God's Love Gave to the World His Only Begotten Son - Part 6

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God's Love Gave to the World His Only Begotten Son - Part 6

(Dialogue With Nicodemus, Part III (Conclusion))

 

" And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved

darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that

doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should

be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be

made manifest, that they are wrought in God " (Jesus Christ - John 3:19-21)

 

The inner voice that

leads one to follow

truth

 

(p.283) " But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made

manifest, that they are wrought in God. " Truth is a very slippery term; Christ

himself refused to define it when interrogated by Pilate. [1] Absolute standards

cannot always be applied in this relative world. To adhere to truth in everyday

living, man must be guided by intuitive wisdom; that alone illumines unerringly

what is right and virtuous in any circumstance. The voice of conscience is the

voice of God. Everyone has it, but not everyone listens to it. Those who have a

trained sensitivity can detect wrong by the inner disturbance of uneasiness it

engenders. Virtue is known by the vibration of harmony it creates within. Always

the light of God is there, guiding through discriminative wisdom and through

calm feeling. If one does not disturb feeling by emotion, or discriminative

intelligence by rationalized wrong behavior, he will be aided by that inner

voice. To follow the light of inner wisdom-guidance is the way to true

happiness, the way to be always of God, the way to disengage oneself from the

coercive influence of bad habits that usurp man's decision-making power.

 

Enslaved by bad habits, so many people become psychological antiques--never

changing, year after year committing the same faults, deteriorating in their

fixations. (p.284) But the divine seeker, trying every day to change something

that is not good in his nature, gradually transcends his old habit-bound

material ways. His deeds and his very life are re-created, " wrought in God " ; he

is in truth born anew. Adhering to the good habit of daily scientific

meditation, he sees and is baptized in the light of Christ-wisdom, the divine

energy of the Holy Ghost, which actually erases the electrical pathways in the

brain formed by bad habits of thought and action. His spiritual eye of intuitive

perception is opened, bestowing not only unerring guidance on the path of life,

but the vision of and entry into God's heavenly kingdom--and ultimately, oneness

with His omnipresent consciousness.

 

The Second Coming of Christ (The Resurrection of the Christ Within

You) Volume 1, Discourse 15, pg. 283-284

Paramahansa Yogananda

Printed in the United States of America 1434-J881

ISBN-13:978-0-87612-557-1

ISBN-10:0-87612-557-7

 

Notes:

 

[1] John 18:38.