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The Light of Atma Illuminates Everything

During the day, the sun illuminates the various objects of the world; at night,

the moon plays a similar though lesser role. Therefore, you can declare that it

is the sun and the moon that are responsible for the luminous nature of the

world and its objects. But during the dream state you also see various things;

where are the sun and the moon in that state? The sun that you see in the

daytime during your waking state is not there in the dream state; nor is the

moon there, nor is any other source of light visible there to illuminate the

various objects. Yet you can see an entire world, namely, the world of the

dream. What is it that illuminates that world? In the deep-sleep state there is

absolute darkness. There is neither knowledge nor wisdom in that state. But how

do you know that it is dark? What is it that enables you to apprehend this

darkness?

The deep-sleep state has been described as the unconscious state; the dream

state has been described as the sub-conscious state; the waking state has been

described as the conscious state. There is a fourth state which transcends all

these other states; it may be described as the super-conscious state. In the

super-conscious state you are able to see everything, everywhere, and enjoy

bliss supreme. What is the light that illuminates this bliss state and permits

you to experience this unmitigated joy? That light is the effulgence that

emanates from the atma. It is this light which illuminates all the other states

as well and enables you to see them.

In the Vedas, the sages have spoken of this super-conscious state. They

declared, "We are able to see a state which transcends the others, including

the darkness of the dreamless state. Beyond the dreamless state is the supreme

light of the atma which illuminates the waking, the dream and the deep-sleep

states." To understand this a little better, consider an example from the

waking state. When you close your eyes for a minute, what exactly are you

seeing? You will say that there is nothing there, only absolute darkness. But

then the question arises, 'How is it that I am able to perceive this darkness?

Since I seem to see it and am able to describe it, there must be a light of

consciousness which illuminates this state and enables me to see even this

darkness.' That light is the light of the atma It is only through this

transcendental light that all the other lights can shine.

We celebrate a festival of light in which we light a candle, and from that one

candle go on lighting all the other candles and lamps. This first light is the

basis for lighting the others. It is because we have this first light that we

are able to light so many others. For living beings, this first light is the

divine light of the one atma. With it, all the individual lamps, representing

the countless individual beings, are lit in turn. It is because of this divine

light that the eyes are able to see. It shines from inside and illuminates all

beings. But it is not only the source of all living beings, it is also the

source of all objects and all the external bodies of light, such as the sun and

the moon.

You may wonder, since you cannot see this divine light, how can you be sure that

it illuminates all these other objects and lights. Here the example of a battery

will be instructive. You cannot see the electrical power which is in the cells,

but if you switch on the current flow you can see the light in the bulb. If

there had been no electric power in the cell, you would not have been able to

get any light from the bulb. The body may be thought of as an electric lamp

driven by this battery cell which is the mind your eyes are the bulb and your

intelligence is the switch which controls it. In this battery cell of the mind,

a very special type of energy derived from the atma is stored. In ordinary

electric batteries the power gets exhausted very quickly, but the atmic current

flows continuously through the mind. The Vedas have declared that the mind is

the receptacle for storing the atmic energy. It is this inexhaustible source

that provides the temporary

flow of pleasure when some pleasing object is perceived.

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita190.html

Sai Baba Gita, Compiled and edited by Al Drucker - Published by Atma Press -

http://www.atmapress.com - ISBN: 0963844903Online Edition:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/index.html

 

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