Swami Sivananda Vani

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The Restless Quest

 

The human soul, being in fact a part and parcel of the Infinite

Existence, is in its essential nature identical with it. Being set

awhirling in this cycle of the world process, veiled from the knowledge

of its essential Divinity and its Consciousness severely limited by the

encasing sheaths of Matter, the Jiva ever seeks to put an end to this

separation, limitation and the sense of incompleteness that it feels.

Through successive incarnations, its life constitutes a constant

reaching forth towards its Primal abode of Infinite, Immortal Blissful

Existence and until that state is attained, each centre of

individualised ego-consciousness will keep up this restless quest on

the upward path of evolution. Through every moment humanity as a whole

is inevitably and irresistibly being drawn up towards that Ideal State

of Perfect Existence.