RETREAT '26

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Says:

• The process of meditation on the Light of the Lamp...has to be understood thus - first feel that you are in the Light; then, proceed to the realisation that the Light is in you; later, become aware that you are the Light, no more, no less. But it is easier and better to project the light which you first visualise within you, to the outside world, illumining, more and more of the world, and visualising them all as soaked in the Divine Glory that is in you too. When you feel you are all Light, you will have no weight; everything will be bright. That is why on the Prasanthi Flag, the Atma-jyothi is represented as emanating from the Hridhayakamala when the Lotus blooms at the first touch of the rays of the Sun, Jnana. (Divine Discourse, January 22, 1967)

• When a lamp is lit from another, there are two where there was but one. The first one did not stop emitting light. You can light a million lamps from one; but, yet, the first will not suffer a jot! Love too is like this. Share it with a million, it will still be as bright as when it was alone.....When the worship of God starts in the shrine room, the first act of yours is ‘lighting a lamp,’ isn’t it? Without a lit lamp, no auspicious ceremony is initiated. When the lamp of love is shining, God manifests! Keep it burning bright and pure, God persists! Allow all to light their lamps from it, God showers Grace! (Divine Discourse - October 29, 1970)