It is by the light of the moon that one sees the moon. In like fashion, if one wishes to see God, it is by love, which is the light of God, that one may see Him. (CWBSSB, p. 111)
First you are in the light. Then the light is in you. Finally you are the light and the light is everywhere. Enjoy for a while, then bring the light back to the heart and hold it there for all the day. The form of the God may also be included, Krishna, Rama, Jesus, Sai, as you wish. The form of God selected may be seen in the centre of the flame wherever it is carried and then you are with God everywhere. Meditation on light is safe and sure and leads directly to the goal. (CWBSSB, p. 180)
You are light. The same light is found in others also. The body drops away and you are the light. That is liberation. (CWBSSB, p. 181)
The particular pathway along which the flame, the jyoti, should be moved in the body is, the light is first moved into the heart, which is conceived as a lotus, the petals of which will open. The jyoti is then moved to other body parts. There is no particular sequence. But important is the final body station, which is the head. There the light becomes a crown enshrining and covering the head. The light is then moved outside from the particular to the universal. Move the light into relatives, friends, enemies, trees, animals, birds until the entire world and all its forms are seen to have the same light at their centre as has been found to be within oneself. The idea of moving the light into the universal phase, the idea of universality is that the same divine light is present in everyone and everywhere. To impress this universality on the minds we should do the spreading of the light outside one’s own body. One should understand that what comes about in meditation as one moves deeply into it, is not the thinking of the light but the for getting of the body and thereby the direct experience that the body is not oneself. This is the stage of contemplation when the body is totally forgotten. It cannot be forced. It comes about by itself and is the stage that naturally follows correct concentration. Seeing the light and moving the light here and there is to give work to the mind, to keep the mind occupied in the right direction so that the mind will not be thinking of this and that and thus interfering with the process of becoming more and more quiet. Spreading the light into its universal phase, sending the light into every other body and when one is so concentrated in that he is no longer conscious of his body, is the stage of contemplation. As contemplation deepens the stage of meditation comes about of its own volition. It cannot be forced. If the mediator remains conscious of himself and that he is engaged in meditation, then he is not meditating but is still in the preliminary stage, at the beginning of concentration. There are three stages: concentration, contemplation and meditation. Meditation is entirely above senses. In the stage of meditation, the meditator, the object of his meditation and process of meditation have fallen away and there is only one, and that one is God. All that may change has fallen away and ‘Tat tvam asi’, That thou art, is the state that exists. As one gradually returns to his customary and habitual state of consciousness, the jyoti is again placed in the heart and gets lighted there throughout the day. (CWBSSB, pp. 173-174)
Meditate on such a Mahavakya as ‘Tat tvam asi’ (That thou art) and as you go on revolving it in your mind, meanings will dawn upon you, without the help of any commentary. Commentaries only tend to confuse you. Think of the Tat (Divinity); analyse the tvam’ (yourself); and then, you will be convinced that asi (equality) is the only solution. You are in the Light; the Light is in you; you are the Light---these are the steps. (SSS Vol.3)
Why a light in meditation? From the sand if one takes, it will be depleted. From the water tank, if each one takes, the tank will go dry. But a thousand people can take the flame of one candle to light their candles and the flame is in no way diminished. Light a lamp or a candle – gaze straight ahead at the flame. Then take the candle flame, the jyoti into the heart and see it in the midst of the petals of the heart. Watch the petals of the heart unfold and see the light illumine the heart. Bad feelings cannot remain. Then move the flame to the hands and they can no longer do dark deeds. In turn move the flame in like fashion to the eyes and ears so they may henceforth take in only bright and pure sensations. Then move the light outward into your friends, relatives, enemies and then into animals, birds and other objects so that all are illumined by the same light. Christ said ‘All are one, be alike to everyone’. In this way you will no longer be limited to this body but will expand throughout the universe. The world, which is not now so big, will become very, very small. To expand beyond self and see that your light is the light of the universe is liberation. Liberation is not different from this. (CWBSSB, p. 178)
Jnana is light; Ignorance is darkness. Darkness can persist only until light shines. (SV, p. 160)
Light spreads; it mingles with the light from other sources of light; it has no boundaries, no prejudices, no favourites. You may not like your neighbour but, the light from the lamp on your verandah shines hand in hand with the light from the lamp on his verandah! You cannot keep it back! Deepavali is intended to teach you this lesson of light and love; move out, clasp, spread, expand, give up limits of mine and thine, his and theirs, caste and creed in one limitless flow of Love. That is the culmination of all spiritual sadhana. (SSS Vol.7, p. 310)
Even he, whom you were treating as your worse rival has the self-same light in his innermost heart. Know that the same jyoti of light is in all. (SSS Vol.5, p. 303)
The only light this world, which does not get extinguished, is the light of the Self, the Atma Jyoti. (DBG, p. 122)
All the ten lights emanating from the body have their origin in the one divine light coming from God. These ten lights are the reflections of the inner light of the Atma, which is the effulgence of the Lord Supreme. You should always have this in your Consciousness. (DBG, p. 147)
You are living on a little flame of light. Your life is like the joke between the elephant and the mouse. The elephant gets involved with the mouse and begins to think it is a mouse. You are not a mouse, nor are you an elephant, nor are you just human. You are the all-embracing light that lights up the entire cosmos. You are all-knowing power. You are pure love. Repeat this continuously to yourself out loud, ‘I am the all-embracing light,’ then you will arrive at where you originated and discover who you really are. (WLMG, p. 66)