Introducton to Yoga

The question is of the same kind as: "Why should a state of
Pralaya ever come to an end, and a new state of Manvantara
begin?" And the answer is the same from the Hindu psychological
standpoint; because, although you have dropped the very seed of
thought, you cannot destroy the traces which that thought has
left, and that trace is a germ, and it tends to draw again to
itself matter, that it may express itself once more.

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God Without and God Within


That leads us to the next point, the relation of God without toGod within. To the yogi, who is the very type of Hindu thought,there is no definite proof of God save the witness of the Selfwithin to His existence, and his idea of finding the proof of Godis that you should strip away from your consciousness alllimitations, and thus reach the stage where you have pureconsciousness--save a veil of the thin nirvanic matter.

Then you know that God is. So you read in the Upanishad: "Whose only proof is the witness of the Self." This is very different from Westernmethods of thought, which try to demonstrate God by a process of argument.

The Hindu will tell you that you cannot demonstrate Godby any argument or reasoning; He is above and beyond reasoning,and although the reason may guide you on the way, it will notprove to demonstration that God is.

The only way you can know Him is by diving into yourself.

There you will find Him, and know that He is without as well as within you; and Yoga is a system that enables you to get rid of everything from consciousness that is not God, save that one veil of the nirvanic atom, and so to know that God is, with an unshakable certainty of conviction.

To the Hindu that inner conviction is the only thing worthy to becalled faith, and this gives you the reason why faith is said tobe beyond reason, and so is often confused with credulity.

Faith is beyond reason, because it is the testimony of the Self tohimself, that conviction of existence as Self, of which reason isonly one of the outer manifestations; and the only true faith isthat inner conviction, which no argument can either strengthen orweaken, of the innermost Self of you, that of which alone you areentirely sure.

It is the aim of Yoga to enable you to reach thatSelf constantly not by a sudden glimpse of intuition, butsteadily, unshakably, and unchangeably, and when that Self isreached, then the question: "Is there a God?" can never againcome into the. human mind.

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