Picture: Jesus in blissful meditation
The mind directs our life-energy, emotions and moods; change the mind and all else will follow. My football coach of old taught us a move called a head-shuck. When the opposing player came right at you, the forearm was to be applied to the side of his head with some force–moving his head to one side or the other. Coach confidently told us that wherever the head went–the rest of the body would follow! I never saw that principle proved wrong.
So with your mind; wherever it goes, the rest of you will follow. Change your thoughts, change your life. The complication comes in that most people’s minds are “a house divided.” That is, the mind becomes fractured and can actually oppose itself. When president Harry Truman consulted economists about what policies he should institute, he heard, “Well, on the one hand we can do this, but on the other hand we could do that. Finally, the exasperated president exclaimed, “What I would give for a one-handed economist!” There are two sides to every thought, that is its nature.
The only way to the deeper truth of any subject is through refined intuition. Certainly the reasoning mind plays an important role in gathering information and performing analysis, but that part of the brain can never ascertain absolute higher meaning. For that, truth is known in deeper states of meditation, which opens a doorway to greater reality.
Intuition of this sort is not simply a mental flash or idea. It is an experience that uplifts and transforms you. The fact that there are those who claim divine inspiration and are clearly deluded only demonstrates that we must be very good spiritual scientist, not sloppy or inauthentic. The number of times it has been predicted that the world was to have been destroyed or civilization collapse on a particular day and time, then nothing occurs at the appointed moment has baffled more than one observer as to how such charlatans get a hearing at all. The fact is, fear sells, as the news reporters demonstrate daily.
Many times revelations from God are not at all dramatic in nature, but elucidate a simple truth that high drama cannot compete with. Reflect on the time when Jesus talked about the lillies of the field, that Solomon, in all of his glory, was not arrayed as one of these. What was Jesus experience when he looked at a small lilly that made him talk like this? What a tremendous vision he must have had that speaks to us still, thousands of years later.
Many times I have a revelation that defies speech. I could say the words, but you would not comprehend the enlightenment that is behind them. Only a direct revelation would accomplish the shared realization. While we benefit from reading the words of the spiritually great, seeing the words alone cannot lift us into the high state from which those words were uttered.
I remember listening to Mother talk, and thinking to myself, “I want to be in the same state of consciousness in hearing those words as Mother is when she is speaking them. In truth, this is why Mother was saying those words in the first place, to lift me into the bliss, wisdom and light she was enjoying.
Come, rise up into the consciousness of Krishna, Christ, Yogananda, Mother; know the same state of awareness they know, be infused with the same power to bring light and healing to one and to all, immerse yourself into the bliss they too enjoyed. It is the reason they taught at all, so that you might be as they are in God. Come, recieve your innate divinity and be one with your heavenly Father and divine Mother.