The mystic Swami Sivananda said: "Your sole purpose in life is to attain God realization All else is useless and worthless" His statement indicates that a meaningful life is lived on the narrow pathway to God. However, most of us find ourselves trapped on the roundabout of ego. It's a vicious circle of self - absorption and never ending material wants and needs. How awful it must be to finally break free from a lifetime on the roundabout and realize that the ego's insane material world is only a dream. It's an illusory human concept of God's perfect spiritual universe . The stories herein detail how some broke free. Gil Michaels July 2016