What is life?

Question

Is it a dream or a nightmare?

Answer 1

Life is a multi-faceted concept that may refer to the ongoing process of which living things are a part of the period between fertilisation or mitosis and death.
How can one tell when an entity is alive? It would be relatively straightforward to offer a practical set of guidelines if one's only concern were life on Earth as we know it (see biosphere), but as soon as one considers questions about life's origins on Earth, or the possibility of extraterrestrial life, or the concept of artificial life, it becomes clear that the question is fundamentally difficult and comparable in many respects to the problem of defining intelligence.

Answer 2

It can be both. Bottom line is, it is what you make it. Life is a series of ups and downs. Life is also a continuing lesson. The biggest thing is when you feel life has just knocked the crap out of you...get up, wipe yourself off and move on to the next lesson.

Answer 3

A nightmare. I believe we're in hell and there is no heaven because if there were what's the point of staying here.

Answer 4

It is the opposite of death.

Is death a dream or a nightmare? It is a reality.

Answer 5

A beautiful dream.

Answer 6

Birth and death are not in our hands.Where one would born, which country, in which city or village, at what time, and in which family , whether with a silver spoon in the mouth or poor,either as black, or white.alone or as twins,as a boy , or girl, or a mixture of both, with any bodily defects or without, affected by AIDS like diseases or otherwise are all in not in anybodys hands.One soul may take birth as an animal, or bird, etc too.

Same way no one know when death is going to strike one, at which age, at which place, at what time, in an air cash, or by drowning, or in battle field,etc are also neither known to us in advance nor is in our hands.

What is certain is that all those who are born in this world have to die one day.We also know that some thing which was inside our physical body ,what we call as LIFE(SOUL), due to which all our organs were functioning , has vanished from the body due to which the person is declared DEAD.What is it .No one knows.
Where from it came , when, into our body when it was in ours mother womb , and where it has now gone after our death is also not known to us.

The HINDU philosophers say that only the human being is bestowed with this power of reasoning to think over what life is, what soul is , and that it is the ultimate goal of every human being to contemplate on this WHO AM I and get the answer for himself.

It is the HINDUs belief that the SOUL is a spin off from the LORD and ultimately it goes back to the LORD.And that the spin off takes place for some reason best known to the LORD and once it takes place, to go back too is at the mercy of LORD but it does goes back. In the intervening period it gets into one or more bodies and enjoys or suffers and this process continues to once again become perfect to join back to LORD.
Now the question arises having taken a birth as a human soul
what do we do.Look at Nature and learn. No animal or bird want to die. They want to live .The young ones fresh from egg eagerly awaits the mother bird to bring food to its mouth.As soon as it develops wings and able to search for its foods it gets away from the mother and makes its own nest and search for its partner and mixes with other friends and lives happily eating, sleeping and again procreating and also with its melodious voice keep people happy and with its beautiful coloured wings fly in the air and keep on lookers happy.I am told that the doves once they become old start collecting small small grains like stones and keep them stored at the tree tops nest and when no more able to fly swallow the stones and drop dead.

As a human being we see this beautyful world, air is free, sun, moon , light, plants, fruits, all are in abundance in this world.
Most of us are born defect free . We can run, shout, sing, dance
and talk and mix with friends and make merry.We learn about the
laws of nature. We invent and discover things to keep our minds active , to make our life more easy and one discovery leads to another.Sometimes we do not complete the task and leave it to others to do further research.

The entire universe is in this cycle we are not alone.The Sun, the Moon the Earth are all in constant motion, They cant even take leave for a nano second. Once it started to rotate the momentum keeps it going.

So do we. We there fore live for ourselves , for our fellow human beings, for posterity, for all other beings in the environment, and
have a sense of achievements and be proud and live in such wonderful thoughts and die a natural death welcoming it as a
natural event , a pleasnt feeling of FINAL release to an ETERNAL PEACE .

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Answer 7

neither its a dream nor a night mare...its a fact which can be made beautiful or fact by ur own acts.

Answer 8

its realy depends on mood
see
a happy people:life is like a icecream before melt eat it

sad person:life is like a river without water

so depend on mood

Answer 9

Life may only be defined by what you percieve of death..

Answer 10

life is name of feeling-imagination-love------and seeking satifacion -from the God given abilities