Having renounced, one discovers that one's earlier identifications and the accompanying sense of limitation fall away. One discovers one's own divine nature, a state of mind known as “at-onement” in some religions.

The Technique for Perfect Living.

Religion is thus the technique for perfect living, for gaining better mastery over oneself. Religions advise us to learn how to discriminate between the serious and the trifling, the permanent and the impermanent, the full and the empty occupations. They implore us to employ our precious life span in seeking and striving to gain the momentous, the lasting, the full. “Wake up! Arise! Stop not until the goal is reached!”- this, in short, is the fundamental cry of all religions.

When we enter religion to study its techniques, rather than to quarrel over individual beliefs or the peculiarities in ritualism, we shall find that the methods prescribed by all the religions of the world indicate one or another of the techniques for rehabilitating the mind and intellect of the seeker. When the mind has learned to stop its mad revelry among its agitations and excitements, it comes to know the tranquility divine, to rediscover its real nature, the Self. There is no religion in the world which does not point to this goal, a goal that can be reached when the mind is at rest. A still mind is an open window through which we can peep out to see ourselves reflected in the mirror of Truth.