Swami Sivananda Vani

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Metaphysical Significance of Man—II

 

Intellect can move only in a vicious circle of possibilities. It

hovers round an object: deeper, it can never go. It cannot enter into,

and be one with it; and be it noted, without complete identity,

knowledge is impossible. Intellect accepts the evidence of the senses

and the result of inference, but it rejects as spurious the deepest

subjective intuitions. Profound insight tells us that there is

something more in man than is apparent in his ordinary consciousness;

something which originates all thoughts and emotions, a finer

spiritual presence which keeps him ever dissatisfied with mere earthly

pursuits. The doctrine that the ordinary condition of man is not his

final state, that he has a deeper self, an immortal Spirit, a light

that can never be extinguished, has the longest highest intellectual

ancestry.