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| May 5, 2017 at 4:32 | comment | added | Vishal prabhu lawande | @PardeepKumar yes I think you are right. Light is goodness(satva) and darkness is ignorance. Thats because Light gives knowledge and darkness brings illusion. | |
| May 4, 2017 at 20:59 | comment | added | Pardeep Kumar | Or by rephrasing it, we can say that light represents Sattva and darkness represents Tamas. Just like there are Sattvic foods and Tamasic foods and clean things and dirty things. So in that sense, God is neither light nor darkness. But living the Sattvic way of life or doing Sattvic acts leads one to the path of self-realization and moksha, right? So maybe that's why it's said that God is light because light represents Sattva and Sattva guna is the quality of truth. And as many great saints and sages have said "God is true." But that's just me thinking. Please correct me if I'm wrong. | |
| May 4, 2017 at 20:59 | comment | added | Pardeep Kumar | Very interesting! I still need to understand this concept more. Though what I know now is that I've recognised what I don't understand. I stated above that I was looking at this problem from a materialistic perspective which is why I had trouble understanding it. It is definitely true that God can not be physical light or darkness that we see through our eyes. But what can be true is that light may very well be Sattva and darkness may be Tamas as Swami Vishwananda said above. | |
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| Apr 3, 2017 at 9:26 | comment | added | Swami Vishwananda | Light is sattva, darkness is tamas. That which leads us to God is sattva. Saguna Brahman is pure light. But Nirguna Brahman is beyond both, beyond the sensual universe. See Brhadaranyaka U. II.iv.14, Katha U. II.i.10, and Chandogya U. VII. xxiv.1 | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 8:16 | history | answered | Vishal prabhu lawande | CC BY-SA 3.0 |