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240 • A Treasure House of Names
849. Golden Colour (Suvarn-varn): The pure soul being an abstract entity does not have colour as one of the properties as atoms have. However, it has divine colour similar to that of golden colour.
850. Excessive Radiance (Rukmabh): The countenance of pure soul is made up of excessive radiance, which is splendid and clear.
851. Brilliance of Billions of Suns (Samaprabh): In the description of pure soul, all poetic imaginations look very small and trifle. The brilliance of pure soul is here described to be greater than that of billions of suns put together.
852. Halo of Heated Gold (Tapaniyanibh): When heated, gold assumes very bright halo. The pure soul is compared to this type of halo. Only through meditation on the pure soul one can realise such halo.
853. Highest Peak (Tung): There is no other tall object that ensures reaching the highest level of knowledge, happiness, power, etc., other than that of realisation of pure soul.
854. Halo of the Rising Sun (Balakarbh): The realisation of pure soul is like rising of the sun where the darkness of ignorance goes away and a fresh beginning of living a life of pure soul commences.
855. Radiance of Fire (Anal-prabh): Fire has three important features – light, heat and cooking/ripening/maturing. The pure soul represents light of knowledge, heat/burning leads to destruction of karmic substances associated with the soul and as a result of these, the pure soul matures or the true nature of pure soul surfaces.
856. Halo of Silver lining of Evening - Clouds (Sandhyabhrababhru): The halo of pure soul is unique and not comparable, yet attempt is made to explain the nature of pure soul through halo of silver lining of clouds.
