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You have to reconceive light.
When we think, ‘jyoti’— in this way it’s connected—
‘jyoti’, we think, ‘illumination’.
We know, to become enlightened, illumined,
that’s another type of luminosity;
[Air Bhajan]
light, illumination, is revelation.
So what is light in the conscious plane?
I’m not talking about objective light—
we see the sunrise, how beautiful it is, and it is,
it’s been compared to the lotus eyes of Viṣṇu—
but Guru Mahārāj, in his gāyatrī explanation,
oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svah tat savitur varenyaṁ bhargo,
is saying that this superficially appears to be talking about the sun:
how the sun is illuminating the world;
the sun reveals the world.
When we’re, especially, in the Kṛṣṇa-pakṣa
—means the dark moon; no visible moon—
we wait for the sunrise to reveal everything,
but he’s saying, bhūr bhuvaḥ svah:
the whole world of experience
—the lower, middle, higher, planetary systems—
means the world of experience, the objective world;
it appears on one level to be revealed by the sun,
but actually it’s ātmā, the soul, that reveals everything.
Without the conscious observer, it’s meaningless.
So really it’s a position occupied by the soul, ātmā,
and by extension, Paramātmā.
So there is the Paramātmā domain, world,
that is vareṇyam, worshipable.
And here— bhargo vai vṛsabhānujātma-vibhavai—
Guru Mahārāj is saying,
“And the halo of Śrīmati Rādhārāṇī is faith,
and that which reveals Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa conception.”
We were talking about Her bhāva and kānti,
Her heart and halo;
the halo is the outcome of Her heart,
so it’s the heart of Śrīmati Rādhārāṇī
that is actually illuminating Kṛṣṇa conception
and the service of Kṛṣṇa,
and without that,
it’s all imagination, fictitious, wallpaper, air bhajan.