The goal of every Hindu life is to eventually shift one's awareness to the inner world of divine union. Hindu life is actually structured so that even average lay people can spend the last portion of their lives devoted solely to spiritual practice. (I'll explain how this actually works in Chapter 16, " A Classy Religion".)
As long as you continue to wear a body, whether it's a physical one or body of subtler energy, you're on the wheel of rebirth . Your identification with a body, your desire to explore a realm of existence whether material or astral, will keep tugging you into the round of birth and death.
In Hinduism, the spiritual master is the one who is no longer tied to any body. From the realm of pure consciousness, this being can choose voluntarily to reenter the worlds and can just as effortlessly exit again when the mission that soul has chosen to complete in the worlds is done. These are liberated souls of Hinduism, the great enlightened masters. What they've mastered is themselves. Now they live in God-consciousness.
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