Inder Garg
2026
And, what is the purpose of our life? This is not a simple query. All life we grope in the dark searching for the purpose of our coming here in this world. We don’t have an answer but we can make a beginning by two starting points – one, that we are here on a ladder of progress in a series of births toward attainment of liberation as the BG (6.40-45) tells us, and two, that we are here to play our assigned roles in the scheme of things of the Creator as his Līlā. Another preposition could be that there is no general purpose and we have to choose our own purpose - it is after all our life and we are free to do whatever we want to do with it! But this does not seem to be a great idea as it leads to vanity and wantonness. Therefore, Upaniṣads contain lessons on how we should live our life meaningfully and purposefully as our actions in this life are linked to our future births which encourages discipline and restraint in the pursuit of desires.
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