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Pradyumna: "He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is …

Prabhupāda: You have recited the word meaning?

Pradyumna: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda:

jyotiṣām api taj jyotis tamasaḥ param ucyate jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ jñāna-gamyaṁ hṛdi sarvasya viṣṭhitam

[Bg. 13.18]

Jyoti. Jyoti means light. There are different types of light. There is lamp. There is candle. There is electric bulb. …

[loud sounds of firecrackers throughout]

But there is supreme jyoti. Just like this moon. Moon, this night is full moon. This moon has got its …

So sunshine is the source of all light. In the material world we have got experience that sunshine, jyoti, prakāśa. …

That is confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā = yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi [Bs. 5.40]. Yasya prabhā, the bodily rays of Kṛṣṇa, …

Similarly, there is another world, paras tasmāt tu bhāvaḥ anyaḥ [Bg. 8.20], another cosmic manifestation, spiritual cosmic manifestation, where there …

So on account of Kṛṣṇa's bodily rays, the whole creation is coming out. That is Kṛṣṇa's inconceivable power, brahma-jyotir. Janmādy …

So as the sunshine is the cause of all material variegatedness, similarly, the sunshine is also due to the brahma-jyotir. …

But he does not think that what power his eyes have got. It is completely dependent on the sunshine. If …

So people do not think of their imperfectness of the senses, how the senses working, dependent on the laws of …

They can see only when there is sunrise. This gāyatrī-mantra is, therefore, offering prayer to the savitā. Oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ …

So this sunshine is reflection of the brahma-jyotir. Yasya prabhā prabhavataḥ [Bs. 5.40]. When the bodily rays, shining rays, of …

Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi-koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi [Bs. 5.40]. Vasudhā means this planet. Vibhūti-bhinnam. Each planet has got different atmosphere. Therefore these …

So jyotiṣām api jyotis tamasaḥ param. So this jyoti, this illumination, is beyond this material world. And because there is …