Page 351 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Therefore, we wanted some one to give us the nature and the manner by which that Supreme Being can be first connected with us. We find in the message and the method given by Babuji that not only is it the most simple thing available to us, and ready at hand, it is something that will do the work and the task to which it has been called. Raja yoga, which he has said is really sovereign yoga, is a yoga where we start our yoga with relation with God rather than wait for it at the end of a long and arduous apprenticeship or discipleship, or Tapas. Our tapas begins with the help of God; under the guidance of God; under the guidance of the Supreme power which goes on giving us the force and the power and the ability and the capacity to absorb the Divine element within us. It may appear strange, but it is a fact that the most distant Being, and the highest and the Ultimate Being, has been lodged in the very cave of our hearts, or rather can be lodged there. We are yet suffering from the view that God is some one who is afar and apart from the reality or the world; that logicians non-mystic view that God is far beyond us; man's finite mind cannot grasp it. The Vedic seer was much bigger in this concept than these little logicians of the Nyaya school.
So God can be brought into the heart of man. Not only can He be brought, but He is willing to come in if you can call Him. You can give an opportunity to Him; but your idols of the cave and the idols of the tribe and the idols of so many sorts prevent that God from entering your heart. Our conceptions are like walls raised between Reality and ourselves, and since you cannot break the walls yourself, somebody has to make holes in the wall you have created. And that is the function, which befalls a teacher of Yoga. He has to pierce through your walls of misunderstanding, of obstruction - the sheaths, which you have raised between Reality and yourself. Well, I do not enter into the discussions or the descriptions as to how these walls have ever come between God and us, both from within and from without. The imageries may not help much, but we know that going outward and outward we do not come across Reality, and it is rather difficult to go inward and inward to probe into the depth of Reality.
Well, these have confronted people and produced all sorts of tensions, and when we can go neither inside nor outside, our concern is with our neighbours against whom we make all complaints and spend our whole