By Swami Premananda
From “Seven Mystic Holydays”
Keep your mind serenely and continuously on God both within and without. Witness the glories and beauty of God all about. The world is a living manifestation of divinity. Every object reveals God’s beauty and perfection. Do not close your eyes but open them in the singleness of spiritual vision that everything about you may reveal the reality of the Supreme Spirit.
The stars have a message for us. In the fall season they seem so bright and clear. God has placed them in the heavens to reveal to us the transcendental nature of soul. Although we live in this world, our soul cannot be confined to earthly limitations. The sun, too, has a message of spiritual awakening. Have you ever witnessed a sunrise? City-dwellers rarely see that glorious spectacle and that is one of the tragedies of modern living. As the sun lifts above the horizon it seems that the consciousness also is lifted and we are reminded of our spiritual unfoldment.
The rivers, too, carry a godly message. They have their origin in the mountains. They flow over rough places, through fields and valleys, finally to reach the vast ocean. So our life originates in God. It travels through many lowlands of toil and effort but it always comes, at last, to the ocean of divinity. Life moves ever onwards to the infinity of God.
This constant perception of God wherever you look, saturates the consciousness with spiritual harmony and identifies mind with all that is noble and sublime. Behind all the objects of nature is the message of God. Find spiritual companionship with this glorious manifestation all about us. The seasons reveal to us the garment of God, painted by the hand of the master artist.