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THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION
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this he meant that he knew the process of controlling the internal organs and could voluntarily free his Spiritual self from the body and mind, the sudden freedom of which, due to the wearing out of this gross body and mind, is termed death. Now by undergoing a practical and regular course of training in this scientific method the self can be felt as being separated from the body.

I will give only a general idea of the process and the true scientific theory on which it is based. I set it down here from my own experience. I can say it will be found to be universally true. And I can also safely say that Bliss, which is, as I pointed out, our ultimate end, is felt in intense degree in the act of practising this method. The practice of it is itself intensely Blissful—far more purely Blissful, I venture to say, than the greatest enjoyment that any of our five senses or the mind can ever afford us. I do not wish to give any one any other proof of its truth than is afforded by