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THE PREPARATORY RENUNCIATION.
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The raja-yogin learns the lesson of renunciation through his own experience of nature. The jnana-yogin has the harshest of renunciations to go through, as he has to realise from the very first that the whole of this solid-looking nature is all an illusion. He has to understand that all the manifestations of power in nature belongs to the soul, and 'not to nature. He has to know, from the very start, that all knowledge and all experiences are within the soul, and not within nature. So he has at once and by the sheer force of rational conviction, to tear himself off from all bondage to nature. He lets nature and all her things go-he lets them vanish and tries to stand alone!
Of all renunciations, the most natural is that of the bhakti-yogin. Here-there is no violence, nothing to give up, nothing to tear off, as it were, from ourselves, nothing from which we have violently to separate ourselves. The bhakta's renunciation is easy,
