Indulgence
Title: Religion As Indulgence Not Abstinence.
To corporeal sense there seems to be gain and loss but in Divine Unity Life is Perfect.
Upcoming Show 7-21-25! Religion As Indulgence Not Abstinence.
Indulgence is a radio talk show with the title Religion As Indulgence Not Abstenance.
Indulgence:
Hostess Lisa Winton and Swami Jayananda will talk about religion as the joining of the form with the Life and not a bunch of rules and regulations to get a reward. In this episode they will discuss the concept of Loving God as the secret to a successful existence because everything else misses the mark. Listen as they explore the idea of being born again of Spirit as the saving aspect of Truth. Welcome to the Voice of Yoga; we are talking consciousness! Join the Kriya Yoga Spiritual Advance to get the Light in your soul and Love Life.
Notes:
- Religion means to “relink” and here we are talking about the hero’s journey and not a mere sacrifice of pleasure to get an imaginary reward. Divide and conquer before uniting and standing. We separate from being individualized by the world mind and re-connect to Divine Mind– link the form to the Life. Train the mind to serve Spirit and train the body to serve the mind. Scripture is instruction to do something and here we say, initiate a process in development which parallels the metamorphosis of a butterfly. Today we will discuss the physics of Spirituality as we can’t gain without loss on a mental-material level. What is this relinking that needs to be done? The form must be relinked with the Life because the form is out of the father’s house, out of Divine consciousness. The body comes in with a pattern called Fear (False Experienced As Real).
- Building the mental landscape to support the Divine Idea. Start with the Divine Principle as the All in All the only substance everywhere always and It is Perfect. Let go of the good and evil belief in the mental-material illusion. Purge yourself of dependency on particles and waves and become established in the invisible, intangible Spirit. This is what is meant by “Love God,” “born of Spirit,” “Know the Truth,” “ask in my name.” Train the mind to serve Spirit and train the body to serve the mind.
- Union with the Divine is a real experience and has an evidence procedure. We call this developing the faculty which perceives the Divine creation or the birth of Christ in consciousness. What is the methodology to attaining the promises found in Scripture? What is the physics of Spirituality? How do I Know when I am One with the Creative Principle?
- Can’t serve two masters– mammon and Spirit; can’t love mortality and immortality– mental-material and Spirit. Let’s talk about “putting off the old man” or “health in matter must be given up for health in Spirit” as different ways of saying “born of Spirit.” The process begins with the separation we must purge the physical body of the original sin — we look for something visible and tangible for validation. To understand this we begin to overcome “animal magnetism” or the dynamics of addiction. The key to all addiction is substitution and the key to substitution is necessary for unnecessary– put God first or Love God. Not merely as an intellectual concept but as the internalized symbol in the physical form used for validation.
- The progressing from sense to Soul can be symbolized or found in– born of woman, born of man, and born of Spirit. The first birth into form we look for something visible and tangible for validation– food, mother, approval. The next phase born of man we graduate from instinct into intelligence and can now use what is invisible but tangible to satisfy the insatiable craving for validation– theories, concepts, beliefs etc.
- The milk of Christian Science or the dangers of bypassing steps in development on the journey from sense to Soul. When driving somewhere if you miss your turn to continue driving in the direction you are going may not get you closer to your destination. This is what happens when we meditate without understanding Yoga and the eight essential stages of Yoga. We put the cart before the horse, try and put the shingles on the roof before the roof etc. There is procedure to everything and the more we know the easier and more harmonious the outcomes.
