Week 7: The Law is Perfected in Love

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What is it to be Comforted?

Reading and Affirmation for February

From the book The Beatitudes: Their Inner Meaning by Swami Kriyananda

(To view the reading see weeks 5 and 6)

Rays of One Light: Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and The Bhagavad Gita

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, we read:

The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Grace means the power to rise, spiritually. Truth means the experience of divine realities, not the application in the outer world of that inner experience. Divine love is the soul’s experience of oneness with God. Kindness is the human manifestation of that love. Grace is deeper than mere kindness. Wisdom is a divine experience. Justice to all is a human law, though divinely inspired. It follows as a consequence of the experience of wisdom. Truth goes deeper than mere justice.

Excerpt From Week 7: The Law is Perfected in Love

Whispers From Eternity

100. Demand to the Holy Trinity

O heavenly Trinity—Om, Tat, Sat —: God the transcendent Father, God the immanent Christ consciousness, and God the Holy, Creative, Vibratory Force of all Creation! Grant me the wisdom to know Thy truth! Through my self‐effort and my knowing acceptance of the law, help me up the golden ladder of realization, to stand at last on the shining summit of attainment, face to face with the One Spirit: Perfect, Everlasting Bliss!

Paramhansa Yogananda

Inspiration from the Rays of One Light

Grace means the power to rise, spiritually.
Grace is deeper than mere kindness.
Divine love is the soul’s experience of oneness with God.
Wisdom is a divine experience.
Truth goes deeper than mere justice.

We will take these meaningful words into our meditation together for deep reflection and contemplation. But firstly, we will listen to the beautiful Psalm of David, sung by Mary Kretzmann.