Chapter 15: Purushottama-yoga:: Verse 6
न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावक: ।
यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम ॥
na tad-bhāsayate sūryo
na śaśāṅko na pāvaka:
yad-gatvā na nivartante
tad-dhāma paramaṃ mama – 15.6
That is My supreme Abode, which neither sun nor moon nor fire illumines, on reaching which there will be no return or rebirth.
Chapter 15: Purushottama-yoga: - Verse 6
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Around us is the sensory world. Our senses reveal the objects in the manner we perceive them. Other objects not perceivable to the senses are known through inferences based on sense perceptions.
Sun, moon, fire, etc. shed physical light to reveal world objects to our eyes. But what is that light which reveals the imprints of objects our mind makes within? Besides, there are countless thoughts, emotions, reflections, enquiries, pursuits and findings – all inner. Put together, are they not far greater than the sensory world?
Which inner light reveals all these? That is the sovereign spiritual effulgence, which inspires and leads the intelligence, mind and senses for their cognitive and other sensory functions. That is first, all others come next.
Krishna says, neither sun nor moon nor stars can penetrate the inner horizon, where reigns the Supreme, inaccessible to everything in the visible world!
