Krishna's bodily rays are the supreme light source transcending all material illumination and darkness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 13.18 — October 12, 1973, Bombay 731012BG-BOMBAY [34:52 Minutes] Bg-13.18_731012BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: "He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested. He is knowledge, He is the object of knowledge, He is the goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone's heart." Prabhupāda: You have recited the word meaning?
Prabhupāda: jyotiṣām api taj jyotis tamasaḥ param ucyate jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ jñāna-gamyaṁ hṛdi sarvasya viṣṭhitam [Bg. 13.18] Jyoti. Jyoti means light. There are different types of light. There is lamp.
There is candle. There is electric bulb. The power also, they are different powers: hundred power, fifty powers, twenty-five... There are different grades of jyoti.
[loud sounds of firecrackers throughout] But there is supreme jyoti. Just like this moon. Moon, this night is full moon. This moon has got its illumination, but wherefrom this illumination comes?
It comes from the sunshine. The sunshine is reflected on the moon, and the moon has become illuminating source. Just like in a mirror when there is reflection of the sunshine, the mirror can also reflect another dark place; not independently. Everyone...
In childhood everyone has played with a mirror. Just put a mirror in front of the sunshine, and the reflection is there, and you can pass on the reflection in the darkest place and it will be illuminated. Have you got experience? Yes.
Similarly, neither the mirror has got reflection, neither the dark place can be illuminated by the mirror. But when the sunshine is there on the mirror, the mirror acts as illuminating agent, and it dissipates the darkness of a corner. So sunshine is the source of all light. In the material world we have got experience that sunshine, jyoti, prakāśa. But wherefrom the sunshine comes?