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surface of the deep and spirit of God was “Lead us to truth from untruth and to light from
hovering over the waters And God said “ Let the darkness”. One Gujarati prayer has the
there be light “and there was light. (Genesis – same meaning and says “ Asatyomahenthi,
1:3)Then on subsequent days sky, land, seas, prabhu paramsatyetu Laija, undaandharethi,
seeds, trees, stars ( to govern nights ), living Prabhuparamtejetu Laija “.
creatures, like bird, live stock and wild animals The light as said here above is spiritual light,
and finally to rule over all the creatures the male mental illumination, enlightenment, brightness
and female. And thus the heaven and earth of heaven, spiritual guidance, inspiration and it
were completed within six days and Adam and is not only limited but transcend to spiritual
Eve were blessed. The glory of God was spark to aura, which is a hypothesize
revealed. I am tempted to cite from emanation surrounding a person, which is said
“ A u t o b i o g r a p h y o f a Y o g i “ b y to be visible to those with psychic power. It is
ParamhansaYogananda – (edition 2007). always seen that the halo in religious paintings
“Among the trillion mysteries of the cosmos, the and photographs, represents the person's
most phenomenal is light. Light waves pass aura. The aura has further to approach the
freely through the vacuum of interstellar cosmic consciousness, cosmic vision, of the
space:” In the gigantic conceptions of Einstein cosmos – the universe, Brahmlok. In Geetait
the velocity of light 1, 86,300 miles per second, has been said by Lord Krishna that “My abode
dominates the whole theory of relativity. is located beyond the light of the sun, moon and
It is stated in the book titled “The light stars.” This clearly points out the cosmic
“Published by The Bible society of India energy. God is self – luminous and incorporeal,
(Bangalore). This is the verdict: Light has come and He gives to mankind spiritual rejuvenation
into the world, but men loved darkness instead and divine inheritance through the flame of
of light, because their deeds were evil. light, which is used as a symbol of His form in
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will various religions. When a person is truly
not come into the light for fear that his deeds will enlightened his source of knowledge is God
be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth and so he knows the universal and ultimate
comes into the light, so that it may be seen truth. This is the cosmic energy. In
plainly that what he has done has been done Autobiography of a yogi, written by “
through God. Free will said “who is more Paramahansa Yogananda,” explained the
foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man experience while in Yoga as “the entire cosmos,
afraid of the Light?” gently luminous, like a city seen after a night,
Jesus said “The eye is the Lamp of the body. If glimmered within the infinitude of my being. It
your eyes are good, your whole body will be full was indescribably subtle the planetary pictures
of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole were formed of a grosser light. The divine
body will be full of darkness. I have come into dispersion of rays poured from an eternal
the world as a light, so that no –one who source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with
believes in me should stay in darkness,“when ineffable auras.” The scientists working on the
Jesus spoke again to the people, he said “ I am existing and functioning of cosmos, have
the light of the world, whoever follows me will discovered the cosmic energy, but unable to
never walk in darkness, but will have the light of detect the law framer and sole operation
life. Panbai the ancient spiritual songs write thereof. But nowadays the scientists are
rsays “Vijali ne Jhabkare, motidaParovoPanba, strenuously working on the cosmic energy and
achanakaand harathashejire“ which means very near to discover and detect the same,
“the pearl must be thread through the eye of which will help us to reach the cosmic energy.
needle within the spark of lightning of thunder But till we get the fruits of the new invention it
before the darkness overtakes you. “It is said in would be rather very helpful to us to draw our
Vedas and Upanishads that “Asato ma sat designs on the path shown by our religion,
gamay, Tamso ma jyotirgamay“ that means prophets and ethical books, the sacred Laws.

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