It Can Intensify The Light Of The Lamp - Similarly Maya Though Dark By Itself

 - Can show forth intensively the inherent bright consciousness of the Self. A lens by itself is incapable of any heat or igniting any other object 

- But if exposed to the rays of the Sun, will easily burn cotton or grass. The capacity to burn is really the property of the sun's rays but the lens exposed to them

- borrows, as it were that capacity and becomes capable of burning - The sun merely shines and does not exert himself in any activity as burning but

- when refracted through the lens seems to be engaged in such an activity. The Self meerly exists as pure consciousness; it does not exert itself in any way but when it is reflected

- in Maya, it seems to have the quality of "knowing". The Self then gets the name of all-knowing as if knowing is an activity in which it engages itself

- If the reflector is not a pollished bright one, the light of a lamp will be dimmed and blurred. If the lens is not a perfect one, it may not be able 

- to burn the cotton or grass, though it may just make it hot or scorched. The degrees of variation from the perfect state, that is the degrees of imperfection

- are infinite and varied. The impure Avidya is accordingly manifold and the Self reflected in it seems to be equally manifold. A person standing

- in the midst of several reflecting mirrors is ever the same and is quite unaffected by the variety in them. But if those mirrors are of varying brightness or are concave

- or convex in varying degrees, the reflections of him in them will not be the same but will have been affected by them. Thus the Jivas which are all the reflections

- of the same single Self appear as many and as varied because of the variedness in the Avidya which shows forth the reflection. In short the reflected Selves

- namely the Individual souls, are under the grip of Avidya - The other Jiva however is in the grip of Avidys and on account of its variedness, is of various