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Just for a moment let us realise this purpose of creation; and we shall, as a matter of sheer logical necessity, be driven to the conclusion that such is the duty and such the occupation that have been assigned unto us. The purpose of creation is even this—the self-realisation of the Supreme Spirit. As the oldest of our national scriptures has said, He in His undivided unity dwelt from beginningless time till in His immortal love He decided: "I am One; I shall be many, that the many might be incorporated and integrated once again, re-assumed, into the One." Thus the out-going God, the out-ranging God, the returning God, the realised God;— that is the object of all sadhana. The end and aim of all sadhana is: How to leap out of the illusion of 'the many' and reach out into the spotless pure vision of 'the One,' Ekame-vadvitheeyam. As ye perceive this supreme truth — the self coming out of the Self and ranging forth as the self, and coming back into the Self to be the Eternal Self—as we realise this process as the divine purpose
