Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

light, brilliance, radiance; which bhasayate,
illumines, reveals; akhilam, the whole, entire; jagat,
world; yat, that ulluminating light which is;
candramasi, in the moon; ca, and yat, which is;
agnau, in fire, the carrier of oblations; viddhi,
know; tat, that; tejah, light; to be mamakam, Mine.
That light belong to Me who am Visnu. Or: The
light that is Consciousness, which is in the sun,
which is in the moon, and which is in fire, know
that light to be Mine. That light belongs to Me who
am Visnu. Objection; Is it not that the light that is
Consciousness exists equally in the moving and the
non-moving? Such being the case, why is this
particular mention, 'That light in the sun
which...,'etc? Reply: This defect does not arise,
because, owing to the abundance of the sattva
quality, there can be an abundane [Ast. reads
avistaratva (amplitude) in place of adhikya.-Tr.] (of
Consciousness). Since in the sun etc. the sattva is
very much in evidence, is greatly brilliant,
therefore there is an abundance of the light (of
Consciousness) in them alone. And so it (sun etc.)
is specially mentioned. But it is not that it
(Consciousness) is abundant only there. Indeed, as
in the world, a face, though in the same position, is
not reflected in wood, a wall, etc., but in a mirror
etc. it is reflected according to the degree in which
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