Self transcends both light and darkness

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Day by Day with Bhagavan________17-3-45 AfternoonMr. T.P. Ramachandra Aiyar asked Bhagavan about themeaning of (non-english script) in the stanza of (n-e script)(Reality in Forty Verses).B: (n-e script) means (n-e script). It refers to that lightof manas in which we see all the world, both the known andthe unknown of the world. There is first the white light, so tocall 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 objectsare seen. But from the Self proceeds a reflected light, the lightof pure manas, and it is this light which gives room for theexistence of all the film of the world which is seen neither intotal light nor in total darkness, but only in the subdued orreflected light. It is this light which is referred to in the stanza.