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give us light, o light of lights

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Arti - Light

 

Jyoti Jyoti Jyoti Swayam
Jyoti Jyoti Jyoti Param
Jyoti Jyoti Jyoti Arul
Jyoti Jyoti Jyoti Sivam
Vaama Jyoti Soma Jyoti
Vaana Jyoti Jnaana Jyoti
Maaha Jyoti Yoga Jyoti
Vaata Jyoti Naada Jyoti
Ema Jyoti Vyoma Jyoti
Eru Jyoti Veeru Jyoti
Eka Jyoti Eka Jyoti
Eka Jyoti Jyotiye

~

Light O Light of Self-Effulgence

Light O Light of Absoluteness

Light O Light of Gracefulness

Light O Light of Auspiciousness

Light of Siva, Light of Moon

Light Divine, Light of Wisdom

Light of Heaven, Light of Yoga

Light of Wind, Light of Sound

Light Delight, Light of Water

Rising Light, Vital Light

The Only Light, The Only Light

Give us Light, O Light of Lights

Arti Chant

The image and chant were posted by Tina Koskelo on her beautiful blog being silently drawn with the title Lighting of the Candle.  (Thank you Tina!)  It’s a perfect fit for this blog, which is an ongoing celebration of The Only Light, The Light of Lights.

The Light of Lights is ever-present and inescapable – it wears your name, sounds as your voice, feels your every feeling, thinks your every thought and performs your every deed. If you doubt this, just experiment with trying to separate any of these self-attributes (identity, speech, feelings, thoughts and deeds) from that which is aware of them. That Which Is Aware of them IS the Light of Lights.

Whatever forms your Yuletide observance take, may they be blessed with peace and harmony. May you turn towards the New Year with courage and unswerving awareness of your luminous immensity.

 

the realisation of radiance

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A luminous piece today written and illustrated by Chameli Ardagh

This Unlit Light: Painting by Chameli Ardagh - The Queen of Trust

You are the light of awareness
embodied in time and space.

Embodied awareness brings forth
embodied consciousness,
which is radiant light.

Bring your attention to the field of luminous awareness
that illuminates your experience right now.
Without this clear light of awareness
you would be without experience.

You cannot think or imagine your way
to this natural luminosity, although it
illuminates your thoughts and memories
and everything else in your experience,
as it is also illuminating itself.

Light illuminates light.

The primordial Shakti,
the Light of Manifestation,
is this self arising luminosity which permeates:

1~ the object of your awareness
2~ the one who is aware,
3~ and awareness itself.

Becoming aware of awareness
within yourself and others is
Sri Vidya, the realization of radiance.

In your embodiment practice you unclench
the fixation onto the appearances in the mind.

By recognizing and relaxing the automatic
mental and physical and emotional
reactivity towards your experiences,
the energetic knots in your body softens
and more Prana Shakti (breath and life force)
is allowed to flow through.
You open as a translucent and continuously unfolding
embodiment of luminous awareness

Lead me from opacity to clarity.
Lead me from the complicated to the simple.
Lead me from the obscure to the obvious.

Lead me from confrontation to wide openness.
Lead me to the place I never left,
Where there is peace, and peace.

– Upanishads

Practice – the Realization of Radiance

Rest in an open focus of the radiant field of awareness,
hold that which you are experiencing
within the awareness field of light.

Experience the object that the
light of your awareness is illuminating,
and the field of illumination both at the same time.

Thinking and feeling, sensation and memory,
fantasy and desire are all of luminous nature
as is your own awareness.

Art (The Queen of Trust) and words by Chameli Ardagh at Awakening Women

 Also from Chameli Ardagh:

who moves you?

for the Mother of all mothers

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Mothers’ Day has rolled around again, and this year it marks the 3rd anniversary of the birth of this blog. Last year I posted a little prayer of gratitude to all mothers in their many guises.

This year there’s an inclination to offer another of Mark Hathaway’s exquisite translations from the original Aramaic language, of The Lord’s Prayer, or Jesus Prayer, as an offering to the Mother of all mothers – the Primordial Divine Radiance.

~

O source of the Radiance,
dancing in and about all-that-is,

Shine forth into the depths of our beings,
and enkindle there the flame of Thy essence.

Grant that it may blaze forth
and fill us with its searing creativity,

Until, fully united with Thy fiery desire,
light pours out from us, taking form.

May we be revitalized each day
with nourishment for body and spirit,

And be liberated from all that oppresses us,
as we struggle to mend the fabric of our world.

Let us not be enmeshed in the nets of illusion,
but illuminate the opportunities of the present moment.

For from Thee shine forth
the precepts, the sustenance, and the generative fire,
from centering to centering.  Ameyn.

~

Two other versions from Mark Hathaway, with more information about his work,
are posted here:

from birthing to birthing

all that dignifies, gives life and astonishes

And there’s also an anonymous translation,
posted after the funeral of Isabel, last of the ancient Harrex aunties:

thy queendom come

~

When you know you are eternal,
you can play your true role in time.

When you know you are divine,
you can become completely human.

When you know you are one with God
you are free to become absolutely yourself,
individual, wholly my child.

Mother Meera

~

Happy Mothers’ Day!