Meditate silently and meditate lovingly, where love and silence are one and the same.  The secret of love is revealed through meditation in silence. When you quiet the noises of the mind that is silence.  When you pacify destructive emotions that is love.  The two are one and the same. May your commitment to your spirituality and your commitment to loving become the commitment you make in thoughts, speech and actions toward others through expanding your capacity to love.

Meditation introduces you to the center of consciousness which is the source of light, life, and love. Meditation makes you aware and gives you the direct experience of your finest self that reveals perennial love. Meditation is that path leading beyond the body, senses, breath, conscious mind, and unconscious mind, and then to the center of consciousness. Meditation is this inward journey and a journey without movement. This journey of the self through the self to the Self, reveals the means to “know thy self”.  Meditation is a method of self-inquiry, self-understanding, and self-analysis that leads to self-control and self-enlightenment. By way of training the distracted mind, such a purified mind becomes free from all disturbances and obstacles. A one-pointed mind experiences inner peace, tranquillity, and silence leading to the center of consciousness and the source of infinite love, your essential nature.

Meditation may be a withdrawal when you close your eyes, but when you open your eyes from meditation, there is a fountain that gushes forth from you through your eyes. Eyes so satiated as though drinking the amrita—sweet honey of this “ever-so-sweet world.” Find the source of your lovingness within.

May you love your meditations and may your loving nature become your meditations.

With blessings of the Himalayan Lineage,
srb

Guided Meditation (from a series of specialty meditations by Swami Veda Bharati)

Come to the place where you are sitting.  Be aware only of the space that your body is occupying from head to toe.  Be aware only of this moment in time.  Let your awareness turn to the subtler essences of your being.  Be alone.  Be in solitude.  Dwell by the self within the self.  Gently scanning the inner recesses of your being come in touch with the subtle essences of your being.  Be aware of that field of life energy that occupies the same space as your body.  The way magnetism occupies the same space as the lump of iron.  As the electric flow occupies the same space as the conducting wire. So your life energy occupies the same space as your body.

Become aware of the flow of the totality of your life energy as a field in which the body is being charged continuously.  When you become aware of the suffusion of life energy, your breath flows as though it is flowing through your entire body.  As though your entire body is breathing from top to toes and toes to top.  Feel as though your breath is flowing through your whole body.

Remaining inwardly tuned, I join my palms before my heart and bow my head;

With all the love of the heart;

With all the power of action in the hand;

With all the thought in the head;

I give you my love and worship the deity who is within you.

God bless you.