(A Dialogue)
SABITA SAHU : Why do we live ? Is there any purpose or life is a mere biological process with a beginning and end?
PRAFULLA MOHANTY : This question has disturbed man right from the beginning.The Persian, Vedic sages asked it and today the Scientists. I may laugh it away, saying we live as long as we are not dead. There is no purpose or goal. Life simply is.
S.S : How can you laugh it away? Why did man grow from the HomoSapiens to the present data processing stage? If there is no purpose life would stagnate.....
P.K.M : This question is a human constant. Those who thought of the anthropomorphic origin of man believed that God creates life and gives the human being a purpose. The purpose varies from sage to sage, saint to saint but no answer can satisfy you. In Genesis(I:28) God asks man to multiply, to replenish and subdue the earth and to have dominion over land, air and sea. Man has done all that. But the Vedic scholars believe that man is a moral being and should fulfill God's purpose of making this earth a place of love, work and knowledge worship in a holistic harmony. Why then all religions and civilizations make this world a battlefield and work towards the extinction of man?
S.S : May be that is the purpose of life to work towards self annihilation.
P.K.M : No; self annihilation cannot be a purpose of God or man. It happens because we wish to dominate. We have not yet controlled our greed for land, air, and water. Our power is our bane.
S.S : Do you then conclude that there is no purpose? Birth and death and no tomorrow?
P.K.M : If there is a purpose it is at the individual level. Live to your full potential, without trying to curtail another man's potential. Never be lost in living which happens to the 'one and half inch' souls.
S.S : Do you mean to say make yourself happy without hampering another's happiness?
P.K.M : Yes. That is perhaps the only purpose. If you seek beyond it our dialogue will never end.
S.S : (smiling) O' well! Thank you.
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