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It is necessary to point out that there is no escape from the price that has to be paid for the highest attainment. It is not by artificially avoiding sleep that the highest state will come. It is only by deliberately avoiding egoism. He has to let the universal life power which is already within him take full possession of his heart and mind. The thing that prevents this is the personal ego, which thinks itself to be complete and which has separated itself from the universal life power. The philosophical discipline is intended to overcome this egoism, or as Jesus said: "Give up your self if you would find it."

-- Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practices Involved > Chapter 4 : Practise Mental Discipline > # 47