Sahaj Love shines from The Light within - the same God/Allah/ Brahman of all religions within ourselves
--- In adishakti_sahaja_yoga@yahoogroups.com, "jagbir
singh"
>
> (One day Kash, seeing the plight and deep genuine desire of his
> mother, decided to secretly seek the help of the Great Divine
> Mother without his parent's knowledge.) He meditated and emerged
> through the clouds into the Kingdom of Sadashiva within. The
> Primal Light shone ever so brightly from above the Supreme Throne
> of the Great Celestial Mother as the Ruh of Allah sat in Bliss and
> Joy.
>
--- In adishakti_sahaja_yoga@yahoogroups.com, Mohamed OUMALEK
>
> Sahaj love to all sahaja yogi around the world...
> that's all i can do :-)
>
> Mohamed.
>
Their intention is to extinguish Allah's Light with their mouths:
But Allah will complete (the revelation of) His light,
Even though the Unbelievers may detest (it.)
surah 61:8 Al Saff (The Battle Array)
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, 1989
"One stipulation of Eastern teachings that should be stressed is
that enlightening instructions can be wholly comprehended only if
one practices them regularly in his daily life after receiving them
from a true guru, one who possesses actual God-realization. The
wondrous light of truth that leads from the dark world of matter
into the celestial powers of divinity is neither casually bestowed
nor effortlessly embraced; and no endeavor should be considered too
arduous to find that light and to follow it."
Paramahansa Yogananda, The Journey to Self-Realization
"This universal symbol of Light is surely one of the best symbols
Man has found to express the delicate balance that almost all
cultures have tried to maintain, with varying success, between a
merely this-worldly or atheistic attitude and a totally otherworldly
or transcendent attitude. There must be some link between the world
of Men and the world of the Gods, between the material and the
spiritual, the immanent and the transcendent. If this link is of a
substantial nature, pantheism is unavoidable. If the link is
exclusively epistemic, as Indian and many other scholasticisms tend
to affirm, the reality of this world will ultimately vanish. The
symbol of Light avoids these two pitfalls by allowing for a specific
sharing in its nature by both worlds or even by the "three worlds."
This is the supreme light spoken of in the Rig Veda and in the
Brahmanas; it is mentioned also in the Chandogya Upanishad and in
the well-known prayer of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: "Lead me from
darkness to light!'' It is also the refulgent light of the golden
vessel stationed in the dwelling place of the Divine: "The
impregnable stronghold of the Gods has eight circles and nine gates.
It contains a golden vessel, turned toward heaven and suffused with
light.'' This light is neither exclusively divine nor exclusively
human, neither merely material nor merely spiritual, neither from
this side only nor from the other. It is precisely this fact
that "links the two shores." This light is cosmic as well as
transcosmic."
Professor Raimundo Panikkar, The Vedic Experience
"Cultivating the Awareness of the Light Within
The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by
contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as
supreme effulgent light
From the Yoga Sutra of PATANJALI, second century B.C.
Patanjali is often called the father of yoga because he was the
first person to codify and write down yoga practices. In this
meditation instruction, he is telling us to let go of all
distracting sights, smells, and sounds and meditate on our spiritual
nature, our luminous true self. He is telling us to look inside and
experience the radiance within.
All cultures, peoples, and religious groups through all times have
talked about the phenomena of light in the context of the religious
or mystical experience. Those who have seen visions of holy beings
typically see them surrounded by white light. People have always
described going to the light, finding the light, being called by the
light, dissolving in the light. We read about light in The Egyptian
Book of the Dead as well as The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Men,
women, and children who have had classic near-death experiences
vividly describe arriving in a place of white light; they speak of
themselves and others as being bathed in white light.
Prior to being described as the light of any religion, light was
just light. Light is a part of the primary source material. Later,
as the history of mankind developed, the concept of light became
institutionalized; it was then interpreted according to cultural and
religious beliefs. Pure light thus became light of God, light of
truth, light of Buddha, light of Jesus, cosmic light, and ocean of
light depending upon where you were born and what you were taught.
Light, however, is constant. It is fundamental energy.
The New Testament, referring to John the Baptist, reads: "He came
for testimony, to bear witness to the light that all might believe
through him." Later Jesus says, "Put your trust in the light while
you have it so that you may become sons of light." . . .
British mystic George Fox, who founded the Quaker religion, used the
term "inner light" to describe our ability to personally experience
God within ourselves. He himself had such an experience, which left
him with the lifelong conviction that everyone can hear God's voice
directly without mediation by priests or church ritual. This is the
central tenet of the Society of Friends.
According to Buddhism, all beings are imbued with a spark of inner
divine light. In describing our original Buddha-nature, we use such
phrases as innate luminosity, primordial radiance, the unobscured
clear natural mind, and the clear light of reality. . . . The Jewish
mystics use similar words when they speak of the inner spark or the
spark of God. The Koran, referring to man, talks about the little
candle flame burning in a niche in the wall of God's temple.
Almost inevitably a spiritual search becomes a search for divine or
sacred light. By cultivating our inner core, we search for this
light in ourselves as well as the divine."
Lama Surya Das, Awakening to the Sacred
"Sahasrara: The seventh center at the top of the head is called the
crown chakra. According to the ancient mystics, it governs 1,008
aspects or attributes of the soul body. These personae are
transparent, a crystal-clear white light, ever present, shining
through the circumference of the golden soul body. Here the soul
dissolves even blissful visions of light and is immersed in pure
space, pure awareness, pure being. Within the sahasrara is the
brahmarandhra, or "door of God," an aperture in the sushumna nadi
through which the kundalini exits the body, catapulting the mind
beyond and into nirvikalpa samadhi, and the truly pure spirit
escapes the body at death."
