You may be the most enlightened individual on the planet but you’ll notice that the rest of the world is not. The struggles and sufferings that are a part of daily life cause many to feel that existence is an act of futility in trying to acquire conditions of satisfaction and fulfillment. That being the case, many philosophies have argued that life here must be abandoned and satisfaction found somewhere else…an escape from earth.

If I ask 10 people the question which comes first: Existence or Experience? almost everyone gets the right answer. Existence precedes experience.

Each day for every person is a battle of sorts for each has barriers with which to contend. It would seem that the metaphysical and the physical are constantly opposing one another, as the labor of the battling gods, as Aurobindo calls it, wages on.