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Rh tion that we shall have to turn for the knowledge of God in His Blissful and other aspects.

Religion is truly an act of Intuition; without it the former degrades into the observance of lifeless conventions and rites. It is from the point of view of Intuition that every fact of the world finds meaning in its totality. The criterion of development in the Spiritual world is also Intuition. Men of the world will see how far you are punctual, regular, and devoted in the matter of observing the codes and canons of worldly-wise morality and Religion, but the seer of truth will mark how far you have progressed in the path of realization—Intuition.

But there are many bars to this Religious point of view—to the realization of truth. These are some of them: Disease, Mental Incapacity, Doubt, Indolence, Worldly-mindedness, False Notion, Missing the Point and Instability.

These are either inherent or engendered and