There
is hardly anybody who doesn’t love watching a good film. If you think about it
seriously, you will realise that our life itself is one big movie. And the
central theme of this film of life is duality. We are all witnesses to this
movie, as well as characters playing our respective parts. This movie is a long
one, which starts at birth and ends at death. And it has all the necessary
ingredients to keep us engrossed. Anger, jealousy, greed, fear, violence, sex,
love, misery, sadness----all these and much more form part of this beautiful
film, called life.
If
there was no duality, if there were no polar opposites like good and bad, right
and wrong, light and dark, rich and poor, day and night, it would become almost
impossible to weave an interesting story. Try formulating a story where there
is only goodness, only love, only rich, satisfied people, only people who speak
the truth, where there are no liars, no cheaters, no violent human beings, no
plotting, conniving, power hungry individuals, no poverty, no anger, no
jealousy, no hate, no tragedy, greed,
lust, or sorrow. One would not even be able to write a couple of pages of such
a story, and even whatever one writes would seems so monotonous, dull and
boring. There would be no twists, no surprises and no climax to such a story.
Any film made with this story would not run very long in the theatres. :P
The
same is true of life. People always wonder and ask why there is so much evil,
why there is so much hatred, why there is so much anger and violence in life?
Why is God allowing these things, when He could easily put an end to these
negative events and people, say in a jiffy? Why does God make human being
suffer? If one were to assume or believe that life is one big film, one big
story, then one would automatically realise why opposites exist, because without
them, the story of life is impossible. Life on this earth would have ended many
years ago, if not for the continuous challenges and unexpected twists and
turns, that have gone to make mankind strong and resilient, as a species. With
every problem, every setback, every adverse event, mankind has learnt ways of
overcoming them or of adapting to them. And man
has always emerged stronger from every challenge thrown at him.
The
purpose of life is evolution. Let the buds rise, lets the plants grow! Existence is really not concerned with us as individuals,
as much as it is concerned with evolution of life itself. We individuals are
the foot soldiers, who can be sacrificed if necessary, in the dynamic process
of evolution. And hence, we have to come across plenty of sorrow and misery in
this life, as these are for us to learn and to train ourselves to become better
and better. And existence only wants one thing---that the species that exist on
earth become better and better. For existence, the ends justify the meaning!
