The Inner Teachings Of The Philosophies and Religions of India

"Truth is not realizable by study alone, nay, not even by intelligence or by much learning, alone. Truth unfolds its full essence to him alone who applies his whole soul to Truth. He who has not given up the ways of sense; he who has not acquired self-control; he who hath not gained inward peace; he whose mind is not at rest; can never realize the Truth, even though he be filled with the learning of the world."

Now, any one at all familiar with the fundamental conceptions of the Hindu philosophical thought knows that the one positive position from which the Hindu mind refuses to budge, is the idea that "something never can come from nothing —” nor can something be resolved into nothing" ; or, as it is often expressed "from nothing, nothing comes."