पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
reason cannot go, and where the testimony of others cannot
avail. This is what is meant by this aphorism, that realisation
is real religion, and all the rest is only preparation—hearing
lectures, or reading books, or reasoning, is merely preparing
the ground; it is not religion. Intellectual assent, and
intellectual dissent are not religion. The central idea of the
Yogis is that just as we come in direct contact with the objects
of the senses, so religion can be directly perceived in a far
more intense sense. The truths of religion, as God and Soul,
cannot be perceived by the external senses. I cannot see God
with my eyes, nor can I touch Him with my hands, and we
also know that neither can we reason beyond the senses.
Reason leaves us at a point quite indecisive; we may reason
all our lives, as the world has been doing for thousands of
years, and the result is that we find we are incompetent to
prove or disprove the facts of religion. What we perceive
directly we take as the basis, and upon that basis we reason.
So it is obvious that reasoning has to run within these bounds
of perception. It can never go beyond: the whole scope of
realisation, therefore, is beyond sense perception. The Yogis
say that man can go beyond his direct sense perception, and
beyond his reason also. Man has in him the faculty, the
power, of transcending his intellect even, and that power is in
every being, every creature. By the practice of Yoga that
power is aroused, and then man transcends the ordinary limits
of reason, and directly perceives things which are beyond all
reason.
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