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Lesson VI: Gnani Yoga.345
The Gnanis call The Absolute “The Causeless Cause,” and merely assert
that it is. The student must grasp this idea of the reality of The Absolute
before he proceeds. He need not give it any attributes, or pretend to
understand it—he may not even give it a name. But he must admit that there
is an absolute Something, be it called God, Mind, Matter, Force, Life, or what
not. He must admit and conceive of the absolute Thing, from which all the
rest proceeds—or which is manifested in all the rest.
The next step for the student is the assimilation of the fact that all there
is, seen or unseen, must be a manifestation or emanation of that Absolute
Thing. For there can be nothing outside of The Absolute, or which has not
emanated from it. There is no outside. There is nothing outside. Everything
must have come from the one source. If The Absolute were to make a thing,
it must make it out of itself, at least so far as our Intellect can conceive of the
matter. There cannot be two Absolutes—there is room only for One.
We think it well to insert in this place a little poem, the name of the writer
of which is unknown to us. It states a great truth in the simplest language.
“Thou great eternal Infinite, the great unbounded Whole,
Thy body is the Universe—thy spirit is the soul.
If thou dost fill immensity; if thou art all in all;
If thou wert here before I was, I am not here at all.
How could I live outside of thee? Dost thou fill earth and air?
There surely is no place for me outside of everywhere.
If thou art God, and thou dost fill immensity of space,
Then I’m of God, think as you will, or else I have no place
And if I have no place at all, or if I am not here,
‘Banished’ I surely cannot be, for then I’d be somewhere.
Then I must be a part of God, no matter if I’m small;
And if I’m not a part of Him; there’s no such God at all,”