to go, what so ever the life gives you, accept it with deep gratitude. Grace has been to you. This is what is called to become the GOD! The moment you start living in the moment, you have started being the divine. Realize this truth, that you are already god. You may be here to become god! Now just look at your own face once again. To search within and not to go without searching for a something this doesn’t exist.

     Life is a purposeless play. Play of infinite forces, beautiful if you don’t have achiever’s mind and ugly if you have ambition to become something, to be something, to do something. Drop the future completely, only this moment exists and this moment is eternity and this life is all that is there.

     You are already that which you are seeking. Let this be your principle philosophy. If you can understand this, you can understand all. Give it a try, to goals you’ve been giving. Too many lives you have already been given to them. Now try to live moment to moment as if there is no future. In the beginning there will be only as if but by and by you’d become aware as that as if is the only reality. In the beginning it may be just like acting, soon you’d realize that acting is the only reality.