Week 30: Do You Need a Guru?
Our Affirmation For July
Stanza 7:
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are they who live unshakably in the consciousness of inner peace; who emanate peace to everyone whose lives they touch. They shall be hailed as instruments of the Lord.
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
“it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.”
St. Matthew, Chapter 3
By this sign is he known, Being of equal grace to comrades, friends, Chance-comers, strangers, lovers, enemies, Aliens and kinsmen; loving all alike, Evil or good.
The Bhagavad Gita
Excerpted From Week 30 Do You Need a Guru?
116. Prayer-Demand for Devotion
O Father, I hold my heart in my folded hands. Teach me to saturate my prayers with Thy love. Give me the simple, sincere devotion toward Thee of a child. Teach me to realize Thee just behind the voice of my prayer.
Teach me to feel Thy breath flowing with my breath. Teach me to cognize Thy presence in my emotions. Teach me to perceive Thy wisdom in my understanding. Teach me to sense Thy all‐pervading life in my life. Oh! flood my senses with Thy light.
What inspired me from this week’s reading from the Rays of One Light to share with everyone was…
Open thyself to those who have attained wisdom. They will be thy teachers. Ask questions of them [both verbally and mentally]. Serve them faithfully, and with devotion.
In our meditation, I thought we would spend some time reflecting on what does
Open thyself to those who have attained wisdom. They will be thy teachers. Ask questions of them [both verbally and mentally]. Serve them faithfully, and with devotion.
mean to you…
But before we enter into our reflection and meditation we will listen to Love is a Magician by Swami Kriyananda.
Love is a Magician by Swami Kriyananda
Lyrics
Let’s Reflect on what does
Open thyself to those who have attained wisdom. They will be thy teachers.
Ask questions of them [both verbally and mentally]. Serve them faithfully, and with devotion.
