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17-3-45 7-3-45 Af After Af er ernoon er noon
Mr. T.P. Ramachandra Aiyar asked Bhagavan about the
meaning of Ao I° in the stanza of ‘Ds[Õ SôtTÕ’
(Reality in Forty Verses).
B: Ao I° means ¨û\kR I°. It refers to that light
of manas in which we see all the world, both the known and
the unknown of the world. There is first the white light, so to
call it, of the Self, which transcends both light and darkness.
In it no object can be seen. There is neither seer nor seen.
Then there is total darkness or avidya in which also no objects
are seen. But from the Self proceeds a reflected light, the light
of pure manas, and it is this light which gives room for the
existence of all the film of the world which is seen neither in
total light nor in total darkness, but only in the subdued or
reflected light. It is this light which is referred to in the stanza.
18-3-45 8-3-45
On or about 15-3-45 Bhagavan had asked someone in the
hall to read aloud Bhakta Vijayam, to illustrate from the story
of Tulasi Das, how one totally immersed in sensual life,
suddenly recoils and goes to the other extreme of a highly
religious life. In the story, Tulasi Das runs away from wife and
home and is mad after Hari at Banaras. The wife and mother
go and entreat him to come back, reminding him of his great
love for them all. He takes no notice of them at all, but asks
them, “Has my Hari come? Yes. He is coming there!” etc. He
was mad after Hari alone and took interest in nothing else. When
this portion was being read out, Bhagavan said, “I was somewhat
like this at Madura. Going to school, books in hand, I would be
eagerly desiring and expecting that God would suddenly appear
before me in the sky; and so I would be looking up at the sky.
What sort of progress could such a one make in his studies at
school!”
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