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Rh that this world is vanity. But that vanity is not vacuity—truth is in that vainness itself. If the world remained still and became final, then it would be a prison-house of orphaned facts which had lost their freedom of truth, the truth that is infinite. Therefore what the modern thinker says is true in this sense, that in movement lies the meaning of all things—because the meaning does not entirely rest in the things themselves but in that which is indicated by their outgrowing of their limits. This is what Ishopanishat means when it says that neither the transitory nor the eternal has any meaning separately. When they are known in harmony with each other, only then through help of that harmony we cross the transitory and realize the immortal.

Because this world is the world of infinite personality it is the object of our life to establish a perfect and personal relationship with it, is the teaching of Ishahpanishat. Therefore it begins with the following verse:

"Know that all that moves in this moving world is held by the infinity of God; and enjoy by that which he renounces. Desire not after other possessions."

That is to say, we have to know that these world movements are not mere blind movements,