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 description which says, "Thy purposes are good"! Nay, Thy intentions and purposes are Godly and partake of Thy divine nature. Thou dost, every minute of eternal time, work out the purposes of reporting Thyself, reaffirming Thyself, reproducing Thyself, reincarnating Thyself through the whole universe, through every mote and monad, through every atom and animal-cule. There is Thy joy, blessedness, bliss, ecstasy, anandam, as well as there is Thy truth, reality, satyam—the transformation of humanity into Divinity. That is the end of sadhana.

How shall we practise it, how put ourselves into the normal mood and posture for it? There are many ways in which this is expressed. But, after all, the many ways resolve themselves into one single way, namely, to say, "Think not of thyself, think only of the Lord. No will of Thine, only the purposes of the Lord"; and again to say, "Thy will is mine". In Narada's Bhakti Sutras, those who adore God are divided into four classes. God is sym-