The Power of Inquiry

63 power of inquiry
One great saintly personality remarked that everyone spends their lives within a series of questions and answers. When a bird rises in the morning, it begins asking questions and searching for answers. When it comes back to the nest at night, it is still asking questions and trying to find answers. Inhuman society the businessmen, politicians, lawyers, artists, farmers etc. all are seeking answers to their questions.

Life is a series of questions and answers:
How to solve our problems?
How to find happiness?
How to avoid suffering?
How to make friends?
How to gain power and prestige?
Of course, in today’s age the series of questions and answers is mostly abouthow to make money.
All the television shows, cinemas, newspapers, magazines, are about these questions and answers.
The Vedic scriptures explain that, now that you are a human being, inquire about who you are. The questions about eating, sleeping, mating and defendingand all of their various sub-divisions exhibit the basic trend of human intelligence in today’s world, but these are unimportant questions.

Who am I?
Why am I suffering?
Where am I coming from?
Where am I going?
Who is God?
What is the nature of this universe?
What is my relationship with God within this universe?
When a human being comes to the elevated platform of making serious inquiry on these subjects, then human life has real spiritual value.

If we really want to digest food, we have to have hunger. If we have no hunger, we have very weak digestion. Hunger is a very important part of life because it gives power to digest and that principle holds true for spiritual knowledge as well. When we feel the urgency and the hunger to solve the real problems of life and we inquire from people who act truly and who reveal the word of God in an unadulterated way, then our human life really begins.

The scriptures tell us that there is a final exam. That final exam is called death. It’s not a horrible thing unless we fail it. Death is neither good nor bad. If we fail the exam of death it’s a miserable situation. But if we pass that exam it’s the most glorious opportunity in all of creation. We can pass this examination by using our life to seek answers to the questions of the purpose of life and then following those answers which will lead us to the right path and destination of our life.

– Radhanath Swami

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73 comments

  1. This is such a wonderful article that any person should read and make the best use of this human form of life.

  3. Thanks for a great post on Q&A and the revelation about the most
    important Q&A meant for human life.

  36. The true meaning of human life has been so nicely explained. We all need to inquire, but we need to inquire relative to our true selves. Thank you Swamiji.

  37. Nice article revealing how life is just finding answers to questions and most importantly asking the right question.

  38. Nice article revealing how life is just finding answers to questions and the most importantly asking the right question.

  43. Radhanath Swami so precisely presents all important inquiries we should ask in our life !

  47. Very good lesson to answer the final exam of life. All glories to HH Radhanatha Swami Maharaja.

  49. Very nice article by HH Radhanath Swami about how to mould our precious human form of life.

  51. only in the proper association does one learn to ask perfect questions…thank u for sharing maharaj’s sastric wisdom.

  59. If an being does not have question is as good as animal.. we have intelligence and we should i question .. to attain the love of God

  61. i appreciated the point on death – it’s the most glorious opportunity in all of creation if we pass that exam.

  62. A very very beautiful article. How important is the inquiry to happen, and if it doesnt our life as a human becomes a wasteful tread.

  66. This is a wonderful article warning us to utilise this human life for inquiring about God. Thank you for sharing this article.

  68. As it is explained in the Srimad Bhagvatam everyone is asking questions including the birds and the beasts. But only questions related to the Supreme Lord can really satisfy the soul.

  70. “We can pass this examination by using our life to seek answers to the questions of the purpose of life and then following those answers which will lead us to the right path and destination of our life.” This is so important but people spend life in matters that are very trivial from this prospective.

  72. Very enlightening…everyone is enquiring. Unfortunately the outcome of each individuals enquiry varies.

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