Hinduism Today, July 1998
"The Bible is seen to be full of terms about light. Lossky tells us
that "for the mystical theology of the eastern Church these are not
metaphors, rhetorical figures but words expressing a real aspect of
godliness." "The godly light does not have an abstract and
allegorical meaning. It is a data of the mystical experience." The
author then referred to "Gnostics", the highest level of godly
knowledge [that] is an experience (a living) of the noncreated
light, where the experience itself is the light: in lumine tuo
videbimus lumen (in Your Light we shall see light.)"
Eternal, endless, existing beyond time and space, it appeared in the
theophanies of the Old Testament as the Glory of God. The Glory
is "the Uncreated Light, His Eternal Kingdom." Being bestowed to the
Christians by the Holy Spirit, the energies appear no longer as
external causes but as grace, as inner light." Makarius the Egyptian
wrote: "It is ... the enlightenment of the holy souls, the
steadiness of the heavenly powers" (Spiritual Homilies V.8.)
"The godly light appears here, in this world, in time. It is
disclosed in the history but it is not of this world; it is eternal,
it means going out from the historical existence: `the secret of the
eight day', the secret of the true knowledge, the fulfillment of the
Gnosis ... It is exactly the beginning of parousia in the holy
souls, the beginning of the revealing at the end of times, when God
will be disclosed to everyone in this distant Light." "
Dan Costian, Bible Enlightened
"A common tenet of Hinduism is "Sarva Dharma Sambhava, which
literally means that all Dharmas (truths) are equal to or harmonious
with each other. In recent times this statement has been taken as
meaning "all religions are the same" - that all religions are merely
different paths to God or the same spiritual goal.
Based on this logic the religious path that one takes in life is a
matter of personal preference, like choosing whether to eat rice or
chapatis to fill one's stomach. One's choice in religion is merely
incidental and makes no real difference in the spiritual direction
of one's life. Any path is as good as any other. The important thing
is to follow a path. However since the religion of one's birth is
not only as good as any other, but is the closest to access and
easiest to understand, one should usually follow it whatever it may
happen to be.
From this point of view whether one is Hindu, Buddhist, Christian,
Muslim, or of another religious belief is not important. Whether one
goes to a temple, church or mosque, it is all the same. Whether one
prays to Jesus or Allah or meditates upon Buddha or Atman the
results cannot be ultimately different. All religions are equally
valid ways of knowing God or truth. The outer differences between
religions are merely incidental while their inner core is one, the
knowledge of the Divine or supreme reality. Therefore members of all
religious groups should live happily together, recognizing that
there is no real conflict in what they believe in but only
superficial variations of name and form."
www.hindubooks.org
"One has to know on this point that you have got the Light ... You
have to give up all that is falsehood. If you are fully enlightened
you will give up automatically. You don't have to be told. The
Spirit automatically feels responsible that it has to give Light. It
has to tell that you please give Light, because it is Light. Because
it is Eternal Light nothing can kill it.
There is a sloka, "It cannot be killed by anybody, nothing can
destroy it. Even if you want to suck it you cannot." It is such a
powerful Light. You can verify it whether it is eternal or not. You
have to see for yourself you have such a unique Light within you.
In the history of spirituality of this world so many have got
Realization — such a Light in them. How could these stupid, flimsy,
useless conditionings dominate you now when you are the carrier of
Eternal Light?"
Sri Sahasra-Pad Devi
Being The Light Of Pure Compassion, Istanbul, Turkey — Nov. 6, 1994
(Sahasra-dala-padmastha [528th]: Residing in the Thousand-Petaled
Lotus.)
"So, when you're coming out of it, still, these things hang over.
Still, you get affected by them. Even when you're rising higher and
higher, you find suddenly you are again pushed down to some sort of
a funny situation, to some sort of a degrading things. Of course,
sometimes you are shocked at yourself. Sometimes you accept all that.
So, for a Sahaja Yogi, it is very important that, after coming to
Realization, he has to be very introspective. Instead of seeing the
bad of others, he should try to see what is bad in within himself.
It's very important that you have to know how far you are going
towards your spirituality because Christ did not need this. He did
not even have to introspect himself. He was something which was
beyond any corruption and for Him it was just a physical
transformation on the sense that He died and then He resurrected
Himself.
But for us, it is very different. We are now Sahaja Yogis but we
were ordinary human beings. We had no Light within us. Now the Light
comes within us and we see the Light then what do we become? We have
to become the Light, itself. Christ was the Light. He did not have
to become. We have to become the Light. And now you have to guard on
the way this Light might get disturbed, might be reduced or maybe
completely extinguished.
So carrying on, yourself, with this Light, first thing you should
know that if you see the Light is not proper means you are not the
Light. You have to become the Light. When you are the Light, then in
that Light you can easily see how your mind works, what ideas it
gives, what affects your mind while you're ascending. Is this the
worry or is this the responsibility that you have? Or is this from
the bad habits you had, that there is an impediment in your growth
as a spiritual personality?
So you have to guard yourself all the time and see for yourself how
you are progressing. It's a very beautiful journey — very, very
beautiful journey."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Rome, Italy — April 11, 1993
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