Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 12$
called out, and that calling out of knowledge can only
be got, a Yogi maintains, through another knowledge.
Dead, insentient matter, never calls out knowledge, it
is the action of knowledge that brings our knowledge.
Knowing beings must be with us to call forth what is
in us, so these teachers were always necessary. The
world was never without them, and no knowledge can
come without them. God is the Teacher of all teach
ers, because these teachers, however great they may
have been gods or angels were all bound and lim
ited by time, and God is not limited by time. These
are the two peculiar deductions of the Yogis. The first
is that in thinking of the limited, the mind must think
of the unlimited, and that if one part of that perception
is true the other must be, for the reason that their
value as perceptions of the mind is equal. The very
fact that man has a little knowledge, shows that God
has unlimited knowledge. If I am to take one, why
not the other ? Reason forces me to take both or
reject both. If I believe that there is a man with a
little knowledge,
I must also admit that there is some
one behind him with unlimited knowledge. The
second deduction is that no knowledge can come with
out a teacher. It is true as the modern philosophers
say, that there is
something in man which evolves out
of him; all knowledge is in man, but certain environ
ments are necessary to call it out. We cannot find any
knowledge without teachers, if there are men teachers,
god teachers, or angel teachers, they are all limited;
who was the teacher before them ? We are forced to