A discussion of the purpose of human life must be based on a consideration of the structural makeup of a human being. This makeup defines human life, its working and its purpose.
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Our senses make us perceive the world as a mindless aggregation of individual beings, animate and inanimate. Ordinarily, this perception dominates the state of the human mind and prevents us from noticing the common threads that connect us. If we do not educate to reach beyond our minds, we will get bogged down in the domain of duality and multiplicity and there will not be any appreciation of our shared humanity.
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In a recent address in Ottawa, Bill Clinton identified inter-religious relations and environmental exploitation as major problems facing humankind today. He appealed to world religions to find common ground to work together in resolving these problems. The author of this blog argues that the task appropriately belongs to our educational institutions and not to the religious institutions.
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The light of core spirituality shows us the way of facing problems of global proportions which humanity is facing today. Modern advances in science and technology have quickly shrunk the world into a global village with all its potential and all its challenges, but our minds are still fixed in the eras when we lived separately and disconnectedly in our own geographical pockets.
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This is a practical example of how the principle that spiritual light instantly removes darkness of ignorance of what religion truly teaches (its core spirituality) is used to reverse radicalism.
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This is a real life example of how the light of core spirituality instantly dispels the darkness of ignorance born out of misunderstandings about the what religion truly teaches.
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According to Meister Eckhart, “Everything pertaining to the spiritual realm is inclusive and unitive by nature, whilst matter is by nature exclusive and implies separative particularity; the more spiritual a thing is, the more inclusive and thus universal it is, and the more material a thing is, the more it excludes other things by the very rigidity of its specific contours.”
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Historically, we have been living in homogenous societies. Modern science and technology have has made us aware of opportunities outside our traditional homes leading to the development of pluralistic societies. Can we live in pluralistic societies and the connected world with traditional attitudes?
A human being begins the life journey focused only on the personal physical needs. Life naturally brings spiritual growth in its wake.
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Spirituality teaches us that all beings in this relative world are diverse manifestations of an Absolute underlying reality. If this reality is compared with a coin, energy and consciousness are two inseparable sides of it.
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The goal of the envisaged spiritual education is a clear communication of the core spiritual principle that the universe is an indivisible whole thoroughly pervaded and intimately connected by its ground of being. The purpose of human life is to intimately learn this principle taking it deep into our consciousness in order to live our lives by it.