Dawn!
Light abundant and sufficient for each day to fill creation afresh with vitality and strength, with power to grow and find illumination. Awakening each day, may I find Thy light revealed in my soul with the certainty of Truth and Bliss.
Behold the Mystery of Light and the ways it comes to Life: Hold in your hand a match unlit. How does light exist within it, hidden? Strike the match, and the light comes to life.
Within you consciousness, the flicker of light expands and connects what was hidden from you, bringing forms and colors into one sphere of meaning that becomes you and connects us.
Light ignites our hearts in many ways, always joining, embracing, expanding… Some hearts are slow to illumine. Like coal they need time, but once aglow, their quiet warmth soothes and endures for a long time.
Some hearts hold light as water does, subdued in dark and silent depths, yet brilliant and energizing in streams and cascading falls.
Some hearts spread their light like the ignited incense - a fragrance offered into all directions freely, inviting and pleasing to all.
Some hearts, like peerless transparent diamonds reveal the full spectrum of Light.
From dawn to dusk the sun’s light shines forth and the world appears to us as formations of lights and shadows. As we watch the setting sun, the same world disappears again into darkness. Where is Creation’s light then — That light which will pour into tomorrow’s creation?
Where is your Light now? Are you an explorer by daylight only? Or can you peer into the Light of the East, the Self-source that illuminates all worlds, both night and day?
Swami Kamalananda
The Forest of Forever