Tempting Hand

Upcoming Show 6-23-25! Tempting the Hand of the Lord.

Tempting Hand is a radio talk show with the title Tempting the Hand of the Lord.

Tempting Hand:

Hostess Lisa Winton and Swami Jayananda explore the concept of tempting the Divine Principle by requesting changes. In this episode, they delve into the wholeness and perfection of Spiritual Truth, which excludes any belief in contradictions. Listen as they reveal how human ignorance of Eternal Life conflicts with the Omnipresence of Absolute Goodness. Welcome to the Voice of Yoga—where we discuss consciousness! Join the Kriya Yoga Spiritual Advance to ignite the Light within your soul and deepen your trust in God.

Notes:

1. Up until a few years ago, I thought prayer was asking God and meditation was listening to God. Now I Know differently, God doesn’t talk to what isn’t there and there is no human experience. Prayer and Meditation understood correctly are communion with the Divine. In Divine consciousness there is no asking or listening, communion is resting in the knowledge of the Omnipresent Perfection of Being. This is why it says, “ask in my name” which translates to mean “likeness” Spirit is One and can’t be divided. In Truth, God can’t give you anything for a couple of reasons: 1. God isn’t withholding anything– all God is– is everywhere always. 2. God being Omnipresent there is no you or me; no persons, places, or things– Only One Perfect Divine Life everywhere always.
2. Bible:
   Deuteronomy 6:16 “Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.” Massah is where the Israelites demanded water from God.
   Matt 4:7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
   Luke 4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
3. What is temptation? Lure, enticement, attraction, offer, invitation, persuasion, appeal, desire, coaxing, but how can we tempt the Lord? We do it every time we ask for something. Why do we ask? Because we don’t Know the Truth. What Truth? Life is Perfect– God is running a Perfect universe which means nothing is add nor taken away.
4. In a work she wrote titled Christian Healing, Mary Baker Eddy wrote on page 2. “But why should the world hate Jesus, the loved of the Father, the loved of Love? It was that his spirituality rebuked their carnality, and gave this proof of Christianity that religions had not given. Again, they knew it was not in the power of eloquence of a dead rite to cast out error and heal the sick.”
5. The outer world of sense and the inner world of Spirit become One when Divine Truth is the only consciousness. Consciousness is experience and thinking about is not the same as being conscious of– here lies the difference between the unreal and the Real. Mortal thought is unreal and Spiritual Idea is Real. We see with the material senses what isn’t real– isn’t there and we are blind to what is there– the Divine creation.
6. To open the channel of communication with the Divine we must be born of Spirit. This is a process in human development which must be initiated and unfolds in three phases. Until we can stop thinking and start Knowing the Truth. Remember; how we think is what we become and there are three modes of mortal thought along with Divine Mind. Also, keep in mind– like attracts like. Keep using the testimony of the corporeal senses to check on what you are conscious of and look for the coincidence between the human and the Divine.
7. To demonstrate Divine Law with Scientific certainty we must graduate from belief to faith to understanding of the Divine Principle.
8. To substantiate this point we have: A post Swami made on Facebook 6-7-25– an answer to a question concerning the dark night of the soul.
   Thanks for posting. Earlier times had points of passage with rites of passage which was called Initiation. There is a process in development for humans which parallels the metamorphosis of a butterfly. Butterflies aren’t born butterflies but caterpillars and caterpillars go into a chrysalis before they emerge as the butterfly. Humans have the same potential but we can remain in the larvae state indefinitely– which is where we are collectively, today. The bible refers to the stages in human development as born of woman, born of man, and born of Spirit. Born of woman is the original state of consciousness– fear based motivation, instinct and appetite, animal magnetism. Son of man or born of man is the chrysalis phase for the human where they graduate from instinct and fear to intelligence or reason. Finally born of Spirit or Son of God is where the human has graduated from sense to Soul and Knows the Truth which brings freedom from the belief in mortality. The dark night of the soul is often symbolized by the stage in development where son of man becomes Son of God. Stay in the Spirit of Truth🙏 tempting hand.
   Christian Healing by Mary Baker Eddy, page 14. “The preparation for a metaphysical practitioner is the most arduous task I ever performed. You must first mentally educate and develop the spiritual sense or perceptive faculty by which one learns the metaphysical treatment of disease; you must teach them how to learn, together with what they learn. I waited many years for a student to reach the ability to teach; it included more than they understood.
   Metaphysical or divine Science reveals the Principle and method of perfection,– how to attain a mind in harmony with God, in sympathy with all that is right and opposed to all that is wrong, and a body governed by this mind.”