8-2-2021 Vlog - 60 and Beyond with Skylark - The Mystery of Life

Bay Shore NY

03 August, 2021

8:30 AM

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Welcome to the month of August. We’re smack in the middle of summer and I hope you’re enjoying every moment with family and friends. Summer is a time to rest and reflect, and that brings me to my topic for this month’s vlog, Remain Open to the Mystery of Life. I often find myself asking what is the meaning of life? Scholars and scientists have been asking this question for a very long time, but no one really knows. What we do know is creation and evolution play a dual role in life here on earth. Studies reveal that people have profound wisdom given by our creator, but the challenge is how to interpret this wisdom meaningful enough to understand ourselves. To understand ourselves, we need to look at our inner self. Understanding life is beyond our common understanding and that is why we need spiritual guidance to solve some of life’s mysteries. By knowing our purpose, and ourselves, we will understand what life is and what our sole purpose as human beings is. During the last forty years, the sciences of physics and chemistry have made tremendous strides and have been analyzed into three components: electrons, protons, and the electro-magnetic field with its streams of radiant energy. Concurrently with these advances, astronomy has progressed to an extent undreamed of forty years ago. Amidst the vast cosmos disclosed to the mind of man, our sun winds its modest way, an unimportant star, old in years and approaching death. On the cool surface of our little planet, warmed by the rays of a declining star, stands the small company of life; one with green meadows and flowers, birds, and fishes, and beasts. Man counts for but an infinitesimal fraction of the surface of the earth, and yet it is the mind of man that has penetrated the cosmos and discovered the distant stars and nebulas. Truly, we may say that life is great mystery, and the study of life the greatest study of all. The understanding of the phenomenon of life will surely be the crowning glory of science, towards which all our present chemical and physical knowledge forms. The world is full of mysteries since the beginning of time, events happen every day that boggle the mind. Some go beyond our understanding. That is why people simply conclude that these events are the mysteries of life. What puzzles people most is the mystery of self. At some point, everyone has asked themselves, who am I, where do I come from, what is my purpose on earth. Isaac Newton explained the nature of forces and motion using three laws. Charles Darwin explained the diversity of species, while others have explained the molecular foundation of life. But none of them have defined what life is. Religion is used to translate some of life’s mysteries stating that everything happens because God wants us to learn from these mysteries, but not even the bible can explain what life actually is. These mysteries, whether we experience them or read about them, teach us lessons in life. The main questions humans struggle to understand is our mortality. We know everything has a life span and many people hold to the idea that life begins at birth and ends with death. Some think otherwise. People are born to live for some years, and then die. If you give it some thought, you could be pessimistic about our existence. For years, saints, sages, and Yogis have sought to explain the nature of true self proclaiming that human life holds the superlative: the highest quality and degree of potential. We instinctively sense that we are more than we currently realize. An integral part of us realizes that the short time span that we live on earth is but transitory moments of our existence; a component of an extraordinary spiritual journey which has some momentous purpose. Though we all sense this, consciously or not, few know what to do about it. This not knowing often becomes too hard and so we move on, relegating this thought to the back of our mind. Life presses us, demanding our attention. Obligations, relationships, and ambitions take precedence. That feeling of “being something more” remains hazy, undeveloped, and unexplored. Yet thoughts concerning our existence endure, ever-waiting for us to take notice of them. They are patient and persistent. They will not go away. Truly they cannot until they are fully heard, and their significance completely understood. There will never be a time when we are not preoccupied with the mystery of self and of our place in this world. We continue to ask ourselves: Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? What do I want? What is the purpose of all of this? These are the questions that scientists, chemists, physicists, scholars, and theologians attempt to answer as we remain open to the mystery of life. Love Skylark Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel and follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin, all under my brand, Skylark Live.