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Reason and Yoga NOTHING
is proved by reason. Reason is only an instrument or a weapon. Any man can use
it with the same skill for his own end. Satan, too, has his advocate. According
to the demands and needs of our ideals, experience and inner impulses, and in
order to furnish them with proofs, we engage reason and its company. Therefore
the authority of the proof lies not in any power of reasoning, but in the
reality behind the ideal, the secret feeling, the profound impulse and
impetus. What
is truth is existent; that is, it is true only because it has existence. It is
independent of any proof. It has to be seen directly and perceived immediately.
The proof of the tree before you consists in your seeing it. There is God, the
Self, Immortality, Eternity, the Life Divine. The
proof of each of these entities, too, lies in its direct apperception. You
may say, "I see the tree, you see it, he sees it; everybody sees or can
see it. But God, the Self, Immortality, the Life Divine: even if you have seen
them, I have not done so. Everyone has not seen or cannot see them." My
reply will be, "Not all, but many have realised them, in different ages
and in different climes. It is open to you and me, also, to have the
realisation if we go through the proper procedure." If
one wants to see
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to go to the laboratory and follow a special procedure. The
process that brings the direct vision of God, the Self, Immortality and the
touch of the Divine Life is called the practice of Yoga.
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