Let us take a look at our own life!

Friends,

We think of life when there is a possibility to lose it. We are close to such a possibility. All over the world, we are in the valley of the shadow of death. Death is looming large in cities like New York, London, Rome and Paris, which make us think about the meaning of our life. Usually we don’t care much about the meaning of our life; we just live our life. Now as we are close to death, we ask the basic questions of our existence such as what we are, why we exist, where we are, and how we may exist.

Actually people of all times and places have asked these questions. Young people are much more interested in these questions than adults because as they begin their journey of their life, they need an orientation to the life they are going to live. When I was younger, in my twenties and thirties, I seriously asked these questions, and I tried to formulate my questions and answers in the form of a book. It is presented in the form of a conversation of some young people who meet weekly with an elderly wise person. The conversation is set two thousand years ago in the middle east. They ask him questions that are important for them, and the wise man tries to answer them with the help of the scriptures which they inherited from their ancestors who lived about two thousand years before them. Without giving his own answers, the wise man tells them how their ancestors might have answered these questions.

This approach gives us not only an orientation to our life, but also an orientation to how we may approach these questions. There are question we can answer, and those we can never answer. What do we do when we have to deal with the unknown?

We know their culture/religion to be the pre-Christian Judaism, out of which originated the modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. So the followers of any of these religions will feel at home in this study. The scriptures they inherited is the first part of today’s Bible. The wise man, a Rabbi, refers to the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis to answer all the questions that the young people ask. It consists of a hymn of creation and the story of Adam and Eve. This part of the Bible is common for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Thus this book provides an example of how we may get together and explore the meaning of existence disregarding our differences.

I have given the entire book on the web. Please take some time during these days to read it. Please add your thoughts in the comments section. Also please forward the link to your friends and encourage them to read.

Please read the book at this link:  Orientationtolife.blogspot.com