Self-Realization and God-Realization
“The Infinite alone justifies the existence of the finite and the finite by itself has no entirely separate value or independent existence.
Life, if it is not an illusion, is a divine Play, a manifestation of the glory of the Infinite.
Or it is a means by which the soul growing in Nature through countless forms and many lives can approach, touch, feel and unite itself through love and knowledge and faith and adoration and a Godward will in works with this transcendent Being and this infinite Existence.
This Self or this self-existent Being is the one supreme reality, and all things else are either only appearances or only true by dependence upon it. It follows that self-realization and God-realization are the great business of the living and thinking human being.
All life and thought are in the end a means of progress towards self-realization and God-realization.”
–Sri Aurobindo (a.k.a. Aurobindo Ghose, Indian Nationalist Leader, Mystic, Philosopher and Creator of Purna (Integral) Yoga, 1872-1950)