When the devotee thus comes finally to this stage of being one with God by entering into Him, it is but natural that he should lose his name and form, and that God alone should remain as the only Reality, just as the river which enters into the ocean loses its name and form, and the ocean alone remains. And when the insignificant, tiny agent, (karta) vanishes only to become as large as the Infinite, shall we not expect the same with his works and say with Krsna that ‘all the works culminate in Jñāna’ or are burnt in the fire of the realization of Brahman (4.33, 37)? A river is useful till it runs into the sea and is dissolved into it; but the karma of a saint becomes useful in the moral and the spiritual uplift of man even after he becomes one with God; that is, the karma of protecting the good and destroying the evil would continue to be useful to generations after generations even after his death. To a mere intellectualist or to a theist like Pringle-Pattison the merging of the saintly life in God may appear as extinguishing the lamps one after another; but to a mystic of the type of Śri Sankarācārya or Krsna, the fully realized soul (Jiani) becomes the receptacle of the Brahman (14.27). This is the fullest Life Divine; and here it is that the soul exists in its real nature of Brahman.