![]() They witnessed the passing season and the ongoing cycles of life and felt all the joy and sorrow that we also feel. ![]() They too observed each new dawn and day’s inevitable fading into night. We are little different from the people who lives thousands of years ago and asked those very questions. How did the world come into existence? Why are we born? Do our lives have any meaning beyond what we do from day to day? Amid the constant changes we witness and undergo along our journey from birth to maturity, through the decline to inevitable death, do we ourselves have any permanence? As long as we live in this world, must we remain in the grip of the never-ending fluctuation between happiness and misery and everything in between? Is there something that governs life’s ups and downs? ![]() These are, of course profound questions, the bigger questions of life that especially interest the thinkers and spiritual seekers among us. ![]() Shvetashvatara explains that it is natural human curiosity to wonder where we come from, what we are doing here, where we are headed, and if our lives really mean anything. About two and a half thousand years ago, in the forest, under the shade of a tree, a sage sits amid a small group of disciples who have gathered to hear him speak on the nature of reality. A Divine Journey Through the Human Experience
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