पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
reason can explain the world? The sensible will be the limit to
our knowledge if we cannot go farther, if we must not ask for
anything more. This is what is called agnosticism. But what
reason is there to believe in the testimony of the senses? I
would call that man a true agnostic who would stand still in
the street and die. If reason is all in all it leaves us no place to
stand on this side of nihilism. If a man is agnostic of
everything but money, fame and name, he is only a fraud.
Kant has proved beyond all doubt that we cannot penetrate
beyond the tremendous dead wall called reason. But that is the
very first idea upon which all Indian thought takes its stand,
and dares to seek, and succeeds in finding something higher
than reason, where alone the explanation of the present state is
to be found. This is the value of the study of something that
will take us beyond the world. “Thou art our Father, and wilt
take us to the other shore of this ocean of ignorance;” that is
the science of religion; nothing else can be.
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