The inner world is not as easily accessible to man as the outer world is. Perhaps, only one among many, one in a million, does contact and win this inner Atmic Reality through the inward vision. He is the Wise Man (the Jnani). The person born with a sense of the true Mission of human life has to gain the goal, the Goal of ananda, the fundamental eternal Ananda. That is the supreme attainment that renders life valid, meaningful and worthwhile.

In fact, the external world and the inner world are not distinct and distant. They are indissolubly knit together (Avinaa-Bhaava Sambandha). The belief of the common man is that the body is the medium through which he sees and hears, experiences and delights. No, there is another force, which rules and regulates the senses, the mind and the intellect. That force is the Atma. The Sutra directs man to be aware of this and with that awareness constant in him, to contact the world through the sense, the mind and the intellect.

The rain falling on the mountain range slides down the sides into many valleys and flows as turbid streams. The same rain falling on fresh water lakes or limpid rivers remains pure and clear. The sages who are cognisant of their Atmic Reality are transformed into the purity, equanimity and charity represents. They are ever in the full awareness of the Atma, their inner core. In the purified consciousness of these persons, there is the experience of identification. Likes and dislikes, sense of I and mine, anxiety and clamness, elation when praised and depression when blamed - these cannot contaminate or agitate a person who has attained that state. These opposites become balanced and are accepted with equanimity as waves on the Atmic Consciousness. This is the authentic Atma Attitude, the Brahman inlook, the Unitary Vision.