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INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
13. The Goal
The Gita admits that the Real is the absolute Brahman, but from the cosmic point of view, it is the Supreme isvara. The latter is the only way in which man's thought, limited as it is, can envisage the highest reality. Though the relation between the two is inconceivable by us from the logical standpoint, it is got over when we have the direct apprehension of Reality. In the same way, the two views of the ultimate state of freedom are the intuitional and the intellectual representations of the one condition. The freed spirits have no need for individuality but still assume it by self-limitation. Both views agree that so long as the freed spirits continue to live in the world, they are committed to some action or other. They work in a freedom of the spirit and with an inner joy and peace which does not depend on externals for its source or continuance.
The Gild represents brahmaloka or the world of God, not as itself the Eternal, but as the farthest limit of manifestation. Ananda is the limit of our development and we grow into it from the level of vijnana. It belongs to the cosmic, manifestation. The Absolute is not the anandamaya atma not the divinized self.[1]The pure Self is different from the five sheaths.[2]
When the purpose of the cosmos is reached when the kingdom of God is established, when it is on earth as it is in heaven, when all individuals acquire the wisdom of spirit and are superior to the levels of being in which birth and death take place, then this cosmic process is take] over into that which is beyond all manifestations.
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