Jyothi (Light) Meditation (English)

Sathya Sai Baba On Jyoti Meditation : 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 every day 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 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 illumines all the senses every day 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 visualize that form in the all-pervasive light. For Light is God; God is Light. Practice this meditation as I have advised regularly every day. 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.

- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume X, Page 348-350, Shivarathri, 1979

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[artistique93]

Sai Ram

Absolutely beautiful. It brings peace to the mind and soul. Thank you for uploading this.

[UndoMy99]

i felt everything.. Vibrations all over my body and i love it! So amazing Thank you so much.

[UndoMy99]

i felt everything.. Vibrations all over my body and i love it! So amazing Thank you so much.

[MrAkthegreat]

Many Many Thanks......i was looking for exactly such a guidance on the technique.....beautiful

[28COOLMUSIC]

Hay this is a great video my mum kept telling me to meditated so I saw ur video nd it is fantastic especially for me because i'm only 14 so I can understand it well

[Jutaification]

Wonderful meditation! Learned this almost 40yrs ago and is one of my favorites..I also add the alternate nostril breathing with it and it seems to make the Jyothi even more intense..peace and love to us all...Juta Semmel

[ElectrifiedByYou]

Rumors are rumors. Follow ur heart.  Be true to it. That's the only way you'll know. I follow mine...it leads me to Sathya Sai Baba.....as we are ONE...it's so divine. OM Sai Ram......Samasta Loka Sukhino Bhavantu (May all the beings in all the worlds have peace & happiness). xox

[seasonedsevencolors]

I do not have much regard for Sathya Sai Baba (as I've read and heard controversial things about him), but your explanation on Jyoti or Jyothi meditation satisfies me. It's almost similar to my grandfather's guru's system of meditation. One diff. is - grandfather's system starts with the concentration of white light on heart. Starting with concentration on candle light between eyebrows may lead to Tantrik meditation, I believe.

[lucianoblanco1]

Thank you very much!

Sai Ram.

[angel444peace]

I start my day doing this meditaiton and thanks to you Adeline for sharing this...Sai Ram....