What Actually is the Meaning of Life?

[Infinitians]

The world is like a colossal labyrinth, full of ironies. It is a place where you lose when you lose, and you lose even when you win. Stay with me to comprehend the meaning of life. One actually needs a really sharp mind to comprehend the enormity of the above statement. Once you see this through, then the question, “How do I win in this grandeur and magnanimous fight of life, everyone seems to be fighting in day and night rather seriously and painstakingly?”, won’t pester you anymore.

Then the right and the more prudent question to ask will be, “Is there a way through which I can come out of this battle altogether, instead of fighting it in the first place?”

What I mean by it, is that this is a battle, where either winning or losing is not the eternal solution. We all are running in a race, only to have more of everything. More money, more name, more fame, more respect, more happiness, and so on. And somewhere in the pursuit of endlessly having more and more, death dawn upon us.

Always keep this in mind, your present situation is someone’s dream to live. No matter how bad you think the present scenario is; if you are reading this, then probably you at least have a roof over your head with 3 square healthy meals a day to fill your paunch. This is still a fantasy for millions of people around the globe. For those people, you already are a billionaire, but you think you are poor at your own level of mind, probably because you are comparing yourselves to others or just simply have some expectations and desires to fulfill.

 

What is the Solution then?

Well, I am sure most of you are about to leave, thinking it is a boring thing to ponder upon, and you are probably right. Most of us are only interested to know how to get what we want as soon as possible, in the easiest conceivable way, without really putting in any extra energy or time.

We are not used to directing our boxed thinking into a topic like understanding the ‘meaning of life’. Everyone is living in this enormous illusion that if what they want the most, miraculously comes into existence, then their lives will become awesome.

What they don’t foresee is that the mere solution to one thing becomes the very base of the next big problem in their lives. And what happens next? Another desire to overcome the obstacle. And like this, the cycle keeps on continuing. 24*7*365.

To sum our lives in one line: We were delusional before, we are delusional right now, and we will die delusional. Period. Might sound bitter but is actually the reality with so many of us.

I will try to explain this to you in the simplest way possible.

 

The Universe is Like a Giant Ocean

Like I said before, that this is a race, where you actually lose, irrespective of whether you think you won or lost.

I have given this example before. Try imaging the universe as an ocean. A vast one. There are billions and billions of waves in this ocean. Trillions and trillions of water droplets. If you compare your body, which you consider as your own self, with that of a wave, then isn’t every wave just living for itself?

The wave can say that “I am also living for those tiny little waves emerging from ME”, but it is only saying so because “ME” is involved again. The wave may care about other waves, only if they are associated with it in some way or another in the first place. So ultimately it is living only for itself and the same is with all of us too.

We can say we live for our children or our parents or our families and friends, but you are doing that only because they are yours. Everybody is living for themselves at the end of the day. You care about your friends and relationships because again, they are “YOURS”. 

Now in a normal ocean, waves don’t fight off each other. But this universe is like an ocean where every wave is busy contesting with each other. Every wave is busy making itself bigger and bigger to engulf the smaller ones and emerge “Victorious”.

Is the world gonna change the way it is running? Probably not. I mean, ask yourself, if it comes to a choice to save your family, and a bunch of 200 people. Who would you choose?

This is not a movie going on, where you can save both of them. So, the point being, the very nature of this world is that everyone is living for themselves. Thinking about themselves, making themselves more and more powerful by suppressing others, directly or indirectly.

 

The Unarticulated Battle we are All a Part of

How can anyone be truly joyful in such an environment? People can just show from the outside their smiling faces, but from the inside, they are crying. And the more interesting part about this battle is that no one is carrying any kind of firearms here, which is what makes it even more dangerous than the real battles fought at the borders.

Everyone is carrying flowers here and is trying to show how caring and loving they are. This is what makes it one hell of a treacherous war because you can’t say for sure who is your real enemy here. Your enemies may have set their camps right under your nose, and you wouldn’t know about it until it is too late.

Like the joker said,” Their morals, their codes…, it is a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They are only as good as the world allows them to be. When the chips are down, these civilized people, they will eat each other.” How true is that!

Can these things stop happening all of a sudden? Impossible.

SO, you gotta make yourselves robust enough to live in this world, no question about it. Robust in the sense that you must have an understanding of this ocean, the meaning of life.

 

Stop Squandering Time in Life

Our majority of time is spent in plain, simple time pass, instead of making ourselves a great warrior. Timepass, here, is anything that is deteriorating your energy in any form. If you are not learning from whatever is happening to you at the present moment, then that will all come under the radar of ‘time pass’. All the pleasures you are indulged in.

