Yoga of Nath Sampradaya - Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath Alakh Niranjan - Adesh Adesh Adesh Adesh CONCEPTION OF THE ULTIMATE REALITY It has been observed that MaMyogi Gorakhnaths conception of the Ultimate Reality is not merely the result of any process of logical reasoning from data supplied by normal sense-experience of ordinary people. It is not to him a theory or hypothesis conceived for the purpose of offering rational causal explanation of the world of common experience, as it is the case with purely intellectualist philosophers. The basis of his intellectual conception about the Ultimate Reality is super-sensuous super-mental super-intellectual direct experience in the state of Samadhi, i.e., in the perfectly illumined and perfectly universalised and unconditioned state of the consciousness. Conception, however, is an affair of the intellect. In the field of direct experience, whether sensuous or super-sensuous, mental or super-mental, there is no room for conception. Conception comes in, when the necessity is felt for the rational interpretation and intellectual under- standing of such experience. It is the function of the intellect (buddhi) to operate upon the direct experiences and to interpret them in terms of conceptions in order to constitute a system of valid knowledge out of them. The necessity for such interpretation is inherent in the nature of sensuous experience, since the isolated sense-perceptions cannot by them- selves constitute any real knowledge to the full satisfaction of the rational human mind. It is through the formation of conceptions that our knowledge of the phenomenal world of sensuous and mental experiences develops and expands, and with the development and expansion of knowledge the necessity for the formation of deeper and deeper, higher and higher, more and more comprehensive conceptions increases. Finally, the necessity is felt for the formation of an all-comprehending all-integrating all-illumining conception, which may fully satisfy the rational mind by furnishing an adequate explanation for the entire world of sensuous and mental expe- riences and may link together all experiences into one integral knowledge. Such a conception is regarded as the conception of the Absolute Ultimate Reality. Nevertheless, the conception is and will be in the domain of the intellect, in the domain of theory, and it can never amount to nor can it have the certitude of the direct experience of the Absolute Truth.
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