My Meat Is to Do the Will of Him That Sent Me - Part 1

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" My Meat Is to Do the Will of Him That Sent Me " - Part 1

(The Woman of Samaria, Part III, Conclusion)

 

(p.313) " Cheerful cooperation with God's will is the secret of a dynamic

existence, charging body and mind with divine life....That is why Jesus wished

to show the disciples that the consciousness of man should not be predominantly

on a material diet, but on the nourishment of divine wisdom. "

 

(p.315) The woman said unto him, " I know that Messiah cometh, which is called

Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. " Jesus saith unto her, " I

that speak unto thee am he. " And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled

that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, " What seekest thou? " or, " Why

talkest thou with her? " The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into

the city, and saith to the men, " Come, see a man, which told me all things that

ever I did: is not this the Christ? " Then they went out of the city, and came

unto him (John 4:25-30).

 

Having unconsciously received the telepathic message of the presence of God and

Christ Consciousness emanating from Jesus as to his spiritual identity, the

woman of Samaria said: " I know that the Messiah cometh. " Diffidently, she was

seeking some response from Jesus in confirmation of her inner feeling that he

indeed might be the long-awaited Messiah.

 

Great saints, free of even the subtlest wish for celebrity, often keep their

godliness intentionally hidden most of the time, revealing their eminence only

as prompted by the Divine Will to accomplish some specific purpose related to

their mission. (p.316) Their full spiritual stature may not be recognized even

by those mixing intimately with them. God wanted to declare the glory of Jesus

through the woman of Samaria, who, having been spiritually healed by him of her

entrenched immoral tendencies, was to serve as a " test case " demonstrating to

others the miracle of soul healing. To remove the ignorance that eclipses man's

divine nature is the most important of all forms of healing; that is the

blessing Jesus would impart to all who attuned themselves with the Christ in

him.

 

Jesus reinforced the glimmer of understanding in the woman by declaring the

truth about himself. His purpose was to deepen her receptivity to the

all-healing Christ Consciousness in him. Jesus saw her alone because,

considerate as he was, he wanted to avoid causing embarrassment to the woman by

revealing before his other disciples his prophetic knowledge of her moral

indiscretions.

 

God has given to each human being the privacy of thought in which to fight his

inner battles in secret instead of before others' curiosity and prying,

prompting their sarcasm and condemnation. If there were not invisible walls

between our mental processes and those of others, we would have no peace; and we

would lose, to a large degree, our independence of thought and determination and

thus the right to receive our own knocks and score our own victories.

 

One may get inklings of the thoughts of others from the expressions of their

faces and eyes. This makes the mystery of life all the more challenging and

interesting; for many times their thoughts are read correctly. Yet people

frequently jump to conclusions about the feelings and motives of others and make

horrible blunders. One's mistakes in such psychological reading should teach a

prudent caution and prevent overconfidence in the sufficiency of one's

" intuitions " ; that misguided surety often arises prematurely from one or two

correct hunches about the thoughts of others.

 

Even a master does not intrude with his intuitive perception into the mind of

another if his help is unwelcome. He leaves the touch-me-not temperament to its

own devices of conscience and karma. But Jesus found no such exclusion from the

consciousness of his Samaritan disciple.

 

The disciples traveling with Jesus, lacking his ability to discern the inner

quality of souls, were surprised to see him flouting convention by his warm

demeanor toward a common woman of Samaria. Yet the pure vibrations of their

newfound Master quelled any expression of criticism. That is why nobody asked:

" Why talkest thou with her? " (p.317) Perhaps to the modern mind of a world

society this instance seems unworthy of remark, but to those cultures of the

past, persisting in some closed regions even today, such rigid social structure

was considered of great consequence, the material and psychological backbone of

both nations and provinces. " Caste, " in whatever form, is a divisive evil that

deeply embeds itself in the ego of man; but it cedes its power to the wisdom and

soul magnanimity of one such as Christ.

 

The woman of Samaria was so overwhelmed by the power of her meeting with Jesus

that, returning to the city in a state of divine joy, she spoke freely of her

past moral blemishes and of the wonderful soul-healing she had received from

Jesus, exhorting the townspeople to come with her to meet him. She thus became

the first among the general populace to act as a public messenger to declare

Jesus the Christ.

 

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

You) Volume 1, Discourse 19, pg. 313; 315-317

Paramahansa Yogananda

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