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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SACRIFICE.
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consciousness of a supreme Being who is the source of our existence and of whom all that is mutable or immut- able is the manifestation. He is God, the Divine, the Purushottama. To Him we offer everything as a sacrifice; into His hands we give up our actions; in His existence we live and move ; unified with Him in our nature and with all existence in Him, we become one soul and one power of being with Him and with all beings ; with His supreme reality we identify and unite our self-being. By works done for sacrifice, eliminating desire, we arrive at knowledge and at the soul’s posses- sion of itself; by works done in self-knowledge and God-knowledge we are liberated into the unity, peace and joy of the divine existence.
