MITHRA Meditation:
You are standing at bottom of a hill, it very late at night, It is a clear night and if you look at the sky you can see the moon having almost completed its night journey into the west.

Behind you is dense pine forest, the grass under your feet is wet and there are small patches of snow on the ground.

Looking at top of the hill there is flicker of light, you start walking up the hill to find the source of this light. It is a long walk and yet you seem not to get tired and the air becomes even more fresh as ascend. The sounds of the forest begins to fade away. The last sound you hear is of an owl saying: "Hu"

You are half way up the hill now, yet still you can not see the source of the light, so you increase your pace, as near the top you can hear a chant, the words you can't make out but you fell stronger and you reach the top easily.

A great bone fire is burning, its flames reach several feet into the air, you can smell a strange yet pleasent incense. There are a group of people sitting around the fire and chanting: YA DOST MITHRA

You join the chant. (time passes)

One of the man stands and faces east, toward a mountain range in the far off distant. He is welcoming Mithra.

(yasht 10 is recited)

As the first rays of the sun come over the distant mountain and fall into the vast valley beneth, you see in the distant heading toward you a golden chariot driven by four white horses, MITHRA rides across the sky heading toward the hill. You look around and see all the snow patches all melting away and the grass is growing under your feet. The land is waking up. A dried up tree futher along on the hill is growing leaf and while you looking at it, the tree blossoms.

Sound of horses bring your attention back to the sky, as you look up the charoit is almost above the hill now, He looks and smiles at gathering, as chariot passes overhead all your companions rise in the air, you too after vibrating Mithra with all your magical Will, rise in the air. Following Mithra as he rides across the sky.

The Landscape below turn green and trees blossoms, you pass over a herd of cows, whose breast becomes full of milk as the Mithra's company flies over.

Another mountain range is ahead, before that there is a great lake and a herd of sheep are drinking from it.

As you fly over the lake you look at your own relfection in the water, you see a Raven.

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