The Purpose of Life, Part 3
Inquiry 3: For What Purpose Would the Self Want to Play?
Question: How can we believe in lila? What could be its purpose? There is no convincing answer – I am sure you will concur.
Our initial inquiry concerning the purpose of life is, of course, valid only from the perspective of the apparent individual entity questioning life’s purpose and making inquiry into the nature of reality.
But what about the self?
What possible reason could the self have for assuming the appearance of the universe and seemingly enacting its continuous and seemingly interminable cycle of pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, success and failure, triumph and tragedy, birth and death?