One devotee sang in Kannada language thus: ‘Having forgotten You, I have come to this world. Leaving the Eternal that You are, I have plunged into this transient, temporary world. What joy can I reap in this clod of earth, as all joys are in You alone?’ We are born in this world because we have forgotten God. We have to find our way back to God, our destination, retracing the steps by which we have come. ‘All living beings have to go back to the source from which they came into existence’, says the Bhagavata. It is our misfortune that we have forgotten this vital message today. To remember the source from which we came is the essential spiritual endeavour that every man should make. (SSS Vol.20, p. 74)