A Course of Meditation

by
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Inspired by the vision of
Hazrat Inayat Khan
 
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  minor

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Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
1st Jhana
2nd Jhana: The
  Thinking Behind the
  Universe

3rd Jhana: The Emotion
  Behind the Universe

4th Jhana: The
  Consciousness
  Behind the Universe

A Transfigured World:
  the View from Within

A View of the World;
  Satipathana and
  Jhanas Stage1

Absorbing Light,
  Radiating Light

All Pervading Light
As a Promise of
  Resurrection

Attachment and Pain
Attuning to
  Glorification

Awakening the Glance
  of the Dervish

Being a Being of Light
Beyond Consciousness
Breathing from Within
Buddhism and Sufism
Cleansing the Emotions
  with Light

Clues in Our Psyche
Consciousness Becomes
  Infinite

Converging the Light
  of the Stars

Dervish Heart
  Meditation

Developing Light in
  the Eyes

Espy the Thinking of
  the Universe

Everlastingness and
  Eternity

Filtering Impressions
  (2 Immune Systems)

Finding Freedom from
  the Constraint of
  Impressions

God-consciousness
Image of the Pendulum
Image of the Vortex
  Energy Practice

Imagining an Archangel
  of Light

Impact of Situations
  on the Self

Impact of the Self on
  Situations

Keys to Meditation
Light in a Secondary
  Chakra: Eyes

Light in the 1st Chakra
Light in the 2nd Chakra
Light in the 3rd Chakra
Light in the 4th
  Chakra: Heart Center

Light in the 5th
  Chakra: Throat
  Center

Light in the 6th
  Chakra: Third Eye

Light in the 7th
  Chakra: Crown Center

Light in the Chakras:
  Introduction

Matching Latencies
Muhasibi: What Do I
  Value in Life?

Observing Yourself
  (Muhasibi / Jhanana
  Darshana)

Our Purpose is
  Awakening

Palace of Mirrors
Perception and Desire
Reflections
Seeing Beauty
Shifting Perspectives
Starry Sky Meditation
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  Transcendence:
  Seeking Nirvana

Steps to Turning Within
The Bounty of Life
The Glance, 1 & 2
The Glance, 3: That
  Which Transpires

The Glance, 4:
  Purifying the Glance

The Glance, 5: The
  Eyes Through Which
  God Sees

The Glance, 6: The
  Divine Glance

The Glance, 7: Shahid
The Process of Ta'wil
The Vortex
This Become Does Not
  Lead to the
  Non-Become

Thrust into Existence
Universe as Beings of
  Light

Visualizing the Body
  as a Crystal

Watch Your Body
Watch Your
  Consciousness


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Watch Your Personality

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Watch Your Thoughts
We are a Condition of
  God


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Nathan and Joseph
We Shall Be Healed

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Saki Lee and Shams Kairys
Thy Light is in All
  Forms


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Track 13

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Pie Jesu
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: Visualizing the Body as a Crystal            Go back

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© Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, August 2002, The Abode of Message

Can you just represent to yourself that the environment is just full of light, whether it is the light that is refracted or reflected from the objects or if the objects themselves floresce or if it is bioluminescence, whatever. There are many ways in which the light of the environment is—upon which it is founded.

If you identify yourself with your body and imagine that your body is a crystal your body can absorb light. But it's not good enough just to theoretize about it. What one wants to do is really visualize one's body as a crystal so that you can actually feel the way that the light of the environment is absorbed by the crystal and radiated by the crystal.

So I suggest as you inhale consciously absorb light from the environment. This is mind over body. It's been ascertained in laboratory experiments that by visualizing light one enhances the radiance of one's aura. So if you-as you inhale if you're drawing in light, it's-I suppose the pores of your skin open up, rather like if you were sunbathing. And, as you know, the light penetrates through the skin and reaches right into the cells of your body. So that after inhaling hold your breath and concentrate on all this light that has built up in your nerve cells- well in the cells of your body.

And now, as you exhale radiate this light consciously. To start with, you see, we concentrated on the light inside the skin, let's say. But now we concentrate on the light surrounding your body and which extends further and further into the starry sky.

Now this will give you a sense of immensity. The consciousness is going to expand into the galaxies, the cosmos.

And this in turn will effect your sense of identity. So you may think that the photons that you radiate, and of course the field, the light field, of your being is hurtling through space at a speed of 186—more than, actually more than 186,000 miles a second and eventually hits the stars. Bombards the stars. So just do this for a few minutes now.

You can actually feel the cells of your body jiggling and sparkling. They are aroused into what is called an excited state. And the consequence is that they divide so that you are regenerating your body by the action of light upon live matter enhanced by your concentration.

© 2002 Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan