Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on June 22nd 2025. He begins with a reading from Whispers from Eternity entitled "Teach Me to Dream Peace" and then connects the reading to the tumultuous times we live in, both outwardly in the world and inwardly within ourselves. The core message revolves around maintaining inner peace not just for personal well-being, but to become instruments of peace and serve others.

Nayaswami Jaya shares a personal anecdote from 1968, a time of great social and political upheaval, and a lesson learned from Swami Kriyananda. He emphasizes the importance of transmuting negative emotions like anger and bitterness into positive action and solutions. He highlights the danger of dwelling on negativity, as it becomes easier to repeat. The key takeaway is to consciously choose what flows through us and strive to be a channel of peace, acting as disciples to bring light to the world, even during difficult times.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

The Eternal Now

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

“When will I find God?” Many devotees have asked this question. Because worldly goals require time, usually, for their fulfillment, we imagine time to be a factor on the spiritual path. And so it is, but only because we think it is! God is as much with us now as He will ever be. It is not He who needs to come to us: We need to come to Him! And that process of coming is a matter of transforming our self-perception.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 4, Jesus Christ says:

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

There is a practical teaching in these words, apart from their statement that we have God already, and have only to realize that truth. Jesus is saying, “Lift up your eyes and look. . . .” To hold the eyes uplifted is the best position for meditation. For the seat of superconsciousness lies at a point midway between the eyebrows – in the frontal lobe of the brain just behind that point. This point is known also as the Christ center. By lifting up your eyes and concentrating there, you will find it easier to enter the state of ecstasy. That is why saints in every religion have often been observed, during states of deep inner communion, with their eyes uplifted, focused on the inner light – ”white,” as Jesus said, “already to harvest.”

The Bhagavad Gita goes further into this meditative teaching. In the sixth Chapter it states:

Holding the spine firm, the neck and head erect and motionless, let the yogi focus his eyes at the starting place of the nose [the point between the eyebrows]. Let not his gaze roam elsewhere.

In meditation, tell yourself: “I have Him already! I am alive forever in the Divine Light.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.