Here is one of the most striking examples in our scriptural literature, given to us by the Divine Charioteer. It conveys to our intellectual comprehension the exact relationship of the Consciousness, the Eternal Principle-of-Life, with reference to the various worlds-of-matter and their expressions. Just as the one Sun illumines the entire Universe from afar, and at all times, so too the Consciousness merely illumines the world-of-objects, the body, the mind, and the intellect.
Though generally in our everyday talks we attribute the ACTIVITY of lighting up the world of the Sun, we find on close examination that we cannot attribute any such ACTIVITY to the Sun. An action is that which has a beginning and an end and it is generally undertaken to fulfil a deep desire, or a silent purpose. The Sun does not illumine the world in this sense of the term. On the other hand, “light” itself is the nature of the Sun, and in its presence everything gets illumined. Similarly, Consciousness is of the nature of awareness and in Its presence, everything becomes known — illumined.
In the world there is only one Sun and it illumines everything, good and bad, the vicious and the virtuous, the ugly and the beautiful. And yet the Sun is not sullied by the ugly, the vicious and the bad, nor is it blessed by the good, the virtuous or the beautiful. So too, in our inner life, the Ever-perfect and Joyous Consciousness functions through the equipments and illumines them, but It never gets contaminated by the sins of the mind, by the perversions of the intellect, or by the crimes of the physical body. It only illumines. This illumination of the Self, playing upon our thoughts and emotions, gets splashed to form the ever changing patterns of the multiple individuals, with their everchanging behaviours.
THIS DOCTRINE OF THE “FIELD” AND THE “KNOWER-OF-THE-FIELD,” BOTH PLAYING IN THE SUPREME, DISCUSSED IN THIS CHAPTER ISCONCLUDED IN THE FOLLOWING STANZA:
