In our thought and meditation we are gradually revisualizing our life by the light of God. We are building our own spiritual home, a temple furnished and filled with the light of all the noble virtues of our own souls. We are making our own body a temple, a temple in which we meet God.
Meditation creates nothing new; it merely helps us to clear the way, to remove obstacles, to prepare ourselves in a pure and luminous way with pure consciousness as our goal. In revisualizing our life in the light of meditation there is nothing finite, nothing of ego, no desire, no selfishness. We seek life beyond all worlds and consciousness beyond all multiplicity of thought.
All the mystic centers within us are like inner chambers. If the doors remain closed, we pass by them unaware of what sublimity they offer. We pass by them unresponsive to their meaning.
Close your eyes. You may feel something exquisite—a promise of subjective depth, calm and serenity. Now look within, in deeper contemplation of its source. At first you may see nothing. It may seem to you that you are only peering into darkness. You may see nothing and feel nothing, and yet all that has ever been visible to you has come out of that invisible, latent potential.
Out of what is apparent darkness to the senses has come your thought, feeling, imagination and all creativity. If you keep peering into that stillness and depth, you will finally behold a light. That light is the light of all worlds, the light that illumines all mansions of consciousness. It is the light of the universe—and also the light of your own self.
In deeper meditation you will behold the source from which all the light you see now has come.
May our desire to meditate lead us into the consciousness of that divine light and energy within us.
By Swami Kamalananda
From The Mystic Cross