Christmas Message
from Yogananda

East-West magazine, December 1932

I shall behold the only begotten, only reflection, of transcendental God, the Father, born in the womb of all finite matter and vibration as the only Christ Intelligence, shepherding all Creation to an intelligent, Divine end.

Through the transparency of my deepest meditation I will receive the light of the omnipresent Father, fully passing through me, and I shall be a son of God, even as Jesus was, by receiving God fully, through His sacred meditation-expanded Consciousness.

I shall close my material eyes and dismiss the temptation of matter. I shall peer through the darkness of silence until my eyes of relativity open into the one inner Eye of Light. When my two eyes of good and evil become single, and behold only the Divine goodness of God in everything, then I shall find my body, mind, and soul filled with His omnipresent light.

All the veils of my ignorant inner life are burnt in the light of my awakening in Christ, and I behold the intelligence of the baby Jesus, cradled in the petals of roses, and in the weaving of lights in the love thoughts of all true saints.

After the waiting of many incarnations, Christ is being born anew in me. All the boundaries of my little mind are broken, so that the omnipresent Christ may wake Himself on the lap of my consciousness.

My thoughts are decorating the Christmas tree of meditation with the rare gifts of devotion, sealed with golden heart prayers, so that Christ may come and receive my humble gifts. I will mentally join in the worship of all mosques, churches, and temples, and perceive the birth of the Universal Christ Consciousness as peace on the altar of all devotional hearts.

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