The World Halts When Gazed

(00:00:00) The World Halts When Gazed
(00:04:09) Swami reads from Spiritual Science of Kriya Yoga by Goswami Kriyananda page 245.
(00:07:26) Lisa reads from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy 248:19-32.
(00:11:43) Lisa talks about deep contemplation or Spiritual Gaze.
(00:16:00) Lisa reads Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy 261:24-32.
(00:20:36) Lisa reads Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy 262:1-23.
(00:24:20) Lisa asks for suggestions in stopping thinking with the mortal mind.

Hostess Lisa Winton and Swami Jayananda will talk about the power discovered in conscious awareness of the Divine Mind functioning everywhere always. In this show they will discuss the Yoga idea of dristhi or dristi translated to mean gaze or one pointed focus-- in relation to the sixth stage of Yoga, dharana or concentration. Listen as they explain the value of shifting thought from a mental-material basis to 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 stop the world.

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Episode Transcript

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I am your host, 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.

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Good morning, Swami.
Thank you for being here today.
How are you?
Good morning.
I'm doing pretty good today.
How about you?
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 the power discovered in conscious
awareness of the Divine Mind
functioning everywhere, always.

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In this show, we will discuss the Yoga
idea of dristi, or dristhi, translated to
mean gaze or one-pointed focus, in
relation to the sixth stage of Yoga,
dharana, or concentration.
Listen as we explain the value of
shifting thought from a mental-material
basis to the Divine creation.

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Welcome to the Voice of Yoga.
We are Talking Consciousness.
Join the Kriya Yoga Spiritual Advance to
get the light in your
soul and stop the world.
Swami, the title of today's program is
"The World Haltz When Gazed."
What would you like to
start us off with today?
Well, I think we got the inspiration for

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this show from the poem
you have by James Frey.
Maybe we could start by
you reading that poem.
When I see you, the world stops.
It stops and all that exists for me is
you and my eyes staring at you.
There's nothing else.
No noise, no other

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people, no thoughts or worries.
No yesterday, no tomorrow.
The world just stops and it is a
beautiful place and there is only you.
End of the poem.
When you read that poem, I had made the
suggestion for you to
change the you to I am.

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And I'll read that.
When I see I am, the world stops.
It stops and all that exists for me is I
am and my eyes staring at I am.
There's nothing else.
No noise, no other
people, no thoughts or worries.
No yesterday, no tomorrow.
The world just stops and it is a

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beautiful place and there is only I am.
End of the poem again.
The interesting thing about this is we
actually got the title of this show from
Your Notes where you had written down,
The World Haltz Before Our Gaze.

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And when we were talking about that, I
remember taking instruction in Ashtanga
Yoga classes and they would talk about
using Dristi or the gaze of the practice.
Most of the instruction was physical with
some mental aspects, but today I

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understand the focus to be on the Divine
creation, the Spiritual Truth of Being.
However, when I reviewed my Kriya Yoga
notes and understanding about what in
Kriya Yoga is called Pratyahara, sense
withdrawal, Kriyananda used the term

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Dristha, translates to
mean visible to everyone.
In this process of sense withdrawal, we
really have to master the
modes of mortal thinking.
In fact, in his teaching, Kriyananda
wrote in his book and I'll read it.
"Until the mind is completely controlled,

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sense withdrawal cannot be perfected.
Without the perfection of sense
withdrawal, you cannot attain Samadhi.
Without Samadhi, there
is no permanent happiness.
When sense withdrawal has been mastered,
concentration, meditation and Samadhi are

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very easily mastered.
In short, the major obstacle in the
attainment of the goal of
Yoga is sense withdrawal.
The first abiding rule of Yoga is the
ability to control the sense organs, and
in the control of the sense organs, you

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dissolve away the dark
desires lurking within.
These deep desires need to be dissolved
away, for they destroy discernment and
consequently knowledge.
In short, the foe is to be subdued.
The foe, the enemy, is craving."

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In her teaching, Mary Baker Eddy really
insists on living above corporeal sense.
The major difference I found between
Kriya Yoga and Christian Science is Mary
Baker Eddy doesn't
stop at sense withdrawal.
She also includes and correct it.

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Healing becomes the litmus
test of what am I conscious of.
Most of the instruction in Yoga today and
in most Spiritual communities is really
physical with some mental aspects.
But today I understand the focus to be on

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the Divine Creation, the
Spiritual Truth of Being.
For me, the gaze marks the shift from
mental-material awareness to Spiritual
understanding, the surrender of my will,
personal sense, at my highest

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understanding of right, to let Divine
Mind do its Knowing in my awareness.
And so how does this stop the world?
The world is a mental image and the world
mind functioning as corporeal sense,

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which is in constant change.
The mortal mind can't free itself from
its own creation, but when thought is
stopped or suspended,
with it ceases the sensations.
But this inactivity doesn't go
far enough to halt the world.

