Why Life?
Does life have any purpose? Yes, it does and that purpose is evolution. As modern human beings, we experience and understand more than previous generations. We have more possibilities and skills. We also have more illnesses, uncertainties and psychological complexities.
For many people, evolution is just an academic subject, from an age that is now over, and it has something to do with fish coming out of water or apes and cave men. For some others, evolution remains a subject for faith or for debate: Perhaps the human race was created by God or perhaps it is just the result of an accident of nature.
Our teacher, the late Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, wrote this over 15 years ago:
"The most difficult part is to convince a human being that, in the entire creation, he is the most highly evolved being, that he is capable of becoming a glorious personality, a beautiful, peaceful angel. To tell him about the problems of modern times is not a very good way of convincing him about what human beings truly are.
There has been so much demeaning of human beings, so much of degradation of their value system that I thought that unless I go to the root of the problems, it won't be easy to explain why they should break away from their present shackles in order to evolve and ascend. One has to speak frankly about what the problems are and what the real solutions are.
Frankly, there is no peace within the human beings nor without. The poor and the rich alike are unhappy. Everywhere people are groping for solutions. At an artificial level, the intellect can work out certain problems about things we see around us in jeopardy. But while a few problems may be resolved in this way, others arise. The true solution lies not in the material circumstances outside human beings but inside the human beings themselves. True and lasting solutions to present ills can be found only by inner collective transformation of human beings. This is not an impossibility. In fact it has already happened. There are so many thousands who have actually achieved this state. The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age."
We should understand, from that extract, that our evolution is not complete. At least, a hypothesis is proposed that we have something more to experience or that we have something more to develop.
Does life have any purpose? Yes, it does and that purpose is evolution. As modern human beings, we experience and understand more than previous generations. We have more possibilities and skills. We also have more illnesses, uncertainties and psychological complexities.
For many people, evolution is just an academic subject, from an age that is now over, and it has something to do with fish coming out of water or apes and cave men. For some others, evolution remains a subject for faith or for debate: Perhaps the human race was created by God or perhaps it is just the result of an accident of nature.
Our teacher, the late Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, wrote this over 15 years ago:
"The most difficult part is to convince a human being that, in the entire creation, he is the most highly evolved being, that he is capable of becoming a glorious personality, a beautiful, peaceful angel. To tell him about the problems of modern times is not a very good way of convincing him about what human beings truly are.
There has been so much demeaning of human beings, so much of degradation of their value system that I thought that unless I go to the root of the problems, it won't be easy to explain why they should break away from their present shackles in order to evolve and ascend. One has to speak frankly about what the problems are and what the real solutions are.
Frankly, there is no peace within the human beings nor without. The poor and the rich alike are unhappy. Everywhere people are groping for solutions. At an artificial level, the intellect can work out certain problems about things we see around us in jeopardy. But while a few problems may be resolved in this way, others arise. The true solution lies not in the material circumstances outside human beings but inside the human beings themselves. True and lasting solutions to present ills can be found only by inner collective transformation of human beings. This is not an impossibility. In fact it has already happened. There are so many thousands who have actually achieved this state. The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age."
We should understand, from that extract, that our evolution is not complete. At least, a hypothesis is proposed that we have something more to experience or that we have something more to develop.