whats the purpose and what is this life for?

Answer 1

Is there a purpose of life? What does it mean when men of wisdom say there is always a purpose in life? If there is life's purpose then why do most people while away their life without ever finding a purpose in life? What use living a purpose driven life without a defined purpose?

The answer to all the above queries on finding a purpose in life is the most crucial part of life for a human being. The purpose driven life is meant to be lived by living forms which have not yet evolved to the level of human beings. Why?

Simply because they are devoid of discriminatory powers to choose a goal in life! The insects, the plants and animals always live a purpose driven life. They simply have no goal in life. They are as they are. They simply have their existence and have to abide by the rules of evolution as defined by Charles Darwin in his theory of evolution.


Only when the living form reaches the level of a human being does one realize that human life is the highest manifest stage in the cosmic system. The moment a human being realizes that life has a purpose... one seeks the purpose of his life. Without a goal in life, Life seems to be incomplete!

As the child grows... one comes to learn that every human being has the potential of becoming a man god like Mahavira, Buddha, Jesus Christ and prophet Mohammed. Is that the crux of life! Is gaining salvation the end purpose of life!

If that be so... are we required to have a purpose in life linked to salvation as the present goal of life or is it that we can postpone traveling the spiritual path for the next manifestation.


The goal and the purpose of life for every human being are gaining enlightenment and finally salvation in the end. That may or may not be the purpose of life in the present manifestation. The purpose of life in the present phase can be best known by hearing the sweet small voice of our soul atman within our heart.

The purpose of life in every manifestation is driven by our soul atman within. It is our soul atman which has taken the body and not vice versa. The purpose of life is indirectly dictated by our soul atman within. If our deeds of the present life are not in consonance with the directives of our soul atman within... then heartburning, tensions and stresses become part of daily life.

Whatever act provides us complete relief... doing which we find extreme pleasure... something that we enjoy doing must form our goal of life. It is this goal of life pursuing which the purpose of our present life would be fulfilled.


It is surprising that almost above 95% people living on Mother Earth pass their life without ever having a purpose in life. It is almost like taking the routine path. If we are to ever curtail our cosmic journey... we need to find the purpose of our present manifestation. And this goal of life shall be prompted to us by our soul atman within.

By being truthful in life we can always hear the sweet small inner voice coming from within our heart. This voice of our soul atman within always guides us on the right path. Knowing the exact purpose of this life... half the life's journey is complete.

FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) had a fixed purpose in life and that made him one of the most successful presidents USA ever had in spite of his severe handicaps. (FDR lost both of his legs). More on life purpose here- http://www.godrealized.org/life/purpose_driven_life.html

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.

Answer 3

If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born BY his purpose and FOR his purpose. The Bible says "It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power." You did not create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for. If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you would not know it's purpose, and the invention itself would not be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner's manual could reveal its purpose.
You are not an accident. Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you! The Bible says, "The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me."
The above is just an introduction to a book. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. If you are genuinely searching for an answer, this book will give it to you.
Blessings
Kait

Answer 4

life is the purpose - questioning why is the purpose. without life the universe would be a void. life is yous only chance to make an impact on eternity

Answer 5

the point of something is to journey, to define and understand what we are. this is been happening for eternity, fortuitously we've fairly undesirable memories so it fairly is often new and relaxing attempting to artwork it out :) any god given purpose is in undemanding terms a purpose god gave us, why? he had no purpose for doing it, we would upload not something to his existence, he's eternal and finished, so he made up a purpose. Is that fairly a purpose?

Answer 6

everyone has a different purpose for life ur job iz to find out what your purpose is
life something given to u that u should always feel thankful for

Answer 7

It's the only way to get from here to there. Wherever there might be. We are only motes moving through a speck of time. So we journey on through all the tomorrows seeking what we may. Getting what we can. We watch over the on-going generations as we slide toward our own ending. To reach into tomorrow and bring forth the triumph of man.

Answer 8

To embrace all that life has to offer--there is ALWAYS something new to learn, or see, or do. There's always another song to listen to, a book you haven't read, a food you haven't tried. Embrace life!

And try to be an inspiration to others, and try to make the world a bit better of a place.

Answer 9

the purpose of life is to learn and love and do stuff that only u can do in ur particular way.

love life and embrace it as it comes. wether u r on a good spot or a bad spot embrace and never loose hope. cause when uve los thope uve lost all.
hope i hleped !

Answer 10

You have special skills, and gifts that our creator gave you. You like certain things, and only you are really good at them. Find what it is that you would do whether you got paid or not, and find a way to make it pay.

We are living to contribute to god's plan, and each one of us has a role!