The True Ideal of Life

Life has a past which is immeasurable. Its origin is shrouded in inscrutable mystery, which has baffled the audacious investigation of science. All that science has to say about the origin of life is: ‘We do not know.’

Another fact is that life has an almost infinite future. It transforms itself, renews itself in nature and in man, in the form of wisdom and maturity of human personality. It flows wrapped up in the vestures of solidity, liquidity and gaseousness. It acquires self-consciousness in man. Now it must mould itself after a pattern guiding itself rationally and super-rationally, to a definite goal, which is infinitisation of itself in actuality.

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This article is from the Summer 2016 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.