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The “Light Meditation” technique …..

To my current knowledge, this is the “Light Meditation” technique . The description below is taken from Sathya Sai Speaks , Volume X :

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· As regards the technique of meditation , different teachers and trainers give different forms of advice, but I shall give you now, the most universal and the most effective form. This is the very first step in spiritual discipline .

· At first, set a few minutes everyday for meditation, and extend the time as you feel the bliss that you get.

· Let it be in the hours before dawn. This is preferable because the body is refreshed after sleep , and the dealings of daytime will not yet have impinged on you .

· Have a lamp or a candle before you with an open, steady, and straight flame.

· Sit in front of the candle in the lotus posture or any other comfortable sitting position.

· Look on the flame steadily for some time , and closing your eyes , try to feel the flame inside you between your eyebrows.

· Let it slide down into the Lotus of your heart , illuminating the path. When it enters the heart , imagine that the petals of the Lotus open out (one) by one , bathing every thought , feeling, and emotion, in the Light, and so removing darkness from them. There is no space for darkness to hide.

· The Light of the flame becomes wider and brighter .

· Let it pervade your limbs . Now those limbs can never indulge in dark , suspicious , and wicked activities ; they have become instruments of Light and love.

· As the Light reaches up to the tongue , falsehood vanishes from it.

· Let it rise up to the eyes and the ears and destroy all the dark desires that infest them and which lead you to perverse sights and childish conversation.

· Let your head be surcharged with Light, and all wicked thoughts will flee there from.

· Imagine that the Light is in you more and more intensely.

· 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.

· Since the Light illumes all the senses everyday so deeply and so systematically , a time will soon come when you can no more relish dark and evil sights , yearn for dark and sinister tales , crave for (?base) , harmful , deadening toxic food and drink , handle dirty demeaning things, approach places of ill fame and injury, or frame evil designs against anyone at any time.

· Stay on in that thrill of witnessing the Light everywhere.

· If you are adoring God in any form now , try to visualise that form in the all-pervasive Light . For Light is God ; God is Light.

· Practise this meditation as I have advised , regularly everyday. At other times , repeat the name of God ( any Name fragrant with any of His many Majesties ), always taking care to be conscious of His might, mercy , and munificence.

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