Author: P.N.Parasuraman
Images: M. Rajkumar
What is night for us is day for the
Jñāṉi.
What is day for us is night for the
Jñāṉi.
To put it more plainly, we shut our eyes, on seeing virtuous things and
refuse to go there. That is the night for us.
In that same period, the Jñāṉis
realize the Truth and follow it. That is their day.
We go wide-eyed seeing the bad and the inviting shine and sheen. Jñāṉis,
upon seeing the bad, shut their eyes and minds and refuse to go there.
What is light for us is darkness for the Jñāṉis.
Explicating such passage, Kaivalliya Navanītham says, ‘Does the night
offer the same help received during daylight hours? Having attained
pristine Jñāṉam
and conducting oneself in virtuous manner are day for the sages.
Abandoning that, subjecting oneself to ignorance and suffering grief are
night.
OK! Are not that euphemistic daylight and night for goodness and evil
creations of the Supreme Being? That being so, where is justice in the
beckoning to observe virtue and to give up evil? An argument on these
lines may arise.
In a shopping Mall, all items are available. We buy what is necessary
and use them. Knowing that the shop sells poison, will we buy some of
it, mix it with food and eat it?
We buy and use different things for different purposes: Detergent soap
for washing clothes, body soap for bathing, floor-cleaning liquid
detergent for mopping floors… Likewise, …
To counteract snakebite poison, another kind of poison is used to treat
it. A piece of iron is cut by another kind of iron implement. A missile
is destroyed by antimissile. People remove dirt from clothes with yet
another dirt, fuller’s earth.
Likewise, Suddha Māyai helps remove Asuddha Māyai. Later, even the
Suddha Māyai will leave on its own accord. This verse gives us a
never-before-heard news.
Kirupanantha Variar explains it lucidly.
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