1 must here point out a Psychological Law which 1 may state as the basis of this experience and which I may state as the third possibility.

It is the peculiar nature of the soul or mind, whereby it identifies itself with the thing it is united to. This aspect is alone fully discussed in the Siddhanta Sastras. St. Meykandan calls it and in the commentaries as

St. Tayumanar paraphrases it as

The human soul is a mirror - a crystal. It becomes dark when darkness covers it. A man can be judged by his associates. He can be good or bad as his associates are. With the world in union, the soul has become identified with the world, and lost its individuality. In God, it has become Sivam losing its individuality. In the full glare of mid-day sun, I challenge one to see the mirror. What one will see if he has courage enough to see it, will be, the full radiance of the glorious sun, which will blind him at once.

Says Professor Henry Drummond: "All men are mirrors, that is the first law on which this formula is based. One of the aptest descriptions of a human being is a mirror."

Professor Drummond states this Law as the Law of Reflection and Assimilation, or Law of Influence, or Law of Identity as we may call it, He instances the iron which gets magnetised and becomes a magnet

a mirror, getting rid of its dust, reflects the glorious light and becomes merged with it and lost.