The Light of the Self

So, even when you encounter the light of the sun, you have to turn away because your eyes cannot handle it. The light of the Atma is that way; it is too bright. Too bright for us to... in fact, we don't have an instrument to perceive it, you see? It is too bright for any instrument that we have to perceive it. It can only be known intuitively. So, it is absolutely true that it is the ultimate light, but that light can only be known intuitively as light and not through perception as light.

Is it because we cannot even stare at the light of the sun? If there was a very bright spotlight in this room, you could not even look at that. So, it is impossible to meet the light which is the Self in any sort of perceptual way. And yet, is it the light in which this light is born? In fact, the light of Consciousness, the light of being, is born first; within that, this light comes. Okay?

So, Bhagwan said, "In whose light do we see the light of the sun?" In whose light do we see the light of the sun? In your light, you see. So, that light... can you perceive the light in which the light of the sun shines? Then we perceive it. We cannot perceive even the light of the sun directly; we only have to meet it indirectly through reflection, is it?