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104 consciousness of “all in One and One in all” dawns upon us. This Intuition is what all great savants and prophets of the world had and still have.

The third method (Meditation-Method), as explained in the last chapter, when it is earnestly practised, carries us also into the region of Intuition. But it is a bit round-about, and ordinarily takes a longer time to produce in us the successive states of the Intuitional or Realization process.

Thus it is by Intuition that God can be realized in all His aspects. We have no sense that can reveal knowledge of Him. The senses give knowledge of only His manifestations. No thought or inference can enable us to know Him as He truly is. For thought cannot go beyond what the senses give. It can only arrange and interpret the impressions of the senses. When the senses are unable, thought, as depending upon them, is also unable to bring us to God. So it is to Intui-