The Inner Light

The Inner Light is not an abstract concept or a figure of speech, but the substance and energy of which the world is woven - the fiber of bliss, the fabric of consciousness itself.

At first the Inner Light seems abstract and "spiritual," while the world seems concrete and "material." But in the end, consciousness is more solid than a diamond, while the outer world of fleeting images can only be called "real" in a relative sense, since it is all changing, impermanent, and momentary.

The world is like images on a mirror. The mirror is solid, not the images that flicker upon it. So consciousness is absolutely adamant, while the world it perceives is like a mist.

What was background is now foreground, what was foreground now background. The radiant diamond of transcendental bliss-consciousness now outshines the fleeting shadows of the material cosmos. Creation all happens in stillness, just as a mirage dances in empty space.

One's body walks and works and plays in the world, but one's awareness remains at rest in the luminescence of perfect peace, pure joy, and boundless compassion. This transformation comes not by the do-ership of the mind, but by the grace of the Teacher. Jai Guru Dev.