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What Is the Purpose? Why Am I Alive? Is There a Meaning to Life? · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Modern-day civilization suffers from an epidemic of emptiness, a
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  feeling that life has no meaning or purpose.
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  This leads to various coping mechanisms, such as dissipation,
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  through use of drugs, or alcohol, or through consumption
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  of mindless entertainment. For those who do not choose
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  these mechanisms. There are suicidal impulses in
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  some cases as well as a general feeling of malaise listlessness,
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  apathy and a lack of care about their lives.
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  And their actions Some seek Thrills through high-risk
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  activities to try to discover something that awakens them from
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  this torpor, some simply use this lack of purpose as an
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  excuse to eat drink and be merry.
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  It is the rare individual, who uses this experience, or this
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  more or less constant sense of aimlessness to seek out and find
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  the significance of their lives and of existence in general.
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  These individuals start on a path of discovery.
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  It may begin with a search in one of the scientific Fields,
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  exploring first, the creation of matter in the universe.
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  Eventually they find energy and then Consciousness if they push
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  this seeking along far enough Others May seek to find a
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  meaning in the religious or philosophical traditions that
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  have Arisen based on the seeking and efforts of others.
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  In the past, still others, go on a Vision Quest or seek within to
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  find out why they have been born the purpose for which they live.
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  And the aim of the life, they are leading.
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  This is how the spiritual Quest awakens in the heart of the
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  individual and motivates him drives him to find the answers
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  that have been missing from his life.
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  The mother observes quote one suddenly feels that everything
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  one does, everything one sees has no meaning, no purpose but
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  that there is something which has a meaning that essentially
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  one is here on Earth for something that all is all these
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  movements. All this agitation all is
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  wastage of force an energy. Well, that must have a purpose
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  and aim and that this uneasiness one feels within oneself.
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  This lack of satisfaction. This need this thirst for
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  something, must lead us somewhere else.
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  And one day you ask yourself, but then why is one born, why
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  does one died? Why does one suffer, why does
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  one act you? No longer live like a little
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  machine hardly half-conscious. You want to feel truly to act,
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  truly to know, truly then in ordinary life one searches for
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  books for people who know a little more than oneself.
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  When begins to seek somebody who can solve these questions lift,
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  the veil of ignorance in quote reference SRI aurobindo on the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 2 Awakening of Consciousness page 27.