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LIFE AND ITS VALUE
by some person or principle it is likely that he develops a value for his life, namely to achieve it or identify himself with it; that is he makes it his goal of life. That is how the goal of life for some persons is the attainment of the desired partner in life (in the absence of it death) for some others getting some social and occupational position (in the absence of it, utter disappointment and suicide) for some more visiting religious centres like Vatican, Mecca and Banares (in the absence of which utter psychological despair amounting to death) and for still others serving the society (without which they feel paralysed and killed) and so on. It is however true that some seek Nothingness. Such a value is really no value as it transcends the realm of values. If we can arrange values beginning at the bottom with what is ordinarily called base values going upwards with the socially accepted values we would find that there can be no place given to the life which seeks nothingness. Values of life are based on the goals which that life strives after in a society to make its life pleasant. That is precisely the reason why people who seek such a goal in life are generally considered to be a useless and certain times even mad.
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