7rcTIX1xP

A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga782
The Sages, and Masters, from their high spiritual points of observation,
possess many truths regarding the “how” side of the question that would
appear almost like Infinite Wisdom itself, compared with our puny
knowledge. But even these great souls report that they do not possess the
answer to the Final Question—the “Why” of the Infinite Manifestation. And
so we may be excused from attempting to answer it—and without shame
or sense of shortcoming do we still say, to this question, “We do not know!”
In order that the Final Question may be fully understood let us consider
it for a moment. We find the Question arising from the following condition:
The human Reason is compelled to admit that there is an Infinite, Eternal,
Causeless Reality underlying all forms of manifestation in the phenomenal
world. It is likewise compelled to admit that this Reality must comprise All
that Really Is—and that there can be nothing Real outside of Itself. Arising
from this is the Truth, that all forms of phenomenal manifestation, must
emanate from the One Reality, for there is nothing else Real from which they
could emanate. And the twin-Truth that these forms of manifestation, must
also be in the Being of the One Reality, for there is nowhere outside of the
All wherein they might find a place. So this One Reality is seen to be “That
from which All Things flow”; and “That in which All Things live, and move
and have their being.”
Therefore All Things emanate from, and are contained in the One Reality.
We shall consider “just how” later on, but the question which confronts
us, and which has been called the “Final Question”—and that which we
pronounce unanswerable—is this: “Why has the Infinite manifested and
emanated Finite forms of being?” You will see the nature of the question
when you stop to consider: (1) The Infinite cannot have Desire, for that is a
Finite quality; (2) It cannot lack anything, for that would take away from its
Infinity; (3) and even if it did lack anything, from whence could it expect to
acquire it; for there is nothing outside of itself—if It lacks anything, it must
continue to always lack it, for there is no outside source from which It could
obtain anything which it does not already possess. And Desire would be,