“O Divine Mother, teach me to use the gift of Thy love, which I feel in my heart, to love the members of my family more than myself. Bless me, that I may love my neighbors more than my family. Expand my heart’s feelings, that I love my country more than my neighbors, and my world and all my human brethren, more than my country, neighbors, family, and my own self.
Lastly, teach me to love Thee more than anything else, for it is only Thy love that enables me to love everything. Without Thee, I could not love anything or anybody.
Father Divine, teach me to enter through the portals of family love, and that of the love of my friends, into the mansion of wider social love. Teach me to pass from there through the doors of social love, and into the wider mansion of international love. Then teach me to pass through the portals of international love into the endless territory of the divine love, wherein I perceive all animate and inanimate objects as breathing and living by Thy love alone.
Teach me to tarry not at any alluringly beautiful gate of family, social, or international love. Teach me to pass through all the portals that lead to the smaller gardens of love until, passing through the last gate of human love, I enter into the endless territory of divine love where I shall find all living, semi-living, and sleeping things to be my very own.”
- Paramhansa Yogananda, “Whispers of Eternity”
Reading theses words today made my heart sing. I feel another SongQuest coming on and Easter week-end is the perfect timing for such an undertaking. May this prayer expand your heart and may it save you from the existence of mundane events and stir your heart to soar and sing with the whole Universe. This digital artwork is music put to canvas. These songs come in many forms. May we have courage to listen.
Happy Easter!!!
