Looking for your light By Alama Prabhu

Looking for your light
By Alama Prabhu
(12th Century)
English version by A. K. Ramanujan

Looking for your light,
I went out:

          it was like the sudden dawn
          of a million million suns,

          a ganglion of lightnings
          for my wonder.

          O Lord of Caves,
          if you are light,
          there can be no metaphor.

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Light is a central image in this sacred poem, suggesting the Divine not framed within a mental concept. But for genuine mystics, this light is no mere concept; it is directly experienced...

This sense of light is more than a brightness one might experience on a sunny afternoon. This light is perceived as being a living radiance that permeates everything, everywhere, always. It is a radiance that outshines everything--

like the sudden dawn
of a million million suns.

This light is immediately understood to be the true source of all things, the foundation on which the physicality of the material world is built. 

The sense of boundaries and separation, long taken for granted by the mind as the fundamental nature of existence, suddenly seems illusory, for this light shines through all people and things. It has no edges, and the light of one is the light of another.