- Question:
What is the purpose of life/existence? Is it so that Source/God (we) can get lost in its creation in an eternal adventure spanning infinite worlds, dimensions and universes or is Brahman desperately trying to wake up through spiritual enlightenment?
Sri Prabhuji:
All living beings want to be happy and avoid suffering. We seek happiness because intuitively we know bliss (ananda) is our essential/fundamental nature. All living beings seek good sleep. Bliss of deep sleep is pointer to our essential nature of Ananda.
Ananda comes from the Sanskrit word – Anantha which means Infinite. Bliss is infiniteness.
Ananda which is our essential nature gets covered by the feeling of Duality – feeling of limitedness because of identification with the body-mind-intellect, feeling of separation from the world and God.