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makes you one with Himself while sacrificing Himself to you, dedicating Himself for your emancipation. The one goal of God seems to me, just as my one goal is, that He should lean Himself to me, just as I yearn towards Him, that is all. This is the great meaning of the Purusha Sukta. So, in our system, which is natural to a divine man or one who seeks the Divine light, we firstly offer prayers to the ultimate Being with the one wish that we should be gradually taken to that condition or divine life. Therefore, our prayer, which has come to my Master Sri Ram Chandraji from above as he told me, and also given in the language in which it has come, in English, is very significant and very helpful. It is simple. It says, I shall repeat the prayer for your reference:
"O Master!
Thou art the Real Goal of human life. We are yet but slaves of wishes Putting bar to our advancement. Thou art the only God and power
To bring us up to that stage."
This prayer which was given to the Master, which is being used by everyone of the abhyasis before he starts his meditation, puts in a nutshell the essential ingredients of a prayer. I do not want to compare this prayer with other prayers. Forgive me if I don't. But I shall explain this. This shows that the Divine is the Master, is the guru. And He is the goal, which you must attain. The goal, of course, is that state of being. It is not to get his form, but to get that state of being that gives you the essence of an existence and also meaning to your existence. I do not know, how many of you have a sense of existence in you. Suppose I ask, will you please tell me do you exist. Most of you exist because of your office, or because of your property, or because of something else. What is the meaning of the words 'I am'?
All of us know that we depend on other things and we ourselves are nothing, and by ourselves are nothing. So why are we restless? Because we