THE FIRST QUESTION
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YOU SAID LIFE AND EXISTENCE HAVE NO GOAL, THEY ARE A PURPOSE UNTO THEMSELVES. OTHER MASTERS, FOR INSTANCE, SRI AUROBINDO, TEACH EVOLUTION AS THE AIM OF THE WORLD, EVOLUTION IN ALWAYS REACHING FOR STILL HIGHER LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS- FROM THE KINGDOM OF MINERALS TO THE KINGDOM OF VEGETABLES, ANIMALS, MAN, FROM PRESENT MAN TO ENLIGHTENED MAN.
ARE THESE TEACHINGS WRONG? OR IS THERE A BRIDGE TO PURPOSELESSNESS?
AT BODHI, SRI AUROBINDO IS A GREAT PHILOSOPHER BUT NOT A MASTER AT ALL. VERY INTELLIGENT, VERY SCHOLARLY, A GREAT INTELLECTUAL, BUT NOT AN ENLIGHTENED MASTER. HE TALKS ABOUT GOD AND TALKS BEAUTIFULL, BUT IT IS ALL TALK, IT IS ALL ABSTRACTION. IT IS NOT A REALISATION.
IF IT IS A REALIZATION, THEN THERE CAN'T BE ANY GOAL. FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE WORLD HAS EVOLUTION AS THE GOAL, THEN WHAT WILL BE THE GOAL OF EVOLUTION? WHY EVOLUTION AT ALL? WHY IN THE FIRST PLACE? YOU WILL HVE TO CREATE ANOTHER ABSTRACTION, AND IT WILL BE A REGRESS AD INFINITUM.
WHATSOEVER YOU FIX AS THE GOAL, THE QUESTION WILL REMAIN RELEVANT ABOUT THAT WHY?
IF THIS IS THE GOAL OF EVOLUTION, TO REALIZE GOD, THEN WHAT IS THE GOAL OF REALIZING GOD? JUST ASK THAT QUESTION AND YOU ARE BACK TO THE SAME PLACE. IF ENLIGHTENMENT IS THE GAOL OF LIFE, THEN WHAT IS THE GOAL OF ENLIGHTENMENT? AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE POINT - ENLIGHTENMENT WILL HAVE NO PURPOSE. AND IF THE ULTIMATE ITSELF HAS NO PURPOSE, THEN WHAT IS THE POINT OF SAYING THAT LIFE HAS PURPOSE AND THE WORLD HAS PURPOSE? IF THE ULTIMATE IS PURPOSELESSNESS, THEN THAT ULTIMATE PERMEATES ALL.
THIS GOAL ORIENTATION COMES FROM THE EGO. THE EGO CANNOT ACCEPT THAT THERE IS NO GOAL. THE EGO CANNOT ACCEPT THAT THERE IS NO HIERARCHY. THE EGO CANNOT ACCEPT THAT THERE IS NO HIERARCHY. THE EGO CANNOT ACCEPT THAT MINERALS AND TREES AND ANIMALS AND MAN AND ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE ALL EXISTS IN A GREAT SIMULTANEITY- THERE IS NO GRADATION. YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE SOMEBODY SPECIAL YOU ARE MAN, NOT A MINERAL. BUT WHAT IS SO GREAT IN BEING A MAN? WHAT IS SO GREAT IN BEING AN ANIMAL? OR A MAN OR AN ENLIGHTENED MAN? WHY CREATE THE HIERARCHY?
AND FINALLY THE WHOLE THING FALLS FLAT THEN IN THE END GOD HAS NO PURPOSE, AND GOD IS ALL.
THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED, THOSE WHO HAVE HAVE NOT JUST BEEN THINKING ABOUT GOD, BUT THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED WILL SAY GOD IS NOTHING BUT THE COSMIC SIMULTANEITY OF ALL. MINERALS ARE EXACTLY WHERE MAN IS IN THEIR OWN WAY, IN A DIFFERENT FORM. TREES ARE EXACTLY WHERE ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE ARE, IN THEIR OWN WAY IN THEIR OWN FORM. NOBODY IS HIGHER AND NOBODY IS LOWER. THE EGO CANNOT ACCEPT THAT BECAUSE IF THERE IS NOBODY HIGHER, NOBODY LOWER THE EGO CAN'T EXIST AT ALL. IT CAN EXIST ONLY THROUGH COMPARISON. IT HAS TO PUT SOMEBODY LOWER AND IT HAS TO PUT SOMEBODY HIGHER. IT CAN EXIST ONLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THESE TWO FALSITIES. IT HAS TO PUT SOMEBODY LOWER SO IT CAN FEEL, GOOD, SO I AM SPECIAL. AND THEN IT HAS TO PUT SOMEBODY HIGHER SO I CAN GO ON STRIVING, SO THAT IT CAN GO ON ACHIEVING, SO THAT IT CAN GO ON LADDERCLIMBING.
