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Pragna : The Direct Light Of The Self And The Force
That Liberates
Pragna is a direct light of the Self. The intellect (buddhi)
is an indirect light of the Self; it flows through the medium of the
ego.
Pragna is a fraction of keval Gnan (Absolute knowledge).
Pragna is a phase of Gnan. As the veils of ignorance over the
Self are lifted, there is an increasing light and an increase in the
fractions of Keval Gnan. When this progression becomes
complete, it turns into three hundred and sixty degrees; it
becomes keval Gnan.
If there was a thousand watts light bulb fitted in a clay
pot, and the opening of the pot was closed tight, would there
be any light around? No, you would not be able to see any
light. This is the case with the ignorant self (muddhatma). Within
you there is infinite light of real Knowledge (Gnan prakash), but
the darkness prevails because of the layers of ignorance over
the Self. With the grace and special powers (siddhis) of the
Gnani Purush, if a tiny hole is made in the clay-pot covering the
light bulb, the whole room will be filled with the light coming
through. That much covering is broken and that much direct
light comes out. This light increases as more of the layers are
lifted and as more holes are made in the pot. And when the
whole pot is destroyed and separated, detached away from the
bulb, there will be a flood of full light everywhere!
The direct ray of light of Gnan (the Self) is called pragna.
When the Self becomes free from all the obscuring veils, it
becomes capable of illuminating the entire universe. In other
words when it attains the power to Observe and Know all the
gneyas, all that is to be known in the entire universe, that is
Keval Gnan.