THE LIGHT OF LOVE

by Sanat KUMARA

Sanat Kumara writes about the development of the heart centre and its role in releasing the light of wisdom from the core of light at the centre of our being.

The Time of Grace

The Time of Grace is now.  For Grace is the gift that brings you into the present.  The gift of Grace comes from the Source of All.  Grace is the knowing of your oneness with the All That Is, which is the outbreath of the Source of All.  Grace is like the still point, the turning of the tide, when all begins to be gathered back in to the Source.  Grace comes when you let yourself be loved.

The past and the future both exist within your energy field.  They are aspects of your consciousness, the aspects you are not yet able wholly to encompass.  As you integrate your energy field, so past and future dissolve into the Eternal Now - the Time of Grace.  It is the Light of Love that helps you to integrate all that you are, and Grace forms an ever-present harmonic within the Light of Love.  The Light of Love contains the Grace that it helps you to find.

For Grace is you, when all that you are is accepted and loved by you.  All of your energy field vibrates to this harmonic, which signals your journey back to Source.  In Grace you move to deeper and deeper states of oneness.  Your consciousness expands to encompass all of the Universe in all its aspects and dimensions.  No longer is the Universe incomprehensibly large and ‘out there’.  Grace is everywhere and connects everything.

Grace is an ever-present harmonic within your energy field too, for you are love.  As you uncover the love that every part of you is, so you bring into consciousness the harmonic of Grace. It becomes a foundation for every movement, whether thought, feeling or action.  Grace supports every movement and carries you towards the Source.  Grace is your communion with Source.  From this communion is derived your guidance.  In every moment it speaks to you of your joy.

For a long time now you have lived in a world of karma.  You have studied the law of cause and effect.  Every action you have taken has had a corresponding effect, whether after a microsecond or after many thousands of years.  ‘As you sow, so shall you reap’, has been your study.  There has always been a gap between sowing and harvest, and it has not always been easy for you to calculate what harvest would come from what seed.  Sometimes you have felt the need to disown the seed or the harvest.  What you have disowned has become your fears and your hopes, your past and your future.  As you love all of these, so you move into the Time of Grace.  In the Time of Grace there is no separation into seed and harvest; the harvest is seen in the seed, the seed is seen in the harvest.  There is no separation between cause and effect; the effect is seen in the cause, the cause is seen in the effect.  What is done with love, produces love.  Where love is, love has been.

Where love is, love has always been.  This is how the past is healed.  As you witness your past with total love it dissolves.  It ceases to be and there is only the present.  And the present is the Time of Grace.  Grace transforms time more than any other aspect of the Light of Love.  For Grace draws the past and the future into the present and into oneness.

Observe now something that feels other than you.  Why does it feel other?  What makes it different or separate from you?  Play at loving this thing until you can imagine its separation dissolving.  Let it become a part of your consciousness.  You have found the harmonic of Grace.  It is shared by you both.  It communicates your oneness with Source.

Now think of a person from whom you feel separate, a person you know or someone you have heard of.  Where does the feeling of separation come from?  What is it you judge in yourself or this other person that holds you separate?  Imagine having no judgements about either yourself or this person.  When there are no judgements your soul draws closer.  As your soul you can unite with the soul of the other.  You have found the harmonic of Grace. 

The harmonic of Grace forms a plane of light that links your two hearts with the All That Is.  Imagine this plane of light expanding outwards from the base of your heart centre to the base of the heart centre of the person you are connecting with, and the outwards from your two hearts to connect with everything that resonates with the harmonic of Grace.  From this plane of Grace guidance comes.

Feel again your connection with the person from whom you have felt separation.  Let your soul’s love for this being reveal the plane of Grace that connects you.  Focusing on this plane of light, ask, ‘What is it I can learn from you?’ ‘How can I help you?’ ‘What is it we share?’  Now rest; feel your heart centre.  Observe your breathing and as you do, feel the point at the base of the sacred flame through which you are always receiving love from the Source of All.

Let yourself receive this love.  It is yours.  Very gently guide it to those aspects of you which feel reduced, afflicted or imprisoned.  These are the counterparts of all that you feel separate from in the outer world.  The Light of Love can bring healing to these too.  Gather these pains into your heart.  Nurture what hurts in this space of love from the Source of All as you would comfort a child that has hurt itself.  Let go of all judgement and opinion of yourself.  Pretend you know nothing about yourself at all.

Now allow some particular aspect of your being from which you feel separate to come to mind.  Hold it tenderly in your awareness.  Gather it into your heart.  Notice any judgements that arise.  Let them go.  Find what can be loved in this aspect of you and give it love.  As you did with another person, ask it, ‘What is it I can learn from you?’ ‘How can I help you?’ ‘What is it we share?’  This time it is not another’s heart and soul you are connecting with, but your own.  What was separate becomes integrated, one with the love that you are.

How does this inner separation occur?  Time and space separate you from yourselves.  Events that occur in another time or space are never wholly integrated.  Only that which happens here and now is wholly one with you.  To the extent that you have been unable to wholly absorb your experiences in the here and now, so you have developed an inner sense of separation.  When you draw all that feels separate into your heart, you bathe it in the Light of Love and release it to the plane of Grace.  Thus it is first healed and then resolved into the present.  What hurt becomes a gift of Grace.

Focus again on what you have been healing in your heart.  Find again the love of which it is made.  Imagine now releasing that love out through the plane of Grace to all of the world.  Let the love of your integrated experience be shared.  Everything that you are, everything that you will be, everything that you have been is coming into the present.  There is nothing that needs to be hidden, nothing for you to be ashamed of in the Time of Grace. Grace dissolves all shame.

Grace is the still point between the inbreath and the outbreath of the Source.  It enters your Universe through a still point, a point of balance or harmony.  So when it enters your inner universe it comes through points of stillness.  One of the most important of these lies at the centre of your head, where there is a brilliant light, surrounded by softer light.  You can experience the light of Grace entering your being, simply by requesting it.

Focus now on the crown of your head.  Gently allow this area to open.  Request that the Angels of Grace transmit to you the light they care for.  Imagine a slender ray of light descending through your crown to the very centre of your head.  Move your awareness into the point of light at the centre of your head.  Take your time as you do this.  The light may become brighter and brighter as you go into it.  It has its own distinct qualities.  By degrees and with practice you can come to know this light well.  Enjoy visiting it.

From this source point the light of Grace becomes present everywhere.  In its role as a harmonic of the Light of Love it precipitates from the light at the centre of the head to the heart centre.  Follow it now as it arrives in your heart.  Your heart gathers Grace to it.  They speak the same language; your heart breathes more easily.  It relaxes and sings.  The heart knows no boundaries and Grace is its passport to everywhere.  It travels freely in the Time of Grace with its gifts of love, showering the Universe with its abundance.

Now is the Time of Grace.  You are free to gather up the past and the future and roll them into the present.  Forgive all, especially yourself; for all you witness outside of yourself is a reflection of what lies within.  The Light of Love is flowing into your life.  Within every particle of light is the gift of Grace.  When you discover this gift, you are then free to create, out of the Light of Love, Heaven on Earth.

First published in Paradigm Shift magazine.