How to meet someone you have had difficulties with as if you are meeting him or her for the first time? Let him or her have a legitimate chance to prove otherwise. This is opening your eyes. The idea is how to see everything as if for the first time. Because behind everything, whether it is food, the weather, your relationships, your circumstances, if you minutely judge you will find it is always you who you are concentrating upon.”

~Swami Amar Jyoti

Letting go and relaxing is the key to meditation. All the mysteries will be revealed to you when you merge unto your Source. Meditation is not achieving something;we meditate to merge with what we are meditating upon. This will give you divine vision, not by sitting and thinking or planning or worrying. The human being has to merge unto God, unto our true Existence. We are not lost’we become That. When a drop of water falls into the ocean, it is not lost; it becomes one with the whole ocean. A ray of light becomes the whole light. Your soul in meditation becomes one with your Creator. Oneness is the ultimate Totality. When you merge your ego the Light will shine.’

~ Swami Amar Jyoti

Featured Satsang in Light of Consciousness Vol. 22 #3, Autumn 2010

Meditation is very sacred, the last step before Realization. According to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, meditation is the seventh step in the eight limbs of yoga, the eighth being Enlightenment. Before meditation there are six steps in preparation: be truthful, be honest, forgiving, forbearing, don’t be jealous, don’t be prejudiced, avoid ego trips, forgive, be patient, be tolerant. This will lead you to purification. Once you prepare yourself in this way, meditation comes to you automatically.”

~Swami Amar Jyoti