LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS CHIT JYOTI A JOURNAL OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

Volume 15 #1
Spring/Summer 2003

SATSANG

DIVINE LOVEThe Basis of All Creation
Satsang by Prabhushri Swami Amar Jyoti
The great secret of creation is revealed: everything, without exception, has its basis in Divine Love. "Whatever the manifestation, you will always find that the basis is Love. What is it that makes the branches of a tree hold the leaves, or the earth to hold the tree's roots? Why do the stars hurtle around each other or the planets around the sun? You may rationalize and theorize, but when you go deep into it, you will find that the answer is Love."
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FEATURES

LOVE HEALS by Larry Dossey
"There is something about the distant impact of empathy and caring and love that somehow bonds being together across vast distances. We have also seen this effect in distant EEG correlation experiments, in which people’s electroencephalograms and brain waves begin to cycle together, no matter how far apart they are, when they come into a feeling of empathy, compassion, caring and love with each other."

THE WEB OF LIGHT by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
A new link of love is being forged around the world and we are that link. "The container for this global awakening has been created, but the dynamic energy of oneness needs to be brought into our everyday life... Women have a specific role to play in this work, as their bodies contain a creative force that unites matter and spirit. This creative principle naturally allows the inner to flow to the outer, nourishing what has been forgotten with the light and love of the divine."

RASA LEELA
Satsang by Swami Amar Jyoti
In the celestial play or leela of the Lord, heavenly love is brought on earth in a divine dance of Oneness with God. "In the Rasa Leela, each gopi saw in ecstasy that Krishna was with her only. The gopis forgot their bodies, minds, families, villages, everything. And this ecstatic dance created the union, yoga and Oneness for which they had aspired."

THE FORCE IS WITH YOU by Stephen Simon
A Hollywood producer looks at the emerging genre of films with powerful spiritual messages: "I'm a film producer who loves movies and has made some movies in this genre, and I simply have a point of view about spiritual themes in films. I am personally sick and tired of all the doomsday scenarios that seem so prevalent in our modern world, and I think that the spiritual messages in movies are actually leading us to a bright and beautiful future."

SPIRITUALITY AND ART

THE DEVOTIONAL ART OF B.G. SHARMA
The life and exquisite art of B. G Sharma is showcased in this visual article with paintings depicting episodes from the life of Sri Krishna, the Buddha, Sita and Ram, Hanuman and others.

LIGHTLINES

THE WORLD IS AN INKBLOT by Prem Prakash
Taking responsibility for our own projections opens the way to change ourselves and our world. "The apparently concrete, external world is actually a mental image projected onto abstract patterns of energy. This may sound shocking to our usual way of thinking, but it is entirely consistent with the teachings of the ancient sages of the East, as well as contemporary physicists of the West."

YOKE OF LOVE BY ADOLFO QUEZADA
Loving God means living with God’s own love flowing through us. "Through us the power of love soothes the wounds of those around us, mends their broken hearts, and gives them a sense of significance and belonging. Through us the power of love opens the door to understanding, invites peace, and brings harmony in the midst of disintegration. Love builds where hate destroys, it smoothes where aggression ruffles, it opens where pride closes."

DISCOVERY OF GOD'S KINGDOM WITHIN by Anthony Elenjimittam
We can touch, as it were, with our own hands, the reality of God and His Kingdom. "Potentially we are all Universal Consciousness, freed from our prison of name and form. When we have transcended our threefold phenomenal states of waking, dreaming and sleeping, and enter into our true noumenal state, then we realize that our very soul is the Infinite Reality, which is Brahman."

PERSONAL JOURNEY

AN ODYSSEY TOWARD LOVE by Sheldon Stoff
The author shares his lifelong journey through the gateway of reality to the essence within. "The universe is always calling us. That calling is beyond intellect, and it is we who must open to that constant message... Kabbalah opened me to mercy and love at the physical level, a love growing out of the spiritual world. It is true religion and engulfing kindness and compassion."

THE ONE FRAGRANCE THAT PERMEATES ALL by Paramahansa Yogananda
"I sought love in many lives. I shed bitter tears of separation and repentance to know what love is. I sacrificed everything, all attachment and delusion, to learn at last that I am in love with Lovewith Godalone."

HEALING

AYURVEDAHEALTH IN TUNE WITH NATURE by Cybele Tomlinson
A personal introduction to a nature-based system for health of body, mind and spirit. "The flowering of our health allows and supports us to be more directly in touch with our spiritour innate intelligence, or wisdomand to live more consistently out of that growing awareness."

POETRY

THE LONGING HEART
Poetry from the ecstatic spirit of the mystic in love, including St. John of the Cross, Rabindranath Tagore, Sahdona the Syrian, Mirabai, Rumi and the Song of Solomon.