The fourth religious method, explained in the last chapter, bases itself on intuition.

What we conceive of God should be of daily, nay hourly, guidance to us. The very conception of God should stir us to seek Him in the midst of our daily lives. This is what we mean by a pragmatic and compelling conception of God. We should take religion and God out of the sphere of belief into that of daily life.

first, loving attention to the subject to be learned; second, desire to learn and an earnest spirit of inquiry; third, steadfastness until the desired end is attained.

degrees. An earnest truth-seeker gets a little taste of it; a seer or a prophet is filled with it.

In our experience we find fire wherever there is smoke; hence if we see smoke on any occasion, we infer there is fire. This is deductive inference.

happiness and Bliss are not the same thing. We all aim at Bliss, but through a great blunder we imagine pleasure and happiness to be Bliss.

Desire for the fulfillment of these tendencies creates want, and want produces pain. Now these

As thought can be cultivated, so intuition can be developed. In intuition we are in tune with Reality — with the world of Bliss, with the “unity in diversity,” with the inner laws governing the spiritual world, with God.

and that the Self should be realized, as the image of the sun appears in calm, unruffled water.