- Generally our eyes are attracted to any thing bright and glaring which we commonly misunderstand as sat. This bright object is nothing except maya and those who talk so highly about it are in fact far away from the sphere of spirituality even, not to say of Reality. But the people have developed such a state of torpidity that they are neither prone to hear nor perceive anything in this connection. They have lost sight of the true Reality which is beyond both light and darkness. This is what has been shown in the emblem of the Mission; and that is in a true sense the state of man’s perfection, from which no decline or fall is possible. This is a very delicate point of philosophy. The saints have generally called this state of neither light nor darkness as satpad which is not correct because this state is much beyond that. That is in fact the reflection of Reality which in itself is still beyond. SMP 15-16