The Redeeming Light
Purity of Heart
Reading and Affirmation for June
From the book The Beatitudes: Their Inner Meaning by Swami Kriyananda
The Redeeming Light
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.
The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.
The Book of Isaiah in the Bible, Chapter 9, tells us:
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
What is this light of which so many Scriptures speak? In Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda, we read of an early experience the Master had with that light:
I was blessed about the age of eight with a wonderful healing through the photograph of Lahiri Mahasaya. This experience gave intensification to my [divine] love. While at our family estate in Ichapur, Bengal, I was stricken with Asiatic cholera. My life was despaired of; the doctors could do nothing. At my bedside, Mother frantically motioned me to look at Lahiri Mahasaya’s picture on the wall above my head.
“Bow to him mentally!” She knew I was too feeble even to lift my hands in salutation. “If you really show your devotion and inwardly kneel before him, your life will be spared!”
I gazed at his photograph and saw there a blinding light, enveloping my body and the entire room. My nausea and other uncontrollable symptoms disappeared; I was well. At once I felt strong enough to bend over and touch Mother’s feet in appreciation of her immeasurable faith in her guru. Mother pressed her head repeatedly against the little picture.
“O Omnipresent Master, I thank thee that thy light hath healed my son!”
I realized that she too had witnessed the luminous blaze through which I had instantly recovered from a usually fatal disease.
“Where My light is,” God once told a saint whom the divine light had healed, “no darkness can dwell.” The divine light – pure, calm, liberating – is the only final cure for every kind of delusion: ill health, emotional grief, and spiritual ignorance. Seek it daily in the silence, in deep meditation.
As the Bhagavad Gita says in the fifth Chapter:
For whom
That darkness of the soul is chased by light,
Splendid and clear shines manifest the Truth
As if a Sun of Wisdom sprang to shed
Its beams of light.
Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.
Whispers From Eternity
138. Open my Soul’s Secret Door
I am crying in a wilderness of loneliness. With eyes closed I have long knocked at doors of darkness, praying that they will open and reveal Thy light. With a million thirsty cravings of my heart, I long for Thee. Oh, wilt Thou come?
Paramhansa Yogananda
Inspiration from the Rays of One Light
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Isaiah 9:2
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
Reflection from the Rays of the One Light
Peace Sangha
This week, I was inspired by the words from Isaiah 9:2
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death,
upon them hath the light shined.
Here is a poem I created called “We are Divine Children of the Infinite Healing Light”.
We are Divine Children of the Infinite Healing Light
In the Divine Presence
Forever His alone
I sat within His gaze
I awakened from inside His throne
My heart surrendered to his grace
A pathway into freedom
In service to souls lost from His Divine sight
For they had only turned away
From God’s abiding divine Light
The night of delusion
Redeemed by His Healing Light
A quiet assurance of God’s whispering love
I am with you in the night
The darkest valley opened
Becoming the redeeming Light
To make the spirit right
The Divine Healing Light that changed everything
To help us to remember again
Who we are in Him
We are Divine Children of the Infinite Healing Light
Aum Peace Amen
