what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

42
Really, it's 42.
But for a less facetious answer, the meaning of life is to find meaning in your life. It is what you make it.

Answer 2

If I told you what the meaning of life is for you... you would probably not even believe it. Only through experience itself will you find the answer to your question. It's a process that you probably do not understand at the moment, however you are on this Earth for some reason and that is not for you to find out through a question and answer...but to experience from doing.

Try asking yourself why you bother waking up each morning and see by 'doing' if that is truly why you wake up each morning. Go out and experience and be concious of your decisions for one day to determine if what you are doing makes you happy and if it does then you might be on the right path to discovering the meaning of your life.

Answer 3

Well, the meaning of life would be rhetorical. You must find your own reason to live. You must find why you are here, and what is it that you want to do. We all live in the same world, but we all live in an individual universe, shaped by our own experiences and contexts. That question, may be in my opinion what we exist for.

Answer 4

The meaning of life is being an old lady in Washington state, U.S.A. and participanting on Yahoo Answers and printing out and avidly collecting people's very first questions here on Yahoo Answers, but ONLY those very first questions that ask, "What is the meaning of life?" : ) (Thank you for newest addition to my collection, sir, and WELCOME to YAHOO ANSWERS!)

Answer 5

Life has a nature, not a meaning.

To endure, life must

Collect energy.
Reproduce.
Avoid being eaten.

So get a job, find a mate, and be careful out there.

Answer 6

Perhaps the question should be "IS there meaning to life?"

Humans ascribe a reason to everything or attempt to. It is our way of justifying our existence. Maybe we just ARE.

Answer 7

Love

The meaning of life is to be conformed in to the image of Christ because Christ love us as sinners then so can we.


(KJV) John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Answer 8

this is no one answer for everyone in the world. Everyone claims its something different then the next, therefor there is no one answer for everyone, they say religion, higher power, their career, anything. So you should ask, "What is your meaning of life"

Answer 9

SB 4.29.48 P Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi
Generally people are not aware of their interest in life--to return home, back to Godhead. People do not know about their real home in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world there are many Vaikuntha planets, and the topmost planet is Krsnaloka, Goloka Vrndavana. Despite the so-called advancement of civilization, there is no information of the Vaikunthalokas, the spiritual planets. At the present moment so-called advanced civilized men are trying to go to other planets, but they do not know that even if they go to the highest planetary system, Brahmaloka, they have to come back again to this planet. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (8.16):

abrahma-bhuvanal lokah
punar avartino 'rjuna
mam upetya tu kaunteya
punar janma na vidyate


"From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again."

If one goes to the highest planetary system within this universe he still has to return after the effects of pious activities are finished. Space vehicles may go very high in the sky, but as soon as their fuel is finished, they have to return to this earthly planet. All these activities are performed in illusion. The real attempt should now be to return home, back to Godhead. The process is mentioned in Bhagavad-gita. Yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam: those who engage in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead return home, back to Godhead. Human life is very valuable, and one should not waste it in vain exploration of other planets. One should be intelligent enough to return to Godhead. One should be interested in information about the spiritual Vaikuntha planets, and in particular the planet known as Goloka Vrndavana, and should learn the art of going there by the simple method of devotional service, beginning with hearing (sravanam kirtanam visnoh). This is also confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam (12.3.51):


kaler dosa-nidhe rajann
asti hy eko mahan gunah
kirtanad eva krsnasya
mukta-sangah param vrajet


One can go to the supreme planet (param vrajet) simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra. This is especially meant for the people of this age (kaler dosa-nidhe). It is the special advantage of this age that simply by chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra one can become purified of all material contamination and return home, back to Godhead. There is no doubt about this.


We request you to chant HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA, KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE, HARE RAMA HARE RAMA, RAMA RAMA HARE HARE, and your life will be sublime.

Answer 10

Love.