Manas: Thus, the liberation means, finally, we are reaching a state of Complete Happiness, which is precisely a state of no suffering or ignorance. Is that right?
Ātmā: Yes; that’s right. But, with capital B, we would like to emphasise something important here.
Manas: What is that point of paramount importance?
Ātmā: That is, the removal of darkness is not possibly achieved by pushing the darkness aside; but it is only accomplished by bringing the light inside; and by doing so, the feel of darkness of ignorance gets automatically diminishes.
Manas: A little more clarification on the process of removal of darkness would be beneficial.
Ātmā: let it be so. The process of removal of darkness is a common event in our daily life, and it is known through the senses. We don’t require any capacity of higher intuition or reasoning to comprehend this process.
For example we have a dark room. And to illuminate it we never push the darkness aside with an effort that is very inconvenient; instead, with comfort and ease we bring in a lit lamp inside and the whole room would look brighter than ever before.
Manas: What is the kind of light that we need to bring in to illuminate ourselves and to get rid of the darkness of ignorance?
Ātmā: As we are aware, here the light we are speaking of is not an alight wax candle or an electric lamp.
Manas: what exactly then is the nature of light we are longing for?
Ātmā: Even if we know the real nature of what that Light is, as it is not a physical phenomena, we cannot even speak out a single word about it.
To be continued...
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