' The nose begins at the point between the two eyebrows, the
seat of spiritual vision." {FN16-8} Because of one SANKHYA {FN16-9}
aphorism, "ISWAR-ASHIDHA,"-"A Lord of Creation cannot be deduced"
or "God is not proved," {FN16-10}--many scholars call the whole
philosophy atheistical.
"The verse is not nihilistic," Sri Yukteswar explained. "It merely
signifies that to the unenlightened man, dependent on his senses
for all final judgments, proof of God must remain unknown and
therefore non-existent. True SANKHYA followers, with unshakable
insight born of meditation, understand that the Lord is both existent
and knowable."
Master expounded the Christian Bible with a beautiful clarity.
It was from my Hindu guru, unknown to the roll call of Christian
membership, that I learned to perceive the deathless essence of
the Bible, and to understand the truth in Christ's assertion-surely
the most thrillingly intransigent ever uttered: "Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." {FN16-11}
The great masters of India mold their lives by the same godly ideals
which animated Jesus; these men are his proclaimed kin: "Whosoever
shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my
brother, and sister, and mother." {FN16-12} "If ye continue in my
word," Christ pointed out, "then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." {FN16-13}
Freemen all, lords of themselves, the Yogi-Christs of India are part
of the immortal fraternity: those who have attained a liberating
knowledge of the One Father.
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