"They condemned him to carry a big rock to the hilltop. It is a hard task, it is an almost impossible task, but Sisyphus does it – he carries the rock to the top. And then, the ultimate result is that the rock cannot remain on the top. Because of its weight, of its own accord it starts falling back into the valley again. And it happens again and again: Sisyphus carries the rock, prepares a thousand and one details, fights with the heights, and the ultimate result always is that the rock rolls back into the valley. Sisyphus goes down, starts the work again.

"This myth is symbolic of man's life. From birth to death you struggle and you struggle, and it is a hard struggle and it is an uphill task, and you carry a rock…and by the time you reach, the rock starts slipping back. At the end is death waiting for you, and death destroys all that you have done, it takes away all that you have created. And again another birth, and the whole nonsense begins again, and so on and so forth.

"If you look at the life of man, Jean-Paul Sartre has a point there. Man is a useless passion – meaningless, all endeavor utterly of no significance. Then why does man go on living? That becomes the most important question; then why does man go on living? Maybe just because of cowardice? Because he cannot commit suicide? Because he is afraid?

"Another existentialist, Albert Camus, has said that the only metaphysical problem – the only – is of suicide. All else is of no significance. Of course, if man is a useless passion, then suicide becomes the most important question. Everybody has to encounter it: why not commit suicide? Why go on living?

"Sigmund Freud says, 'Human life is more a matter of endurance than enjoyment.' Then why endure it at all, if it is only a question of endurance? Sigmund Freud also says…and when he says something it has weight, because he is not a philosopher; his whole life he worked and searched into the deepest recesses of the unconscious of man. He is a psychologist; it has weight when he says something."