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What is needed is the gaze.
Conscious awareness of the Divine Truth
dissolves the illusion
of mental-material energy.
This is the end of
the world as we know it.
In Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures, Mrs.
Eddy uses the word "gaze" seven times.

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Let's read page 248, lines 19-32.
"Do you not hear from all
mankind of the imperfect model?
The world is holding it
before your gaze continually.
The result is that you are liable to
follow those lower patterns, limit your
life work, and adopt into your experience

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the angular outline and
deformity of matter models.
To remedy this, we must first turn our
gaze in the right
direction and then walk that way.
We must form perfect models in thought
and look at them continually, or we shall
never carve them out in
grand and noble lives.

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Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy,
justice, health, holiness, love, the
kingdom of heaven, reign within us, and
sin, disease, and death will diminish
until they finally disappear."
End of the quote.
Swami, do you have any thoughts?
Well, I think it's most important to
understand what Mrs.

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Eddy means when she said, "We must form
perfect models in thought
and look at them continually."
We have to understand thinking.
Working with the mind that can't bring
forth the Divine image is
not what she's talking about.

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She's not talking about
positive thinking here.
If we do anything with human thought,
personal sense, it could
be done for good or for bad.
We have to understand the difference
between thinking and Knowing.

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And this is where we
can apply this word gaze.
What is the gaze?
What is the difference between gazing,
thinking, and Knowing?
Well, gazing is really where we learn
first how to stop thinking and make our

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mind an avenue of awareness for the
Omnipresent Divine Mind.
Divine Mind is
everywhere always functioning.
It's pouring forth its
Divine creation, which is Perfect.
The minute we think we are in the mind

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that can't bring forth the Divine image,
it's why in the Bible it says, "Except
the Lord build the house, they labor in
vain that build it."
Human thought is under karmic law, which
is driven by the belief in two powers.
So you're under material law.

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Your thoughts, even your good thoughts,
have a complementary, unmanifested, bad
part that come with it.
That's the nature of the beast, the cycle
of death and rebirth.
In order for us to become
free from this karmic law,

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we have to be born again of Spirit.
We have to learn how to control how we
think and then eventually stop thinking
and activate Spiritual
sense, our seven Spiritual senses.
This is what the Bible called repent.

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Think differently.
And in Kriya Yoga we
would call that meditate.
After a while you start to see it's not
just words in a book, but there are
direct experiences that accompany this.
We initiate a process that
has an evidence procedure.

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We graduate from thinking with five
corporeal senses to Knowing
with seven Spiritual senses.
But again, we have to develop the faculty
that will enable us to
perceive the Divine Idea.
I find it very interesting when you
research the phrase "gazing," Spiritually

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it means to deeply contemplate.
And then when we understand what Mary
Baker Eddy is saying when she says, "We
must form perfect models in thought and
look at them continually," that to me is
like the recipe for Self-healing,
especially when she says, "Sin, disease,
and death will diminish
until they finally disappear."
Here she's giving us the steps right

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there for our own Self-healing.
The term in yoga is called avidya (ignorance).
In the Bible they call
it sin, missing the mark.
If you misinterpret what she says or
means by form perfect models in thought,
oftentimes people think that if I form

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thoughts in my mind, if I emit these
thoughts with belief, they will have an
effect on the
appearance, and you're 100% right.
But what she means by "we must form
perfect models in thought," she's really
saying we must be conscious of the Divine

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Creation, not me doing thinking about
what I want to see appear, in order for
us to demonstrate Divine Law.
Spirit is a demonstrable Principle.
It is a law, but we
must be conscious of it.

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And thinking about it is not
the same as conscious of it.
It is not us doing
thinking about what we want.
It is really letting Divine Mind do Its
Thinking in our awareness.
Human thought works in contrast.

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It works in duality.
For every action there is an
equal and an opposite reaction.
Divine Mind Thinks in
terms of the Absolute.
It only sees the Divine Creation, the
Divine Truth, and its Whole.
One is rational and dualistic.

