Meditation on Gurumayi’s Words
Makara Sankranti
by Eesha Sardesai
The Light of God in You
Gurumayi spoke about a phrase in the last line of her Message for 2026: Enlighten your consciousness. Gurumayi emphasized how hugely significant this phrase is, and her words are still percolating in my awareness. As my initial contemplations about Gurumayi’s teachings on this topic are many and varied, I won’t be sharing them in full here.
I will, however, hone in on one teaching that Gurumayi gave while speaking about this line from her Message. Gurumayi said: “No one is asking you to make yourself small. You are meant to be the light of God, and you are the light of God.”
Gurumayi held this satsang on Makara Sankranti, a day on which we worship the sun and celebrate the season of increased light in the northern hemisphere. As I reflect on Gurumayi’s teaching, I’m remembering how Gurumayi has drawn upon imagery of the sun to impress upon us how we each are an extension of God’s light. In her talks and her poems, Gurumayi has likened each of us to a kiran, which in the Indian languages denotes a ray or beam of light, expanding radially outward from the almighty sun. It is an image that is at once comforting and instructive. It assures us that the light of God resides eternally within us. It also implies that since we are endowed with this light, we have the ability and the duty to share that light with others, to bring it into our interactions in this world.
I therefore wish to ask you: How have you experienced the light of the sun within yourself? Have you acknowledged yourself for sharing your light with the world?
Audio recording by Eesha Sardesai