THE WHY OF LIFE
WHY OF LIFE
?
Tejinder Narang
When God decided to experience Life, He
fractionalised Himself into souls; clothed them with mind and bodies and
created multiplicity of active identities for mutual interaction. Finally, He disrobed
them and made them fade into dormancy of oblivion of Oneness.
In intervening period, Man- the pinnacle of Lord’s
creative expertise amongst all species-- and his life are riddled with unsavoury
contradictions. He is chained in thoughts, resultant actions and circumstances
which are not his making. Fear of loss happiness leads to unhappiness; wealth
and power come with anxiety, envy and sleepless nights. Body continues to wither
till it vanishes. All academic and professional acquisitions are buried in grave.
Advice to man is--forgive all who hurt him, seek
forgiveness for his egotism/ arrogance and be grateful to God for his cosmic
creation. Right and wrong, he realizes, are relative states of mind. Truth
remains elusive.
With powerful
pull of physical world, man’s conviction in spiritual contemplation and Divinity remains flippant. Doubting Thomas he remains. As life burdens
him, he accepts Divine Will with inner remorse and reluctance. Intellectually
he knows there is no other way.
The
greatest mystical paradox of life is to get out of trans- migratory cycle of
bodies to know Life. Sufi Bulle Shah says Lord tricked souls to experience
life; gifted them mind of five perversions, karmas, pain of His separation, and
fear of death and promised that He will personally redeem them. Whenever Lord
appears in human form as “Son of the Father” for redemption, He largely goes unrecognised,
misunderstood and misconstrued by masses. Man thus remains tied to cycle of
transmigration.
Why of
Life is akin to experiencing feel of water in a mirage of a desert!!
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