The soul must be freed from its material surrounding, the "muddy vesture of decay," by an ascetic habit of life.
At the height of his career, when between 1840 and 1850 many of Fichte's works were being translated in the Catholic Series, he called attention to Fichte's later view that all earthly things are but as a vesture or appearance under which the Divine idea of the world is the reality.
The Brahman holds all nature to be the vesture or cloak of indwelling, divine energy, which inspires everything that produces awe or passes man's understanding "(Sir Alfred C. Lyall, Brahminism).
What are the nakedness and the vesture, the shining raiment, the priestly insignia, the girdles?
By grace of God, or sleight of hand, he wears the royal vesture, And at thy throne, Divine Success!