Meaning: Man has to struggle continuously to achieve the objective of life. Tremendous will-power is required for facing the widespread bad customs, wicked activities and corruption and to adopt good activities and honesty in life. Information on mantras which help to achieve this aim is given in the Rig-Veda 1/164/4 -"To achieve the spiritual knowledge of the self is the main goal of man's life. What is the main reason for the manifestation of matter? Man must obtain the knowledge of the body, the strangeness of the blood, muscles, bones, etcetera within it and their being different from the soul (or the spirit)".
Message: The human body is the most excellent gift from the God. After wandering in countless species we have obtained this human from due to virtuous deeds in earlier births. The arrangement of the body of any animal in this world is not as excellent as man's. Only man has been given a body perfect with all qualities. Every part and organ of man is unique in its capability.
Most men believe this human body as their total existence and do not think it necessary to look beyond that. Every moment they are busy in decorating this body only. Such men are busy in nurturing their desires only and totally forget the extremely valuable soul residing within the body. They forget that this body is perishable while the spirit or the soul is immortal. In fact God has graced us with his blessing by giving this body for some time only. This body is an instrument only; it is the place for the residence of the soul. With this body as a medium, the soul can progress on the road of salvation and achieve salvation.
What is the objective of human life? Most people think that achievement of 'swarg' (heaven) is the one and only objective. But where is this heaven? Heaven is created by the condition of our mind only. We ourselves only produce the situation of heaven or hell by our conduct. Hence it is very necessary that we must determine very clearly the objective of life. The only single objective of our life is to realize our real authority (the soul) by very firmly expressing the unexpressed divinity residing within us. God is hidden within us and thoroughly interwoven (or united) within us and that God is the 'antaratma' (the conscience) of all. HE only gives us the fruits of our deeds (i.e. 'Karmaphal' as reward or punishment) and resides within all of us. Every man is a form of a 'devata' (deity) only; he has strayed away from the excellent path only because of his ignorance. In reality man is like a wandering deity. After knowing this great truth, our most important duty is only to implement divinity into our conduct.
It is not possible to obtain this type of spiritual knowledge until we make pure our mind, speech and deeds. Our mind never remains empty. Either it wants to enjoy the lust for evil deeds or else it intensely aspires to spread the fragrance of good deeds. Such thoughts arising in the mid are expressed by speech and the deeds are only carried our accordingly. After self-realization, only pious thoughts arise in his mind. Only by discarding the ego and with the feeling of 'aatmavat sarvabhooteshu' by accepting the fact that God resides in every creature, can man be saved from sinful deeds and increase divine qualities within himself.
The meaningfulness of human life lies in that only.
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