Stopped In Our Tracks
Stories of U.G. In India from the Notebooks of K. ChandrasekharTranslated and Edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty 2d/3d Series
It's Meaningless to Ask the Meaning of Life
U.G.: Why talk of the meaning of life? Why do you want to mystify? You are here somehow. There may not be any meaning. You obviously see no meaning in life. Everything you do seems absolutely meaningless.
Q: There must be some goal, aim...
U.G.: The moment the baby is born the goal is to survive—that is the instinct. To feed itself, survive and reproduce one like itself. That seems to be the way of life. Life is expressing itself, that's all.
The body is responding to the stimuli—the pulse, beat and throb of life. When those things stop, then what you call clinical death takes place. But life is still continuing, but not in the way you want. The form disintegrates into the constituent elements and that becomes the basis for another form of life. Anyway, that is no consolation to you because the instrument you are using to understand the meaning of life is interested only in continuing.
Q: There must be some goal, aim...
U.G.: The moment the baby is born the goal is to survive—that is the instinct. To feed itself, survive and reproduce one like itself. That seems to be the way of life. Life is expressing itself, that's all.
The body is responding to the stimuli—the pulse, beat and throb of life. When those things stop, then what you call clinical death takes place. But life is still continuing, but not in the way you want. The form disintegrates into the constituent elements and that becomes the basis for another form of life. Anyway, that is no consolation to you because the instrument you are using to understand the meaning of life is interested only in continuing.
