How High Should I Aspire?

27 Apr

Written By Rev Dinah Pemberton

Photo by Nayaswami Jyotish (View more art by Nayaswami Jyotish)

Righteousness Is Not Self-Righteousness

Reading and Affirmation for April

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

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

St. Matthew, Chapter 5:

I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Excerpt From: How High Should I Aspire?

Whispers From Eternity

20. A bouquet of all Loves of God

O God my Father, teach me to make a bouquet of the variously hued flowers of filial, conjugal, friendly, parental, and guru-disciple love, and to lay it reverently upon the altar of my heart, where Thou reignest supreme. If I am unable to tie all those flowers into one bouquet, I will pluck the rarest rose of love growing in the garden of my devotion, and lay that one flower at Thy feet. Oh! Wilt Thou receive it?

Paramhansa Yogananda

Inspiration from The Rays of One Light & The Beatitudes

Don’t seek perfection, he was saying to his disciples, in the image you project toward others. Don’t be satisfied with a goodness born merely of ego definitions.

We will take these meaningful words into our meditation together for deep reflection and contemplation. But firstly, we will listen to some beautiful music by Swami Kriyananda, “I Live Without Fear”