The God who Created this universe and all that is.
I am not "inviting him in". He is already there.
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The God who Created this universe and all that is.
I am not "inviting him in". He is already there.
"But as many who received Him (Christ)"............you must receive Him by an act of faith. You are not Him. Why have you left Jesus, Libby, exchanging Him for pantheistic gobbledegook? This stuff you're posting comes right out of the sixties communes!
Actually, "this stuff" is many centuries older than even Christianity.
In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,
Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,
My soul constantly hums, unheard by any;
God, God, God!
PY
"The joy of God is boundless, unceasing, all the time new. Body, mind, nothing can disturb you when you are in that consciousness — such is the grace and glory of the Lord. And He will explain to you whatever you haven’t been able to understand; everything you want to know."
PY
"As the mind and the feeling are directed inward, you begin to feel God’s joy. The pleasures of the senses do not last; but the joy of God is everlasting."
PY
Bologna. In any case, when Yogananda or any of the other "gurus" rise from the dead, then you can put your faith in them. As of now, Jesus Christ, alone has overcome death. And, unless we "live in Him," death has dominion over us - which is why we must be born-again.
I don't put my "faith" in Yogananda, nor would he want me to. My faith is in God.
In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,
Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,
My soul constantly hums, unheard by any;
God, God, God!
PY
God has not to be earned. He has only to be sought. Meditation is the only way. Beliefs, reading books — these cannot give you realization. ... Meditation brings proof of the existence of God. ... The more you meditate the more you will feel the endless joy of God.
PY
“Blessed are the peacemakers,” Jesus said in his Sermon on the Mount, “for they shall be called the children of God.” Paramahansaji in his commentary on this verse in The Second Coming of Christ gives us a greater understanding of what these words mean: “They are the real peacemakers who generate peace from their devotional practice of daily meditation. Peace is the first manifestation of God’s response in meditation. Those who know God as Peace in the inner temple of silence, and who worship that Peace-God therein, are by this relationship of divine communion His true children.” - Brother Achalananda, V.P. SRF
my basic idea that i talk about on the 1st page of this topic is that the Bible has a type of commonidea to it about man's ability to get along with others.......we can't.
We cant get along with each other.....
Cant in the future
Cant now.
Could not in the past.
Now, the more liberal of us might try to say that it was just a few bad men that caused all the trouble in our history, and that if we just had a bunch of "good men" around to run things better, then we would not see all this fighting.
But I totally disagree with that idea.
The bible teaches us that not only will men always disagree with each other, regardless of how closely they might hold to their understandings on things like "who is god", and "What is right and wrong"
In fact....the Bible gives us a few stories of when all the world was just down to two people, or just one single family, and even then you see the same type of trouble and anger, and hate , and suffering by the hand of another as we have seen in every other generation in history.