The Power of Love is Omnipresent

Hostess Lisa Winton and Swami Jayananda will talk about absolute Divine Love as the substance of Spiritual reality and how it differs from the false human concept of the same word. Listen as they speak of the Divine Principle as the only self-existent Power everywhere always. In this show they will explore the effects of Spiritual awareness on the mental/material appearances as the revealing of the Divine creation. 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 unconditionally.

Episode Transcript

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Voice of Yoga!
Welcome to the Institute for Personal Development, Kriya Yoga
Ashram, where total consciousness is the new frontier.
Kriya Yoga is union of the individual with the Divine.

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Join us as we explore the practices to initiate this process.
Good morning, welcome to the Voice of Yoga. Let's talk
consciousness. I am your hostess, Lisa Winton, and with me is Kenny
Toy, also known as Swami Jayananda, founder of the Institute for
Personal Development, located here in Hampton, New Hampshire. Good

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morning, Swami. Thank you for being here today. How are you?
Good morning. I'm doing pretty good today.
How about you? Well, I'm doing great today, too. Thanks for asking.
And we'd like to thank you all for tuning in. Today on the Voice of
Yoga, we will talk about absolute Divine Love as the substance of
Spiritual reality and how it differs from the false human concept

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of the same word. Listen as we speak of the Divine Principle as the
only Self-existent power everywhere, always. In this show, we will
explore the effects of Spiritual awareness on the mental material
appearances as the revealing of the Divine creation. Welcome to the
Voice of Yoga. We are talking consciousness.

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Join the Kriya Yoga Spiritual Advance to get the light in your soul
and love unconditionally. Swami, I see that title of today's show
is "The Power of Love is Omnipresent."
A lot of words there. Can you get us started?
Yeah, love is one of those all-encamping words that means different

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things to everybody using it. Here we're talking about Divine Love,
which is absolute unconditional goodness everywhere always.
Initially, it seems like a stretch to think this good and evil
world isn't real when all the signals are reading true in the

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corporeal sense testimony. As we're told
by the medical community, x-rays don't lie.
And yet Jesus said, "Your father is a liar and a murderer from the
beginning." What does he mean? When you come to the place where you

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are willing to challenge the collective consensus and medical
beliefs, then the issue is to choose a
reliable system, which is Scientific.
And a key question here,
how can what is invisible and intangible to material sense be the

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only true reality? Now for me, Christian Science, as taught by Mary
Baker Eddy, is possibly the only system which puts healing on the
table, making it the most scientific.
Resting on the knowledge, Spirit is a demonstrable Principle and

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testifies with deeds, not words. This takes us beyond belief and
when done according to plan, beyond the belief in two powers, which
is a hypnotic state of a good and evil world of energy into the

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kingdom of heaven on earth. To gain the scientific perspective of
Divine Love, let's look at Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
We could start with page 2:18-31.
And I'll read that. "The mere habit of pleading with the divine

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mind as one pleads with a human being perpetuates the belief in God
as humanly circumscribed, an era which impedes spiritual growth.
God is love. Can we ask him to be more? God is intelligence. Can we
inform the infinite mind of anything he does not already
comprehend? Do we expect to change perfection? Shall we plead for

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more at the open fount which is pouring forth more than we accept?
The unspoken desire does bring us nearer the source of all
existence and blessedness. Asking God to be God is a vain
repetition." End of the quote. Swami, she's got a lot of good
questions there. What are your thoughts?

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Eventually, it starts to dawn on us. We can't ask God to give us
anything. In fact, God can't give us anything because God isn't
withholding anything. God is busy running a perfect universe. When
we have this different perspective and we are accepting what is

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appearing in our five corporeal senses as what is real, then we're
in the trap. And the first thing you want to realize about this
trap is trying, striving, struggling, seeking, planning, asking,
only exacerbates the problem. We have to realize what we're

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experiencing is our thought about what's here. So the key is to
stop creating the problem, stop creating the veil by believing the
testimony of the corporeal senses, and then make the mind aware for
the presence of the Divine creation, everywhere always.

