What is the Purpose of Life?

You are engrossed in making a living or knee-deep in carving out a hopefully successful career and family life. Suddenly it hits you — is life just about getting and paying bills? You wonder if there is a greater purpose to life than that.

It is hard to deny that, in the core of our being, we wish to be happy. Isn’t that the motivation for most of what we do? But how many people do you know, including yourself, who can say that they are really happy? Do we need to know the purpose of our birth in order to be happy? 

Sadhguru looks at how, when our experience of life lacks exuberance, questions about the purpose of life arise. “If you do not realize the exuberance of your existence, you can invent purposes; if you experience the ecstasy of being here, then who the hell is bothered about the purpose?”