The significance of life is living. Do we really live , is life worth living when there is fear, when our whole life is trained in imitation, in copying? In following authority , is there livening ? Are you living when you follow somebody, even if he is the greatest saint or the greatest politician or the greatest scholar ?
If you observe your own ways, you will see that you do nothing but follow somebody or another. This process of following is what we call “living” , and then at the end of it you say , “ What is the significance of life ? “ To you, life has no significance now ; the significance can come only when you put away all this authority. It is very difficult to put away authority.
What is freedom from authority ? You can break a law. That is not the freedom from authority. But there is freedom in understanding the whole process, how the mind creates authority, how each one of us is confused and therefore wants to be assured that he is living the right kind of life. Because we want to be told what to do, we are exploited by gurus, spiritual as well as scientific. We do not know the significance of life as long as we are copying – imitating – following.
How can one know the significance of life when all that one is seeking is success ? That is our life ; we want success ,we want to be completely secure inwardly and outwardly, we want somebody to tell us that we are doing right, that we are following the right path leading to salvation…all our life is following a tradition, the tradition of yesterday or of thousands of years, and we make every experience into an authority to help us to achieve a result. So we do not know the significance of life. All that we know is fear – fear of what somebody says, fear of dying, fear of not getting what we want, fear of committing wrong, fear of doing good. Our minds are so confused , caught in theory that we cannot describe what significance life has to us.
Life is something extraordinary. When question arises from someone “ What is the significance of life ? “ he wants a definition. All that he will know is the definition, mere words, and not the deeper significance , the extraordinary richness, the sensitivity to beauty, the immensity of living.
The question of “ What is life ? “ will continues on next week.
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