becomes of my marbles if I grow, so I will not grow,” says the boy. “What will become of my dolls if I grow old?” says the little child. It is the same question in connection with this world; it has no existence in the past, present, or future. If we have known the _Âtman_ as It is, if we have known that there is nothing else but this _Âtman_, that everything else is but a dream, with no existence in reality, then this world with its poverties, its miseries, its wickedness and its goodness will cease to disturb us. If they do not exist, for whom and for what shall we take trouble? This is what the _Jnâna Yogis_ teach. Therefore, dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. It is very hard to come to _jnânam_. It is for the bravest and most daring, who dare to smash all idols, not only intellectual, but in the senses. This body is not I; it must go. All sorts of curious things may come out of this. A man stands up and says I am not the body, therefore my headache must be cured, but where is the headache if not in his body? Let a thousand headaches and a thousand bodies come and go. What is that to me? “I have neither birth nor death; father nor mother I never had; friends and foes I have none, because they are all I; I am my own friend and I am my own enemy; I am Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute; I am He, I am He.” If in a thousand bodies I am suffering from fever and other ills, in millions of bodies I am healthy. If in a thousand bodies I am starving, in other thousand bodies I am feasting. If in thousands of bodies I am suffering misery, in thousands of bodies I am happy. Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe, I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the _Jnâni_, brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed. It was all an hallucination; we see the universe tumble down; where was it? Where has it gone?