Purpose

The Lord has granted us the human form so that we may do our real work. Our real work is to labour to return to our true home. This is true devotion to the Lord. This world is like an immense dream. Actually, it has no permanent reality, substance or existence…. Even our body is fragile and short-lived…. Neither the body nor anything else will accompany us when we leave this world. The saints therefore say with great emphasis that we should not fail to make the best use of this wonderful opportunity of having a human body. Family and children, eating and drinking, we have had in all our lives. The one thing that we did not have the opportunity of doing was to practise devotion to the Lord. This, indeed, is the sole purpose of human life. This is our true work.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Divine Light}

Unless the soul merges back into the Lord, we can never have that sense of security or of happiness; we can never get release from birth and death. And as long as we are separated from him, we are in this world, we are very unhappy and miserable. Our lot is despicable…. That is why he is our objective; he is our destination. And this human form, … is bestowed upon us, is given to us for that very purpose. That is the only duty of the human form because only in the human body can we travel on that path to reach our destination, to achieve our goal…. That is why the human form is known as the top of the creation, the temple of the living God.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Spiritual Perspectives, Vol.I}