does not suffer any limitation, even if the entire universe is dissolved; thus it is futile to measure it in terms of what is great according to the standards of the world.

The illusion which most aspirants find difficult to shake, is the belief that the Infinite Truth is an object which has to be attained in some distant future, and that all life is just a means for this attainment. But if the Truth were to be confined only to the future and not to the past or present, it would not be infinite; it would at once become limited as an event which has its origin in time. All that life is and has is at once deprived of intrinsic significance if it comes to be regarded as merely instrumental to some far-off event. This is definitely a false point of view.

Life is not meant to be rich in spiritual significance at some distant date, but is so at every moment, if the mind is free of illusions. It is only through a clear and tranquil mind that the true nature of spiritual Infinity is grasped as something which is not yet to be but which already has been, is and ever will be an eternal self-fulfillment. When every moment is rich with eternal significance, there is neither a clinging to the dead past, nor a longing expectation for the future, but an integral living in the Eternal Now. It is only through such living that the spiritual Infinity of the Truth can be realized in life.

It is not right to deprive the present of all importance by subordinating it to an end in the future; for this means the imaginary accumulation of all importance in the imagined future, rather than the perception and realization of the true importance of everything that exists now. There cannot be ebb and tide in eternity, nor meaningless intervals between intermittent harvests, but a fullness of being which cannot suffer the impoverishment of a single instant. When life seems to be idle or empty, it is not due to any curtailment of the Infinity of the Truth; but to one's own lack of capacity to enter into its full possession.

Just as it is not right to concentrate all spiritual importance in an anticipated future, it is equally not right to arrogate it exclusively to things that create a big stir. The great and grand things of life are not the only ones which are surcharged with spiritual meaning. A thing need not be unusual or particularly striking in order to be spiritually significant. The unusual and the striking exist in relation to the usual and the habitual; they do not, in themselves, necessarily represent absolute spiritual beauty. Thus it is not