The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)

intuition, which we shall later explain, is the direct grasp of truth.

So it is to intuition that we shall have to turn for knowledge of God in His blissful and other aspects.

am not the body. The passing show of creation cannot affect my Self. I am Spirit.”

Our senses are, as it were, windows, through which stimuli from the outside come and strike the mind, which passively receives these impressions.

Then, if sense or thought fails, how do we know that we exist? It is only by intuition that we can know this. Such knowing is one form of intuition. It is beyond sense and thought — they are made possible by it.

This is the result of the operation of the intellect (buddhi).

by life force, whereas the other methods do it indirectly through some other intermediary — thought, prayer, good works, worship, or “conscious sleep.”

1. Perception

way. I will refer to the work of the main centers and to the electrical current that flows from the brain through these centers to the outer (sensory) and internal organs, keeping them vibrating with life. There are six main centers through which pranic current (vital current or life electricity)10 from the brain is discharged throughout the nervou