The purpose of all Sadhana is to see the good; the Divine in everything and to be able to overlook the bad, the evil. From the viewpoint of Divinity, there is no good or bad - all is Divine. But the mind sees this as good and that as bad, this as right and that as wrong. It is the mind that must be trained to see the Divine in everyone and in each difficulty. (CWBSSB, p. 191)

You have been Born for one purpose; to die. That is to say, to kill the ‘I’. If Brahma dies, you become Brahman, or rather, you know that you are Brahman. (SSS Vol.2, p. 221)

Each comes for some purpose, urged by the potentiality of their acts in the previous birth, or by some sovereign will and resolution, and in the course of fulfilling that purpose, they appear to be happy or miserable, that is all. (RKRV Part I)

The chief purpose of Dharana and Dhyanam is to minimise the travels of the mind and force it to stay in one place. Holding it in that fixed state, one should continue Sadhana for a long time. (DhyV, p. 64)

Man is busy with so many trivialities that he has ignored the essential purpose of his sojourn here. (SSS Vol.4, p. 237)

The purpose of the ancient religions of India is to plant the seeds of love in the human heart, so that they may sprout into saplings of endurance, and blossom into tolerance, yielding ultimately the fruit of peace. The pinnacle of Indian thought is non-duality, experience of the One, negation of duality. Some countries proceed towards the ideal of individual freedom, others aim at state sovereignty and the suppression of the individual’s right to freedom. But, Bharat has from time immemorial, sought to infuse in the individual the conviction that he can be free only when he realises his identity with all - not only with the inhabitants of his own state, or people who use his language or are of his own colour and creed. Expansion is the key to happiness, and love is the unfailing key to expansion. (UD, pp. C-VIII-6)

Previous to each Festival that is celebrated at Prasanthi Nilayam, it has become necessary to select and authorise certain individuals for service as volunteers. The prime purpose is to provide them a chance to train themselves in the attitudes of humility, readiness and reverence that are so essential for one’s own happiness and for social security. (SSS Vol.9)

Always have the meaning and the purpose of life in view. And, experience that purpose and that meaning. You are That, that is the truth. You and the Universal are one; you and the Absolute are one; you and the Eternal are one. You are not the individual, the particular, the temporary. Feel this. Know this. Act in conformity with this. Some one came to Ramana Maharshi and asked him thus; ‘Swami! I have been doing intense dhyana for the last 18 years but I have failed to realise the ideal on which my dhyana is concentrated. How many more years should I continue?’ Ramana answered, ‘It is not a question of certain number of years. You have to continue dhyana, until the awareness that you are doing dhyana disappears.’ ‘Forget the ego; let it melt and merge, with all its layers of consciousness.’ (SSS Vol.5)