' The purpose of life '...

Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita, is the individual's own higher self.

He must keep his inner shrine within the heart reserved for the Ideal.

He should worship there the Spirit that is birthless and deathless, indestructible and divine.

Life in this world is like foam on the sea: it passes all too soon; but the moments given in adoration and obeisance to the Soul count for eternal gain.

The most tremendous historic happenings on this earth are, after all, only pictures that pass through consciousness like a dream.

Once the seeker awakens to the Real, he sees them for what they are. Then he will live in Its serenity, and it will no longer matter if the pictures themselves are stormy and agitated.

It is the greatest good fortune to attain such serenity--to be lifted above passion and hatred, prejudice and fear, greed and discontent, and yet to be able to attend effectively and capably to one's worldly duties.

It is possible to reach this state. The seeker may have had glimpses of it already.

Someday, sometime, if he is patient, he will enter it to stay--and the unimaginably rewarding and perfect purpose of his life, of all his lifetimes, will be fulfilled.


- Paul Brunton