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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

The point is, it is not man—this human body, these human eyes—that sees God. God can be seen only with spiritual vision—with the eye of the soul. As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the eleventh Chapter: 

“Thou canst not see Me with mortal eyes. Therefore I now give thee sight divine. Behold My supreme power of Yoga!” With these words Hari, the exalted Lord of Yoga, revealed himself to Arjuna in His infinite form. 

Excerpt From Week 8: Can Man See God?

Whispers From Eternity

Sacred Demands to the Infinite

O you, who have come to the portals of this book of prayer-demands: Pass not by in haste. Enter and bathe in the sacred pool of God’s love, hidden in the still, deep waters of meditation.

Every day, take one prayer‐demand at a time, and read it carefully. First, get the intellectual concept, and concentrate on it, addressing yourself to God with focused, unceasing, urgent mental whispers.

Your demand must be individualized. Fragrant flower‐thoughts will blossom in your heart from that original prayer‐plant— thoughts born of concentration and inner experiences, and watered by the divine dew of that grace which is attracted by meditation.

Each thought‐empowered word shall then wear for you a bright, flaming garment. Each word shall be a guiding torchlight in the procession of your prayer‐thoughts as you march toward God. Each word will spread light to illumine the path of some lost brother on the way. Each word‐song will sing a song that God Himself has sung, revealing some lost gem of truth. Each word-torch will illumine some dark corner in your mind. Each thought will pour forth a silent sermon of His sacred Bliss. Each feeling-note will reverberate with the presence of His love everywhere, and will wake sleeping souls to hear His ever‐blissful voice summoning you, and all mankind: “Come home!”

Paramhansa Yogananda

Inspiration from the Rays of One Light

it is not man—this human body, these human eyes—that sees God. God can be seen only with spiritual vision—with the eye of the soul. 

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.

Psalm of David

Listen to the Psalm of David

Reflect, Meditate and Listen to Instrumental Music

Reflect

Meditate

Creativity

Aum Peace Amen

Blessings & Love

Rev Dinah Pemberton