Only one thing needs constant recollection---life is for God-realisation. If that is attained, life is fulfilled, else, all is in vain. We must not take this temporary halt at the station of planet Earth to be our destination. The journey is on and this is but a brief stoppage to set our accounts right. That we must surely do, then pack up and hurry home. Even as birth is certain, so also is death the sure sequel to life. But we must transcend both terrestrial life and death and attain to immortality, an eternal infinite existence which is unbounded by space, time and causality. This we must possess before our earthly sojourn ends.
This is no material possession. This is SELF-possession. The SELF brooding on the SELF is SELF-possessed. Also we are 'most' there where we are 'not'. Our ideas about existence are so phenomenal that we tend to measure our infinite status by relativistic standards and here the limitations imposed by language, nay, expression plays truant. It is the lower self with its universal baggage that is dissolved, not the Real SELF which forever is. Self-dissolution is SELF-possession. The eternal debate on the merits of the two cases, namely, the nihilism of Buddhism (Shunyavada) and the theory of Maya (Mayavada) of Shankaracharya continues though with no solution yet as to the final validity of either to the invalidation of the other.
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