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the freedom of the eternal which needs renunciation of the immediate. So too the renunciation of finiteness or individuality is impossible because of the promise of attainment of the Infinite.
Surely men have sought a different solution for wish fulfilment. They would like to realise the eternal in the temporal, the infinite in the finite, the unbounded in the bounded, spirit in the bosom of matter, and so on, because of the double demand of the human nature for both the worlds. There have grown several philosophies which seek to do justice to the claims of man's desires or wishes here and yonder. That philosophies are governed by such desires or wishes is a fact that reveals the psychological roots of their thinking. Such thinking has not released itself from the goal-directing impulse, and rightly too, though it must be confessed that reality is not capable of being a goal unless all happiness-claim is dropped whether it is of the temporal or the eternal order. Reality has a claim to be known for itself without the limitations and strictures of desire for any goals such as happiness or pleasure or power. It is to be known as it is in itself and for itself; that is the law of one's real being and reality. Man feels his reality to be of paramount concern and the realisation of that reality is the basic impulse of his being; and happiness, pleasure, power and so on are just means considered and surrendered on the march towards his own reality- realisation.
The methods by which this reality-consciousness is to be attained are of great antiquity and had varying fortunes just because of man's dual aims. It is only when one seeks oneself that one realises one's reality and not when one turns to the world to realise oneself or oneself in it. Several indeed have been the philosophies that imagined or built up the systems and they have become incapable of showing the way to the reality-consciousness. Nor was liberation achieved with their help.
A return to the need for personal experience of the Ultimate has become urgent, and most people tired of philosophies and logistics and so-called rationality are turning towards a method by which they would have the experience or intuition and realisation of the essence of being or existence. There are of course some who do not think that experience can solve any problems and believe that belief alone in the methods or means of