What is the meaning of life?

Question

I've always wondered....

Answer 1

Life Stinks and then you die. However, along the way try to smell a few roses. More importantly, find a way to make someone's life better, just because you came into their life at an opportunity to bless them.

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.


To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

Answer 3

42

Answer 4

42

Answer 5

Theres no universal answer to this.if you look at us as a spieces i would say to copulate and survive.no one really knows the meaning of life but i think if you try a lead a productive life and do things that make you happy and be nice to others thats a good starting point.most of all enjoy and appriciate life.if you die not knowing the meaning of life at least you didnt take it for granted

Answer 6

Unless God Himself tells us, then it's a different meaning for each person.

I guess the meaning of life for me is to do my best to make the world a better place, and to continue growing intellectually and spiritually

Answer 7

The nature of all life is to grow, spread, and gain strength and power.

People are the same as all plants and animals...our "meaning in life" is to continue the process by expanding and improving ourselves, our families, society, and the world in general.

Answer 8

Chocolate

Answer 9

While saying "I spend my entire life in search of it's meaning",i have started believing that you know it just before death.
And the answer so beyond any body's wildest imagination,it reduces the pain of death.

Answer 10

Acording to the Vedas the most antique and vast spiritual books in Sanskrit.
The goal of human life is to re-awaken our original pure love for God, Krishna. We souls exist to have an intimate loving relationship with Him. We can never be happy by rejecting that relationship and denying our true nature.

The things we do in this world indicate our true, eternal nature. We have to love; it’s unavoidable. Having turned away from Krishna, we try to fulfill our need to love and be loved by searching for ideal relationships in this world. But exchanges of love here are never perfect and cannot last forever.

Awakening pure love for Krishna is perfection. Nothing else will satisfy us. Everything that exists in the material and spiritual worlds is meant to support our relationship with Krishna. Human life is a chance for us to reestablish that relationship. That endeavor should be the focus of our lives.

Because love includes service, pure love for God is called pure devotional service, or Bhakti. The ways to awaken Bhakti are the substance of the practice of Bhakti yoga.
We souls are complete persons and don’t require the bodies we now inhabit. We have our own spiritual senses, mind, and intelligence. Our identities are unique, eternal, and unchanging, and can never be lost by merging with some homogeneous spiritual entity.

As spiritual beings, we are by constitution eternally happy and full of knowledge. Sadness, ignorance, and death are unnatural for us, and that’s why we struggle against those things in this world.

While God is infinite, we souls are small and are subordinate to Him. We exist to serve Him in love. Our intrinsic nature—our dharma—is to serve. That quality cannot be separated from us, just as heat cannot be separated from fire and sweetness cannot be separated from sugar. We will find full satisfaction only in re-discovering our unique service to God.

We have free will and some independence. We can choose to love and serve Krishna, or we can choose not to and can try to enjoy separately from Him in the material world. While in the material world, we can choose to take up spiritual practices that will re-awaken our love for Him.