Sathya
Sai Baba on Meditation
Jyoti
Meditation - Silent Sitting
Have a lamp with a
bright steady flame or a candle before you. Sit
in the Padmasana posture or any other
comfortable asana in front of the flame. Look at
the flame steadily. Then closing your eyes, try
to feel the flame inside you, between your eye
brows. From there let it descend down into the
lotus of your heart, in the centre of the chest,
illumining the path.
When it enters the
heart, imagine that the petals of the lotus bud
open out, one by one, bathing every thought,
feeling, emotion and impulse in the light and so
removing darkness there. There is no space now
for darkness to take refuge. It has to flee
before the flame.
Imagine that the
light becomes wider, bigger and brighter. Let it
pervade the limbs; now these limbs can never
more deal in dark, suspicious and wicked
activities. These have become instruments of
light and love.
Let the light
reach up to the tongue and falsehood, slander
and spite vanish from it. Let it rise up to the
eyes and the ears and destroy all the dark
desires therein. Let your head be surcharged
with light and all the wicked thoughts flee
therefrom, for these are the denizens of
darkness. Imagine that light in you more and
more intensely and it will become so. Let it
shine all around you and let it spread from you
in ever widening circles, taking in your loved
ones, your kith and kin, your friends and
companions, your enemies and rivals, strangers,
all living beings, the entire world. Stay on in
that thrill of witnessing light. If you are
adoring God in any form, now try to visualise
that form in the all pervasive light, for light
is God and God is light.
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