शुक्रवार, 10 जुलाई 2015

Meaning of life

Sat chit and Ananda  or often stated as sachchidananda has a very frequent appearance in Hindu philosophy and religion.

Sat stands for being (that expresses itself in becoming through maya – sambhavami atm-mayaya  – sat unfolds itself and this unfolding is becoming). The consciousness of sat through becoming – because one can only visualise/see/feel, becoming and not the being – leads to bliss, what was described by Arjuna in hrishyami cha muhurmuhuh. Merely awareness of becoming, without a consciousness of being, may not lead to bliss.

Look at some partial glimpses of this sachchidananda. Darwin became conscious of the being expressing itself through the will to survive – to continue – and in so expressing itself taking to various genotypes and phenotypes. Newton became conscious of the being in expressing itself in balancing. 

Every scientist, every philosopher, attempts to be conscious of the being (by studying its becoming) and whenever he gets a glimpse of the being, he experiences bliss, the bliss that brings out a simple smile on his lips. This smile, howsoever momentary, is bliss. For some, this bliss may be long-lasting and for the others it may be extremely short.


Experiencing that bliss, even for a moment, is the meaning of life. Aspire for that blissful moment.

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