The Goal of Life

Two thousand five hundred years ago, ordinary people like you and me used to gather around the compassionate Buddha, dazzled by the radiance of his personality, and ask, 'are you a god? or are you an angel? The Buddha would answer quietly, "no, I am awake." This is the literal meaning of the word buddha" he who has awakened"-awakened from the nightmare of separate living into the light of unity. This awakening is the highest goal of LIFE, and through different religions call it by different names. the goal is one and the same. It is nirvana to Buddhist, moksha to Hindus;Jesus the Christ calls it beautifully " entering the kingdom of heaven with in." To the Jewish mystics it is the return to the promised land. some time it called as Christ consciousness or Krishna consciousness, enlightenment, illumination, self realization.But there is no difference between any of these, as we can see when we keep our eyes on goal itself rather than on the innumerable differences in rites and rituals and dogmas, no matter what they call it, all the great religions point to the same supreme goal.