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The other is
Absolute, Complete, and Whole.
It's entirely Spiritual.
And the sin is when we think we Know the
Truth, and yet at the same
time we're getting outcomes.
Now there's a difference between what
Mary Baker Eddy called "faith healing"

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and "Divine Science."
You can change finite bad to finite good
with thought and belief, but you're still
under the law of karma.
Still
susceptible to the laws of matter.
To be free from karmic law,

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we have to think differently.
We have to Know the Truth, not think the
Truth, which means we must Know ourselves
in the way that we are known by the
Creator, which is Spirit, which again
comes back to being born again of Spirit.

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Namaste.
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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.
We're gonna read again from Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures.
We're gonna start on page 261, line 24,

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and we're gonna continue to
page 262, lines 1 to 23.
I'll start reading it.
"Breaking away from the mutations of time
and sense, you will neither lose the
solid objects and ends of
life nor your own identity.
Fixing your gaze on the realities
supernal, you will rise to the Spiritual
consciousness of being, even as the bird

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which has burst from the egg and preens
its wings for a skyward flight.
We should forget our bodies in
remembering good and the human race. Good
demands of man every hour, in which to
work out the problem of being.
Consecration to good does not lessen
man's dependence on
God, but heightens it.

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Neither does consecration diminish man's
obligations to God, but shows the
paramount necessity of meeting them.
Christian Science takes naught from the
perfection of God, but it ascribes to Him
the entire glory. By putting "off the old
man with his deeds,"
mortals "put on immortality."

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End of the passage so
far, Swami, any thoughts?
For me to start to understand what Mary
Baker Eddy is talking about here, I found
something from Herb Fitch where he said,
"We must Know we are Christ, not in the
world, while appearing

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as form in the world."
Where she starts out and she's talking
about, "breaking away from the
mutations of time and sense."
After a while you start to see this
realization, this revelation of Divine
Truth is not gonna be an
event, but it is a process.

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We initiate a process where our identity
starts to shift from a mental-material
basis to a Spiritual basis.
I find building a mental landscape that
will support the Divine idea, as Mary
Baker Eddy suggests, to educate thought

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up to Spiritual apprehension.
It's very helpful to have the mortal mind
and the three modes of mortal thought
under control, to master and understand
how this whole thing is working.
It's very confusing to try and understand

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we are Christ, not in the world.
There's only One Life here.
It's Perfect, Whole, Eternal.
One Principle and One Idea,
God and God's offspring,
God and the Christ.

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But if we don't understand how this whole
thing is working, we have to come out of
time, space, concept, belief, form,
matter, human thinking,
personal sense, human will.
We live in sin.
We think we're Spiritual.
We think we Know the Truth.

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So learning how to employ what it is that
she's suggesting, "breaking away from the
mutations of time and sense, you will
neither lose the solid objects and ends
of life, nor your own identity."
We don't really lose a
personal sense of self.

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We realize the personal sense of self is
merely a reflection of the Divine Truth.
Just like when you look in a mirror, the
image that's looking back at you in the
reflection, there is no Life, Truth,
intelligence or
substance in that reflection.

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Well, the form on the
planet is the same thing.
It's a reflection.
And so the more you understand persons,
places, things are not the Divine
Creation, the less we lean on them.
But at the same time, the key question
here is, how do I resolve a physical form

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into a mental image capable
of receiving Divine revelation?
Swami, I'm now gonna
continue reading the passage.
"We cannot fathom the nature and quality
of God's creation by diving into the
shallows of mortal belief.
We must reverse our feeble flutterings--
our efforts to find life and truth in

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matter-- and rise above the testimony of
the material senses, above the mortal to
the immortal idea of God.
These clearer, higher views inspire the
God-- like man to reach the absolute center
and circumference of his being."
I'm gonna stop right here just to get
your further insights.

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Yeah, this idea of rise,
how to resolve the physical form into a
mental image capable of
receiving Divine Revelation.
Now, of course, we use the man, the bull,
the lion, and the eagle, the body of
Christ, using seven personal planets, 12

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signs of the zodiac.
This gives you something that you can
grab onto that's visible and tangible.
And at the same time,
it is a mental image.
It's a concept, but it is a concept
capable of receiving Divine Revelation.

