PURPOSE of LIFE

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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 the purpose of truth? If we say: Life is to seek God, then the question arises: 'What is the purpose of God'? or of achieving God? or of realising God? In the end you have to drop the word 'purpose', finally you have to drop it. 

Yes, value is not the name for it, purpose is not the name for it; and if you understand this insight, great light will arise in you. Life has no purpose and no value. Love has no purpose and no value.
God has no purpose and no value. Truth has no purpose and no value. That means God, life, truth, love, are just four names for the same thing. They are not different, because there can be only one thing which has not any purpose - everything else has purpose because of it. It is the topmost, the very peak. 

OSHO - Tao The Pathless Path. V1

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