A person after committing every sin in the rule book, looks to God for atonement.  This is also what most of us do as they expect to get away with it. Now you gotta decide whether you wanna spend your time to be a fierce warrior, or to get spoilt by the pleasures you keep running after?

 

Escaping is not the Solution

We all look for escapes. We all are experts at running away from our problems. But you can’t escape them forever, because no matter where you go, you can’t really escape this ocean.

Since escaping is not the answer you were looking for, ideally, you should be investing your time in making yourself a brave warrior. You gotta make yourself so powerful that you wouldn’t have to beg anyone to get anything.

You gotta make yourselves skilled enough to be deserving to get what you want and be intellectual enough so that you can smash through whatever obstacles come in your path. But hold on, didn’t I say at the starting that this is a war where you lose even if you win? So, the bigger predicament here is, whether being a warrior is the solution or not?

Let’s say you become the best warrior ever born on the face of the earth. Does this mean that you are absolved of all the problems?

You can get sick anytime, the people close to you can die anytime, even you will die at some point or any one of the hundred and twelve disastrous turns your life can take at any given moment. If you look closely, there are pros and cons to being a warrior and sometimes even not being a warrior.

Who is the safest person in a war?

People who aren’t warriors. Because they can sit at the fences while the real warriors are busy protecting and fighting for them. They are probably gonna be the last ones to face the music. One doesn’t escape the sorrow. It lies on both sides. Then the question should be how to be free from this sorrow?

 

If you liked it so far, you will love the complete article here:

https://infinitians.com/what-actually-is-the-meaning-of-life/

 

[RendHeaven]

Life does not have to be framed as a 'battle.'

'Winning' and 'Losing' are constructs.

'Meaning' is a construct.

To be 'a warrior' or not to be 'a warrior' is a construct.

31 minutes ago, Infinitians said:

We were delusional before, we are delusional right now, and we will die delusional. Period. Might sound bitter but is actually the reality with so many of us.

This is false.

I see you take a spiritual turn on your blog which is well appreciated.

Just be careful with your definitive-sounding statements

[yetineti]

There are infinite meanings to life; including no meaning.

[ll Ontology ll]

@Infinitians meaning is meaning and the meaning of it which encompasses any identity we ascribe to the meaning of life is just an integration point relative to the flow and circumference of experienced consciousness. An't no body gonna top that. Relative to my own, its for reality to find its highest integration point; balance; synthesis; collective individuality bound to and boundless from individual collectivism socially and dimensionally; where friction points can meet with its opposite softest points and still find an infinite point of creation, aka some kind of singularity.

[blackchair]

to help humanity in any form, we are in shit show already. 

[Eternal Unity]

On 5/4/2021 at 4:41 PM, Infinitians said:

The world is like a colossal labyrinth, full of ironies. It is a place where you lose when you lose, and you lose even when you win. Stay with me to comprehend the meaning of life. One actually needs a really sharp mind to comprehend the enormity of the above statement. Once you see this through, then the question, “How do I win in this grandeur and magnanimous fight of life, everyone seems to be fighting in day and night rather seriously and painstakingly?”, won’t pester you anymore.

Then the right and the more prudent question to ask will be, “Is there a way through which I can come out of this battle altogether, instead of fighting it in the first place?”

What I mean by it, is that this is a battle, where either winning or losing is not the eternal solution. We all are running in a race, only to have more of everything. More money, more name, more fame, more respect, more happiness, and so on. And somewhere in the pursuit of endlessly having more and more, death dawn upon us.

Always keep this in mind, your present situation is someone’s dream to live. No matter how bad you think the present scenario is; if you are reading this, then probably you at least have a roof over your head with 3 square healthy meals a day to fill your paunch. This is still a fantasy for millions of people around the globe. For those people, you already are a billionaire, but you think you are poor at your own level of mind, probably because you are comparing yourselves to others or just simply have some expectations and desires to fulfill.

 

What is the Solution then?

Well, I am sure most of you are about to leave, thinking it is a boring thing to ponder upon, and you are probably right. Most of us are only interested to know how to get what we want as soon as possible, in the easiest conceivable way, without really putting in any extra energy or time.

We are not used to directing our boxed thinking into a topic like understanding the ‘meaning of life’. Everyone is living in this enormous illusion that if what they want the most, miraculously comes into existence, then their lives will become awesome.