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You can't put an
Infinite Mind in a finite form.
And so if you don't rise into this larger
sense of Self and overcome all of the
obstructions, master the physical and the
mental, then you will not develop the
faculty that will enable you to perceive

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the Divine Creation.
I'm gonna continue with the passage.
Job said, "I have heard of thee by the
hearing of the ear, but
now mine eye seeth thee."
Mortals will echo Job's thought when the
supposed pain and pleasure of matter
cease to predominate.
They will then drop the false estimate of

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life and happiness, of joy and sorrow,
and attain the bliss of loving
unselfishly, working patiently and
conquering all that is unlike God."
End of the passage.
Swami let's continue
with your thoughts here.
It's very important to
start to see what she's saying.
We can't bring forth the Divine image

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with the mortal mind.
And so we do have to develop the faculty
that will enable us to perceive the
Divine creation, thinking differently.
Without developing this faculty, without
the birth of Christ in consciousness,
without the Mind of Christ, there's no

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way of us Knowing the Divine Truth.
And so what she means by we must reverse
our feeble flutterings, she's really
saying we have to know the difference
between thinking and Knowing, the
activity of Divine Mind in the Absolute
and mortal mind in the mental-material

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world of energy, the
false sense of existence.
So stop the world, I wanna get off.
Stop thinking and start Knowing is the
methodology for casting out the son of
perdition, which is world mind
functioning as corporeal sense in

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individual consciousness.
Also known as Judas,
and it must be cast out.
Truth in consciousness resolves things
into thoughts and exchanges the object of
sense for the Divine Idea.
Well, Swami, help us
with this methodology.

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How do we begin to stop thinking when we
have so much from the mortal mind is just
bombarding us every day with all this
incorrect information?
Yeah, this is again why I
come back to the Kriya Yoga.
To do this with any degree of success,
you need a path of action, a path of
knowledge, and a path of devotion.

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Your path of action is gonna start with
things like Yama, Niyama, Asana, things
that we can and we must do, skillful use
of thought, skillful use of breath,
skillful use of water, skillful use of
food, skillful use of exercise.
Just for openness, we have to attune the

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mind-body complex to the Divine Idea and
understand the mortal mind, the mind we
are using to get us through this lifetime
is incapable of
perceiving the Divine Idea.
So initially you start with
a belief in the Divine Idea.

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You're groping, but you will learn your
belief in Divine Truth
will graduate to faith.
Faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things unseen.
Faith is where your belief in Divine
Truth is starting to affect the testimony
of your corporeal senses.

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You're starting to see Spirit is a power,
but we must be conscious of it in order
to activate it in experience.
And it's very complicated.
Start somewhere, it's
gonna be a series of events.
You must be born again of Spirit.

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Overcome these modes of mortal thought.
Develop your psychological organs,
develop the faculty that enables you to
make conscious choices based on a value
system that's gonna be in
accordance with universal order.
There is an infinite number of ways this

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goes wrong, but there's
really only One way it goes right.
And if you miss one little detail, I
think about the Ben Franklin.
For the want of a nail, a shoe is lost.
For the want of a shoe, a horse is lost.
For the want of a horse, a rider is lost.
For the want of a

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rider, a platoon is lost.
For the want of a
platoon, a battle is lost.
For the want of a
battle, the war is lost.
Something as monumental as the loss of a
war is traced back to something as
insignificant as the
loss of a nail on a shoe.

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And so if you don't cross your T's, dot
your I's, it reminds me
of working on a website.
There are certain files in a website and
there are hundreds, sometimes thousands
of files that if I take a certain file
and I just delete a colon,

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it will destroy the website.
Now to find that file in thousands of
files and folders is a
Herculean task if you don't know it.
The same is true with Life.
If we don't understand how this is
working, if we don't understand the

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relationship between
the Divine Mind and the real man
and understanding what I'm calling life
isn't Life at all, then of course you
remain lost in the
cycle of death and rebirth.

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Swami, I just wanted to recite a Bible verse
that I had researched
for today's episode.
And this is gonna be from Proverbs 4:25
and I'll read it.
"Let thine eyes look right on and let
thine eyelids look straight
before thee" end of the verse.
Any thoughts about that?
Well, the thing that always comes to my

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mind is Know the Truth.
Make thine eyes single.
Stop thinking with the mortal mind.
Start Knowing with Spiritual sense.
It's all advice, human conjecture, until
our identity shifts from a mental-
material basis to a Spiritual basis.

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I like what Herb Fitch said, "only when we
are Oned with the Father through I Christ
in you does your
consciousness reveal reality.
So I thank you for your insights on
today's episode, The
World Halts When Gazed.
Listen, be sure to visit the website,

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www.iptransform.com.
On any of the pages as you scroll down,
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further your understandings.
Swami, any final
thoughts about today's podcast?
Well, I would like to encourage people to
join the Kriya Yoga Spiritual Advance, get
the light in your
soul, and stop the world.

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Namaste.
Thank you for listening to
our program, The Voice of Yoga.
This is Lisa Winton along with Swami
Jayananda signing off.
Have a wonderful Kriya Yoga realization.
Namaste.