Swami Vishwananda tells you today:

I would like to do a small meditation with you. It’s a very simple meditation:

If possible, it’s good to dim the lights. Try to sit straight, even in a chair. Make sure that your spine is straight. We will use our imagination. Like when a child is being a bit naughty, you just give it a game. Give a toy to the child and let the child play. The child is the mind. So, we’ll give the mind a game, and we’ll let him play his game.

So with your ears, listen to your breathing. Listen to it.

With the mind imagine om on your forehead.

Listen to the beautiful melody of your breathing.

Let yourself be drawn deeper and deeper in it.

Your mind will think. Let it pass. Don’t try to stop it. Don’t use

force to stop it. Don’t give any importance to it.

Keep your concentration on your breathing.

Don’t hear anything else other than your breathing.

To stop the mind, let’s use it now. Let’s use it to imagine how

God is looking at us. Imagine yourself being God.

Imagine the majesty, the hugeness, the purity, the light.

See your physical body full of light.

See your body radiating this light very brightly.

There is so much joy inside that is coming out from inside

you. So much happiness...

Now imagine the people who surround you.

Look at all of them. See the same light in them.

There’s no difference.

Visualise the town where we are.

Everybody’s radiating the same light.

See the whole of California radiating light.

Imagine the animal kingdom. They also radiate the same light.

Imagine the plant kingdom. You see the same light.

See the ocean kingdom reflecting the same light.

See the whole U.S. full of light.

See the whole world reflecting this brilliant light.

There is no disharmony. There is no hate.

There is just peace and love.

The whole universe is radiating this beautiful light.

Now, reduce all this light to one central point which is called

the heart.

See yourself sitting in all this light around that you have been

imagining.

See all this light shrinking and entering one point – the heart.

In the heart, you feel lots of warmth… happiness…joy…

Om, om, om.