Acting for the satisfaction of the Great Task-Master.

The world is bom of Ignorance. Joys and sorrows constitute life here; they come from the chain of birth and death, and of actions good and evil, as determined by Fate. Ceaseless devotion to the Lord is the only means to the ultimate fulfilment of creaturely becomings, the termination of the birth-and-action series and the attainment of eternal salvation. Self-will drives man to activities of which the temper is determined by the varying impulses ; egoism degrades by causing the dazed identification of the self with the non-self. It is the sacred duty of every man to undo this knot of self-nonself by taking his orders from God and completing his divinely appointed task for the satisfaction of the Great Task-Master.