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84 Religion. We leave the noxious atmosphere of the senses and vagrant thoughts and come to a region of Heavenly Bliss. We learn by this process what will be found to be universally true. When by constant practice the consciousness of this Blissful state of our Spiritual self becomes real we find ourselves always in the Holy presence of the Blissful God in us. We discharge our duties better, having an eye more for the duties themselves than for our “egoism’’ and the pleasure-painconsciousness rising therefrom. Then we can solve the mystery of existence and impart real meaning to what is known as life.

Underlying all the so-called Religions—Christianity, Mahomedanism, Hinduism—there is one truth remaining, viz., that unless you know yourself as spirit,—as the fountainhead of Bliss, separate from body and mind,—your existence is devoid of meaning and your life is akin to that of the brute. We can know God only by knowing ourselves, for our