/lit/ - Literature

>>15140448
Yup. This is it. Kind of a complete let down isn't it? Not like it gets better either, closer to a museum now...

>>15140448
i fear the possibility of aeviternity in hell more

Meaning is a spook and never ending wild goose chase, just live your life and experience your life as it is.

>>15140514
Lmao you're using words to convey meaning you teenager

>>15140448
How would either of those things alone bestow meaning on your life? Qualia being real or Many Worlds has little bearing on meaning and purpose in living

Okay okay. But can you save it for one of those threads and not clog up the catalog with these ugly things, please!?

No one really wants enlightenment, or at least damned few do. Most people just want to get fed and fvcked...

>>15140448

I really hope life has no meaning because then it means I didn't screw up by wasting mine because I guess it turns out that's what everybody can't help but do anyway
At this point I'd be very content to learn that my life is just a meaningless string of memories contained entirely in my head and it'll all just disappear into nothingness one day and that'll be that

>>15140719
not him but,
language having meaning for functional reasons might actually be the reason we misinterpret existance and ask for a meaning from it.

What does this have to do with /lit/?

Whatsoever is worth achieving in life can be achieved only during this lifetime. But many people go on waiting until after death. Many people ask how can truth, the divine, liberation, be achieved while still being in the body, in life, in the world? However, what cannot be attained during life cannot be attained, ever.

Life is an opportunity to achieve, whether you spend it in collecting pebbles or in attaining to the divine. Life is a completely neutral opportunity. Life does not tell you what to achieve. If you collect pebbles, accumulate worthless things, or waste your life in increasing and inflating your ego, life will not prevent you from doing so. Or you may dedicate your life to attaining the truth, the self and the ultimate depths of life; then too life will not object to your doing so.

Life is merely a neutral opportunity - you may use it the way you like. But many people make arrangements to deceive themselves. They think, "Life is for worldly pleasures." They have created such divisions: "Life is for bhoga, indulgence." But then only death remains for yoga, union, with the divine. But death is not an opportunity. Let this be understood properly. Death is an end of all opportunity.

What is the meaning of death? Its meaning is that now there is no more opportunity left. Life is an opportunity, death is the end of that opportunity. So nothing can be achieved through death, because for achieving anything there should be a span of opportunity.

But we have divided: we say life is for indulgence. But when life is exhausted, then what? Then yoga. We have created all these stories that you utter into the ears of a dying person at the time of death - when he is not even able to hear. When living persons do not listen, how will a dead or dying person hear a Gayatri Mantra, or recite the name of the divine, or chant "Rama, Rama"?