{"id":496,"date":"2008-12-29T14:52:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaveh.ymer.org\/?p=496"},"modified":"2023-07-03T09:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T09:01:33","slug":"light-in-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/29\/light-in-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Light in the Darkness…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Light in the Darkness \/ Ein Licht in der Dunkelheit<\/p>\n

\u201cTake a piece of glass, paint colours and forms on it, and put the same into a magic lantern, turn on a little light, and the\u00a0 colours and the forms painted on the glass are reproduced on the screen. If that light were not turned on, you would not see\u00a0 the colours of the slide on the screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow are colours formed? By breaking up white light with a many-sided prism. So it is with a man\u2019s character. It is seen when\u00a0 the Light of Life (God) is shining through it, i.e. in a man\u2019s actions. If the man is sleeping or dead, you do not see his\u00a0 character. Only when the Light of Life is animating the character and causing it to act in a thousand different ways, in\u00a0 response to its contact with this many-sided world, can you perceive a man\u2019s character. If white light had not been broken up\u00a0 and put into forms and shapes on our magic lantern slide, we should never have known that there was a piece of glass in front\u00a0 of the light, for the light would have shone clearly through. In a sense that white light was marred, and had some of its clearness taken from it by having to shine through the colours on the glass.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it is with an ordinary man. His mind is like the screen. On it shines light, dulled and changed because he has allowed the\u00a0 many-sided world to stand in the way of the Light (God) and broken it up. He sees only the effects of the Light (God) instead\u00a0 of the Light (God) Himself, and his mind reflects the effects he sees just as the screen reflects the colours on the glass.\u00a0 Take away the prism and the colours vanish, absorbed back into the white light from whence they came. Take away the colours\u00a0 from the slide and the light shines clearly through. Take away from our sight the world of effects we see, and let us look only\u00a0 into the cause, and we shall see the Light (God).<\/p>\n

\u201cA Master in meditation, though the eyes and ears be open, fixes his attention so firmly on \u2018That which sees\u2019 that he neither\u00a0 sees nor hears, nor has any physical consciousness at all \u2014 nor mental either, but only spiritual.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must take away the world, which causes our doubts, which clouds our mind, and the light of God will shine clearly through.\u00a0 How is the world taken away? When, for example, instead of seeing a man you see and say, \u2018This is God animating a body\u2019, which\u00a0 body answers, more or less perfectly, to the directions of God, as a ship answers more or less perfectly to her helm.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

A passage taken from the book \u201cRamana Maharshi and The Path of Self Knowledge\u201d, by ARTHUR OSBORNE, from a letter written to a friend in London by F. H. Humphreys and published by her in the International Psychic Gazette, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-historical","category-macro","category-nature","post_format-post-format-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kavehsaffari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}