God
Without and God Within
That leads us to the
next point, the relation of God without to God within. To the yogi,
who is the very type of Hindu thought, there is no definite proof
of God save the witness of the Self within to His existence, and
his idea of finding the proof of God is that you should strip away
from your consciousness all limitations, and thus reach the stage
where you have pure consciousness--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 Western methods of thought, which try to demonstrate
God by a process of argument. The Hindu will tell you that you cannot
demonstrate God by any argument or reasoning; He is above and beyond
reasoning, and although the reason may guide you on the way, it
will not prove 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 be called
faith, and this gives you the reason why faith is said to be beyond
reason, and so is often confused with credulity. Faith is beyond
reason, because it is the testimony of the Self to himself, that
conviction of existence as Self, of which reason is only one of
the outer manifestations; and the only true faith is that inner
conviction, which no argument can either strengthen or weaken, of
the innermost Self of you, that of which alone you are entirely
sure. It is the aim of Yoga to enable you to reach that Self constantly
not by a sudden glimpse of intuition, but steadily, unshakably,
and unchangeably, and when that Self is reached, then the question:
"Is there a God?" can never again come into the. human
mind.
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