The important point about life is that we have it and therefore we must make the best use of it. This indeed is the great value of life, the opportunity of making the maximum use of it. Many people lead narrow, unhappy and depressed lives because they do not try to make the best use of life. They spend most of the time worrying and struggling for survival, working like slaves, confronting enormous problems and hindrances.

We spend enormous amounts of energy in an emotional battlefield – fighting for survival, fighting for power, fighting for gain, fighting for name, fighting for pleasure and fighting to be free from danger. Occasionally, we do gain a little bit of momentary satisfaction but every pleasure inevitably ends with suffering.

Look at the world and you can see how people are fighting against each other, bombing, hijacking, and harming one another. The whole world is like a mad house. People have forgotten their good human character and have allowed crookedness, cruelty, cheating, robbing, harboring of anger, grudge, greed and ignorance to reign over them. Apparently there is no room in man’s mind to cultivate good thoughts. How then can one find peace, happiness and contentment in a battlefield in which one is continually fighting either for gain or escape from danger?

‘Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.’

If you can understand the real nature of life and the world, then you can readily understand why it is absolutely necessary to attain liberation and you would not delay your effort for attainment of this blissful state. Today you are fighting to escape from suffering through a worldly way, which is temporary. However, if you try to get rid of your suffering by developing the spiritual aspect of your life, then you can find real peace.