All creatures upon this earth take birth, live a life here for a given tenure and succumb at the end of the journey of life. Now the question is, ” what is the purpose of our this journey of life?” In response to the query, many concepts may be postulated. But these concepts in shape of theory, no doubt are supposed to be based upon our “thinking process.” Now in context to this thinking process, a question arises, “when and how a thought takes place?” A thought generates in the mind when someone is in possession of a healthy body and mind. To keep your body healthy, you need enough energy and this energy one obtains from the food which is rich in its nutritional values.
At the beginning, I talked about all living creatures upon the earth. But it’s an established fact that man as a human being is most proficient to possess a sharp memory or acumen that enables him to ponder deeply about all aspects than all other creatures on the earth. Man has got a developed mind and because of that he has climbed the innumerable wrung of ladder of success in shape of good deal of numbers of inventions and discoveries.
Every query in itself contains a “basic or original subject” to be dealt with. It also demands of the “basic answer” as well. Million years ago when man was in his primal phase of evolution of life, then it is said, he had no any such “developed brain”. It’s a postulation and up to certain extent sounds correct to this propounding. Even at that period of time men borne and were destined to complete his journey of life. This is the sheer MOTIF of our query. So many answers may sound to be hidden behind this query.
In the present scenario, if we ask some one, why he is born on the earth, he will simply narrate his purposes of life. It comes up, he intends to become a doctor, professor, engineer, professor, social reformer etc. This clearly indicates, in today’s world every “secured person” has got some purposes of life in hand. But whether this sort of answer is the innate or natural response of the “basic question ?” No! It’s not! Since we are living in today’s educated and developed society and only because of that we can desire about our goals of life. This is because of our present “secured position” in the society. Here I have used the “present secured position” and not of “Future.” For the future every one has got some goals that are supposed to be attained.
In our present position, often we don’t recall to our memory the “primal phase” of history of our evolution. The man of “Primal stage” didn’t have any such ambition in mind. Leave apart the ambition, even he didn’t have any such imagination. In consequence, he was unable to form any “postulation or perception.” Even, as on today, if we get trapped in any horrible and dreadful situation that may be perilous to our life to the extinction, it’s certain, in all probabilities our every ambition, imagination and goals will slip off from our mind. I will try to explain it with some paradigms.
You happen to visit inside a forest, at the first site, you are enjoying your stroll. It’s natural. Then you opt to enter deep inside the jungle. Still you are assured that you can remember the path to exit from the forest. This sense of self-assurance inspires you to penetrate deeper and deeper into the dense woods. Now you in real sense are inside the complex dense woods. After a while you plan to retreat. But in process of this retreat, it reveals to you that you have forgotten the track. You try hopelessly to find the exit but all in vain. Now you are caught in delusion. In efforts to exit from the jungle, you are penetrating more deeper and deeper in the dense woods. The situation is, you are unable to find the path of your exit.
Now, you are all alone in the forest. The day light is waning and evening is about to fall. Besides, you are feeling strong thirst, your throat is dry and further hunger too has begun to assail you. You don’t have any support to combat this physical demand. After a short while, you begin to feel dis consolidated, for dark of the night is about to fall. You are under a fierce menace to get mangled by some wild beast in the dark of the night. It’s in deed is a horrible situation. May you be a doctor, engineer, leader or whatever by profession, that all now you forget. You are a sole man who is to protect himself only. Since your existence is on the verge of extinction. Your only purpose of life is SURVIVAL now!
Got the photo of the situation? The another situation, not harsh like the aforesaid one but closer to it, in this new paradigm. You are present at some secured place, like a distant city or market place afar from your dwelling. Suddenly, it reveals to you that your wallet has been pick pocketed. You are devoid of any money as a penniless man. On the same you begin to feel hunger inside the stomach, besides you are worried how to reach back home safely on having no means of fare. For a moment only, in a certitude you feel your existence in peril. The hunger is assailing you, you need food to maintain your posture erect, since food is “must” for existence. Here lies the basic answer of the our query.
From the very day, a human being or any other creature, who comes upon this earth, primarily and significantly, he lives the life for his survival only. This was the situation, our progenitors at the “primal phase” of life long ago, faced for hundreds of thousand years to survive. Then the sole object of the life was to survive any how. In this process to sustain the life, they happened to pass their entire life cycle. Even as on today, if you ask a man who is doomed to live the life in abject poverty, ” what he needs in life?”His only honest answer certainly will be, “meal for the day.” What is this? This the SURVIVAL only.
Since we are born in a social system, that is secured and is of comfort zone. We are reared up by parents carefully, been provided good education and protection, it makes us to forget about the issue of survival. Imagine a situation in which patriarch or sole bread earner of the family loses his job. Then all members in the family begin to worry about two meals of the day. The rest of the goals and purposes of life go into the oblivion. The main object of the family now confines to the arrangement of two meals of the day. What is that? It’s the survival!
First and foremost purpose of our life is to combat against the hunger and to obtain the bread to quench that. The real purpose of life is that one! Think over this. We are born to survive firstly. And in this survival, if we are blessed to born in a secured family, there only we can fix the goals of our life. To obtain the goals or so called purposes, we primarily need to survive at the first hand. This survival needs every thing to keep us in an ambiance of security and comfort. Whether it was the Primal man or we people of the present developed society, we all are in the same struggle to survive in this world. But never we think over this neither secondarily or tertiary. Penned by — Vinay Pharasi —
