The yearning to know the purpose of our lives

Question from the Internet:

“When one asks “what is the meaning of life” is he in #sakti (with drive) demanding with conviction, or is he bookishly doing the motions when asking?”

Fantastic question! This really explores our free choice in life.

What unique empirical scientists explain — who have been studying human nature for millennia and their findings, writings are also very similar to the original Indian philosophy, tradition — is that as part of human development, as our desires for fulfillment (the engine that drives us) grow, clarify, we go through the instinctive desires of food, sex, family, and the social desires of wealth, power, fame, knowledge, a new desire awakens in more and more people.

This new desire which awakens in masses of people today is about our purpose in life, about who we are, about why we are called humans contrary to other animals?

So the awakening of this desire is unconscious, these questions appear in most people at certain stages of life, especially when we suffer losses, pain, despair.

Our free choice is to develop these questions, the initial desire to know our purpose, origin into a clear demand, conviction, to such a yearning that we can’t ignore those questions any longer but we simply have to have an answer otherwise life is not worth living.

We can freely develop the initial instinctive awakening into such an overwhelming irrepressible yearning in the right environment with the help of the appropriate scientific method, that not only creates that incredible need, yearning but also gives us the means, tools to get the answers we need.