This is also what ‘Ātma-saṃyama’ means: the means needed for the restraint of the Manas are called “Ātma-saṃyama”. This alone is the goal of human life: to know the Paramātma, to achieve Mukti. For man there is no other quest for Satya apart from this. Acquiring terraced houses, mansions, buildings and lands, begetting children, earning wealth, clamouring after positions, winning titles: this is not man's greatness. To attain eternal Ānanda, to bring about the lasting cessation of sorrow, to achieve the experience “I myself am Brahman”: this is the essence of sādhana.