SUMMARY OF BOOK THREE THE BOOK OF THE DIVINE MOTHER CANTO I THE PURSUIT OF THE UNKNOWABLE THE whole experience of life in the world as it is today can give — something. But, it is too little and "cannot fill the spirit's sacred thirst." Something seems to be missing which is badly wanted to make life perfect. In the absence of that something all other things acquired by man lose their significance. To Aswapathy came that experience— "The labour to know seemed a vain strife of Mind, All knowledge ended in the Unknowable: The effort to rule seemed a vain pride of Will". Thus, finding the pursuits of life insipid, he