No one can find God in the macrocosm of the outer universe without finding
God first, in the microcosm of one’s inner Self.
However, if man has found God within himself, he finds God spontaneously
everywhere; in an insect, in a flower, all over the Universe, even where God did
not seems to exist. It is because God is always present in man, but man is often
absent from God. The kingdom of God is within every man, but not every man is in
the kingdom of God.
In order to see the kingdom of God within, man must be reborn by the
spirit; to open the eyes of his true divine Self, to pass from ignorance to
wisdom, from blindness to clairvoyance, from darkness to light, from death to
life, from material profanity to spiritual initiation.
Note:
In the chapter "I Am Going to America," in Paramahansa Yogananda's
Autobiography of a Yogi: One early morning, solitary in his room, silence, tears
of anxiety before the "uncertain", when he was anxiously confronted with the
reality of having to teach the principles of Yoga to the Americans, Yogananda
hears someone knock on his door; he opens it and see before him a young man of
humble appearance and renunciation... Babaji - the immortal spirit –
materialized to visit him! After a period of short conversation, Yogananda
intuits the following passage from the Bhagavad Gita XI, 12: “If there should
rise Suddenly within the skies Sunburst of a thousand suns, Flooding earth with
beams undeemed-of, Then might be that Holy One’s Majesty and radiance dreamed
of!” An obvious sign that his pilgrimage to the lands of America would have its
historical purpose for many generations, because God led him to it. This
autobiography of Yogananda is to this day, considered as one of the milestones
in the teaching of the reality of the divine union between the Cosmic Principle
and man.
