Divine Mom shared a message with me this morning by way of Her play of daylight and mist. It’s captured right here within the following video.
The Divine Romance
The gardening workforce at Crystal Hermitage had simply completed organising sprayers for an extended mattress of irises that adorned a welcoming walkway. The solar was at excessive midday making my newfound pal, the miniature rainbow, clearly seen to me alongside the spray line.
What was Divine Mom’s message for me? She wished to remind me of easy methods to search God and easy methods to perceive each the impersonal and private dance that makes up the Divine Romance.
Rainbows are lovely and maintain a religious significance. God blessed Noah with a rainbow after the Nice Flood as a divine covenant. Swami Kriyananda had an affinity for them. On particular events, massive rainbows span the whole sky within the Yuba River valley on the Crystal Hermitage. After all, rainbows are merely elegant, emanating magnificence, gentle, and divine intelligence.
This rainbow captured my consideration despite the fact that it was a small one. I used to be struck by the considered how a rainbow is fashioned. Gentle is refracted by way of water. The potential for a rainbow exists actually anyplace gentle and water meet however it takes a witness standing in the appropriate spot to understand it. The luminous potential has to awaken subjectively within the eye of the fortunate beholder.
God’s Everlasting Gentle
God is omnipresent in all creation. His gentle shines eternally by way of the Christ Consciousness in each sub-particle of the cosmos simply because the Solar unceasingly casts its gentle on planet Earth. That is His impersonal actuality. Because the Heavenly Father, He’s impersonally huge, however the Divine Mom is utmost and private in attending to the wants, ideas, and emotions of each particular person soul.
It’s each soul’s future to merge again into Cosmic Consciousness, however till we attain that supreme state we have now to expertise life by way of the little cup of our ego. Each occasionally we get a glimmer of God’s presence by way of the veil of creation. Within the meantime, how can we develop the cup of our consciousness to obtain the Divine?
Yogananda gave the next analogy. Think about an individual who’s trapped in a darkish room for a really very long time. Though his eyesight could also be completely fantastic, he suffers from a conditional blindness. His method out is to not beat on the darkness with a stick, however to open the door and let within the gentle.
Religious ignorance is an affliction to the soul. We undergo after we really feel the absence of God’s gentle and pleasure in our lives. The answer is at all times an inward one. Open the guts with devotion, and direct one’s power and consciousness upward in direction of the religious eye. A little bit instinct could even develop alongside the best way.
There’s an artwork and science to yoga and the religious path. The devotee searching for interior success learns to stability feeling and cause and to maintain each the guts and thoughts open and impressed. I obtain an abundance of this twofold inspiration from Yogananda’s Whispers from Eternity and his chants, in addition to from Swami Kriyananda’s music.
Picks
Listed below are some poetry and music choices that relate to my encounter at Crystal Hermitage.
Whispers from Eternity
Prayer Demand for the Opening of the Religious Eye to Discover God in Every thing (103)
My eyes are enthralled, O Father, with the great thing about earthly flowers, with life’s passing scenes, and with the crusing, silent clouds. In all places, all I see hints at Thy hidden presence. Open that eye in me which sees solely Thee. With that gaze could I behold Thee above, beneath, throughout, inside, and out of doors me. Train me in all issues to see solely Thee. Open in me that eye which beholds in all places Thy hidden however ever subtly reigning marvel.
This demand must be repeated mentally with deep focus till the prayer‐thought turns into mounted in your superconscious by the conviction born of deep religion.
Bless Me, that I Could Understand Thee Via the Home windows of All Actions (134)
Bless me, that I’ll understand Thee by way of the home windows of all joyous actions. Look upon me, and cheer me at all times as I have interaction in my each day duties. Let my each motion—whether or not waking, sleeping, or dreaming—be sprayed by the fountain of Thy presence.
Cosmic Chant
O God Lovely!
O God lovely, O God lovely,
At Thy ft, O I do bow!
O God lovely, O God lovely,
Within the forest Thou artwork inexperienced;
Within the mountain Thou artwork excessive;
Within the river Thou artwork stressed;
Within the ocean Thou artwork grave.
O God lovely, O God lovely,
At Thy ft, O I do bow!
O God lovely, O God lovely,
To the serviceful Thou artwork service;
To the lover Thou artwork love;
To the sad Thou artwork sympathy;
To the yogi Thou artwork bliss.
Swami Kriyananda Track
Thank You, God, for the Solar
Thanks, God, for the sunshine of the solar,
Thanks, God, for the rainbow,
Thanks, God, for this present day begun,
Thanks, God, for the solar.
Thanks, God, for the intense summer season flowers,
Thanks, God, for the inexperienced fields,
Thanks, God, for these wakeful hours,
Thanks, God, for the flowers.
Thanks, God, for the smile of Your love,
Thanks, God, for our gladness,
Thanks, God, for the celebrities above,
Thanks, God, on your love.
