Materialism reduces life to a disrelation of unrelated events

Suppose we watch a movie in which events are utterly unconnected, characters pop in and out with no logic and the story moves without any theme or direction, leave alone conclusion. We would soon get exasperated: “What’s the point of all this? Why should I watch such a movie?” Unfortunately, materialism forces us to not just watch such a pointless movie – it makes us live such a movie. A materialistic worldview reduces our life to a disrelation of unrelated events. It makes us believe that we are nothing but chemicals that have somehow come alive. And that delicate chemical balance that comprises us can be destroyed forever at any moment, by just one bug or one bag. Thus, our present existence is reduced to a wobbly, chancy chaos within two infinities of non-existence. Outlining such a materialistic worldview, the Bhagavad-gita (16.08) states that the ungodly proponents of such a belief system hold that there exists no God and no ultimate reality – selfish desire is existence’s only motivating force. And even that desire is doomed to frustration with inexorable death. Rescuing us from such a morass of meaninglessness, Gita wisdom debunks materialism by spotlighting life’s spiritual side. It explains that our search for meaning comes from something beyond matter – our spiritual essence. And only at that same trans-material level of reality is meaning truly found. The ephemerality and misery of life in this world is meant ultimately to impel us to raise our consciousness to the spiritual level. At that level, we as eternal souls can relish love eternal with the all-attractive Absolute Truth, Krishna. By learning to love him through the practice of bhakti-yoga, we can persevere and grow even through life’s greatest reversals, knowing that his immortal love will endure and elevate us beyond the vagaries of this mortal world –