New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 96 )
“I see you’re trying to be funny, Gideon,” I said. “I’ll always have time for God. It’s an honor to have Him visit. By the way, what do you mean—God visits the neighbors’ homes, too?”
“He visits all homes, but not all see Him. He speaks to all,but not all hear Him. He has visited your home so many times that it’s almost as if He lives there. He also lives in your neighbors’ homes, in homes in every city and village. He lives everywhere, John.”
“If He lives here, why, th…
New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 97 )
“Children meet God more often than adults do. Yours see Him everyday. But today, they won’t be able to see Him here. His main business is with you. Marla and I have made some other arrangements for Malika and Jonathan. They’ll both be spending the night at their friends’ home.”
“I’ll have to tell them about this.”
“The arrangements have already been made, so don’t worry, just go about your work as if nothing’s happening,” he said.
“As if nothing’s happening? Oh, sure…
New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 101 )
A few moments later, we were sitting with Marla on the porch. I was expecting God’s arrival any moment now. “Hello,John,” Marla greeted me.“This is a wonderful setting for a meeting with Him.”
“It certainly is,” I responded, “but where is He, Marla? This is supposed to be the day, isn’t it?”
“Yes, it’s today and the time is right.” Then, turning to Gideon, she said, “Why don’t you go ahead and explain, Gideon.”
“Relax, John,” said Gideon. “I have a few things to tell…
New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 102 )
She seemed to be so concerned, so caring, and her voice was so soothing, that I sat silently for a time looking at the woods. Slowly at first and then with total absorption, my entire body started to relax. An overwhelming feeling of peace came over me and I smiled at Gideon. I even winked at Marla.
“It’s fine,” I whispered. “I know where He is.”
“I think we’ve finally gotten through to him, Gideon,” Marla announced proudly.
“I think so,” was Gideon’s reply.
“Yes,…
New Age Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 1 )
The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit Kri, to do; all action is Karma. Technically, this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics, it sometimes means the effects, of which our past actions were the causes. But in Karma-Yoga we have simply to do with the word Karma as meaning work. The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy.Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happin…
New Age Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 2 )
We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere in a corner waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind, but the object of your study is always your own mind. The falling of an apple gave the suggestion to Newto…
New Age Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 8 )
According to the Sankhya philosophy,nature is composed of three forces called, in Sanskrit, Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. These as manifested in the physical world are what we may call equilibrium, activity, and inertness. Tamas is typified as darkness or inactivity; Rajas is activity, expressed as attraction or repulsion; and Sattva is the equilibrium of the two.
In every man there are these three forces. Sometimes Tamas prevails. We become lazy, we cannot move, we are inacti…
New Age Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 9 )
So it is with duty. The idea of duty varies much among different nations. In one country, if a man does not do certain things, people will say he has acted wrongly; while if he does those very things in another country, people will say that he did not act rightly — and yet we know that there must be some universal idea of duty. In the same way, one class of society thinks that certain things are among its duty, while another class thinks quite the opposite and would be horri…
New Age Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 14 )
The life of every individual,according to the Hindu scriptures, has its peculiar duties apart from what belongs in common to universal humanity. The Hindu begins life as a student; then he marries and becomes a householder; in old age he retires; and lastly he gives up the world and becomes a Sannyasin. To each of these stages of life certain duties are attached. No one of these stages is intrinsically superior to another. The life of the married man is quite as great as that…
New Age Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 15 )
Knowing that mother and father are the visible representatives of God, the householder, always and by all means, must please them. If the mother is pleased, and the father, God is pleased with the man. That child is really a good child who never speaks harsh words to his parents.
Before parents one must not utter jokes, must not show restlessness, must not show anger or temper. Before mother or father, a child must bow down low, and stand up in their presence, and must not…