A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga

"...its modest function is to guard against error." Let us then listen to the report of the Intellect, as well as the reports from the higher fields of mental activity original: "mentation".

One of the first reports of the Intellect concerning the Absolute is that it must have existed forever and must continue to exist forever. There is no way to escape this conclusion, whether one views the matter from the perspective of a materialist, philosopher, occultist A student of the hidden or inner laws of nature and the spirit., or theologian. The Absolute could not have emerged from nothing, and there was no other cause outside of itself from which it could have originated. Likewise, there can be no cause outside of itself that can end its existence. We cannot even imagine Infinite Life, or Absolute Life, dying. Therefore, the Absolute must be Eternal—this is the report of the Intellect.

This idea of the "Eternal" is practically impossible for the human mind to fully grasp, even though it is forced to believe that eternity must be a quality of the Absolute. The difficulty arises from the fact that the Intellect is compelled to see everything through the veil of Time and Cause and Effect. In reality, Cause and Effect and Time are merely phenomena—appearances of the relative world The world we experience through our senses, defined by change and relationship, as opposed to the unchanging "Absolute."—and have no place in the Absolute and the Real. Let us see if we can understand this.

Reflection will show you that the only reason you are unable to think of or visualize a Causeless Cause is because everything you have experienced in this relative world of the senses has had a cause—something from which it arose. You have seen Cause and Effect in full operation all around you,