A distinction must be made between an ascetic renunciation of the body (and world) in pursuit of a higher, or nobler state of purified, sanctified, transcendent, dis-incarnate spirituality, and the natural outgrowing of the Self from its sense of being associated with, or being contained within any particular body. The former indicates a dualistic error in our understanding of the nature of our non-dual Reality, and is an ineffective means of attaining true, and complete liberation. The latter is a natural result of the maturation of our sense of personal identity, in which any sense of our being an individual, embodied entity is utterly shed, and abandoned. The former is a kind of madness, whereas the latter is an ecstatic expansion; an immense breathing out, and letting go. The ascetic believes in, feels there to be, or extrudes for himself two worlds; a lower world, and a higher. The lower world is experienced, or conceived of as a diabolical apparatus of persecution