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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga786
and for Itself! Is not this Speculative Metaphysics run wild? Can one in calm
thought so regard the Infinite and Absolute Being—All-Wise—Causeless—
All-Powerful—All-Present—All-Possessing—Lacking Nothing—Perfect
One—as acting and performing thus, and from these motives? Is not this as
childish as the childishness of the savage, and barbarians, in their Mumbo-
Jumbo conceptions? Let us leave this phase of the subject.
The Higher Yogi Teachings hold to no such ideas or theories. It holds
that the Answer to the Secret is vested in the Infinite alone, and that finite
“guesses” regarding the “Why” are futile and pitiful. It holds that while one
should use the Reason to the full, still there are phases of Being that can
be considered only in Love, Faith, and Confidence in That from which All
Things flow, and in which we live and move and have our being. It recognizes
that the things of the Spirit, are known by the Mind. It explores the regions
of the Universal Mind to its utmost limits, fearlessly—but it pauses before
the Closed Door of The Spirit, reverently and lovingly.
But, remember this—that while the Higher Yogi Teachings contain
no “guess,” or speculative theory, regarding the “Why” of the Divine
Manifestation, still they do not deny the existence of a “Why”. In fact, they
expressly hold that the Absolute Manifestation of the Many is in pursuance
of some wondrous Divine Plan, and that the Unfoldment of the Plan
proceeds along well-established and orderly lines, and according to Law.
They trust in the Wisdom and Love of the Absolute Being, and manifest
a perfect Confidence, Trust and Peaceful Patience in the Ultimate Justice,
and Final Victory of the Divine Plan. No doubt disturbs this idea—it pays
no attention to the apparent contradictions in the finite phenomenal world,
but sees that all things are proceeding toward some far-away goal, and that
“All is Well with the Universe”.
But they do not think for a moment, or teach in the slightest degree,
that all this Unfoldment, and Plan of the Universe, has for its object any
advantage, benefit or gain to the Absolute—such a thought would be folly,
for the Absolute is already Perfect, and Its Perfection cannot be added to, or