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In our modern scientific age material comforts are certainly
increasing, yet the individual life seems to grow more tense. This is only
because individuals do not know the way to improve their ability and
efficiency through contact with the greater energy and intelligence which
every man has within himself. It is only necessary to contact consciously
that field of inner life to benefit from it.
Man today is blind to the purpose of life, unable to see that he is
born to enjoy, create and live a life useful to himself and others. He
plunges into whatever activity lies ahead, working hard to the best of his
ability. This is commendable, but when activity increases a man often
finds himself unable to cope with the resulting pressure and
responsibility. Unless his efficiency increases proportionately, tension
and strain develop.
As a man engages in greater activity he should be able to produce more
energy and greater intelligence within himself to deal with this increased
activity. When he does not know how to do this he misses the entire
purpose of life.
Life in freedom is intended for the human race. If a man is not able to
live in freedom the very purpose of life is not fulfilled. Man is born to
live a perfect life, encompassing the values of the transcendental
Absolute—unlimited energy, intelligence, power, peace and bliss—together
with the unlimited values of the world of multiplicity in relative
existence.
Man’s life is meant to be a bridge between divine intelligence and
the whole of creation. It exists to cultivate the divine power,
intelligence, happiness and abundance, and to give this out to all
creation. This is the high purpose of man’s life.
Man is fortunate in being endowed with the capacity to reach this level
through directly contacting the field of the Absolute, thereby enlarging
the conscious capacity of his mind.
Every man is capable of spreading divine splendor throughout creation.
He is able to project all the values of the Absolute into the world of
relative existence for all creatures to enjoy, and to glorify the entire
creation of God. Each man is capable of living a life of full values. If
he fails to do this he brings shame on himself, and he abuses the glory of
almighty God present within and around him.
Let every man on earth begin to reach the divine consciousness of the
Absolute and, bringing it through all his activity into the world of
variety, enjoy it himself and radiate it for all others to enjoy.
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