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Live for Joy
Excerpts from Revelations of Christ: Proclaimed by Paramhansa Yogananda, Presented by Swami Kriyananda.
God doesn’t always give you what you want, but if you live sincerely for Him, you will find that God gives you something much better than you ever imagined.
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Yogananda used to say: “Here is a line. On one side of it is God; on the other side, Satan. Neither can influence you until you yourself turn toward the one or the other.”
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One who deeply wants to receive God’s love must first be purified of every selfish desire—indeed, of every self-definition except that of belonging utterly, completely, and forever to God alone.
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God certainly wants us to enjoy His creation. He doesn’t want us, however, to identify ourselves, by either attraction or repulsion, with any part of it. All emotional reactions, whether positive or negative, must be neutralized by offering them up to inner soul freedom in God. Even evil—which must be strictly avoided for the spiritual disease it is—should be rejected in principle only, not hated.
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The popular Christian saying expresses a valid, important, and eternal truth: “If you raise one hand to God, He will lower two hands to lift you up.” God Himself it is who inspires you to reach toward Him with ever-increasing love.
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