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acts deliberately, consciously and with a will; and whose actions are meant for the benefit of all, wityout exception. Such a Being is your ideal, he is God who lives, acts, and crcates in the midst of Nature, and is supremely happy. This is said to be Sa-guna Purusha or God with Gunas or attriktes and inodifications, who, living, acting, and creting in the midst of Nature, acts in accordance with a law, consciously, deliberately and with a will, impartially, without self-interest, and for the benefit of all; and acting, is not affected by the result, and is supremely happy.
Now you will understand. You cannot live without this God, for he is the ideal of your own Happiness and Good, which you are seeking each moment of your life in all your actions. He exists for you as a reality, because consciously you think of him, and unconsciously you are drawn towards him, in all your actions. He comprehends all that you can think of or conceive. He lives both within and without Nature. As Nir-guna Parusha, he is unborn, eternal beyond change, beyond Time, beyond death, beyond thought, beyond imagination. As Sa-guna Purusha, you think of him as a Being who lives and creates in the midst of Nature, in accordance with a universal law, is immeasurably good, has no self-interest in anything, and all his actions are deliberate, conscious, and performed with a will, This is God spoken of as Sat-chit-ananda: He who is and is good (Sat); he
