Week 40: In Surrender Lies Victory!
Our Reading and Affirmation For October
What is it to Make Peace?
Stanza 7
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”
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
Out of his love for them he excused them, saying, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” He then urged them again, saying, “Watch and pray.”
The Bhagavad Gita lists these signs in the thirteenth Chapter:
Humbleness, truthfulness, and harmlessness,
Patience and honor, reverence for the wise,
Purity, constancy, control of self,
Contempt for sense-delights, self-sacrifice,
Perception of the certainty of il In birth, old age, and frail mortality,
Disease, the ego’s suffering, and sin;
Detachment, lightly holding thoughts of home,
Children, and wife—those ties which bind most men;
An ever-tranquil heart, heedless of good
Or adverse fortune, with the will upraised
To worship Me alone, unceasingly;
Loving deep solitude, and shunning noise
Of foolish crowds; calm focus on the
Self Perceived within and in Infinity
These qualities reveal true Wisdom, Prince.
All that is otherwise is ignorance!
Excerpted From Week 40: In Surrender Lies Victory!
What inspired me from this week’s reading from the Rays of One Light to share with everyone was…
“The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
He then urged them again, saying, “Watch and pray.”
We will take these words by Jesus into our meditation
together for reflection. But firstly we will listen to
“I Will Be Thine Always”
by Paramhansa Yogananda.
I Will Be Thine Always by Paramhansa Yogananda
Let’s Reflect on
“The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
He then urged them again, saying, “Watch and pray.”
