"Tamaso maa jyotirgamaya"
(Lead me from darkness to light )
This famous part of a sloka I already knew from my childhood. I was surprised to find that this mantra was used in the soundtrack of The Matrix trilogy. This kind of piqued my interest and thanks to wikipedia, I read about the various Vedas and found that this sloka is from Brhadaranya Upanishad. And these were composed in the BC period, before 5th Century BC, tentatively around 1000-600 BC! (source- Wikipedia).
It is thought that even Plato and Kant's have been influenced by them (source- Wikipedia).
Having learnt a little bit of Sanskrit in school, I can pick out the words, thought not really string them together. Tamas - darkness, Maa -I/ Me, Jyothi -light, Gamaya - make go/ lead.
Coming to think of it, it has a meaning at different levels; physical and philosophical- from known to unknown, from ignorance to knowledge.
On a lighter note.....a 'before' and 'after' pic led me to this post. We had a power outage. Just as I finished clicking a pic of the candle and make-shift candle stand, the electricity came back on, giving me an 'after' pic.
The candle stand is actually an upside-down penstand :)
It was a gift from my BIL, from Singapore.
The design looked kind of garish and pretty and I clicked a few more from up-close. You can actually see the melted candle on top!
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