At night, we don't see the sun. So why talk about a theoretical sun? At night, the moonlight is enough. What'll happen if you take the sun away? No moonlight. It seems to be moonlight. And we call it moonlight. But it's notmoonlight. It's borrowed from the sun. If i ma, if i may coln a neologism, the moon is moonlighting. It's borrowing it. Its its job is to get by by borrowing light from the sun and our minds are borrowing consciousness from brahman. We all feel conscious because of this subtle body here. The other names and forms which do not have subtle
Question and Answer session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda as part of a spiritual retreat at the Vedanta Society of New York on Dec 31st, 2017.