Jyothi Meditation- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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1. As regards the technique of dhyana ( Meditation ) , different teachers and trainers give different form of advice. But I shall give you now, the most universal and most effective form.

2.This is very first step in spiritual discipline. Set a side for this at first a few minutes everyday and later go on extending the time, as and when you feel this bliss, that you shall get.

3. Let it be in the hours of dawn. This is preferable because the body is fresh, after sleep and the disturbances of day time will not yet have strike on you.

4. Have a lamp or a candle with an open flame, steady and straight before you sit in Padamasna or any comfortable asana.

5. Try to look on the flame steadily for some time, and closing your eyes, feel the the flame inside you, between your eyebrow. Let it slide down into the lotus of your heart, illumining the path, when it enters the heart. Imagine that the petals of the lotus flower, open out one by one, bathing every thought, feelings and emotions in the light and so removing darkness from them.

6. There is no place for darkness to hide. The light of the flame becomes wider and brighter, let it pervade your limbs

7. Now these limbs can never deal in dark, suspicious and wicked activities, they have become the instruments of light and love.

8. As the light reaches up to the tongue, the falsehood vanishes from it. Let it rise up to the eyes and ears and destroy all dark desires that infest them, leading you to misuse sights and unpleasant conversation.

9. Let your head be surcharged with light and all wicked thoughts flee from there. imagine, that the light is in you more and more intensely.

10. Let it shine all around you, and let it spread from you in widening circles, taking your loved ones, your kith and kin, your friends and companion, your enemies and rival, strangers all living beings and the entire world.

11. Since the light, illumines all the senses everyday, so deeply and so systematically, a time will soon come, when you can no more enjoy relish dark and evil sights , yarn for dark sinister tales, crave for base for harmful, deadening toxic food and drinks, or handling demeaning things or approach places of ill-fame and injury or frame evil design against any one.

Stay on in that thrill for witnessing the light everywhere. If you are adoring God in any form, try to visualize that form in all perceive for light is God and God is light.

12. Practice this meditation as I have advised you, regularly everyday. At other times repeat the name of God, any name fragrant with of any of His many. Always taking care to be conscious of His might, mercy and splendour.