The Actuality of God Obtained in Vision, in Experience, in Being

By H.D. Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati

What is denied by thought, is affirmed by experience; what is intangible to the intellect, is tangible to the soul. The problems of self-conscious human reason are not the problems of spiritual experience; what baffles the critical intelligence may remain a simple possibility with religious insight; while logic is always involved in contradictions, the mystic perception sees into the very rock of the Truth of all things, the Ground of all being, the unifying and homogeneous spiritual Essence everywhere.

The materiality of matter may be the sole experience of the physical man; but the spirituality of matter is the living experience of a Sage.

Though to the seeking intelligence of a philosopher, God is an Ideal, He is an Actuality to the living liberated Sage.

The Divine presents itself as a Vision, not a conceptual notion, but a vision that is a living Reality, a Reality that is a matter of immediate, concrete, continuous experience.