The yearning for God-realization

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The yearning for God-realization

 

" Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted " (Matthew 5:4).

 

(p.435) The pangs of sorrow suffered by the ordinary person arise from mourning

the loss of human love or material possessions, or the nonfulfillment of earthly

hopes. Jesus was not extolling this negative state of mind, which eclipses

psychological happiness and is utterly detrimental to the retention of spiritual

bliss obtained by arduous efforts in meditation. He was speaking of that divine

melancholy resulting from the awakening consciousness of separation from God,

which creates in the soul an insatiable yearning to be reunited with the Eternal

Beloved. (p.436) Those who really mourn for God, who wail incessantly for Him

with ever-increasing zeal in meditation, shall find comfort in the revelation of

Wisdom-Bliss sent to them by God.[1]

 

The spiritually negligent children of God endure life's painful traumas with

resentful, defeatist resignation instead of effectively soliciting Divine Aid.

It is the adorably naughty baby, crying continuously for spiritual knowledge,

who at last attracts the response of the Divine Mother. To Her persistent child,

the Merciful Mother comes with Her solace of wisdom and love, revealed through

intuition or by a glimpse of Her own Presence. No surrogate consolation can

assuage instantaneously the bereavement of unnumbered incarnations.

 

Those whose spiritual mourning is appeased by material fulfillments will find

themselves grieving again when those fragile securities are snatched away by the

exigencies of life or by death. But those who weep for Truth and God, refusing

to be quieted by any lesser offering, will be forever comforted in the arms of

Blissful Divinity.

 

" Blessed are you who cry for God-realization now, for by that single-minded

yearning you shall attain. With the entertainment of ever new joy found in

divine communion, you shall laugh and rejoice throughout eternity! "

 

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

You) Volume 1, Discourse 26, pg. 435-436

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] " But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my

name, [s/]he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your

remembrance.... " (John 14:26).