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Letter 27
173 Just now, while writing I can see the paper, I am sure about its existence. Also I am sure about the cool breeze I am getting from the fan. I am conscious of the traffic noise from outside, the smell of paint from the neighbour's house, which is being painted. All these things i.e. Dnyeyas are being known by me i.e. I am knowing them, experiencing them through my knowledge. And this fact that 'I am the knower of all these things' is also experienced by each and everyone. And yet nobody has really taken cognisance of the knower i.e. one's own self.
The literature is printed in a book. But since the book does not have Dnyan attribute, it does not have the knowledge of the words printed in it nor does it know the meaning implied in these words. I am full of knowledge and I can know other things through my this attribute of knowledge. I can understand and know the words written in the book and their meaning. I am Dnyayak of these things and therefore they are my Dnyeya.
We are all very clever in knowing Para Dnyeyas. But the question is of knowing Swa Dnyeya. The activity of knowing which is constantly going on at each samay not only establishes the existence of Dnyeya but Dnyayak as well.
Mona you had taken us to see the Ellora caves. There in the caves because of darkness we were not able to see anything inside the caves. But when the guide put on the light and started showing us the carvings and other statues, immediately everybody was praising them. These statues were already existing there. But as soon as the light was thrown on them, their beauty was visible. Does it not mean that in real sense the statues, now, were not only establishing their own existence but the presence of the light as well ? But we hardly even realise existence of light.
When there is a reflection in clean and still water the reflection establishes the reflectivity of water. Similarly the reflection in the mirror establishes its reflectivity. To see our image we stand in front of the mirror and not the wall, because only mirror has the reflectivity attribute.
Mirror reflects only the shape and colour of things; but the sentience, has a capacity to reflect not only the shape, colour, taste, smell of things but it has capacity to know Aroopi and very minuscule objects, objects or things which are far away or at far off distance as well as far away in time i.e. things from the past or in the future, ability to know all the past, present and future modifications of all the substances and along with that, to know the infinite modifications of all the infinite attributes of one's own self in one samay.
