by Sri Bmal Mohanty
VOL No.8
 February 2001

continued...

As I mentioned earlier these are not new questions. They have haunted the human mind for over five thousand years of present existence and must have also haunted the people of different yugas and time frames.

There are many interpretations and many possible explanations have been offered by great many thinkers. You can pick what ever appeals to you. What I intend to do is to select a few bits of reasonings taken from our seers (like Sri Aurobindo etc. ) and see if it appeals to you as well.

Why we are constantly running after that apparently unknown goal?

One argument in favour of this is indeed very simple.

The ultimate goal as understood by all of us is satchidananda - the truth, its realization and the ultimate bliss or happiness.

Humans by nature – and for that matter, every creature - are conditioned to peace and happiness. So intense is this instinct in us that in every moment of life we work for satisfying this urge in us to remain happy and peaceful. Why is this instinct so strong in us? Our Vedantic philosophy and religious way of thinking provides a very convincing answer.

To begin with, let us analyse, what is this instinct? It is the memory stored in our subconscious level of something that we are aware of. If we do not have the knowledge and experience from the past, we can not have instinct.

            


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