Raja-Yoga

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DHYANA AND SAMADHI. //
good as poetry, but poetry
is not reason. Show me a
reason. Why shall I be unselfish, and why be good ?
Because Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so say so does not weigh
with me. Where is the utility of rny being unselfish ?
My utility is to be selfish, if utility means the greatest
amount of happiness. I may get the greatest amount
of happiness by cheating and robbing others. What is
ihe answer ? The utilitarian can never give
it. The
answer is that this world is only one drop in an
infinite ocean, one link in an infinite chain. Where
did those that preached unselfishness, and taught
the human race, get this idea ? We know it is not
it to
instinctive; the animals, which have instinct, do not
know it. Neither is it reason; reason does not know
anything about these ideas. Whence did they come ?
We find, in studying history, one fact held in com
mon by all the great teachers of religion the world
ever had; they all claim to have got these truths
from beyond, only many of them did not know what
they were getting. For instance, one would say that
an angel came down in the form of a human being,
with wings, and said to him, Hear, oh man, this is
the message."
Another says that a Deva, a bright
being, appeared to him. Another says he dreamed that
his ancestor came and told him all these things. He
did not know anything beyond that. But this thing is
common, that all claim either that they saw angels, or
heard the voice of God, or saw some wonderful vision.
All claim that this knowledge has come to them from
beyond, not through their reasoning power. What