A collection of quotes on jyoti or the divine light in Hinduism from Vedas and other sources.
A steady light, swifter than thought, is stationed among moving beings to show the way to happiness. All the devas, being of like mind and like wisdom, proceed reverently towards the one Intelligence. (Rig Veda, 6.9.5)
He, shining, caused to shine what shone not; by Law he lighted up the dawns. He moves with steeds yoked by eternal order, making men happy by the (chariot-) nave that finds the sun light. (Rig Veda 6.39.4)
In the midst of that (narrow space of the heart or sushumna) is the undecaying, all-knowing, omnifaces, great fire, which has flames on every side, which consumes and assimilates food, and which warms the body from the in sole to the crown. At the centre of this fire is a flame, the colour of shining gold, subtler than the subtle, dazzling like a flash of lighting amidst dark clouds, slender as the awn of a paddy grain, serving as an illustration for subtlety. Paramatman (the supreme Self) dwells in the middle of that flame. (Although thus limited) It still is Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu, Indra, the Self-luminous, the Immutable, the Supreme. (Mahanarayana Upanishad, 13.9–12)
One who can detach one’s mind from material things will see the effulgent light of Brahman and Its presence in everything. (Swami Vijnanananda)
The sun looks beyond the sky, beyond earth, beyond the
waters. The sun, the one eye of what exists, has mounted the great sky.
(Atharva Veda, 13.1.45)
May that, my mind, capable of illumination — a light of all
lights, which rides far when one is awake and returns to its place when
one falls asleep — be moved by right intention. (Yajur Veda, 34.1)
In the supreme effulgent sheath of intelligence dwells Brahman, the infinite Being—stainless, transcendent, pure. Light of all lights, it is that whom the knowers of the Self realize. (Mundaka Upanishad, 2.2.9)