"The knower of God becomes God." This union with the Deity is the total loss of personal identity, and is the attainment of the highest bliss, in which are no grades and from which is no return.

This absorption comes not from good works or penances, for these confine the soul and do not liberate it.

"The confinement of fetters is the same whether the chain be of gold or iron." "The knowledge which realizes that everything is Brahm alone liberates the soul.

It annuls the effect both of our virtues and vices.

We traverse thereby both merit and demerit, the heart's knot is broken, all doubts are split, and all our works perish.