Material existence without the human form is pointless

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Does it answer your question? Makes the pointless material existence purposeful.
Pointless material existence refers to how in this world, there is so much conflict, there is so much savage, life-kills-life kind of existence, where one life form lives at the cost of another. And this just goes on. And often, when we may look at one level at the beauty of nature, but another level, we can also see the savage root nature, wherein a deer has to flee for its life, otherwise, it will be caught by a pursuing lion who will rip apart the deer’s body while the deer is still alive.
And the deer will suffer a horrifying death as its body is consumed by the lion. So, if you consider it from that point of view, it’s quite a savage idea of one body, one person, one living being becoming the life of another living being being so brutally killed. And further, even if somehow someone survives, what happens after that? After that, there is death.
So, there is death after that. So, then what is the point of it all? We struggle, we struggle, we struggle, we struggle, and then we suffer, and we suffer, and we suffer, and we suffer, and then we are finished. So, what is the point of it all? And if you look at the life trajectory of all living beings, this is what we will see.
Struggle, suffer, and death. And observers of nature like Darwin, almost enshrined this as a sacred principle of nature, and they say that is survival of the fittest. So, the problem with this idea of survival of the fittest is that it is an unsustainable idea.
It is an idea that cannot be held on for a very long time. Otherwise, we just sink into a sense of pointlessness about material existence. So, if you want to realize the point of existence, if you want to make our existence purposeful, then we have to look for a purpose beyond the mortality that characterizes our life here in this world.
Is there some point to our life beyond what we observe in this world? If there is that point, what is that point? And how do we know, how do we fulfill that point? That is the important question that needs to be answered. And answering that question requires recognizing that we are at our core spiritual. In fact, not just we in the sense of we human beings, but all living beings are spiritual.
And as all living beings, at their core are souls. But the souls in non-human bodies do not have the capacity to do spiritual inquiry. And they just live and then when their lifespan gets exhausted, they die.
But the souls are promoted to higher forms of life till they get the human form. And when they come to the human form, there the soul gets capacity, the soul’s covering is so less, is lessened enough, is thin enough, so that the soul can perceive spiritual truth. And then can realize spiritual truth and then release spiritual truth.
So this opportunity is there only in the human form. And now Krishna, that’s why he states that In 3.16, the Bhagavad Gita he states Like this is a chakra, this is cycle of pravartitam. Of pravartitam means the cycle of birth and death.
Krishna is not talking here about cycle of birth and death. He is talking about the cycle of cosmic contribution through yajna. So basically yajna, Krishna has said, Krishna talks about dharma, performance of dharma in terms of yajna.
And this concept of yajna can be understood and implemented only in the human form of life. Lower forms of life cannot understand how to exactly practice dharma and how to do yajna. And Krishna says, those who do not practice this, do not practice this, what happens to them? So they live in vain.
They waste their life, they live in vain. And that’s why what is important is that we recognize the purpose of our life and we fulfill that purpose by directing our inquiry towards spiritual truth. To the extent we learn spiritual truth, to the extent we internalize spiritual truth, to the extent we realize spiritual truth, to that extent we can move onwards in our journey towards Krishna and we can attain lasting satisfaction.
And that is what is the purpose and perfection of the human form of life. When we understand that the struggle and the suffering, it is meant for our spiritual growth and we grow spiritually through it. We turn towards realizing our eternal core, our eternal spiritual identity.
We turn towards realizing our eternal relationship with Krishna. Then this pointless metal existence becomes purposeful. Because through all the struggling and suffering, we are fulfilling the purpose of realizing and attaining our spiritual nature.
Thank you.