Om Mani Padme Hum...Siva's light within

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Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!

 

Namaste darling siblings!

 

i am posting several teachings which i received over the last few days

but only read recently, from the daily "lessons" posted by the Kauai

Hindu Ashram...the folks who publish Hinduism Today, and written by

their Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami...one of the three delegates to

the Parliament of religions who was chosen to be a "president"..and

thus a Mahatma....along with Amma and Swami Chinmayananda (or?)...He

always supports Mother's work with lavish praise and Her Name and face

often appear within the pages of His magazine....

 

Lesson 57

 

Light Emanating From Within

 

Visualize within yourself a lotus. Have you ever

seen a lotus flower? I am

sure you have. Now visualize this lotus flower

centered right within the

center of your chest, right within your heart.

You have read in the Hindu

scriptures that the Self God dwells in the lotus

within the heart. Let's

think about that. We all know what the heart is,

and we know what happens

when the heart stops. Try to mentally feel and

see the heart as a lotus

flower right within you. Within the center of the

lotus, try to see a

small light. Doubtless you have read in the Hindu

scriptures that the

Self God within the heart looks like a brilliant

light about the size of

your thumb--just a small light. This light we

shall call an emanation

of your effulgent being. We could also call it

your atomic power, the

power that motivates, permeates, makes the mind

self-luminous. It is

dwelling right within. The Self God is deeper

than that. The lotus is

within the heart, and the Self God dwells deep

within that lotus of light.

 

 

 

The subconscious area of the mind consumes many

different things. Begin

now to think about all the things that you own in

your home and all of

your personal possessions. The subconscious area

of the mind is attached

magnetically to each of them. They not only exist

in the external world,

they also exist, quite alive, within the

subconscious area of your mind,

along with all the ramifications connected to

them. Each item that you own

has a story attached to it which, of course, you

remember. This story,

too, dwells within the subconscious mind and is

carried along with you

all of the time.

 

 

 

But it is easy to rid yourself of the attachments

to material things by

going within, once you know how. The light which

emanates from the lotus

of the heart knows nothing about what the

subconscious area of the mind

consumes, because the total area of the mind in

which we are aware is

a composite of many things.

 

 

Om Namah Sivaya!