“The purpose of human life is not marriage and eating and death. To eat and drink and die is the way of the animals. Why live below your true station in life?
God gave you intelligence that you might use it properly, to solve the mystery of your existence. He made you
intelligent that you might develop the discrimination to seek Him.
The true purpose is to know God. Worldly temptations were given you to help you develop discrimination:
Will you prefer sense pleasures, or will you choose God? Pleasures seem alluring at first, but if you choose them, sooner or later you will find yourself enmeshed in endless troubles and difficulties.
Loss of health, of peace of mind, and of happiness is the lot of everyone who succumbs to the lure of sense pleasures.
Infinite joy, on the other hand, is yours once you know God.
Every human being will have, eventually, to learn this great lesson of life.
Use this divine gift of life wisely. Not to do so is to do yourself the greatest possible injustice.”
The Essence of Self-Realization – The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda, J. Donald Walters, p. 8 – 9.
