The Highest Consolation

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A PRAYER

 

O Adorable Spiritual Presence! We bow in reverence and devotion

before You and accept at Thy hands Thy most graciously given gift of

this day. May we be enabled to live, think and act during the course

of this precious day in a way that sows the seeds of a golden

harvest of peace, contentment and satisfaction in the future, in the

days to come, in this very earth life. Guide us with Thy wisdom

teachings, so that in this day we may move with the understanding

that the primary purpose of our having been sent here is to attain

our highest good. It is to achieve our supreme welfare, transcending

all limitations, vexations, all finite trammels that hold us bound.

 

May we have the right understanding that our supreme welfare, our

greatest good, does not constitute something that contradicts the

supreme welfare and the highest good of others. May we realise that

it is in working for the good of all beings that we verily attain

our highest good. It is verily in contributing to the happiness of

Your creation that we ourselves go beyond creation and enter into

You.

 

In this objective field of living our life, may our life become a

noble process of perennial good unto the least of Thy creatures,

unto all, for that is the way, the very art and science of attaining

You, Who are the highest good. And it is so, precisely because You

are the indwelling principle in all beings, and therefore all good

that is done to Thy creation verily constitutes good that is done to

You. Thus it becomes a spiritual process of adoring You, worshipping

You.

 

Give us also the insight that we may know that no experiences come

to us because others inflict them upon us, others do something good

or bad to us. But all experiences, pleasant or unpelasant, come to

us because we have worked for them. They come to us through the

operation of a just Law. And within the justice of this Law lies

concealed infinite love, infinite godness which is of Thy nature,

for in the operation of this Law lies the seeds of our highest good.

No experience is meaningless, no experience is purposeless and no

experience is futile.

 

" Through them all I am helped. Through them all I am given insight

into this creation, this universe of Yours. I am given insight into

myself. Through them all I progress in wisdom, through them all I

stand to benefit. I stand to gain if only I shall look at

experiences with a perceiving eye, with a perceiving vision. Thus

let me be given the insight that the operation of this Law is verily

the operation of the functioning of Thy infinite love, infinite

goodness, through infinite justice, divine justice. "

 

That Law is our greatest good. It is constantly seeking to awaken

us, guide us, to make us aware of many things which we would

otherwise be blind to. Thus it is a light upon theinner path as well

as the outer path. May we be fortunate enough to recognise this and

eagerly seek grow through all experiences. Thus may our life be

lived in understanding. May our life be lived with knowlede. May our

life be lived with the recognition of Your goodness and love in all

experiences You send to us.

 

.... Swami Chidananda