(Post 7)
(http://literature.awgp.org/akhandjyoti/2003/Sept_Oct/PracticalAspectDhyanYoga/)
When I talk of meditation upon light, I don't mean the physical light as some of you might interpret.
Here it means the divine light, or the sublime glow of pure knowledge.
It is not the physical illumination; rather it is the radiance of spirituality and true knowledge.
We pray "Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya" -
O Lord! Take us from the darkness towards light; here again, we mean - from ignorance to knowledge.
In spirituality, the word "light" is always used in the context of enlightenment, pure knowledge. (This is what should be understood of it in this discourse).
We were talking of meditating upon the sunlight. So, where should we imagine its presence?
In the special kind of dhyan yoga that I have been teaching you this year, I ask you to meditate upon sunlight focused successively at three points - the navel, the heart and the brain (especially the deeper core inside and above the center of the forehead).
These three regions contain the sublime nuclei of power for our three bodies - the physical, the subtle and the astral body.
All these points should be enlightened (in our imagination and inner experience during this practice of dhyan yoga); the brilliance of sunlight should enter all the three bodies.
What does it imply?
It implies the inherent philosophy and practical aspects of the three principal yogas.
(http://literature.awgp.org/akhandjyoti/2003/Sept_Oct/PracticalAspectDhyanYoga/)
When I talk of meditation upon light, I don't mean the physical light as some of you might interpret.
Here it means the divine light, or the sublime glow of pure knowledge.
It is not the physical illumination; rather it is the radiance of spirituality and true knowledge.
We pray "Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya" -
O Lord! Take us from the darkness towards light; here again, we mean - from ignorance to knowledge.
In spirituality, the word "light" is always used in the context of enlightenment, pure knowledge. (This is what should be understood of it in this discourse).
We were talking of meditating upon the sunlight. So, where should we imagine its presence?
In the special kind of dhyan yoga that I have been teaching you this year, I ask you to meditate upon sunlight focused successively at three points - the navel, the heart and the brain (especially the deeper core inside and above the center of the forehead).
These three regions contain the sublime nuclei of power for our three bodies - the physical, the subtle and the astral body.
All these points should be enlightened (in our imagination and inner experience during this practice of dhyan yoga); the brilliance of sunlight should enter all the three bodies.
What does it imply?
It implies the inherent philosophy and practical aspects of the three principal yogas.
