Raja-Yoga

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70 RAJA YOGA.
true. Take an infinite series, A B A B A B, etc.
The question
is which is first, A or B.
take the
If you
series as A B, you will say that A is first, but if
you
take it as B A you will say that B is first. It depends
upon the way we are looking at it. Intelligence
evolves, and becomes the gross matter, and this again
involves as intelligence, and again evolves as matter
once more. The Sdnkhyas, and all religionists, put
intelligence first, and the series becomes intelligence
then matter, intelligence then matter. The scientific
man puts his finger on matter, and says matter then
intelligence, matter then intelligence. But they are
both indicating the same chain. Indian philosophy,
however, goes beyond both intelligence and matter,
and finds a Purufa, or Self, which is
beyond all intelli
gence, and of which intelligence is but the borrowed
light.
20. The seer is intelligence only, and though pure,
sees through the colouring of the intellect.
This is
again Sdnkhya philosophy. We have seen
from this philosophy that from the lowest form up to
intelligence all is nature, but beyond nature are
Puru&as (souls), and these have no qualities. Then
how does the soul appear to be happy or unhappy ?
By reflection. Just as if a piece of pure crystal be put
on a table and a red flower be put near it,
the crystal
appears to be red, so all these appearances of happiness
or unhappiness are but reflections; the soul itself has
no sort of colouring. The soul is
separate from