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límited by space, time and causation. There may be places that are more etherial than this earth of ours, where enjoyments may be keener, , but even those places must be in the universe, and therefore in bondage to law; so we have to go beyond, and real religion begins there where this little universe ends. These little joys, and sorrows, and knowledge of things end there, and the reality begins. Until we give up the thirst after life, the strong attachment to this our transient conditioned existence, we have no hope of catching even a glimpse of that infinite freedom
beyond. It stands to reason then that there is • only one way to attain to that freedom which is the goal of all the noblest aspirations of mankind, and that one way is by giving up this little life, giving up this little universe, giving up this earth, giving up heaven, giving up the body, giving up the mind, giving up everything that is limited and conditioned. If we give up our attachments to this little universe of the senses, or of the mind, immediately we shall be free. The only
