What is the purpose of life?

In Mahaguru's teachings, the question of the purpose of life gets turned around a bit: the teachings speak more directly to what life actually is than to a purpose assigned to it from outside, and from that understanding a direction for living emerges.

Life is this present moment, not a story you tell about it

Mahaguru teaches that when people look at their lives, what they actually find is a vast pile of past experiences and a vast pile of future hopes, and neither of those heaps is truly "life." What is actually encountered, by anyone, in any moment, is only the present. Living in the past or living in the future are both described as extremes, an illusion constructed by the mind. So before anything else, the teaching points to this: life is this moment, and how correctly or incorrectly you experience this moment determines the result you receive.

Seeing your life clearly is what opens the door to Dhamma

The teaching says that anyone who has not truly seen and felt that they have a life will never turn to look at themselves. It's only when a person turns and looks deeply into their own life that they encounter Dhamma, the true nature of things. And the depth to which someone sees that Dhamma within their own life is exactly the depth to which their thinking, attitudes, and actions get transformed. That transformed way of living is called a spiritual life. So one way the teaching frames purpose is as a movement: from merely having a life, to seeing your life clearly, to seeing Dhamma within it, to living a spiritual life shaped by that seeing.

Happiness and completeness belong to this moment, not somewhere else

A recurring point is that people chase happiness in the future, or even push spiritual attainments like Nibbana off into some far-off next life, when the teaching insists that peace and bliss are things to be realized right now, in the Middle Path lived in this present moment. Wealth, status, and accumulation are shown as not delivering what people expect from them, happiness isn't found by piling up more experience or achievement; it is found in how completely and wisely this very moment is lived.

Not losing the thread after death

There is also a caution that matters here: if a person does not properly grasp the Dhamma, does not build awareness, they risk being "lost" after death, scattered without the thread that holds purpose and direction. So the teaching is not simply to enjoy the moment in a shallow sense, it ties living well now to not losing one's way afterward.

Taken together, the teachings don't hand over a single tidy sentence defining the purpose of life. What they offer instead is a reorientation: stop searching for purpose in the past or the future, see your own life as it actually is, let that seeing open into Dhamma, and let that understanding turn your living into a spiritual life, lived with awareness and bliss in this one moment you actually have.