You must sort that out for yourself, but take this into consideration:
From this point of view nothing has a higher purpose - you are just PERCEIVING a part of the infinity ( YOU ARE ) and you cannot stop it.
Karma- perhaps some system of organization of the universal consciousness.
Enlightenment- greater level of infinity-perceiving
Soul- part of the u.consciousness ( all living things in the universe have a soul)
P.S. Don't think about this as absolute truth.
- You have an infinite space, with infinite time ,which is just another dimension - that means that universe is static.
- There is an universal consciosness (god, if you want) not 'taking place' anywhere in the infinity, but able to perceive it.
- We are separated parts of the consciousness, which is perceiving the infinity as whole(its all knowing).
- It is possible, that the infinity/universe was created by the consciousness or that it is only a complex thought of it.
From this point of view nothing has a higher purpose - you are just PERCEIVING a part of the infinity ( YOU ARE ) and you cannot stop it.
Karma- perhaps some system of organization of the universal consciousness.
Enlightenment- greater level of infinity-perceiving
Soul- part of the u.consciousness ( all living things in the universe have a soul)
P.S. Don't think about this as absolute truth.