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The Meaning of Life

This talk was originally given on October 13, 2023, by Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji (from the Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies) to a group of Lithuanian travelers staying in Vṛndāvana, India. In the original recording, a Lithuanian devotee provided a spoken translation in Lithuanian alongside Babaji's English. For this edited version, all Lithuanian translation segments have been removed, leaving only Babaji speaking in English. In this profound and practical lecture delivered in Vṛndāvana, Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji explores the true meaning of life through logical reasoning, everyday observations, and timeless spiritual wisdom. He begins by highlighting the universal paradox: every living being has a strong instinct to survive and live, yet death is inevitable. Why cling to life if death ends suffering, or if permanent sleep (like euthanasia for suffering pets) seems pleasurable? Suicide attempts show people seek escape from pain, yet society condemns it and most reject death as a solution. This points to a deeper higher meaning beyond mere survival or escape. Modern science extends life and researches immortality (e.g., reversing cell aging), but it fails to answer why prolong life or how to live meaningfully. Education teaches everything except self-knowledge: who you are, why you should live, and how you should live. The true meaning of life is happiness — we all instinctively seek it, regardless of country, gender, age, or background. Yet common pursuits like money or sense gratification are illusions: wealth is inert and only exchanges for sense pleasures; fulfilling desires merely removes the prior agitation they caused, creating the false sense of "gained happiness." People without those desires aren't suffering from their absence, proving desire fulfillment doesn't produce real happiness — it just ends self-created trouble. True happiness arises from loving relationships, not material objects. Material love is conditional, leading to ups/downs and suffering; real love is unconditional, found in spiritual connection with the supreme source of love: Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Vṛndāvana is the "warehouse of love," where Kṛṣṇa lived and distributed unconditional love, remembered after thousands of years. Babaji illustrates this with the story from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (Yājñavalkya and Maitreyī), showing that all love is ultimately for the ātmā (Self), and the highest ātmā is Kṛṣṇa present in everything attractive. Kṛṣṇa explains His divine manifestations (vibhūti) in Bhagavad Gītā Chapter 10; we get attached to externals and suffer when they change. The solution to all personal and societal problems — family conflicts, corruption, wars (including references to contemporary fighting in the place where Jesus taught love) — is love. Without love, we create hell; with love (especially divine love), we experience heaven. Bhakti yoga is the yoga of love, detailed step-by-step in Bhagavad Gītā and Uddhava Gītā. The talk concludes with reflections on why material attraction fades (impermanence, mind's nature, attraction to the unattained) and the essence of material objects: dejection. The journey begins with accepting impermanence and turning to spiritual understanding — the reason Kṛṣṇa appeared in Vṛndāvana. A heartfelt invitation to read Bhagavad Gītā, understand the meaning of life, and find lasting happiness through love and devotion to God. Here is the original talk, with Lithuanian translation: The Meaning of Life — English & Lithuanian • The Meaning of Life — English & Lithuanian Learn more: https://www.jiva.org/ Explore courses: https://learning.jiva.org Transform your heart through Vedic Psychology: https://myvedicpsychology.com/