Identity with Brahman

The knowledge of Brahman is the one goal of all beings but the various ideas are the various paths to it. 

Although the real nature of the Jiva is Brahman, still as he 
has identification with the qualifying adjunct of the mind, he suffers from all sorts of doubts and difficulties, pleasure and pain. 
But everyone from Brahma down to a blade of grass is advancing towards the realisation of his real nature. 

And none can escape the round of births and deaths until he realises his identity with Brahman. 

                     - Swami Vivekananda, 
                        Conversations and Dialogues, 
                         recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty