24/12/2022
After the rush and the craziness of these days…and before the next rush, I invite you to PAUSE, maybe find a moment to meditate and contemplate on the true spirit of Christmas beyond consumerism and what religion taught us…
This year, this Holy day combined with Yule and a new moon have even a more potent meaning for me… the start of a new book but before doing so, there is a big call to PAUSE… and how much I wished the whole world paused…would you join me for 5 minutes ?
I am pausing and contemplating on this beautiful text By Paramahansa Yogananda written Written from India in 1935, shortly after his visit to the Holy Land, to all students and friends of Self-Realization Fellowship
« From Jerusalem and India, reinforced by the perception of the Great Ones, I bring unto you a new message of Spirit. Blessed is my soul to be thus an instrument of the Divine.
The pen of thought writes on the dark page of ether and makes the Spirit-Truth invisibly visible, and my fountain pen makes the unseen thoughts visible. So on this page I am painting God — with ink, thoughts, and Self-realization — that all may behold His glory.
As Truth peeps through the window of thoughts and words, so God manifests through Christ Intelligence and vibratory creation. When the beads of nations are not held together by the thread of universal perception of Christ Consciousness, of Christ Peace, they fall apart, knocking and scattering on the rocks of selfishness. The Christ of Christmas must be celebrated in the hearts’ love of all races for one another.
I pray Christ be born in the cradle of a new international understanding; that out of the dark night of war, the star of Christ Love may illumine a new United World. I pray Christ be born in all nations as love of unity, in all men as spiritual ambition, in true friends as the Divine Friend, in students of this path as Self-realization, and in all deep devotees as eternal, ever new Joy and perpetual Wisdom.
Earth-bound possessions and glory all fade away, but God-bound possessions hold through eternity, serving with supreme usefulness.
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