Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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and obtained answers to their problems. Of course, ai present, that condition does not prevail; hence I have to give you satisfaction. You must deeply ponder over the question that place betore you. First of all, this question will remain throughout your lives because those activities of ours which are not directly perceptible cannot be seen since we do not possess the ability to see them and if we endeavour to visualize them; that endeavour will not achieve its objective fully; but surely we can get at least, a partial answer to our quest.
The question of the brightness of light arose before a man who was born blind. Some friend of his came to him and said to him, "Today, the people of the city are celebrating the Deepavali; the city is radiant with lights. There is a wonderful and splendid illumination. It is really unprecedented because the city was never thus decorated with lights before". The beauty of the brightness of lights cannot be described in words.
A question arose in the mind of the blind man, "What is brightness ?". This question arose on the basis of what anotier man said. He entertained this desire, "I must know what light is".
Someone told him that the search-light, the day-light, the sunlight and the light of a lamp possessed different degrees of radiance.
The blind man had already posed a question, "How does light taste? How to test its radiance ?" Now a second question arose in his mind, "Has light any fragrance ?" If it has fragrance how is it?" Now a third question arose in his mind, "Kindly let me know this. What shape does light possess? I am impatient to know it. How is its form and how is its beauty ?".
Thus many problems arose in his mind. How could that