Listener 1: I usually think about the purpose of life and obviously, there is no answer to it but when I talk to my friend about it who is an atheist, we always come to the conclusion that there are good people and bad people and both chose their ways and end up in the same soil. But what after that? That is the thing that gets me confused every time.
Acharya Prashant: Even if there is a purpose of life, what will you do with that?
Let there be a purpose of life or maybe there is no purpose of life, but right now that we are talking, what will you do with that purpose? The three of us are busy in conversation, now what will you do with that purpose? Right now I have something to say to you and you have something to say to me but what will we do with that purpose?
And if we keep remembering that purpose then how will we talk? So, I don’t know whether there is a purpose. All I know is even if there is a purpose it is quite an irrelevant purpose.
L1: Think about those who doesn’t have the chance to learn or think out of the box. They just couldn’t get out of their conditioning. So for them what is the purpose of life?
AP: It is so unfortunate, is it not? You are born and that box is just there waiting for you and then you become that box. You identify yourself so much with the box that you don’t want to leave it. It’s quite unfortunate and that is human suffering.
