--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > <Snip> > > > > > Judy: > Was your life having a preordained purpose something > > > you were taught in the TMO, or did you come up with > > > that yourself? I ask because I never encountered any > > > such teaching. > > > > Me: The purpose of human life in MMY's teaching is gaining > > enlightenment. You continue to reincarnate until you do. If you > > didn't get it from his lectures you would get it from the Gita > > commentary. Am I understanding your question? > > Oh, OK, in other words, the purpose of *every* life > (and not just human life). I thought you meant a > particular purpose for you, or for all TMers, or all > TM teachers. > The logic as I recall it was to eliminate suffering in one's life, and that any relative means to do this would eventually be transcended, and therefore becoming established in a state that was permanently free of the suffering of relative life; enlightenment, was the purpose of life. Makes sense to me.
The catch is how we define enlightenment, becasue it is a state that coexists with every thought, action and lack of any thought or action. Until the reality of both enlightenment and action is lived, it cannot be conceived by the mind; the mind will only think of it in terms of its description of eternal peace and conclude no action is taking place, because the unenlightened mind is always bound to action, so if there is eternal peace it concludes that the body and mind are also not acting. The reality of enlightenment is that it is the eternal fulfillment of living a contented life. The enlightened part of us continues in eternal silence, eternal fulfillment, and if we are not recluses, our bodies and minds work and play as hard as possible while enjoying this simultaneous state of complete fulfillment and inner silence/infinity. Nothing stagnant or preordained about it. It is freedom of the highest order.
