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way to come out of bondage is to go beyond the limitations of law, to go beyond where causation prevails.
But it is a most difficult thing to give up the clinging to this universe; few ever attain to that. There are two ways to do that, mentioned in our books. One is called the "neti neti”, (not this, not this,) the other is called the "iti iti"; the former is the negative and the latter the positive. The negative way is the most difficult. It is only possible to the men of the very highest exceptional minds and gigantic wills who simply stand up and say, "No, I will not have this," and the mind and body obey their will, and they come out successful. But such people are very rare, the vast majority of mankind choose the positive way, the way through the world, making use of all the bondages themselves to break those very bon
dages. This is also a kind of giving up; only it .. is done slowly and gradually, by knowing things,
enjoying things, and thus obtaining experience, ... and knowing the nature of things, until the mind
