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## The Eightfold Right View: A General Statement
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5. **Deep and Generous Intent:** This Right View, the knowledge of the self, is characterized by a deep and generous intent in the practice of Dharma. The yogi with this view is "as deep as the ocean."
As this realization is the essence of life,
Knowing the self as distinct and unattached...listen to the Jinas, the original path; that stable nature, it arises, the name is character, it is without form...the origin." - Shrimad Rajchandraji
7. **Radiant View:** "The radiant view is like the radiance of the sun, the knowledge is like the radiance of the sun, the object of meditation is this view." - Shri Gadh Sakzayi
In the seventh radiant view, the sun is like the knowledge. The sun's light is many times greater than the stars, similarly, the seventh view is many times stronger and deeper than the sixth view. It is rightly called "radiant" because "pra+bha" means "excellent light," which is the same as the radiance. Just as the sun's radiance is extremely bright, so too is the knowledge-radiance of this view. Just as the sun's light illuminates all objects and the world, so too does the knowledge-light of this view illuminate all objects. This is the truth of the analogy. And this view has this excellent knowledge-light, therefore:
1. **Always the Object of Meditation:** This knowledge is constantly the object of meditation. The yogi in this state meditates on the self without interruption.
2. **Mostly Without Thought:** Because this self-meditation is intense and self-sufficient, there is rarely an opportunity for any thought to arise.
3. **Blissful Peace:** And because of this thought-free meditation, there is blissful peace, peace that is the essence, peace that is paramount. From the beginning, the yogi experiences supreme bliss from the peace of the self and detachment. Because this bliss is not dependent on anything else, there is no dependence, no subjugation, therefore there is no cause for suffering; and because it is only self-dependent, it is independent, therefore only bliss has space.
"Everything that is dependent is a sign of suffering, that which is independent is bliss; that evil nature of the self is revealed, tell me, is that bliss or suffering?
O seeker! Hold the words of the hero in your mind." - Shri Gadh Sakzayi