The light of thy body is thy eye, if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light,----

Question

What does this mean? Which eye?

Answer 1

The spiritual...third eye...between the eyebrows (roughly).

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 2

The eye that seeks and can comprehend truth through knowledge, the inner eye that watches everything from within records everything. You have to focus on that inner eye rather than believing what your two outer eyes show you. The inner eye will bestow you with divine knowledge and your whole body shall glow in the light of truth by becoming aware of its true nature.

Answer 3

This is simply dealing with the matter of what we are focused on , our primary vision, so to speak of what is important to us and what we concentrate on:

OTHER TRANSLATIONS:

(Matthew 6:22-23) “. . .“The lamp of the body is the eye. If, then, your eye is simple, your whole body will be bright; 23 but if your eye is wicked, your whole body will be dark. If in reality the light that is in you is darkness, how great that darkness is!”

*** Footnote
Rbi8 Matthew 6:22
Or, “sincere; all one way; in focus; generous.”

A CROSS-REFERENCE might help , this again is on the subject of keeping our lives in an honest and simple form of what is clear & what is not; what is right or wrong; what is good or bad; what is helpful or what is not:

(Matthew 5:34-37) “. . .However, I say to YOU: Do not swear at all, neither by heaven, because it is God’s throne; 35 nor by earth, because it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King. 36 Nor by your head must you swear, because you cannot turn one hair white or black. 37 Just let YOUR word Yes mean Yes, YOUR No, No; for what is in excess of these is from the wicked one.”
***(thus if we could trust one another because of good reptutation in being honest , life could be a lot more simpler and we could trust each other when we say "yes I will" or "no I will not")

FOR INSTANCE, if we look at the Constitution and its amendments etc. it really gets very complicated, AND YET they are supposed to be based on Bible laws, some of which are based on the over 600 laws that God gave the Israelites, and the famous 10 commandments!

JESUS SIMPLIFIED or consolidated the 600 laws by focusing on 2 would cover the important matters of the law by providing these these principled commandments that if truly followed would indeed show true Christianity in practice! He stated:

(Mark 12:29-31) “. . .Jesus answered: “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah, 30 and you must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with your whole strength.’ 31 The second is this, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. . .”

***(principles have greater worth that laws in that they encompass laws, ideas, concepts, in reasonable form)

--HERE IS one version that is flambouant but makes a point:
(THE MESSAGE)
22-23"Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have! "

PERHAPS the idea of one eye is like when we are focusing in with a telescope usually it is with one eye that makes our concentration even greater, such could be what Jesus meant (not with a telescope) to be even greater in our focus!

Answer 4

I am sorry you are quoting it wrong.
(Matthew 6:22-23) “. . .“The lamp of the body is the eye. If, then, your eye is simple, your whole body will be bright; 23 but if your eye is wicked, your whole body will be dark. If in reality the light that is in you is darkness, how great that darkness is!”

The darkness is the Maya.

Answer 5

I agree sometimes you can look at anothers eyes and see the darkness the evil.........................

There is no light in their eyes no happiness anger, sadness evil ways......................

Its all in the eyes any person I meet and admire I have taken a picture of I cover the face and see all in the eyes there are many charming people out there in this world but the eyes never lie and they can never fool me ever!!!!! The truth is always there of anothers soul :))) Light and dark and the shadows...............This I believe with my entire being :)))

Answer 6

You have picked out one of the best pieces of wisdom ever spoken. The knowledge you seek is in your mind can you imagine that? I know you will find it, just close your eyes and visualise the sun... now move your mind into it. Look around and ask "Who is here".

Answer 7

I don't know sounds incorrect to me. The soul has eyes and the light of the soul is only one aspect of our soul, but not complete. The light of God is only one aspect of God and He can see with any aspect of His being because He is unlimited.
Who made this quite any ways. I don't believe all quotes from all so called scholars or all theologians etc. I only accept the ones in pure alignment with the pure ancient Vedic literature namely Bhaktivedatan Prabhupadas teachings being he is authorized to comment on Vedanta or any spiritual path. Thanks ji

Answer 8

The third eye in the agna chakra, which is the centre for wisdom.Wisdom is the light which removes us from the darkness.

Answer 9

Any eye for that matter, close and see how much light does your body have.

Answer 10

my meditation master said that though we see through eyes.. actually we receive light through eyes and all our nails also we receive lights...

with the help of eyes and nails the received lights should be stored and further light should be generated to increase our power...

the light we stored will lead us to get all in formations about any thing and everything... what ever we want we will get through that power...

still further if we get more light and power slowly we will start shining further and further.. finally we will become as light ...