[Advaita-l] The 'Light of Consciousness'.

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Sadananda ji
Thank you for the post. Its 'illuminating'. And thank you Jayakumar ji for
your post starting this thread.

As you said, Sadanabdaji, We never 'experience' light per se.
The fact is, all light photons stop dead at the retina and so our
'experience' of light in waking and dream is Atma-jyotih (with an upAdhi,
no doubt); our mind creates or projects  an experience of light for us by
drawing on its own intrinsic self-luminosity - a fact which never ceases to
amaze.

The dream experience demonstrates the fact that the external object and
extrnal sources of light are not essential for our experience of 'Light'.
(AtmA is svayam-jyotiH)


You incidentally mentioned the following in your post viz., - it's just
incidental but was reminded of a humourous video. You wrote-

"When I am sitting in a dark room, if you ask me if there is a chair in the
room, I say, I do not know, since I cannot see it. The chair may be there
or may not be there. The probability for the existence or its non-existence
is 50 percent since there are only two choices."

It appears there is a mix up in the above para between possibilities (of
which there are two viz., either the chair is there or not there ) with
probabilities (which will have to be weighted based on specifics). We
cannot say that all possibilities are equally probable and say it's 50 per
cent for each possibility. For example, a wrong argument would be to say -
"there are three possibilities when you toss a coin - heads or tails or 'it
lands on its edge'. So the probability of landing on its edge is 33%."

There is a humourous video related to this.

https://youtu.be/7y4T7DnSeo0

 Om


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