ATMA BODHA 61

 

ATMA  BODHA  61

“YAD- BHASA BHASYATE- ARKADI BHASYATI- YATU- NA- BHASYATE

    YENA- SARVAM- YEDAM- BHATI TAD –BRAHMETI – AVADHARAYET

                THAT BY  THE LIGHT OF WHICH THE LUMINOUS, ORBS LIKE THE SUN, AND THE MOON ARE ILLUMINATED, BUT WHICH IS NOT ILLUMINED BY THEIR LIGHT, REALISETHAT TO BE BRAHMAN.

It is the Consciousness in me illumines for me the conditions of the things around me. There is no difference between the total Cosmic Consciousness and the illuminating Factor within me. But there is no conditioning of the individual ego. No doubt, the sun illuminates the entire universe with his brilliant light but he too derives his life from the Supreme Force which is All-pervading. In other words, the Sun and the Moon  do not have a special agency other than the SELF in us for their illumination

That which illuminates all others but which cannot be illumined  by anything other than Itself is ever the Illuminator. Hence, when there is no object for It to illumine, It illumines Itself. This BRAHMAN, the Light of Consciousness remains in its own glory. It remains unattached and unaffected, like the street lamp an example referred to in the earlier stanzas. BRAHMAN is thus  the light of all lights, the fountain head of pure Consciousness and the mighty illuminator of  all illuminations

“ The Sun does not shine there, nor the moon and the stars nor these lightnings.How then could this fire? When He shines, everything shines after HIM; by HIS light all this is lighted.” (KATHOPANISHAD)

“ That which is not seen by the eye, but that by which the eyes are made to see---- know that as Brahmam.” ( KENOPANISHAD)                      

“ That which is not heard by the ear, but that by which the ears are made to hear ---- know that as Brahman and not what people worship here.” ( KENOPANISHAD)