Life’s Purpose

As Turiya, what is the purpose of life? The purpose of a body-mind-personality system is easy to define in terms of goals, ambitions, aspirations and so on. But, as Turiya, what really is the purpose of life?

The purpose of life is to make space for Karma to express and extinguish itself.

The content of life (events, people, relationships, things, thoughts, ideas, success, failure, sorrow, happiness, and so on) is what shows up when Karma expresses and extinguishes itself. 

Shows up to who? Appears to who?

To Turiya, the One Brahman, the universal consciousness, the singular awareness. That is who I am.

It is in me all of the content shows up and disappears. I am the witness in which Karma expresses and extinguishes itself. I cannot be found in any of the content, including this body-and-mind, the vantage point, from which it’s all seemingly witnessed. None of the content that shows up here is mine. Nothing is mine. It’s actually nobody’s. 

There is only a witness – a space – a field – a canvas – in which all of this unfolds. That witness, space, field, canvas cannot be seen, touched, smelled, tasted, heard or even thought of. That witness simply IS.

That witness never gets tired or bored or thrilled about anything that is witnessed. That’s why that witness is pure-bliss.

It is in that witness that time and space show up. That’s why the witness is eternal, boundless and vast.

That witness is none other than ME. I am the one witnessing all this. I am the one witnessing this body-mind, as much as I am witnessing just about everything else.

I am Brahman.

What’s the point of being a Brahman?

Nothing.

There is no point.

Brahman has no point to make.

Brahman has always been the that in which content has always shown up. Content shall continue to show up.

I am Brahman, and may the content fomented by Karma show up. I have no preference. I don’t mind what shows up. It’s all fine. I have no agenda. I see no need to interfere. I allow, as I have always, Karma to express and extinguish itself.

So, I’ll just stand back and do nothing.

You see, to do nothing is to do exactly what’s already being done. Stopping action, or holding it back is doing something. To do nothing is to do exactly what one is already doing — knowing that it’s not you who is doing it. You are only witnessing the doing. Karma, or causes-and-conditions, is the one that’s doing it. So be it. May it happen. Tathastu.