Message #17618

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

Demand for the Opening of the Spiritual Eye,
to Find God in Everything

My eyes are enthralled, O Father,
with the beauty of the flowers,
the passing scenes of life,
and the sailing, silent clouds.
Open that eye in me which sees
nothing but Thee.
With that gaze — above, beneath,
around, within or without
may I behold Thee.
Teach me to see in all things
nothing but Thee.
Open in me that eye
which beholds in all beauty
only Thy reigning beauty!


[This demand is to be repeated mentally with deep concentration,
until the prayer-thought becomes fixed in the super-consciousness by faith and conviction.]

Paramahansa Yogananda - "Whispers from Eternity"

The spiritual eye is one thing to open but perhaps we have had experiences in our life when our 'inner eye' was open to the beauty around us. We experienced a moment of connection with God in nature and everything had a heightened sense of Gods presence in it because we could perceive it.