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Lesson VI: Gnani Yoga.347
has no existence to it—it is Infinite. Here is another thing that the unaided
Intellect is unable to grasp—Space. The Intellect cannot conceive of endless
space any more than it can of a causeless cause. And yet (poor Intellect) it
cannot imagine anything beyond space, or of the end of space. It cannot
conceive of a space with an end, or without an end—of time with an
end, or without an end. But to get back to our subject. If The Absolute is
Omnipresent (and we cannot conceive of it not being), it must be present
in all places at all times, in all persons, in all atoms, in matter, mind, and
spirit. If it is absent from a single point of space, or without space, then it
is not Omnipresent, and the whole statement is false. And if it is present
everywhere, there is room for nothing else to be present at any place. And
if this be so, everything must be a part of The Absolute, or an emanation of
it. Everything must be a part of a Mighty Whole. Many people speak quite
glibly of “God being everywhere”—every child is taught this in Christian
countries. But how few stop to think of what the words mean—they do not
know that they are saying that God is in the low places as well as in the high
places—in the “bad” places as well as in the “good” places. They do not know
that they are saying that God, being everywhere, everything must contain
God—must, indeed, be a part of His manifestation. The words which they
use so lightly carry an awful meaning. The student is not asked to accept this
statement of Omnipresence without examination. We have no space here
to go into the matter in detail, but modern science is filled with theories of
there being but one substance, and that substance pervading all space. Just
as science holds that there is but one Force, manifesting in different ways, so
does it hold that there is but one Substance, appearing in different forms. It
is true that science arrives at this conclusion through materialistic reasoning,
but the conclusions are practically identical with those of the Gnani Yogis,
held by them for many centuries, and obtained by them from teachers still
farther back in the world’s history. And orthodox religions affirm the same
thing with their statements of Omnipotence, and Omnipresence—though
they know it not.