What they don’t foresee is that the mere solution to one thing becomes the very base of the next big problem in their lives. And what happens next? Another desire to overcome the obstacle. And like this, the cycle keeps on continuing. 24*7*365.

To sum our lives in one line: We were delusional before, we are delusional right now, and we will die delusional. Period. Might sound bitter but is actually the reality with so many of us.

I will try to explain this to you in the simplest way possible.

 

The Universe is Like a Giant Ocean

Like I said before, that this is a race, where you actually lose, irrespective of whether you think you won or lost.

I have given this example before. Try imaging the universe as an ocean. A vast one. There are billions and billions of waves in this ocean. Trillions and trillions of water droplets. If you compare your body, which you consider as your own self, with that of a wave, then isn’t every wave just living for itself?

The wave can say that “I am also living for those tiny little waves emerging from ME”, but it is only saying so because “ME” is involved again. The wave may care about other waves, only if they are associated with it in some way or another in the first place. So ultimately it is living only for itself and the same is with all of us too.

We can say we live for our children or our parents or our families and friends, but you are doing that only because they are yours. Everybody is living for themselves at the end of the day. You care about your friends and relationships because again, they are “YOURS”. 

Now in a normal ocean, waves don’t fight off each other. But this universe is like an ocean where every wave is busy contesting with each other. Every wave is busy making itself bigger and bigger to engulf the smaller ones and emerge “Victorious”.

Is the world gonna change the way it is running? Probably not. I mean, ask yourself, if it comes to a choice to save your family, and a bunch of 200 people. Who would you choose?

This is not a movie going on, where you can save both of them. So, the point being, the very nature of this world is that everyone is living for themselves. Thinking about themselves, making themselves more and more powerful by suppressing others, directly or indirectly.

 

The Unarticulated Battle we are All a Part of

How can anyone be truly joyful in such an environment? People can just show from the outside their smiling faces, but from the inside, they are crying. And the more interesting part about this battle is that no one is carrying any kind of firearms here, which is what makes it even more dangerous than the real battles fought at the borders.

Everyone is carrying flowers here and is trying to show how caring and loving they are. This is what makes it one hell of a treacherous war because you can’t say for sure who is your real enemy here. Your enemies may have set their camps right under your nose, and you wouldn’t know about it until it is too late.

Like the joker said,” Their morals, their codes…, it is a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They are only as good as the world allows them to be. When the chips are down, these civilized people, they will eat each other.” How true is that!

Can these things stop happening all of a sudden? Impossible.

SO, you gotta make yourselves robust enough to live in this world, no question about it. Robust in the sense that you must have an understanding of this ocean, the meaning of life.

 

Stop Squandering Time in Life

Our majority of time is spent in plain, simple time pass, instead of making ourselves a great warrior. Timepass, here, is anything that is deteriorating your energy in any form. If you are not learning from whatever is happening to you at the present moment, then that will all come under the radar of ‘time pass’. All the pleasures you are indulged in.

A person after committing every sin in the rule book, looks to God for atonement.  This is also what most of us do as they expect to get away with it. Now you gotta decide whether you wanna spend your time to be a fierce warrior, or to get spoilt by the pleasures you keep running after?

 

Escaping is not the Solution

We all look for escapes. We all are experts at running away from our problems. But you can’t escape them forever, because no matter where you go, you can’t really escape this ocean.

Since escaping is not the answer you were looking for, ideally, you should be investing your time in making yourself a brave warrior. You gotta make yourself so powerful that you wouldn’t have to beg anyone to get anything.

You gotta make yourselves skilled enough to be deserving to get what you want and be intellectual enough so that you can smash through whatever obstacles come in your path. But hold on, didn’t I say at the starting that this is a war where you lose even if you win? So, the bigger predicament here is, whether being a warrior is the solution or not?

Let’s say you become the best warrior ever born on the face of the earth. Does this mean that you are absolved of all the problems?

You can get sick anytime, the people close to you can die anytime, even you will die at some point or any one of the hundred and twelve disastrous turns your life can take at any given moment. If you look closely, there are pros and cons to being a warrior and sometimes even not being a warrior.

Who is the safest person in a war?

People who aren’t warriors. Because they can sit at the fences while the real warriors are busy protecting and fighting for them. They are probably gonna be the last ones to face the music. One doesn’t escape the sorrow. It lies on both sides. Then the question should be how to be free from this sorrow?

 

If you liked it so far, you will love the complete article here:

https://infinitians.com/what-actually-is-the-meaning-of-life/

 

Thank you!