Why are we here?

When I asked the challenging question to my teachers, "Why are we here?" nobody seemed to know. There wasn't even one teacher who could honestly answer the young man's question. After years of engagement in worldly affairs the question reappeared and many answers resurrected from the philosophers claiming to know, but all intellectual speculation and none the profound truth. Now the primordial question arises: "Who am I?" Here the real journey begins.