यच्चन्द्रमसि यच्चाग्नौ तत्तेजो विद्धि मामकम् ॥ १२ ॥
yadādityagataṃ tejo jagadbhāsayate’khilam .
yaccandramasi yaccāgnau tattejo viddhi māmakam .. 12 ..
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Light : splendour. Mine : Viṣṇu’s.
Or, ’light’ may be understood to mean the light of consciousness (chaitanya).
(Objection) :—The light of consciousness exists in all alike, in the moving and unmoving objects : then why this qualification of light as ‘residing in the sun,’ etc?
(Answer) :—This objection does not apply here; for, the qualification may be explained on the ground that the better manifestation (of consciousness in the sun, etc.) is due to a higher proportion of Sattva. In the sun and other bodies (mentioned here) the Sattva is very brilliant and luminous; wherefore it is in them that the light of consciousness is better manifested. Hence the qualification; not that the light is a specific attribute of those bodies only. To illustrate it by an example from ordinary experience : A man’s face is not reflected in a wall, in a piece of wood or the like; but the same face is reflected in a miror in a greater or less degree of clearness, according as the mirror is more or less transparent.