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Goal of Life, ways and means
YEARNING – FINAL GOAL
The natural yearning of soul is to be free from bondage. If there is one who does not like to free himself from the entanglements, there is no solution for him.
My humble request to you is that you should try to re-own the latent power which is the very quintessence of the final goal, by breaking up the network, interwoven by yourself. Taking up the ideal of the simplicity of nature, which is before everybody's view, you should set to work for the attainment of the goal in a way that all senses having merged in, one may become synonymous with that which remains after the fading away of the previous impressions. Then alone can you think yourself as diverted towards Him in the true sense.
It has been observed that those on the path of spirituality who did not fix that final state for their goal have definitely remained short of the mark because before arriving at the final point they mistook one or the other of the intermediary states
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