So far it is intellectually all right, but then comes the practice. The real work in these classes is the practice. Are any practices necessary to realize this one-ness? Most decidedly. It is not that you become this _Brahman_. You are already that. It is not that you are going to become God or perfect; you are already perfect, and whenever you think you are not, it is a delusion. This delusion which says that you are Mr. So-and-So, or Mrs. So-and-So, can be got rid of by another delusion, and that is practice. Fire will eat fire, and you can use one delusion to conquer another delusion. One cloud will come and brush away another cloud, and then both will go away. What are these practices then? We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion. Every idea that we are happy or unhappy, is a tremendous delusion; and another delusion will come,--that we have got to work and worship and struggle to be free,--and this will chase out the first delusion, and then both will stop. The fox is considered very unholy by the Mohammedans, also by the Hindus. Also, if a dog touches any bit of food it has to be thrown out, it cannot be eaten by any man. In a certain Mohammedan house a fox entered and took a little bit of food from the table, ate it up and fled. The man was a poor man, and had prepared a very nice feast for himself, and that feast was made unholy, and he could not eat it. So he went to a _Mulla_, a priest, and said: “This has happened to me; a fox came and took a mouthful out of my meal; what can be done? I had prepared a feast and wanted so much to eat it, and now comes this fox and destroys the whole affair.” The _Mulla_ thought for a minute, and then found only one solution and said: “The only way is for you to get a dog, and make him eat a bit out of the same plate, because dog and fox are eternally quarrelling. The food that was left by the fox will go into your stomach, and that not eaten by the dog will go there, and both will be purified.” We are very much in the same Predicament. This is an hallucination that we are imperfect, and we take up another, that we have to practice to become perfect. Then one will chase the other, as we can use one thorn to extract another and then throw both away. There are people for whom it is sufficient knowledge to hear, “Thou art That.” With a flash this universe goes away and the real nature shines, but others have to struggle hard to get rid of this idea of bondage.