11.

A basic question – whether there is a meaning and purpose to our

existence – arises in, and perhaps bothers the mind of every individual.
Scholars and philosophers since long have mulled over question regarding our
existence.
Is our existence a random event in evolution or is there a greater principle in life
with meaning and purpose.
These indestructible question ….. cannot be kept simmering on a back burner
for long. They will thunder loudly in the emptiness within you, in moments of
personal crises or when you‘ve lost your social moarings, by TZ Lavine.
Is there an all-encompassing over-mind or absolute spirit, in which all concepts
are unified? Is reality a complex totality of rational concepts? Hegal’s
dialectical method of reasoning allowed him to view the world from a
teleological perspective. On the other hand, it is an understanding of the
structures of “Consciousness”, as Husserlian phenomenology would have it,
enough to gain insight into the mystery of the mind of man? Is there no meaning
at all, as Sartre pointed out? Are we condemned to be free to live out our live?
The Upanishads say, “neti, neti”- not this, not this- is that something beyond our
intellectual grasp, is it only what lies in the stillness beyond the working of the
mind.
- Viktor Frankl wrote that “Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of
his life is, but rather, must recognize that it is he who is asked… each man is
questioned by life : to life he can only respond by being responsible .” He goes
on to that one can try and discover a meaning in life by doing a deed,
experiencing a value or by suffering. For, hasn’t it been said that the road less
traveled is the spiritual path, right next to the regular highway of life? By the
very nature of its questioning and search, life is a different and arduous path.
- There are no universal answers, but each time the question is asked, it throws
up a different answer, unique to each individual.