What is the meaning of Life?

Life is for the absolute satisfaction of God the Creator and God the creation.

The meaning of life is to become inseparably one with God the transcendental Bliss and God the universal Peace.

The meaning of life is to achieve unconditional self-giving and a self-giving will, at God's choice Hour, in the unhorizoned blossoming of God-becoming.

Life means will-power, the will-power that unites God's descending Compassion-Smile with man's ascending aspiration-cry. In the desire-bound life, there are teeming rules and regulations. In the aspiration-free life, there is only one rainbow-rule: complete faith in oneself and birthless and deathless faith in God.

Life is love: animal love, human love and divine love. Animal love is destruction. Human love is frustration. Divine love is satisfaction. Again, love is life par excellence because it is the existence-reality itself.

Life must needs have a dream and a goal. Today's dream and goal have to be transcended tomorrow. Each Himalayan dream of man is God's own Self-Transcendence.

Transcendence is the glorious beginning of human perfection. Perfect perfection is pure satisfaction within and sure satisfaction without.

What is the meaning of life and who am I? From time immemorial these two questions have remained inseparably one. Who am I? I am my life's unfinished God-manifestation

Excerpt from "A Peace-Collecting Pilgrim-Soul" by Sri Chinmoy