Raja-Yoga

124 RAjA YOGA.
the Creator of the universe. Seeing that the universe
is
harmonious, it must be the manifestation of one
will. The Yogis and Sankhyas both avoid the question
of creation. The Yogis want to establish a God, but
carefully avoid this question, they do not raise it at
all. Yet you will find that they arrive at God in a
peculiar fashion of their own. They say:
25. In Him becomes infinite that all-knowingness
which in others is (only) a germ.
The mind must always travel between two extremes.
You can think of limited space, but the very idea of
that gives you also unlimited space. Close your eyes
and think of a little space, and at the same time that
you perceive the little circle, you have a circle round it
of unlimited dimensions. It is the same with time.
Try to think of a second, you will have, with the same
act of perception, to think of time which is unlimited.
So with knowledge. Knowledge is only a germ in
man, but you will have to think of infinite knowledge
around it, so that the very nature of your constitution
shows us that there is unlimited knowledge, and the
Yogis call that unlimited knowledge God.
26. He is the Teacher of even the ancient teachers,
being not limited by time.
It is true that all knowledge is within ourselves, but
this has to be called forth by another knowledge.
it must be
Although the capacity to know is inside us,