Week 51: What was the Star of Bethlehem?
Our Reading and Affirmation For November & December
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
The story of the birth of Jesus Christ contains an account in the Gospel of St. Matthew,
Chapter 2, of the star of Bethlehem. The wise men who sought Jesus in his manger said:
“We have seen his star in the east.” . . .
And, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them,
till it came and stood over where the young child was.
As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the fourth Chapter:
Who knows the truth touching my births on earth
And my divine work, when he quits the flesh
Puts on its load no more, falls no more down
To earthly birth: to Me he comes, dear Prince!
Week 51: What was the Star of Bethlehem?
What inspired me from this week’s reading from the Rays of One Light to share with everyone was…
“Who knows the truth touching my births on earth
And my divine work, when he quits the flesh
Puts on its load no more, falls no more down
To earthly birth: to Me he comes, dear Prince!“
We will take these words into our meditation together from the Bhagavad Gita for reflection. But firstly we will listen to a cosmic chant by Paramhansa Yogananda
“Cloud-Colored Christ”
Cloud-Colored Christ
by Paramhansa Yogananda
Let’s Reflect on
“Who knows the truth touching my births on earth
And my divine work, when he quits the flesh
Puts on its load no more, falls no more down
To earthly birth: to Me he comes, dear Prince!“
