"All is a Formation of Light in Light",
Speech by His Divinity Shri Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati,
played for all Devotees and Guests, on the Occasion
of Omkarananda Jayanti, 25th December 2022

OM

The true Lover of the Divine meditates upon the Purusha.

What is the Purusha? The Supreme Being. No father, no mother, no brother.

He is not a man. Yet He is man, He is woman, He is in all men and women.

Yet no woman and no man seems to know anything about Him, except those, who have received the Grace of the Divine, except those, who command a spiritual Vision, except those, whose heart is pure, except those, who have dedicated their lives to highest values, pursuit of highest values.

Our object of meditation is the Supreme Reality, the eternal Reality. And this Reality is not something weak, fantasy, hallucination, a dream object, a dream creation, imagination, suggestion, supposition, hypothesis.

It is the Reality of realities. It is that, what you sink into in deep sleep state. It is the basis of all your perception, feeling, experience, knowing.

This basis is infinite, eternal. That is the object of our meditation. 24 hours, no matter what work we are doing, no matter with whom we are talking, we are rooted in this consciousness of the Timeless and the Eternal and the Spaceless, just the same spaceless and timeless Being you sink into in the deep sleep state.

This timeless and spaceless Being is the Purusha, the Supreme Being. That is the object of our meditation. That is the object of our knowledge.

"Tat purushaya vidmahe…" I know That, I understand That, I experience That, I see That, ich wahrnehme Es. (= German for „I perceive It")
"…Mahadevaya dhimahi, tanno Rudrah pracodayat." I meditate on the Supreme Being, the great God.

What is God? Deva. Deva. This English word is no equivalent to the real Sanskrit word Deva. God is always Light and therefore it is Deva, Devi, Diva - LIGHT.

God is always Light, He is endless Light. Nature of Consciousness and Existence is Light, and Nature of Consciousness and Existence is Joy. Nature of Consciousness and Existence is Peace. All these you experience in deep sleep state. It is timeless, it is all-independent Happiness. This all-independent Happiness you also experience in deep sleep state.

On this Being we meditate and may this Being illuminate us.

And this Being is everything in creation and is transcendent of creation all the time. No matter which world you are referring to: Heaven, then He transcends Heaven by ten fingers, that means, infinitely, unimaginably. He transcends everything that is manifest, even though He is in the manifestation. A part of His Being is in the manifestation, that is to say, in the unmanifest Being there is a manifestation. And this manifestation is itself carrying and made possible on the Transcendent.

The Transcendent, the Unmanifest, is always there. That Purusha we meditate upon. That is Devi, the Divine Mother. That is Mahadeva, the Divine Father. That is Mahavishnu, the Indweller. Vishnu - one who dwells in all beings. Narayani - that which is indwelling all human beings.

What is indwelling all beings? Not thoughts and feelings, these are common everywhere, they are perishable, they are passing, they are changing, they are not Reality, they are appearances, they are the cause for discord, disharmony, as you experience every day in your daily life. The moment you sleep, all discordance, disharmonies, created by the existence of thoughts and their functions, is lost, is gone, transcended, is overcome.

This Supreme Reality is the object of our meditation.

This is Shiva. It is supremely auspicious, It is supremely peaceful, It is supremely blissful, It is supreme Blessedness. Shiva means Blessedness, Supreme Blessedness.

This Supreme Blessedness, which is the Kingdom of Heaven of Kingdom of Heaven, the Quintessence of the Kingdom of Heaven, is Shiva, Narayani, Devi, Shive, and so weiter (= German for: "so on"). That is the object of our meditation.
In this Consciousness we are rooted.

And when you are rooted in this Consciousness, it becomes a sin to see a human being as a human being, a sin to see a tree as a tree, mud as mud, earth as earth, time as time, and so on.

At this stage, you begin to see in the human individual, the Transcendence, the Timeless, the Nameless, the Formless, the All-Perfect, the All-Fulfilling.

In the trees, you will discover the transcendent Dimension, the Consciousness, Light.

All is a Light-formation, a formation of Light in Light. OM