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In that Silence and Stillness, watch, wait, listen, and let Divine
mind take over the scientific government of your thinking. And by
you being a faithful witness to the Divine creation with your
belief in the perfection of being, then you will start to see how

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that will affect the external picture.
Swami, is it possible for us as humans to
actually show love externally, out picture that?
Well, to answer your question, not as a human. Like we said in the
opening, love is the substance of Spiritual reality. And then what

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we want to explain is how it differs from the false human concept
of the same word. The mortal mind works in contrast. It's a
splitter. It works in duality. Everything is in half, basically.
And Spirit is whole. It's complete. So, one is what we would call

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rational, and the other one is absolute. The mortal mind can't
bring forth the absolute Divine image, but it works with its
concept about it. That's why the command in the Bible is repent,
which means think differently. It's the turning away from the

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operations of the corporeal sense input, and now making that same
mind aware for the Divine idea, which is right here, right now,
everywhere, functioning. But it doesn't report in the mind we're
using to get us through this lifetime. So, we have to develop the

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faculty that will receive the
Divine idea, which was called the Christ.
We have a passage here from Ames Nowell, the Decalogue, and I'll read
it. "Love, he that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love."
From 1 John 4:8. "The love which is Divine has no object external

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to itself to love, for there is nothing beside love. Hence,
infinite love loves subjectively within itself. It does not say, I
love you, or I love this, or I love that. Love just loves saying, I
love." Consequently, this act of loving by love is completely

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impersonal. Divine love expects no reward for its expression of
love. Neither does it look for recognition by anything or anybody
outside of itself. For God, love is all. It just loves, and loves,
and loves eternally. Thereby it manifests its glorious and lovely
nature. Knowing not but itself, love is fearless. For God, infinite

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good is love and is all. The omnipresence of God, good, precludes
the existence of evil. Therefore, there is no evil power that can
threaten eternal and destructible life. The beloved disciple John
recognized the harmonious and fearless nature of Spiritual Being
when he wrote from 1 John 4:18, "There is no fear in love, but

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perfect love casteth out fear." End of the verse. Indeed, the
eminent or subjective realization of perfect loving by and as
perfect love is a blessed and joyous experience. It heals. End of
this passage. Swami there's a lot of really
great information in here. What are your thoughts?
Yeah, to make a clear distinction between the idea of human love,

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which oftentimes is really filled with this contamination of
expectation. We don't mind giving out as long as we have this
expectation for a return on our effort. And when those expectations
aren't met, then of course we're disappointed. The sad thing about

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this is oftentimes we even measure the strength of what we call our
love by the amount we suffer from it. And so it really does get
convoluted and distorted when we try and understand a infinite
Principle in a finite concept. But this unconditional giving, not

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because you are managing your expectations,
but because you Know the Truth, this idea of humility, this
meekness that comes to consciousness when one understands there is
only One Life, One Being, everywhere always looking at Itself as

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Itself, of Itself, and to Itself. And you move away from the
dualistic picture. We are all enamored with, hypnotized by it. And
we can begin by learning how to turn away
from the testimony of the corporeal senses.

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Because the Divine creation is before thought and it is above
corporeal sense. By learning how to control how we think, by making
the mind aware for the presence of the Divine creation, until we
have this turning in consciousness, this birth of Christ in

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consciousness. And where we now no longer are attracted to things
visible and tangible or invisible but tangible. But we begin to
love God is the term in the Bible. We are now attracted to that
which is invisible and intangible.

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And we're working with a belief that it is the
most important thing available to this experience.
And we start with a belief. And when your belief graduates to
faith, you start to see the effects it has on the appearances. This
is where the concept of healing comes into place, living above

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corporeal sense and revealing the Truth of the power of the Divine
creation. Because wherever this omnipresent Love is, is the power
of the Divine. And we know that it's absolute goodness.
And we're no longer accepting this good

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and evil concept that we're calling life.
So Swami when you're talking about life, we know there's life with a
capital L and life with a lowercase L. Like what Ames Noel said in
the Decalogue, he used the phrase eternal indestructible life with
a capital L. Can we talk more about life?

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Yeah, I know it's hard to accept, but
the only thing that is certain is life.
And like you say, what is life? The Bible says, "Ye are dead and
your life is hid with Christ in God." I find it helpful to open
things up using the seven words Mary Baker Eddy uses for God and

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associate them with the concept of
chakra in Yoga and church in Revelation.
Finding that place in consciousness where human thought meets the
Divine idea. Like Mary Baker Eddy said, mortal mind doesn't at once

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catch the higher meaning. So we have to educate the mortal mind up
to Spiritual apprehension. But if you don't have the mental
landscape that will support the Divine idea, it makes it even that
much harder to walk reason through this open door of revelation.

