Jenny Light - Divine Meditations: 26 Spiritual Qualities of the Bhagavad Gita

I recommend this book by Jenny Light to all those who are seeking spiritual Truth. This is the first time that I have seen an authors effort in relating a practical pranayama, a meditation, and an affirmation to each of the 26 Spiritual Qualities of the Bhagavad Gita. It is an interesting and inspiring way to keep us reminded of these spiritual qualities and to practically bring them into our meditation and everyday living. As Jenny says, it is a workbook in the process of getting to know your true Self by clearing out the old mental patterns and establishing new more positive states of being.

Stephen Sturgess, Kriya Yoga meditation teacher (London), disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, artist and author of The Yoga Book; The Book of Chakras and Subtle Bodies; Yoga Meditation; The Supreme Art and Science of Raja and Kriya Yoga; Mastering the Mind, Realising the Self. www.yogananda-kriyayoga.org.uk

Want to make your whole life a meditation? Read this book. There is considerable beauty here, and a great gift in these sacred chapters. Spirituality springs eternal in these leaves. Jenny Lights luminescence beams through every room in the mansion of high spiritualityfrom the high theory of it through coaching your personal breathing. Everything you need to know shines here, within this bookand within yourself, as you will pleasantly discover. Jam-packed with spot-on, solid spiritual wisdom, shared openly and eagerly by Jenny Light. This is a fine bookso good it should anchor the spiritual wing of your personal library. Its a book to savour, to read again and again until you get it. And when you do, you will, like Jenny Light, find yourself enlightened. Seriously and joyously.

Jack HawleyThe Bhagavad Gita: a Walkthrough for Westerners.

Exquisitely written and produced, this book from Jenny Light serves as a guiding light to those on the path to self-realization and ascension. As her dearest friend and long-time member of Jennys devotional meditation group, I know this material well. Her words seep through every pore to the very centre of our being. Her intuitive gifts of leadership, guidance and healing all come into play in these eloquently channelled meditations designed to expand the mind, forge the souls purpose and reunite us with our own inner Divinity. I know the peace and joy to be gained from regular meditation and this book of guided practices including breath control (pranayama); withdrawal of life-force from the senses (pratyahara); chanting sacred sounds and affirmations; and single-pointed focus and concentration techniques all serve as steps of advancement to the next levels of spiritual attainment. This offering to the Universe is not simply to be read but to be known experientially.

Anita Neilson, author of Acts of Kindness from your Armchair (Ayni Books 2017); spiritual poet and kindness blogger at http://anitaneilson.com

First published by Mantra Books, 2019

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This book is affectionately dedicated to my guru, Paramahansa Yogananda, and for all spiritual students.

You are all gods, if you only knew it. Behind the wave of your consciousness is the sea of Gods presence. You must look within. Dont concentrate on the little wave of the body with its weaknesses; look beneath. Close your eyes and you will see the vast omnipresence before you, everywhere you look. You are in the centre of that sphere and as you raise your consciousness from the body and its experiences, you will find that sphere filled with great joy and bliss that lights the stars and gives power to winds and storms. God is the source of all our joys and of all the manifestations of nature.

(Paramahansa Yogananda, In the Sanctuary of the Soul)

Meditation is the conscious process of closing the doors to the bodily senses and going within. Through inward-focused meditation, we embark on the journey to become Self-realised to the light within us is that which inter-connects all things. God-realised inner knowing, learned through meditation, goes beyond words, intellectual understanding or any other mind-based stuff and is realised as an experientially profound truth that is known at the deepest level of being. Self-realisation is God-realisation. The limited tool of the mind cannot encompass anything greater than itself. Self-realisation is to know beyond faith, belief or intellect that I am God and blissful Oneness. There is no sense of other. All simply is. We learn to dive deep in the Ocean of Quiet, awakening to a super-conscious state and therein finding ever-lasting, ever-new bliss in God.

This book is a guide in that process. Until we consciously learn to meditate, we are as if in a walking-sleep state where we have forgotten our Divine heritage and become so attached to the narrative of our own lives that we remain as if asleep. We are as puppets to the reactions of our samskaras (karmic impressions) of our past actions. However, we need not remain so. In this book, you will learn how to consciously breathe in a certain way (pranayama) to alter your brainwaves into delta waves which will facilitate an easy shift into conscious meditation and then, as your meditation deepens, into the super-conscious state. That is what is meant by a shift in consciousness. The key is being conscious: using the focus of your will, intention and emotion to gaze internally with single-pointed focus. This is another way of saying: Be present. To be absent in the present moment by thinking of the past or concerning about a future, is to remain asleep. You might ask me, how do I know if I am asleep? I will answer you by countering, are you happy all the time, no matter the circumstances around you? Happiness is our natural, God-given state. If you are not happy, it will always be because you are attached to something or someone or some outcome in this physical dream-reality of Earth and that attachment maintains the dream state.

We can dispel this dream-Earth reality to recall that we are a spiritual being temporarily housed in a physical body having a human existence. We may have subconscious memory that while we were in the astral world, we continually created our reality just by thinking, with immediate results. But in the physical world, there is a time delay. Just enough of a time delay to create and maintain an illusion that your thoughts are not powerful and an illusion that our thoughts do not directly create our reality. When the truth is, at any separate moment, our thoughts and desires are creating our very near future as a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual reality. The more illuminated we become, the time delay between thought and manifestation of our desires, becomes shorter until it appears to be happening instantly. You may recognise this fact.