The Upanishads contain records of the spontaneous experiences of the sages steeped in meditation when they try to come to terms with the universe and the ultimate cause of it in their individual perceptions. It is clear that such mystic or transcendental experience is a continual process and never static.
Krishna enables Arjuna to have such a mystic experience as an inner revelation when He reveals His all-embracing universal form, pointed out Swami Gautamananda in a lecture. It is said in the Gita that Arjuna was unable to take in the vision of Krishna whose ineffable splendour appeared as if the divine firmament itself blazed with the light of a thousand suns. Krishna awakens Arjuna’s consciousness to grasp the truth of the Supreme Brahman Whom he sees as the entire creation. He understands that He is also the sole cause of it and the Supreme controller with an extraordinary hold over each and every aspect of it.
Scriptures allude to light as the remover of darkness with the symbolic undertone that knowledge removes the cloud if ignorance. They ask questions and also provide answers to kindle in us the search for the esoteric and subtle truths that go beyond human thought, word and intellect. How does one understand the form or substance of the objects of the world? It is the light in some form, that of the sun, moon or the stars, that reveal these to our sense of perception. In the absence of such light, natural or artificial, what happens? Sound can reveal objects. What if sound is also not available? What is the light that reveals the dream? It is the light of the atma that is the essence of consciousness.
This light of the atma alone also reveals the ultimate truth, they say.