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So in Kriya Yoga we use our path of knowledge to build this mental
landscape, to build the stairway to heaven by knowing ourselves in
the way we are created and not just knowing ourselves in the way
that we do, left to our own devices by believing in the false

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concept, the mortal sense of life.
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Welcome back. For those who are just joining us, you're listening
to The Voice of Yoga and we are Talking Consciousness. Swami, you
had mentioned earlier about the seven words that Mary Baker Eddy
uses for God. Can you review those
with us and then how do you use them?
Yeah, I use the diagram we use for the logo, Institute for Personal

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Development, which is what we call the body of Christ, where you're
using this larger sense of self, using the seven personal planets
and the twelve signs of the zodiac to give you an astral image for
what we will call the Spirit body. Mary Baker Eddy uses seven words

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for God, which you can interchange these with in Yoga they call
chakras. In Revelation they call it churches.
However you want to symbolize this is fine. The idea is white light
passes through the prism and it breaks off into seven colors. In a

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very similar way, the pure consciousness of Spirit passes through
the lens of the mind and it breaks off
into these seven different departments.
And the words Mary Baker Eddy uses are Principle, Soul, Life, Love,
Mind, Truth and Spirit. In Kriya Yoga those chakras would be

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Muladhara, Svadhisthana, Manipuraka, Anahata, Vishuddha, Ajna and
then Sahasrara. However you represent them doesn't matter. The idea
here is, you have a mental landscape that will support the Divine
idea. The many can return to the One.

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Divine Egoism is the term that comes to mind when I think of Love
and the seven chakras or churches or words Mary Baker Eddy uses for
God. Seven thought windows where human thought meets Divine idea.
The coincidence between the human and the Divine. The unified state

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where the seven colors of the spectrum return to white light or the
pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. We
begin to comprehend the idea of One Life.
One Being everywhere always by transcending the limits of the
mortal mind, a separate self and

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making the eye single, no longer double.
Beholding the unified Spirit and no longer stopping at the belief
in the many, the testimony of the corporeal senses which sees
persons, places and things. This is what is meant by the Truth.

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One being looking at Itself as Itself, of Itself and to Itself and
it is absolute Love without opposite and we rest.
Swami to expand upon the power of love as omnipresence. We
have a passage here from Herb Fitch and again this is from

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Revelation of St. John, class 3A and I'll read it. And now the word
is coming from John to reveal divinity on earth where you stand as
your being. Every word, deed, thought or act which denies your
divinity is a form of adultery, an adulteration of the word, an

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infidelity to the Christ of your being, a denial of yourself and it
is the way of the world. The other way, the acceptance in your
consciousness opens you up to the one infinite consciousness of the
Father, the infinite law, the perfection of being and you find the
tree of life is joined. You are one in Christ which is one in the

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Father and love flows. Love flows through the tree of life which is
now your being and the fruits of love appear on the vine. The pains
diminish, the lacks and the limitations dissolve. All the
processes of change which had shown a person getting older,
weaker, further away from life itself are reversed. The very sap of

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divinity flows through every fiber of your being. Of your own self
you need do nothing. Gone is the struggle and the strife, gone is
the striving and the seeking. The leaf is fed by the life of the
tree. Your being is fed by the life of the Father. All that you
need is provided in a continuous abundance because all that I have

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is thine. We are one tree, not two, not ten, not five hundred. We
are one mind, we are one body, we are one being. We are no longer
separate selves wandering off in separate wills in a sense of
apartness from the infinite one. You never saw a sick sunbeam or a

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dying sunbeam or an unhealthy sunbeam because there is one sun and
you will never see a sick child of the Divine because there is one
life. You merely have to accept it. End of this passage. Based on
what Herb Fitch is telling us, Swami, why wouldn't we want to have
all of this? And he does say all we have to do is accept the one

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life. What do you think he means by that?
Yeah, it sure sounds like it would be easy enough to do. But what
you find is the obstruction is going to be this mortal sense of
self. We cling to this false sense of existence and we refuse to

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let it go. And most of us are willing as long as we think we can
drag the false sense of self into this Divine kingdom, this
Spiritual understanding of Oneself. But as Jesus told us, "If I go
not away, the Comforter cannot come." Or Mary Baker Eddy says,

