17-3-45 Afternoon

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Mr.T.P. Ramachandra Aiyar asked Bhagavan about the meaning of aar oLi

in the 1st stanza of 'Reality in Forty Verses'

 

B: aar oLi means NiRainta oLi . 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.