| 12. That light
which residing in the sun illumines the whole world, that which is in the
moon and in the fire that light do thou know to be Mine. Light: splendor.
Mine: Vishnu's.Or; light may be understood to mean the light of consciousness
(Chaitanya).(Objection):The light of consciousness exists in all. alike,
in the moving and unmoving objects: then why this qualification of light
as residing in the sun; etc.?(Answer):This objection does not apply here
; for, the qualification may be explained on the ground that the better
manifestation (of consciousness in the sun, etc.) is due to a higher. proportion
of Sattva. In the sun and other bodies. (mentioned here) the Sattva is very
brilliant and luminous ; wherefore it is in them that the light of consciousness
is better manifested. Hence the qualification ; not that the light is a
specific attribute of those bodies only. To illustrate it by an example
from ordinary experience: A mans face is not reflected in a wall, in a piece
of wood or the like ; but the same face is reflected in a mirror in a greater
or less degree of clearness, according as the mirror is more or less transparent
(2) As the all sustaining Life. |
