Darkness is always associated with evil, bad, unhappiness and something which is not right but wrong, outlandish, out of way and not giving joy, ecstasy and mental serenity. One gropes in the darkness to find a way but gets mislead like in a maze. Those who are mislead and who do not fallow the right path, well known, well trodden pathways gets disturbed and enter into the arena of sorrows, grief, pathos and unending life of troubles. This has been the story of humanity.
The intellectual bearing of the man and the collective experience of man has opened the flood gates of knowledge and enlightenment. The knowledge is recorded in books, memorised, crystallised in lore’s, folk songs, and pithy epigrammatic sayings. Time and again learned scholars, priests, saints and prophets have been source of enlightenment and to guide humanity to correct behaviour, conduct, conducive and successful living, joy and happiness.
Human pshycology has revealed that internal emotional imbalances resulting in unweaned, irrational anger, jealousy, hatred, covetousness, greed, lust has resulted in disruptions, crime and destruction resulting in untold misery and troubles for the family, community and man kind at large. For the purpose of enlightenment, one needs to be cultured from the childhood by good upbringing, cultivate good manners, good sweet language, a loving bearing, an attitude of forget and forgive, compassion, kindness, softness in speech and walk. One needs to give up roughness, sloth, behaviour and conduct that breaks the heart and ruins the relationships.
In order to discipline the mind from its meanderings and monkey behaviour, one needs to contemplate, observe silence for which meditation and prayers are essential. To bring in enlightenment, one needs to give up selfishness, egotism, worshipping false idols and deities created by selfish self like excessive wealth, foolhardiness, excessive seeking of pleasures, mirth and sexuality. One who needs and desires to reach the path of glory and unending joy, happiness, solace and tranquility; then one need to dispel with herculean efforts the darkness and open up the mind to the flood gates of light. Light eats up and drives away darkness. One reaches Lord, who is Eternal Malik, who has been enlightening mankind with His Prophets, Saints and Scholars by self knowledge and enlightenment. Certainty of faith and practice in extreme goodness, Truth and Justice leads to enlightenment.