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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
worship, and you feel like a prisoner with all sorts of ties and bonds. The moment you rise above the world, the moment you realise that you are not the little, miserable, limited man, but the real living Existence, the SatCbit-Ananda, you will experience delights which are beyond the most extravagant expectations of men.
Perfection is the goal of evolution. You are the perfect God yourself, though entangled in the meshes of illusion, and your natural perfection is struggling to manifest itself from within. The moment you cease obstructing its path, the moment you exert yourself to bring it into manifestation, it will begin to shine forth in all its glory and splendour. Your onward progress will then be resplendent with Light and Love, and drawing nearer and nearer your goal every day, you will finally pass into mukti, liberated and free, and with the full consciousness of being the Sat-Chit-Ananda.
This is the true idea of Redemption. Just as by the inherent virtue of a desire to taste the fruit of good and evil man is deprived of his divinity, so by the return of faith in his Godhood would he rise to perfection and glory. The cause of our downfall is our ignorance of our divine, godly nature ; the bodily personality lies at the root of the trouble. If we wish to avoid pain and suffering, if we wish to come into our own, and to realize our divine nature, we must give up our evil notions and desires, and replace them with right beliefs and vairâgya (renunciation). As Swami Rama Tirtha says:
"If you bring your faith to believe that you......[are) saved, you are the saviour of the universe. If you believe that you never were the body, that you never were in thraldom, if you be as grown-up men, and not as silly children, if you realize with Vedanta that you
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