Scheme of living

29.09.03

How important is marriage in the scheme of living? The importance of not just marriage but of all activities in the scheme of living can be put in proper perspective only if we are aware of the purushartha or purpose of living. It might be said that the purpose of living could be any purpose we set for ourselves. But that reasoning would incorporate the follies of our ignorance and surely something as sacred as life would not have it’s living based on ignorance. Therefore, we come to the question of how to live a life that would do justice to the sacredness of life.

We might want to define life as an isolated phenomenon but since there is no life separate from our consciousness of it and a sterile definition of life would take us to the realm of academics and since consciousness is a subjective experience, our seeking to understand consciousness, identified as our forays into meditation, is the only process of defining life. Thus, it is apt to take recourse to the gleamings of the greatest of the meditators, the Rishis of yore, as a sounding board for our understanding of consciousness.