Tamaso
Maa Jyotirgamaya
(Lead
me from Darkness to light)
Tamaso
Maa Jyotirgamaya, three words but a treasure full of wisdom. The
feel, realizing of moving closer to one’s own self conveyed by these three
words is indefinable yet attainable. If you understand this then you will also
understand that Tamaso Maa Jyotirgamaya is a journey from Darkness to Light, from Ignorance to Knowledge and from
Untruth to Truth.
But what does this exactly mean? What is light? Yes, there are these Roti, Kapda aur Makan, the so called basic needs of a man. Then in
the next step there are some like success, glory, fame; etc. Even if the man
gets all of these things, he goes on wanting for some more in abundance and
thus starts this endless saga. So light here is not entirely an emission. Light
here means finding a way to rise. Rise
from all those negatives to positives. Rise from wanting all those useless
immaterial things to relevant things, rise to find your true self.
Ignorance obscures real understanding and for that you need light i.e. true
knowledge. Staggering Ignorance radically impedes our
ability to choose rightly and that is why we need to move to its
opposite-knowledge and with this we should also understand the way to move from
despair to hope and yes this will help you not to lose the reason for living. Like Martin Luther King Jr. once said,
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive
out hate: only love can do that.”
There are times when others think about you as no one, you
too feel that you don’t even exist in this world. These thinking are bound to
come to our mind and we cannot stop thinking that but we can indeed arrest the
very growth of that thinking. As
Cassandra Clare has said, “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong
or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart
contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other
things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light
inside.” Because there may come much darkness in our life but somewhere
there are some lights and we should understand that it is our life and we’re
the only light that will drive all those darkness away.
Though losing oneself, hurting oneself can occur very quietly in the world, but
if we understood the real meaning of Tamaso
Maa Jyotirgamaya then it will make a loud thud within our conscience, and
we will scream and get hurt about losing our oneself and like every time, we
will surely get up and walk towards light, towards truth, towards knowledge and
thereby we can heal our oneself, thereby we can rise-AGAIN. It is not very easy
to follow this, not at all but if we want to conquer the world, the world that
is I, Me and Myself then we have to do this. Someone said, “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” So every time you come across roads filled with darkness and
despair, then before embarking further just remember this line and then you
will see a new road filled with light. ‘Tamaso Maa Jyotirgamaya’
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Elegantly explains the essence of the great sanskrit verse. I liked it when the author refers to the men who are afraid of light. May be Maslow's hierarchic pyramid must have got evolved from this.
ReplyDeleteThank you Sir! for the compliment and well yeah, Maslow's hierarchic pyramid may be influenced by this thinking, Thank you for reading my thoughts and do read more, there is much more to come. Do visit this site again, here you will find some of the very beautiful things in the world
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