What is the purpose of life and living?

What is the purpose of life and living? The purpose of all physical existence is to one day merge with that Divine Light from which you separated. What is the purpose of this lifetime? This life course? What is the purpose of every life course that you have lived and will live? There is only one purpose. To know yourself in all entirety!

You have chosen to experience duality and therefore you must be ‘dual’.  You must be what you call ‘good’ and you must be what you call ‘bad’. You must be happy and you must also experience the illusion of unhappiness. You must like and you must dislike.  You must fall and you must rise.  But in this duality you lose the knowledge of your unity with the Light.  And you have not learnt the purpose of the life course: through all duality experience only unity.  Your love is ‘you’ and your harshness is ‘you’. Your generosity is ‘you’ and your miserliness is ‘you’. Your strength is ‘you’ and your weakness is ‘you’. Is ‘YOU’. And how many of you know yourself by experiencing every part of you completely and knowing that part in all its fullness. You love, and love is ‘you’. Experience that moment in its fullness and know more about this part of you. You are harsh. Experience that completely and know more about this part of you. You have been generous; live that moment in entirety and know this part of you. And so every moment is a gift that the Universe gives you to ‘know yourself’. And your mind has already been conditioned to follow a wonderful pattern of knowing: who is this part, why is this part, where does this part spring from, how does it grow and how does it diminish?  When does it appear and when does it vanish? Unless you ask yourself all these and more questions, you have not experienced that part of you completely. And so you accept and you acknowledge ‘each part’ that is ‘you’.  And with that you accept and acknowledge yourself in all completion. And that is the purpose of this life course.  And it is this knowledge of ‘you’ that takes you closer to that wondrous moment when there is no you.

But to gather this knowledge, you must turn your face away from fear, from doubt, and if there is fear, then that fear is you. And ask all these questions to this part of you and then proceed on. Then you will have ‘lived’!  Breathing is not living! This is ‘living’. And if you can ‘live’ for even a few moments of every day, you have made a good beginning. And from this beginning you will experience a sense of joy and elation that is so vast, that you will wish to ‘live’ more and more and more and then ‘living’ will become a habit. Life must be your habit! You must not make an effort to ‘live’!  Which is what you are doing now. But this effort if it leads you into a habit of life then you must persist with this habit. And then no moment is good or bad.  No experience is good or bad. Every moment and every experience is a wondrous opportunity, a gift to ‘live’.  And then all else is extraneous.