The Law of Karma and the Beginning of the Spiritual Path

Being born in a world of dualities, dealing with the karmic baggage of past actions, we want to affirm and experience that we are children of God. Karma, the energy invested in directions that take us away from God, needs to be resolved. Nayaswami Pranaba explains how to lift ourselves out of that karma.
He also touches on the gunas, the outward manifestations of deeper reality, and the importance of moving towards upliftment as opposed to just goodness.
Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk recorded at Ananda Village on April 30th 2023.
The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is "Perfection is Self-Transcendence"
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.
The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.
We begin this week with a passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5:
Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you; and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; . . .
If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even pagans so?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
This teaching is a continuation of last week’s lesson. To love all equally is possible only by seeing God everywhere - in others as well as in oneself. See whatever comes to you unasked for as a manifestation of His will. Be grateful for the pains you experience, for they are healing strokes of His love. Sometimes, healing is effected only by strong measures, but His love for you is manifested in the very attempt to heal.
Strive always to be impersonal, as though whatever happens to you were happening to someone else.
Persecution gives us the supreme opportunity to deny the thought, “This is happening to me,” and to affirm our inner freedom from the thought of ego. Don’t allow the negative perceptions of others to become your own self-definition.
Seek God: This is the true goal of life - though how difficult to cling to in the midst of hatred, spite, and persecution! The Bhagavad Gita tells us in the seventh Chapter:
Out of thousands, one strives for spiritual attainment; and out of many blessed true seekers, who strive assiduously to reach Me, one, perhaps, perceives Me as I am.
O truth seeker, be one, among all those thousands, who seeks the supreme goal!
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[@PrincyPrincy-jh2fk]

Great clipping. Great to hear about the protection of the Masters from negative forces for Master's love and protection is far beyond Mother's love and protection for her beloved child. May the Jeevanmukthi be blessed for sincere seekers as per Devine's plan. Om Guru🙏

[@ryanramkissoon1630]

First of all, the swallowing sounds on his mic are annoying. Second, nobody can bring about any transcendent experience by effort . A limited ego cannot produce an infinte result. They talk like they can do it alone. No. Only the divine can reveal the divine. Only through Grace.

[@ryanramkissoon1630]

All these talks is just him watching himself. Back turned to the Soul. It wont work