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We are 'the others', the 'dependents', the bhaktas, owing our all to Him and saying and feeling always, "I am nought: Thou art everything". It is only thus the stubborn separate self is annihilated. That is the true Nirvana in which the egoistic self is so eliminated that the Supreme One is All-in-all and shines forth in His radiant and enrapturing beauty. "Annihilate your-self, that you may have salvation;" says a renowned Sufi, "when you go away, Truth (haq, satyam) will be seated in your place".
Does that take away from man's moral responsibility? No. But it only adds the spiritual confession that what I do is given me to do for His pleasure: hithayalo-kasyathavapriyardham. It abates not a single jot of moral responsibility; it only transmutes the formal, moral obligation into a quickening, enchanting spiritual exaltation. It is not that there is no distinction of good and bad; but in God's creation bad has no real place, for good is all-in-all: not that the distinction between good and
