What is the meaning of human life, the reason for its existence?
Knowing the ultimate truth of spiritual reality, all human geniuses respond the same: the meaning of life is man’s self-realization. And this realization presupposes, above all, knowledge of the true nature of man.
About six centuries before the Christian Era, born in the foothills of the Himalayas, there lived a royal prince named Siddhartha Gautama. Shortly after his marriage, he clandestinely abandoned his home. He wandered for 16 years through the regions of India, in meditation and fasting, in an attempt to discover a definitive answer to the mystery of human suffering after encountering so much misery and hardship throughout his path.
During this pilgrimage, including through the local forests, he saw that wild animal did not suffer, and why should man, the so-called crown of creation, live in such suffering? One day, sitting under the shade of a tree, deep in meditation, followed by some who accompanied him, he awoke from his prolonged ecstasy and uttered four words – and those around him exclaimed: Buddha! Buddha! that is: woke up, woke up.
Until then, Buddha, that royal pilgrim, had slept the sleep of illusion about himself all his life, identifying himself with his mental ego; he suddenly awakened to the vigil of liberating truth.
What Buddha said, after awakening to the light of truth, were the following words, which according to his followers, represent the “Four Noble Truths of Buddha”:
1)- Human life is essentially suffering.
2)- The cause of this suffering is the illusion in which man lives about himself.
3)- With the transformation of illusion into truth, guilt and suffering end.
4)- The step to knowing this truth is deep meditation about oneself.
That is the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.
About a thousand years before Buddha, Moses, in other words, said these same truths: “Cursed be the Earth because of you,” which is what Adam heard from the living God. Adam, identified with his illusory ego, deviated from the liberating truth about his true nature, which caused his expulsion from paradise and the onset of suffering.
And about fifteen hundred years after Moses and six hundred years after Buddha appeared the greatest cosmic genius known to humanity conscious of the truth - Jesus of Nazareth, who crystallized in a parable this same truth: that the man who lives and acts in illusion about himself is a “bad and lazy servant” and loses even his human nature. In contrast, the man who knows and lives the truth about himself is a “good and faithful servant” who enters into the enjoyment of that truth.
This cosmic truth can be translated into the following words: whoever can, must, and whoever can and must and does not create debt - all debt begets suffering.
When the Cosmic Laws give a creature a potentiality, they expect the dynamization of that potentiality. If a man does what he can and must, he fulfils himself, makes his existential fulfilment. However, when a man does not do what he can and must, he succumbs to his existential frustration.
Man being essentially his rational (spiritual) Self, can and must realize his divine Self, this Logos of his; this is his existential realization, which the Cosmic Laws expect of him. Man is, potentially, the “breath of God”, says Genesis, who can and must be dynamized in the “image and likeness of God”; this realization is the reason for his existence. Man is endowed with the power of free will, for there is no evolution without resistance. For this reason, the Cosmic Laws created in man the mental ego, which Genesis calls the serpent, which must manifest and be overcome so that man can be fully realized by the power of his free will. God created man as little as possible (divine breath); it created man on the way to perfection, so that man can be creative as much as possible (image and likeness of God) in the state of a perfect man.
As long as man does not dynamize his potential, he is subject to suffering because he does not do what he can and should, becoming debtor and guilty, causing his suffering.
Until today, almost all of humanity is guilty because it does not fulfil itself in the truth, suffers because it is condemnable and indebted to the eternal Laws of Cosmic Justice, and will always suffer, as long as it is not even with these commitments.
As long as the servant does not duplicate the talents received (the potentialities it received from God), it remains indebted and suffering, for Cosmic Laws do not distribute potentialities at random. However, it demands that man doubles by his effort what he received; whoever returns what it has accepted is a useless, mean, and lazy servant.
The man who only develops his mental ego, not his rational (spiritual) Self, lives in existential frustration, and cannot help being a sufferer, because he is indebted and guilty of his existential non-fulfilment.
In recent times, medicine has managed to increase the longevity of human life through drugs – but it has not reduced the suffering for this artificial longevity is an extension of the agony of man, who continues to be to blame.
As long as man is not fulfilled, he will not cease to be a sufferer, despite all the palliatives and camouflages of medicine. Only existential realization can put an end to man’s compulsory suffering.
After ceasing to be debtor and guilty, the man may continue to suffer for some time for his past debts or even for the fault of his fellow debtors. Only when all humanity becomes free from guilt suffering will no longer be compulsory.
The suffering of one’s debts is regrettable – but the suffering of others’ debts is glorious.
Only the great avatars of humanity, free from compulsory suffering, can willingly suffer because they know that without resistance, there is no evolution – and they are desirous of future evolution and self-realization.
Christ Jesus was one of those men because he did not suffer for his own debt, nor for others, but “to enter into his glory”. In the service of his higher evolution, his voluntary suffering was a credit one, not debt suffering.
Only the new humanity, freed from suffering, will initiate the glorious humanity of the avatars, of which Christ Jesus was the forerunner.
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