The real goal of life

Life is meant for self-realization. The human form of life is not meant for merely following the animal propensities of survival. The reptilain brain is hardwired to eat and reproduce, but the rare and valuable human form of life also facilitates heightened consciousness and transcendence. There are higher levels to which we can aspire. We simply need to remember.

The ancient Veda, Sanskrit texts from India, that teach the art and science of yoga and self-realization, is the handbook and users manual for us all. It is not sectarian or religious in a superstitious or sentimental way. You can be non-religious or non-sectarian, or practice the religion of your family if that is what your upbringing tells you. Any path is fine. All you need to do is add the scientific techniques offered in the Vedas to your current life and you will be able to awaken consciousness and remember your original identity, beyond the body, mind and external conditioning of your birth.

We are all born into different cultures with varying wisdom on what is truth and reality. It is couched in the language and names and superstitions of our country or culture, but all of that is relative. Religion is relative. It varies from place to place, time in history and socio-political persuasion. You can change your religion and your culture from one day to the next if you wish.

But your inherent constitutional identity as a human being will stay the same. And all humans are the same in potential for awakened consciousness. In other words, consciousness is not subject to psychology or biology. It is not relative but absolute. It makes no difference what external culture you adopt or is imposed on you by your culture and family of birth. That is secondary. You are able to access fuller and more complete consciousness awakening regardless of the externals because you have the human biology to do it.

This human body is a marvelous tool to awaken consciousness via the Pineal and Pituitary system within the brain and available to all. Of course, certain lifestyle practices will enhance or inhibit your ability, and there are more or less favorable lifestyle choices which facilitate or inhibit Pineal activation. So the details are important as to what you do or don’t do with your human body and mind.

But when it comes to the goal of life, the goal of religion and philosophy and science and psychology – the goal of them all – is to facilitate your fullest potential. And that potential is sometimes called “spiritual” but a less loaded label would be consciousness, and the capacity of yourself to experience full consciousness. The symptoms of awakened consciousness have been recorded in the Vedas and have historically been available to those in various religious practices, particularly the mystic cultures of the yogis, Sufis and other more mystical branches. For those are the ones that directly pursue consciousness awakening, while the more exoteric branches of religion are more focused on the moral and social etiquette of the day, the taboos and totems of the relative age and place in history.

Those outer forms may change, but the human body stays the same and the capacity to awaken consciousness stays the same and the goal is the same – to meet our maker, to attain self-realization, to remember our original identity beyond the superficial culture we currently live in. So it would do all of us well to look beyond the superficial names we label our gods, and see the common thread between all cultures. It would do us well to look beyond the superficial messages of our prophets and to ask what it is that they are really alluding to beyond the socio-political externals of the current day.

Look deeper, ask more, look within, the answers are available if you really want them.