Raja-Yoga

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INTRODUCTION.
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farther, if we must not ask for anything more. This
is what is called agnosticism. But what reason is there
to believe in the testimony of the senses? I would call
that man a true agnostic who would stand still in the
street and die. If reason is all in all it leaves us no
place to stand on this side of nihilism. If a man is
agnostic of everything but money, fame and name, he
is only a fraud. Kant has proved beyond
all doubt
that we cannot penetrate beyond the tremendous dead
wall called reason. But that is the very first idea upon
which all Indian thought takes its stand, and dares to
seek, and succeeds in finding something higher than
reason, where alone the explanation of the present
state is to be found. This is the value of the study of
something that will take us beyond the world. Thou
art our Father, and wilt take us to the other shore of
this ocean of ignorance;" that is the science of religion;
nothing else can be.