Adi Granth makes frequent reference to the human encounter with a Divine Light

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> God Almighty (Brahman) resides within all humans as Light, a fact

> that is supported by all scriptures. Thus we can meditate on Him

> within and that long search for the Creator is at last over,

> ending within ourselves. That is why Jesus kept telling the

> ignorant masses two millennia ago that the Kingdom of God is

> within.

>

> A few months ago i asked my daughter Lalita what is that Light

> above Shri Mataji in her Sahasrara (Kingdom of God). She

> replied " God! "

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> i remained silent for a long time to absorb the immensity of that

> single word answer.

>

> jagbir

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The Light Divine

 

Guru Nanak clearly referred to spiritual attainments in this life as

being akin to the experience of death: " every day do I die and every

day do I come back to life.... " 3

 

This meant that the Guru could attain an NDE-like experience without

actually dying physically. The Adi Granth, also, mentions

specifically the vision of the Divine Light in the same context

as " overcoming death " :

 

Pray to the Lord, to the True Guide,

That in Him thou mayest meet the Beloved Friend.

In this meeting the soul is happy

And death dies of its own disease

May I live in the [Divine] Name,

May the name in me be indwelling.

Without the Guru to teach us, we walk in darkness,

Without the Word, we have no understanding.

The Word of the Guru is light,

His Word's light leads to the Truth.

There, Death has no existence.

His light is joined with Light.... 4

 

The Adi Granth makes frequent reference to the human encounter with

a Divine Light: " God, being Truth, is the one Light of all. "

God " shines out in His own splendour. " Moreover, " His brightness

shineth forth " with " the blaze of the splendour dazzling like the

sun. " 5

 

Guru Nanak added more on this issue in other writings. For Nanak,

God is " the light of all light. " The light of God " illumines land

and seas. " God is " the embodiment of light; the lamps of the sun and

moon and all their light emanate from Him.... " God is " pure light "

.... the " ever pure light. " This " all-wise Being of light sits on the

throne eternal. " God's light is " infinite, " and God Himself " is

immaculate and all light. " 6

 

The Adi Granth also makes it clear that this Divine Light can be

found within one's self: " the Eternal Light indwells in the human

mind, and the human mind is the emanation of that light. "

Further, " the best light is the Light of God in the heart. "

Ultimately, the Sikh aspirant wishes to be immersed in the Divine

light, as was Guru Nanak: " as waves blend with water, so my light is

blended with the Lord's Light. " 7

 

Nanak goes on to say that " in Thy creatures is Thy light... " ;

indeed, " in every heart there is the same light.... " In this

ultimate union, " our light blends with the light eternal, " and Nanak

encourages followers to " merge your light with the light eternal. "

As the guru himself would put it,

 

Within every body

Is the Lord hidden;

Within every body

Is His light.

Searching his body, his home,

By the master's instructions one finds

the Name revealed within. 8

 

Divine Encounters - Sikhism - The Light Divine

http://lovinglight.com/bbain/sikhism/lightdivine.htm