By Meditating on the Divine Light
In this system the goal is called variously as human perfection or realisation or divinisation, all abstract, therefore the object must be abstract. Therefore Sahaj Marg doesn't use any names, or mantras or forms for meditation, but because the ordinary human being cannot meditate on the abstract, my Master uses Divine Light as the closest to the abstract principle, because light has no form, light has no substance even, light has no… well, practically nothing to it. And my Master once explained it, that it is like using a diving board in a swimming pool to dive. It gives us something on which we can gain a little momentum before we take off and dive into the pool. Therefore light is not the goal of our meditation, please remember that. It is only the starting point of the system; accepting the human limitation that we cannot directly meditate on the abstract.
We meditate to achieve divinisation, and the object is as abstract as possible, which is light in the heart; and the most important thing is that without seeking to change our religion, we are yet required to rise above those religions and in that sense, we don't interfere with anybody's religion or try to convert them, but each one of you has to make the effort to rise from your religion into the spiritual sphere. It is like flying. You see all these planes are flying around. We have all to rise from our lands, our countries, into the atmosphere above if we are to fly. When we come down again, we are what we were before. When we fly we have no nationalities, but when we land in our respective countries, we are again Frenchmen, Indian, Englishmen, whatever we are. Which means, that as ordinary human beings subject to social and legal obligations, we are what we always were; but mentally we rise above these things in the act of meditation, accepting a universal Goal, common to all humanity trying to reach, or reaching for, a Divinity which has no name or anything else, for a God who has no form or name.
When we rise above into this rarified area of spirituality, there spirituality achieves a common goal which we are all aspiring for, and here humanity is united in one concept. So according to my Master, spirituality not only gives us the individual goal of divinisation, but achieves a very necessary social objective of unifying all humanity into one.
Master is in our hearts. And if He is there, He is always with us. He becomes our inner guide, and the goal is something now which is inside ourselves, and that is one reason why we can achieve it sitting where we are, closing our eyes and meditating inside.
The goal of the Sahaj Marg system is ultimate union, if possible, with the Absolute, which incidentally is what yoga really means. A yogi is one who has achieved oneness with the Absolute. And remember that the real goal of yoga is to become a yogi, in the sense of achieving union with the Absolute.
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