How to describe darshan?🔗

In a temple, just before the day's worship begins, when the doors of the inner shrine swing open and we glimpse the radiant bejewelled form of the deity gleaming in the lamplit darkness, a certain moment happens that is beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond the mind. That moment is darshan.

Darshan is not an event in space and time. Rather, darshan happens at the moment when we are lifted out of space and time. Darshan is like a window to the infinite expanse of Consciousness, allowing us to glimpse the formless in a way that we can understand.