A lot of people ask themselves why am I alive? What’s the purpose of my life?
A religious person would answer: ‘Well if you are a good person in this life then you will go to heaven’
That’s sort of odd. If I’m in heaven and I have everything I could possibly want what’s the purpose of that. Am I going to be happy for ever, for an unlimited amount of time. That don’t make any sense to me. To be alive for ever seems more like hell then heaven.
I just can’t figure it out. I guess, I will found out sooner or later. Either it’s true or not. But then it won’t matter anymore.
The idea in Hinduism is, you go to heaven when you do “good” deeds. You get better bodies, better everything. But its going to get over as soon as your stock of good deeds exhausts, and you are born again into earth.
So, the real solution is to be neither good, nor bad, but beyond both. Both good and bad are bondage. If “evil” is an iron chain, then “good” is a gold one, no better than the former as long as both are chains!. The purpose of religion is to be free, free from both good and bad, free from all opposites and beyond. I suggest that you read ‘Bhagwad Gita’. I’m thoroughly sure that all your questions will be answered.
http://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-Translation-Stephen-Mitchell/dp/0609810340