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How Do We Meditate, Part 2

Bodhinatha Meditating

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How Do We Meditate, Part 2

“Adjust yourself to the realization that you are a divine being, a self-effulgent, radiant being of light.”

Jyoti is the Sanskrit word for inner light. To bestow on devotees terms that were more specific, Gurudeva developed the Shum Language of Meditation. In Shum the word for the light that lights up the mind is balikana. During Shum meditation there is an indrawing of forces to realize balikana, a moon-like glow, leading to iftye a deeper kind of inner light which, in turn, leads to milinaka, a sustained iftye which doesn’t go away and can be sustained after we’ve finished our meditation.

Path to Siva, Lesson 47

Twelve Shum Meditations


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