Week 4: The Infinite Christ

28 Jan

Written By Rev Dinah Pemberton

Reading and Affirmation for January

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

Blessed Are the Inwardly Free

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

The Gospel of St. John contains some of the most profound spiritual teachings in the Bible. In the first Chapter many subtle truths are suggested concerning higher stages of Self-realization. Here, John the Baptist is described as one reaching up toward that high state. “He was not that light,” the Gospel tells us, “but was sent to bear witness of that light.” Jesus Christ, by contrast, is described as the light itself. “That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”

As the Bhagavad Gita teaches in the fourth Chapter:

Unborn, changeless, Lord of Creation and controller of My cosmic nature though I am, yet entering Nature I am dressed in the cosmic garment of My own maya (delusion). O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue.

Week 4: The Infinite Christ

Whispers From Eternity

130. Demand to See the Love of God in All Human Love

With the love of all human loves I have come to love Thee, Thou God of all loves. Thou art the father, anxious to protect His children. Thou art the little child, lisping love to its parents. Thou art the mother, showering infinite kindnesses on all her family. Thou dost ow in the all‐surrendering love of the lover for the beloved. Thou art the love of friends for one another. Purify me with the reverence of a servant to his master. Teach me to love Thee with all pure loves, for Thou art the fountain of love both earthly and heavenly. Bathe me in the fountain‐spray of all loves.

What inspired me from this week’s reading from the Rays of One Light to share with everyone was…

“Unborn, changeless, Lord of Creation and controller of My cosmic nature though I am, yet entering Nature I am dressed in the cosmic garment of My own maya (delusion). O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue”.

We will take these words from the fourth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita into our meditation together for reflection. But firstly we will listen to Make Me a Channel of Thy Peace by Swami Kriyananda.