The Meditation Center

Sail free:

Sail free of fears;

Sail free of fears of the waves that arise

within the ocean that is you. 

Should the ocean fear its own waves?

Can the sun be blinded by its own light?

Can fire be scorched by its own warmth?

Can diamond be injured by its own facets?

With faith in yourself, you will definitely reach

that peak of the mountain of light

in whose valley, at present, you find your peace

when Mother Gayatri cradles you daily at sunrise.

- Swami Veda Bharati -

Words Curved , page 66

2007

            Epilogue Silence of the Sun

The lights you see are diffuse, scattered; they strike a wall, reflect and cannot go beyond. But there is a light without measure in which there is neither beginning nor end, neither now or then, neither here nor elsewhere, but is all time, all place, now and forever. If a thousand suns would shine together in the sky in all their splendor, such would be the light you see with eyes closed in meditation.

A fire has a few flames, a few sparks, a few embers and finally ashes. But there is a fire that has lit the sun, kindled the stars, a fire whose ember is earth. When God decides to renounce the universe, prepares to leave the household of immanence to enter the monastery of transcendence, the innumerable earths, suns, stars, galaxies fall into that fire of final conflagration. What remains is the ashes that God the ascetic then wears on Herself.

When God again opens the doors of Her hermitage, the flame birds of all the universe rise from the egg that God shapes out of the ashes She wore. The egg and those birds of fire you will see in the vast inner space behind the eyebrow with your eyes closed in meditation.

This day I wish you the revelation of a chariot of fire drawn by the seven horses of light. I wish you entry into the world of light. Light. 

- Swami Veda Bharati -

The Light of Ten Thousand Suns, page 147

2001

Hear the Song of Your Breath

Hear the song of your breath, for it sings of hope, light and life for all your days and nights. In your mind, hear it sing so, as you inhale. Hear it say ham, as you exhale. Through all of your inspirations and expirations hear your breath sing soham:  "I am He. I am who I am. Before Abraham was, I am." Soham:  "I am eternal life, the winged soul, the solar swan of purity and freedom."

Did you say you were lost? Then let your breath answer soham:  "I am the one whom  the God of my heart has found." Did you say you were despairing? Then remember your breath singing of life. In your laughter and tears, through problems and solutions, you have a companion - your vital breath.

Hold your mind to your breathing. Feel its streams flowing in your nostrils, its ocean-like tides on the beaches of your brows. Hear it sing soham: "I am." Yes, again, center your mind on the feel of your breath and let its inward currents take you to those depths of your life-force from where your mind arises and into which it subsides.

May your breath take you to that origin of life-currents where silence folds the words away and unfolds sheets of light.

- Swami Veda Bharati -

The Light of Ten Thousand Suns, page 69

 2001