PURPOSE of LIFE
One day a man came to me and he said 'What is the purpose of life'? And I said 'There is no purpose. Life simply is.' He was not satisfied. He said 'I have come from very far.' He had come from Nepal, and he said 'I am an old man, a retired professor. Don't send me away empty-handed. I have come to ask only one thing: What is the purpose of life?' And I said 'If I can send you away empty-handed then your journey has been purposeful, because to be empty-handed is the goal.' He said 'Don't talk in puzzles. Just tell me, in clear-cut language, what is the purpose of life?' Now he could not understand that he was asking an absurd question. Life cannot have any purpose, because if life has any purpose then something will become more valuable than life, and again the question will arise: What is the purpose of that? If we say: Life is to attain truth, then truth becomes the real purpose. But then what is t