The Purpose of Everything

One cannot find fulfillment in superficiality nor enlightenment without struggle. The same struggle that brings enlightenment is also the catalyst that drives evolution without which life would stagnate and die.

The universe as we know it came into being at the time of the Big Bang. In the course of this momentous explosion all matter was somehow imbued with positive and negative forces or if you prefer, energy. The positive forces are the forces of construction and the negative are those of destruction. It is the balance between the two that ensures that life must struggle to survive thus growing stronger in the process; thereby increasing its chances of survival.

These reactionary and opposite forces are plainly visible everywhere in the natural universe. They are even evident in the human spirit which struggles to curtail its darker more destructive side. In spiritual terms, we can call the positive side of our nature, a force for good and the negative side a force for evil. Remove an "0" from good and we have "God" and add a "d" to evil and we have "Devil", the force of God and the force of the Devil. Is this what we really mean when we talk about God and the Devil?


As nature shows us, evolution is dependent on struggle, as is enlightenment. These two opposite forces have been essential to the progression and survival of life since the beginning of time. War is the embodiment of hate, greed and corruption while peace is the embodiment of love, compassion and enlightenment. Famine and disease are the destroyers of life while science and knowledge are its building blocks. All these things are the outcome of equal and opposite forces that were released in the creative soup that was the Big Bang.


One must assume that since it has always been this way that it will always be this way for such is the nature of evolution and life as far as we can see it. However, if this is the case, then what is the purpose of enlightenment? We know what the point of struggle is but if its outcome is indeed enlightenment, then it must also have a purpose.


I suspect that the struggle will go on until and if, mass enlightenment reaches a certain plateau, if indeed it ever does, thereby tilting the balance between positive and negative forces definitively towards the positive. At that point, we may have acquired the knowledge and the means (genetic engineering for example) to reinforce the evolutionary process through peaceful and constructive means; knowing that unless we do, we will almost certainly misuse the huge power and knowledge base we have by then attained, to destroy ourselves and all other sentient life.


In the final analysis what does all this mean? It means that the impact on life of negative and positive energies or forces is undeniable and self evidently present in nature. This proves that these forces were present in the explosive soup that was the Big Bang, the proof being in the soup itself. This is at the very least good circumstantial evidence of a creative force that understood the need for equal and opposing forces for the birth, progression and survival of life.


Can we then conclude that the purpose of everything, is purely the survival of life? When all is said and done, the greatest visible forces in the universe are the creative and destructive forces of life, both paradoxically essential for the promotion of life.