The Sahasrara Dhyana
(Total duration: 1/2 hour)
This guided meditation is taken from Sufism.
Sit straight, hold a few flowers as offering in your hands and close your eyes. Wear a smile and relax.
Offer your gratitude to all your young age friends who made your life happy and blissful, who shared their innocence and joy with you.
Offer your gratitude to your brothers and sisters and other relatives for nurturing you and caring for you. Seek their forgiveness for any hurt that you may have caused them intentionally or unintentionally, consciously or unconsciously.
Offer your gratitude to all the people who gave you professional education, who helped you stand in your profession, who gave you the courage to stand on your own feet.
Offer your gratitude to all the people who helped you financially, whenever you needed it.
Offer your gratitude to all the doctors and nurses who took care of your health, who gave you medical assistance whenever you needed it.
Offer your gratitude to your wife or husband for giving you love and security in your life. Forgive them for anything that they might have done to you that hurt you. Seek their forgiveness for anything that you might have done that hurt them with or without your knowledge.
Offer your gratitude to all the people who encouraged you and gave you inspiration in your spiritual life.
Offer your gratitude to all those who have served you in one way or another all through your life: the milk man who delivers milk, the grocer, the laundry man, the garbage collector, your servants, your driver, all these people who you take for granted. Seek each one's forgiveness for any hurt that you may have caused intentionally or unintentionally, consciously or unconsciously.
Offer your gratitude to your enemies and those who have hurt you, for making you strong and forgiving. Seek their forgiveness for any hurt that you may have caused them.
Offer your gratitude to all those who helped you physically, mentally, socially, economically and spiritually.
Remember each one of them and offer gratitude taking your own time.
Offer your gratitude to your body and all its parts one by one.
Offer your gratitude to your mind for its miraculous functioning.
Offer your gratitude to the Divine, to the Whole, to God, for making all these things possible in your life.
Step 5
For the last 7 minutes you may sit and chant the Guru Puja Mantra or just sway with the flow of the chant on the cassette and offer your gratitude to Existence and to the great lineage of enlightened masters. Offer your gratitude with your whole being.
You may now offer your flowers.