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"You render the Divine law of healing void and obscure when you
weigh the human in the same scale as the Divine or limit in any
direction of thought the omnipotence or omnipresence of God." This
mortal sense of self is the barrier. And in Revelations they call

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it, "Looks like a lamb speaks like a dragon."
It's when we are still in the mortal sense of self, but we think
we're Spiritual. We think we know Truth.
And without perfecting the mind-body complex, attuning it to the

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Divine idea, it's very easy to mistaken the false for the real, the
impermanent for the permanent. And that's why healing becomes so
important. It's not just accepting I'm Spiritual, but it is proving
I am conscious of the Divine Truth. And how do I know that I'm

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conscious of this Divine Truth? Is because I am externalizing the
perfection of being. As Herb said, "You never see a sick child of
the Divine because there's One Life."
To do this successfully we must know ourselves in the way that we

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are known by the Creator, which is Spiritual.
And Spirit is One. It's whole. It's absolute.
Nothing ever needs to be added to it or taken away. So in Spiritual
identity we're not trying, striving, struggling, seeking, planning,

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or asking. We rest in the knowledge. Life is perfect. We rest in
the One Being. I am everywhere always.
So we have to change how we think and not that we are in twoness,
like not me and God. We have to understand

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that there is only one and we're part of that.
Exactly. There's no separation in Spirit. Spirit cannot be divided.
Spirit is perfect, complete, whole.
And so we can use this testimony of our senses to let us know

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that's why the law of karma, karmic
law, is thought to be the Love of God.
Now it plays out. People think God
is punishing us for bad behavior.
It doesn't work like that. Karmic law is driven by the Divine Love

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which will not let us accept anything
less than the Divine Perfection of Being.
Our true identity. And we're spending all of our time trying to
figure out how we can improve it and
make it last longer and be more successful.

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And we're trying to figure out how the unreal became real. Rather
than letting go of the belief there is something other than the
Divine creation. And so now we're understanding I want obscures I
am. Why would we want for anything if we knew the Truth?

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God is all. God is everywhere in everything
omnipresent perfection. Love is omnipresent.
Swami when you were talking reminded me about all of these self-help
books that are out there, these human possibilities that people
have written down on paper for us-- to help us. In reality we should

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just turn to the one thing that is already there to help us and
that's this Divine Principle. What do you think about that?
Well yeah, we're socialized with a reality system that's 180
degrees from the Truth. Even say for example that statement, the

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only thing that's certain is death.
And of course now you learn the only
thing that is certain is Life, Absolute Life.
When we finally do expire and we awaken from the form, the mortal
sense, we will still be in this astral plane. We'll still be in

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duality and under the government of karmic law.
And that's why we have to do it when we are in the physical form.
Because that's when we have the monitor on the computer.
That's the only way of us knowing what
we are conscious of, to figure it out.

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Consciousness is experience.
But if you're not proving your
conscious awareness of the Divine creation,
then you have to understand that you are
conscious of something other than the Truth.
So Swami, would you say, would it be accurate for us to say that

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the world that we live in is an illusion?
I used to say this in teaching. In Buddhism they say material world
is illusion. And I used to say, it's not that the material world
isn't real, the illusion is that it is
separate from God or the Divine creative Principle.

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Now I realize this is pantheism.
To say all is God or the Divine Principle. In Truth, not only is
the material world separate from the Divine Principle, but it isn't
there. There isn't any there. There isn't any space in Spirit.

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Spirit is whole and everywhere always.
Love is the realization of this One Life
as the life of all being and nothing else.
Pure, unadulterated, Eternal Life everywhere always.

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Just as light dispels darkness, Truth
dispels error, the false sense of existence.
Swami, again, thank you for your insights today. That completes our
show for today. Listeners, be sure to visit the website,
www.iptransform.com. On any of the pages as you scroll down, you'll

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see several buttons there that would further your understanding.
Swami, any final thoughts about today's program?
Well, I would like to encourage people to join the Kriya Yoga
Spiritual Advance to get the light in
your soul and love unconditionally. Namaste.
Thank you for listening to the program, The Voice of Yoga. This is

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Lisa Winton along with Swami Jayananda signing
off. Have a wonderful Kriya Yoga realization. Namaste.