What is the meaning of this Life????

Question:I can't understand this. What is the meaning of this life?. We study hard then we try to find a good job, getting married, having children and at the end we have to leave everything. We don't know what will happen to us in future. We can become rich, poor or live as normal people in the world. It's very strange. Forget about religions, gods and everything. What is the meaning of this life? Why do we have to do all these studying and everything. I think it is meaningless.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I can't understand this. What is the meaning of this life?. We study hard then we try to find a good job, getting married, having children and at the end we have to leave everything. We don't know what will happen to us in future. We can become rich, poor or live as normal people in the world. It's very strange. Forget about religions, gods and everything. What is the meaning of this life? Why do we have to do all these studying and everything. I think it is meaningless.

Ok I'm going to make it very simple for you to understand.

The meaning of life is to HELP people, not just your family, not just your friends, not just your neighbourhood but your community , your state or province, your country, the entire earth.

It can start with little things, like picking up litter when you see it on the street and putting it in garbage cans. It's smiling as you go down the street, sit in class, whatever, saying hello to people without expecting or worrying that they don't say it back.

It's choosing to be happy and positive and proactive, rather than miserable, negative and reactive.

It's NOT thinking about the PAST all the TIME or WORRYING about the FUTURE or WHAT IF-ING all over the place , it's staying in the NOW, in the MOMENT.
It's having integrity and letting your word be your bond. It's hanging out with positive people , not gangs, not druggers, not sluts and players. It's BEING NICE to other people and not expecting anything back for it .

It's volunteering in your community. It's getting yourself involved passionately in something you love doing , including work and being positive about whatever you're doing , no matter what the rest of the world says or does.

It's actually reading in YA that this question what is the meaning of life comes up at least three times daily and not asking it again.

since you think its meaningless, you're off track, you've lost focus. the meaning of life is finding those things that make you happy, the simple things! sharing love.

The purpose of life is to worship our Creator!
Without Jesus Christ our lives are meaningless!

K, honstly no one really knows what the meaning of life is. I personally think, you make it what you want it to mean.
If you think you must help people, there your meaning.
some people think that there meaning in life is to teach kids, and be an idol for them, and other think its to help the Earth
its all what you want it to be

What is the meaning of this life - or what is the meaning of OUR life? Is there an overall purpose of the human race? Are we all contributing to some overall cause? Or are we just exisiting, just living everyday for nothing?
As usual in philosophy I am forced to answer a question with more questions. How can we ever know?
Maybe it's up to us to decide what the meaning of this life is. Maybe first we must ask what life itself is. And is life even real? Or are we in a matrix?
But I digress.

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A thought-provoking question! But then are you in any way responsible for your coming over here? No, not at all!!!! We are not even sure about the time period we are going to stay on this earth. We are only, to some extent, sure about the way we are going to or have spent our time here on earth.

Now, since, we have come here knowing very well that we all have to go some day then why not create and give some meaning to the life by our own efforts, instead of trying to find the answer. Hence, be happy. Because, if you are happy, you through happiness all around. This certainly would give some meaning to our life.

Lizzy-tish~~~~has nicely explained certain moral values of life to follow. Try to follow them, you would automatically find closer to your answer in due course of time.

What ever you make of it!

This is a synopsis of a book written by Meher Baba entitled "God Speaks", which explains the meaning of life.

Life is a journey that God is traveling.

The first phase of God's journey is evolution. It is initiated from a totally unconscious God as if an infinite Ocean of Knowledge, Power and Bliss were in a state likened to deep sleep. This unconscious God speaks the First Word "Who am I?". This question disrupts the limitless, undivided, absolute vacuum, and its reverberations create individualized souls, compared to drops or bubbles within the Ocean. By speaking the First Word, God establishes the process of Creation, in which he assumes evolving forms to gain increasing consciousness.

Individuality is the vehicle of this quest. Evolution marks a series of temporary answers to "Who am I?" The soul traverses a multitude of forms, beginning with simples gases and proceeding slowly through inanimate stone and mineral forms. These early evolutionary stages obviously have only the most rudimentary consciousness and cannot provide a satisfactory answer to God's original question.

The original query thus provides a continuing momentum for the drop soul to develop new forms each with greater consciousness, including the many plant and animal beings. Every evolutionary kingdom reveals new dimensions of consciousness and experience. Each also offers opportunities to gain different kinds of awareness. For example, when the soul identifies itself with varied species of fish, it experiences the world as a creature living in water conversely, as a bird, it enriches its consciousness by flying through air.

When the drop soul finally evolves to human form, consciousness is fully developed, but an individual is still not aware of the potential of his or her consciousness.

So the original "Who am I?" imperative persists and inaugurates the second phase: reincarnation. Since consciousness is fully developed, there is no longer a need for evolving new forms. The individual's experience, gathered in early stages of evolution, is now humanized and expressed in countless lifetimes. The impulses gained in sub-human forms can play themselves out in the broader context of intelligence, emotions, choices, diverse setting and interactions with people.

But obviously no single lifetime can bear the burden of "humanizing" the entire evolutionary inheritance randomly or simultaneously. There must be a method for re-experiencing the pre-human legacy in manageable segments. The soul thus experiences alternately a series of opposites, organized according to themes. Accordingly, in different lives, the soul becomes male and female, rich and poor, vigorous and weak, beautiful and ugly. Through exploring the potential of these many opposites, one eventually exhausts all possible human identities and, therefore, has fully learned the entire range of human experience.

Here begins the third phase: involution, the process by which the soul returns to the full awareness of the Divine Force, which created him. As Meher Baba puts it, "When the consciousness of the soul is ripe for disentanglement from the gross world (the everyday world of matter and forms), it enters the spiritual path and turns inward."

Like evolution, involution has certain states and stages, consisting of "planes" and "realms." But individuality continues along this spiritual path, and there are as many ways to God as there are souls.

Each new plane denotes a state of being that differs from the states that proceeded it. The first three planes are within the subtle world or domain of energy, "pran." There follows the fourth plane, the threshold of the mental world, where misuse of great power for personal desire can lead to disintegration of consciousness.

The fifth and sixth planes represent true sainthood, which is understood to be increasing intimacy with God as the Beloved. On the sixth plane, the mind itself becomes the inner eye that sees God everywhere and in everything. "The loving of God and the longing for His union," says Meher Baba "is fully demonstrated in the sixth plane of consciousness."

The seventh plane marks true and lasting freedom. Impressions go. Duality goes. The drops burst and again become the Ocean. God answers his question of "Who am I?" with "I am God." The Infinite has returned to the original starting point. He now knows, however, with full consciousness and full awareness that he was, is and always will be infinite with infinite Knowledge, Power and Bliss. And he realizes that the entire journey has been an illusory dream, the purpose of which is the full awakening of his soul.