Darkness Is Indifferent

Darkness gets a bad rap. We've turned it into the villain of our personal mythology—the monster under the bed, the shadow we're supposed to fear, the thing that goes bump in the night.

But here's what we've got wrong: darkness isn't evil. It's not plotting against you. It's not even interested in you.

Darkness is indifferent.

The Mirror That Doesn't Lie

In Vedic philosophy, darkness isn't your enemy—it's your personal trainer. It provides the resistance necessary for growth, the contrast that brings clarity to what you actually want.

Think of darkness as brutally honest feedback. It shows you exactly where you are versus where you think you are. No flattery, no participation trophies. Just truth.

The emotions you feel during difficult times? Those are real. The circumstances causing them? Also real. But the darkness itself? It's just the absence of something else—like silence is the absence of sound, or cold is the absence of heat.

Darkness is just the absence of light.

The Reflection Principle

Here's where it gets interesting. According to Vedic wisdom, consciousness works like the sun—it shines everywhere the same, but its reflection appears differently based on what's doing the reflecting.

Your nervous system is the mirror. When it's clouded with stress, the reflection of pure consciousness appears distorted—like looking at the sun through muddy water. The sun hasn't changed. The water has.

This is why your coworker can handle a crisis with grace while you're having an existential breakdown over the same situation. Different mirrors, different reflections. Same sun.

The Purification Process

Vedic Meditation acts as a systematic cleaning process for your internal mirror. Each session removes another layer of accumulated stress, gradually clarifying the reflection until something remarkable happens:

The reflection becomes so clear it realizes, "I am the sun."

This isn't mystical mumbo-jumbo. This is practical consciousness technology that's been stress-tested for thousands of years.