A Self-realized or God-realized person, having attained immortality, leaves behind the mortal law of karma

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A Self-realized or God-realized person, having attained immortality, leaves

behind the mortal law of karma

 

" I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just:

because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me " (Jesus

Christ - John 5:30).

 

(p.365) Neither God nor Jesus as the Christ Intelligence is a despotic

disciplinarian passing judgment on the actions of man. The Christ Intelligence

in all matter never punishes anybody; instead, according to the self-created

vibrations of good or evil present in man, the cosmic law in the Christ

Intelligence, reflecting the divine will, or wisdom, of the Father,

automatically pronounces a judgment of a good or evil effect equal to its cause.

This judgment is just, based on the equity of the law of cause and effect.[1]

 

The divine law of harmony metes out just conditions for all persons. When anyone

acts against this law, he hurts himself. For example, the human flesh in the

hand is sensitive--if it is dipped in cool water it receives a soothing effect.

If it is plunged in fire, it burns. The fire does not willingly burn an

individual, nor does the cool water produce from choice the coolness in anyone's

hand. The one who touches the fire or dips his hand in the water is solely

responsible for the ensuing effect.

 

The karmic law is just, because its judgment is never an eternal imposition. A

few evil actions cannot condemn a soul made in the image of God to suffer

perpetually. A few good actions could not qualify a soul to enjoy everlasting

happiness. (p.366) The amount of good and evil in man merely brings him nearer

to God or sends him farther away from God. Man is thus inherently law-bound to

be happy when he is harmonious with God and Christ Consciousness. And he is

equally law-bound to suffer when he acts against the harmony of God. But no

matter how much sin man has acquired, though he be the greatest of sinners,

sinning for many incarnations, still he cannot be judged and damned forever. A

finite cause cannot have an infinite effect. Nor should a good man rest on the

laurels of past good actions; they must be dutifully and continually compounded.

 

That is why Jesus clearly says, " I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I

judge. " That is, the Christ Intelligence acts according to the vibrations of the

cosmic law of God that governs our lives.

 

The words of Jesus are a strong exhortation to put one's life in order, in

accord with the cosmic law, the divine will of God, lest by wrong living one

create a physical and mental hell of suffering even greater than the imaginary

judgment of an after-death hellfire. Far better that by good living man create

within himself the sweetness of a portable heaven.

 

Only when man attains the final good, or God, does he escape the inescapable

judgment of the mortal law of action into the immortal Divine Transcendence.

 

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

You) Volume 1, Discourse 21, pg. 365-366

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] Cf. John 12:48-50: " He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one

that judges him: the word [vibrations surrounding us/paramchaitanya] that I have

spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of

myself; but the Father who sent me, He gave me a commandment, what I should say,

and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting:

whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father says to me, so I speak. "