पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
you will have to think of infinite knowledge around it, so that
the very nature of your constitution shows us that there is
unlimited knowledge, and the Yogis call that unlimited
knowledge God.
26. स पूर्वेषाम् अपि गुरुः कालेनानवच्छेदात् ॥ २६ ॥
sa poorvesham api guruh kalenanavachchhedat
He is the Teacher of even the ancient teachers, being
not limited by time.
It is true that all knowledge is within ourselves, but this has to
be called forth by another knowledge. Although the capacity
to know is inside us, it must be called out, and that calling out
of knowledge can only be got, a Yogi maintains, through
another knowledge. Dead, insentient matter, never calls out
knowledge. It is the action of knowledge that brings out
knowledge. Knowing beings must be with us to call forth
what is in us, so these teachers were always necessary. The
world was never without them, and no knowledge can come
without them. God is the Teacher of all teachers, because
these teachers, however great they may have been—gods or
angels—were all bound and limited by time, and God is not
limited by time. These are the two peculiar distinctions of the
Yogis. The first is that in thinking of the limited, the mind
must think of the unlimited, and that if one part of the
perception is true the other must be, for the reason that their
value as perceptions of the mind is equal. The very fact that
man has a little knowledge, shows that God has unlimited
knowledge. If I am to take one, why not the other? Reason
forces me to take both or reject both. It I believe that there is a
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