A Course of Meditation

by
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Inspired by the vision of
Hazrat Inayat Khan
 
Login  ||  Join Mailing List      
Media Library
Welcome
Jewish Wailing Women
Rudra Vina
Rudra Vina 2
Turkish Call to Prayer

Allegri
Miserere

Abed Azrie
Murmur of the Breeze

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in F major
Magnificat
Partita No. 1 in B
  minor

Prelude in F major
Prelude to St. John's
  Passion

Sonalast Partitas
St. John's Passion,
  Lamentation


Ludwig von Beethoven
4th Piano Concerto

Pandit Kashinath Bodas
Raga Komal Rishabh
  Asavari


Johannes Brahms
4th Symphony

Max Bruch
Kol Nidre

Deuter
Nada Himalaya

Choying Drolma
Tibetan Chant

Ghazal
Traces of the Beloved

Lama Gyurmé
Lama's Chant
The Tsok Offering

Sha heedi
Sâghee
  Nâme (Sufi
  Nâme)


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
Steps to
  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


Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Watch Your Personality

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Watch Your Thoughts
We are a Condition of
  God


Light Shows
Kirlian Photography
Fractal Journey
Impressions of the
  Cosmos

Sun Rises

Nathan and Joseph
We Shall Be Healed

Rustavi Choir
Gregorian Chant

Saki Lee and Shams Kairys
Thy Light is in All
  Forms


Sirin Choir
Russian Chants

Tallis Scholars
Victoria Tenebrae
  Responsories


Tibetan Buddhist Nuns of the Kopan Monastery
Track 13

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Pie Jesu
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: Being a Being of Light            Go back

High Bandwidth Low Bandwidth
mp3 version (4.6 MB)
© Abode of the Message, August 2001

And that is we identify with our aura and consider the body as, let’s say, consider your aura as the template in which your body is configured. Or let us say it is the template of your electromagnetic field which in turn is a template of your body.

So can you just identify with being a being a light. And consider your body as a formation within this being of light, a hot core within it.

(pause)

One learns to shift one’s sense of identity so it’s a matter of downplaying one mode of identity and highlighting another, just like in a hologram. So instead of thinking that your body absorbs light from the environment which is of course true, the converse is also true. And that is that you have always been a being of light and the body accrued to that being of light.

So as you inhale, can you imagine that your aura is the convergence of the light of the stars. Your aura is the light of the stars that has been converged just like a vortex in a lake. The water of the whole lake eventually gets swirled into the vortex. The vortex does not have a boundary. Your body has a boundary, it’s your skin. Your aura does not have a boundary and therefore it is of the nature of a whirlpool, a whirlwind, or a vortex.

So your identity is not bounded by a profile. So a very good example of it is the flame of a candle that has a structure or rather whose structure is continually changing as it flickers. And yet it does not have a boundary. You have to get used to representing to ourselves form without boundary. Well, form that is structure without boundary. Without a profile.

So as you inhale now can you imagine the light of the universe converging and being fashioned in a unique way in each one of us in the form of your aura. And, maybe, the clue to this is to see some likeness between the countenance behind your face and your aura. Let us say that your aura is not just a formation of light but it definitely carries a hallmark of your idiosyncrasies and manifests as the countenance behind your face. That which transpires behind that which appears. Or through that which appears.

Right, so as you inhale, well I would say at first, see if you can really feel this corona of light around your body. You don’t see it, you don’t perceive quite, it’s more like a very fine sense of grasping a very tenuous reality and beyond what we understand by matter. According to physics, of course, light is matter, but it does not have mass. At least when it is not moving.

So let’s say that the light of the environment not only converges but is fashioned as your aura in a unique way for each person. And that form is not sclerosed it is malleable and changes according to your attunement and your thoughts. So it’s not like a statue it’s more like a video for example where the expression of the face changes continually.

So as you hold your breath you think, yes the light of the stars has fashioned itself in a unique way in me and in other people which carries a stamp of my identity. But it’s continually changing. And of course the light of the stars has been customized by the environment and therefore limited. And so the leading thought is, I have always been a being of light and now this being is becoming more personalized. Homonized, as Teilhard de Chardin says.

The light of the stars has become my aura. And crystallized as my body while still maintaining its luminous nature. And now instead of radiating light as you exhale, you are just aware of the way that the light of the stars that has been converged now boomerangs back again into the starry sky carrying the stamp of the uniqueness of your being. So you are contributing towards the richness of the cosmos and that’s what life is about.

© 2002 Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan