The Bahá'i Faith
It is an axiomatic fact that WHILE YOU MEDITATE YOU ARE SPEAKING WITH YOUR OWN SPIRIT. In that state of mind you put certain questions to your spirit and the spirit answers: THE LIGHT BREAKS FORTH and the reality is revealed.
~ Paris Talks, Page 174
If the faculty of meditation is BATHED IN THE INNER LIGHT and characterized with divine attributes, the results will be confirmed.
~ Paris Talks, Page 176
The meditative faculty is akin to the mirror; if you put it before earthly objects it will reflect them. Therefore if the spirit of man is contemplating earthly subjects he will be informed of these. But if you turn the mirror of your spirits heavenwards, THE HEAVENLY CONSTELLATIONS AND THE RAYS OF THE SUN OF REALITY WILL BE REFLECTED IN YOUR HEARTS, AND THE VIRTUES OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE OBTAINED. Therefore let us keep this faculty rightly directed—turning it to the heavenly Sun and not to earthly objects.
~ Paris Talks, Page 176
Buddhism
Ananda, if all your sense organs are rooted out, your INNER LIGHT WILL APPEAR, all transient sense data as well as the changing conditions of the material world will vanish, like ice melted by boiling water, and YOU WILL REALIZE SUPREME BODHI INSTANTLY.
Bodhi means awakening.
~ The Surangama Sutra
Thereupon Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva rose from his seat, prostrated himself with his head at the feet of the Buddha and declared: "I still remember that long before numbers of aeons countless as the sand grains in the Ganges, a Buddha called Avalokitesvara appeared in the world. When I was with Him, I developed the Bodhi Mind and, for my entry into Samadhi, I was instructed by Him to PRACTICE MEDITATION BY MEANS OF THE ORGAN OF HEARING."
Samadhi means the internal state of imperturbability achieved through meditation.
Bodhi means awakening.
~ The Surangama Sutra
At first by directing the organ of hearing into the stream of meditation, this organ was detached from its object, and by wiping out (the concept of) both sound and stream-entry, both disturbance and stillness became clearly non-existent. Thus advancing step by step both hearing and its object ceased completely, but I did not stop where they ended. When the awareness of this state and this state itself were realized as non-existent, both subject and object merged into the void, the awareness of which became all-embracing. With further elimination of the void and its object BOTH CREATION AND ANNIHILATION VANISHED GIVING WAY TO THE STATE OF NIRVANA which then manifested.
Nirvana means the highest paradise.
Tathagata means Buddha.
~ The Surangama Sutra (Speech by Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva)
World Honored One, as I (followed and) made offerings to the Tathagata Avalokitesvara, He taught me to use my illusory hearing and sublimate it to realize the Diamond (Vajra) Samadhi which gave me THE SAME POWER OF MERCY OF ALL BUDDHAS AND ENABLED ME TO TRANSFORM MYSELF INTO THIRTY-TWO BODILY FORMS FOR THE PURPOSE OF VISITING ALL COUNTRIES IN SAMSARA (to convert and liberate living beings).
Samsara means cycle of reincarnation.
~ The Surangama Sutra (Speech by Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva)
Christianity
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God.
~ John 1:1, Holy Bible
IN HIM WAS LIFE, AND THAT LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
~ John 1:4-5, Holy Bible
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'MAN DOES NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' "
~ Matthew 4:4, Holy Bible
He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, "'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.' This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear..."
~ Luke 8:10-12, Holy Bible
Take the HELMET OF SALVATION and the sword of the Spirit, WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD.
~ Ephesians 6:17, Holy Bible
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.
~ 1 John 1:1, Holy Bible
Gnosticism
Lighting, then, our torch at the source of that light, by the passionate desire which has it for its object, and striving as much as possible to be assimilated to it, we become men full of light.
~ Theodotus: Excerpta Ex Theodoto
http://www.gnosis.org/library/excr.htm
AND LET OUR FACES SHINE IN HIS LIGHT, and LET OUR HEARTS MEDITATE IN HIS LOVE, BY NIGHT AND BY DAY.
~ The Odes of Solomon, Ode 41:6
AND LIGHT DAWNED FROM THE WORD THAT WAS BEFORE TIME IN HIM.
~ The Odes of Solomon, Ode 41:14
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