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THE PURPOSE OF LIFE

Meher Baba

 
Not by seeking individual happiness or safety but by again and again offering one's life in the service of others is it possible to rise to the unsurpassed completeness of realized truth. God is not to be sought by running away from life but by establishing unity with the One in the many. Purity, love and service are the elements of spiritual life.

Those who cleanse their hearts of the embittering poison of selfishness, hate and greed find God as their own true Self. The truth of divine life is not a hope but a reality; all else is illusion. Have faith and you will be redeemed. Have love and you will conquer the limited self of cravings that veil your own true being as God.

The so many deaths during the one whole life, from the beginning of evolution of consciousness to the end of involution of consciousness, are like so many sleeps during one lifetime.

 

MEHER BABA CALLING, p. 74
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