ॐ श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः। ॐ श्री भवानि शङ्कराय नमः।

ॐ श्री मात्रे नमः।

JAI SHANKAR

Today I am presenting a single shloka of AS wherein He has condensed the wisdom of sage Yaajnavalkya in conversation with King Janaka

in BrihadaaraNyaka Upanishad(4-3). Atman

(Self) is the Light of lights. This teaching AS gives us in the form of a dialogue between the Guru and the Shishya.

किं ज्योतिस्तव भानुमान् अहनि मे रात्रौ प्रदीपादिकं,

स्यादेवं रविदीपदर्शनविधौ किं ज्योतिराख्याहि मे।

चक्षुस्तस्य निमीलनादिसमये किं धीर्धियो दर्शने,

किं तत्राहमतो भवान् परमकं ज्योतिस्तदस्मि प्रभो।।

Guru: What serves as light for you?

Shishya: The sun during day and lamp etc at night.

Guru: Be it so. Now tell me with which light do you see the sun and the lamp?

Shishya: With my eyes, Sir.

Guru: When you close your eyes, what serves as the light?

Shishya: My intellect(intelligence, धी), Sir.

Guru: What is the light to see your बुद्धि (i.e.how do you witness or objectify your Buddhi?)

Shishya: There I am, Sir, (as the light)(I ‘see’ the बुद्धि)

Guru: Therefore, you are the ultimate light.

Shishya: Yes Sir,(I now know),  I am That!

NOTE: Self is the light of lights. Wih him as the  light within us, our body-mind apparatus keeps ticking. Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, taught in dialogues.  Above verse of AS reminds us of him. In a masterly way, the Guru awakens the Shishya, step by step, to his true identity, not as an object among objects, but, as the Supreme Subject, as the luminous Self, the Witnessing Samvit, the unwavering साक्षि. an Emperor of all that he surveys!

                EKA SHLOKI CONCLUDED