In like manner, as it behoves thee to maintain
the said relation continuously, so it is of the
first importance to develop one quality thereof by
detaching thyself from mundane relations and by
emancipating thyself from attention to contingent
forms; and this is possible only through hard
striving and earnest endeavour to expel vain thoughts
and imaginations from thy mind. The more these
thoughts are cast out and these suggestions checked,
the stronger and closer this relation becomes. It
is, then, necessary to use every endeavour to force
these thoughts to encamp outside the enclosure of
thy breast, and that the "Truth" most glorious may
cast His beams into thy heart, and deliver thee
from thyself, and save thee from the trouble of
entertaining His rivals in thy heart. Then there
will abide with-thee neither consciousness of
thyself, nor even consciousness of such absence of
consciousness--nay, there will abide nothing save the
One God alone.