Darkness of ignorance dispelled by light of Christ-wisdom

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Darkness of ignorance dispelled by light of Christ-wisdom

 

....Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and

saying, " The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and

believe in the gospel. " (Mark 1:14-15)

 

(p.375) Jesus knew about the declaration of the prophet Isaiah, and that he had

been thus divinely guided to follow his foretold dispensation into Galilee to

preach the gospel. [1] As prophesied by Isaiah, the people who abode in the

darkness of ignorance in that land beheld in the advent of Jesus the

all-revealing light of Christ-wisdom. Just as aeons of darkness lodged in a

mountain cave are dislodged by a single lighted match, so the vibrations of a

people's gathered ignorance of ages can be dispelled by a saint who bears the

illuminating torch of God's wisdom.

 

Among those persons who sit in the darkness of ignorance, many love it and do

not wish to be displaced from its complacent familiarity. But others there are

who become conscious of the stolid gloom of unknowing and earnestly long for

freedom from its torpidity. Through the gathering of knowledge and arousal of

subconscious memories in the soul, seekers of wisdom receive glimpses of their

lost experience of God's light and increasingly abhor their fallen state. So, in

Galilee, those people who realized their abject darkness, those who were

inwardly clamoring for light, were receptive to the wisdom vibrations of Jesus.

 

Lord Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita, speaks of this earth as the aggregate of

delusive mysteries and as the ocean of affliction. [2] Isaiah speaks of worldly

people as sitting " in the region and shadow of death, " the constantly changing

temporal events of this earth. (p.376) For people steeped in spiritual

ignorance, life is a series of mysterious changes; nothing remains the same or

retains any permanency. The influence of this cosmic dream is such that persons

behold with frenetic attachment life and shadowy death and all concomitant

dualities; but when they awaken in wisdom, they behold all seeming

contradictions harmonized in the Oneness of God's Light. The very presence of

Jesus and his luminous wisdom relieved many of their delusive inner gloom.

 

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

You) Volume 1, Discourse 21, pg. 375-376

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Notes:

 

[1] Later, when preaching in the synagogue at Nazareth, Jesus read aloud from

the Book of Isaiah other prophecies that were fulfilled in the unfolding of his

divine dispensation: " And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and

as was his custom, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to

read. And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And he opened the

book, and found the place where it was written,

" The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the

gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and

recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are downtrodden, to

proclaim the favorable year of the Lord. "

And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and

the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him. And he began to say to

them, " Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. " (Luke 4:16-21)

 

[2] See commentaries on Bhagavad Gita XII:6-7 and XIII:5-6 in 'God Talks With

Arjuna'.