Week 25: The Eternal Now
Our Affirmation For June
Stanza 6:
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are they whose self-offering to God is effortless and complete, secure in the knowledge that all other desires are foreign to the soul.
In the purity of their knowing, they shall see God.
Swami Kriyananda
From the book
The Beatitudes: Their Inner Meaning by Swami Kriyananda
Rays of One Light: Weekly Commentaries on the
Bible and The Bhagavad Gita
by Swami Kriyananda
In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 4, Jesus Christ says:
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
The Bhagavad Gita goes further into this meditative teaching. In the sixth Chapter it states:
Holding the spine firm, the neck and head erect and motionless, let the yogi focus his eyes at the starting place of the nose [the point between the eyebrows]. Let not his gaze roam elsewhere.
Excerpted From Week 25 The Eternal Now
103. Demand for the Opening of the Spiritual Eye, to Find God in Everything
By Paramhansa Yogananda
From the Book Whispers From Eternity
My eyes are enthralled, O Father, with the beauty of earthly flowers, with life’s passing scenes, and with the sailing, silent clouds.
Everywhere, all I see hints at Thy hidden presence. Open that eye in me which sees only Thee. With that gaze may I behold Thee above, beneath, all around, within, and outside me.
Teach me in all things to see only Thee. Open in me that eye which beholds everywhere Thy hidden but ever subtly reigning wonder.
(This demand, especially, should be repeated mentally with deep concentration until the prayer‐thought becomes fixed in your superconscious by the conviction born of deep faith.)
What inspired me from this week’s reading from the Rays of One Light was…
And so it is, but only because we think it is! God is as much with us now as He will ever be. It is not He who needs to come to us:
We need to come to Him! And that process of coming is a matter of transforming our self-perception.
This week I thought we would spend some time practising coming to God in silent meditation by focusing our attention at the Seat of the Superconscious, the Spiritual Eye also known as the Christ Center. And spend some time affirming the affirmation given to us by Swami Kriyananda “I have Him already! I am alive forever in the Divine Light.”
But before we do that let’s spend some time transforming our self-perception and thinking about
How do we come to God in our everyday lives?
And listen to Angelic music by Swami Kriyananda
Life Mantra - Angelic Music - "God Is Life, God Is Joy" by Swami Kriyanada
Lyrics
God is life. God is joy.
Life is God's: Life is joy.
God is life. God is joy.
Life is God's: Life is joy.
God, who is infinite, is life.
God, who is in all life, is joy.
Life is a mission from on high.
Life is a quest for inner joy.
Joy, joy, joy, joy! God is life.
God is joy. Joy, joy, joy!
Life is God's: Life is joy.
Joy, joy, joy, joy, joy
