The Sermon on the Mount.....(4)by Swami Prabhavananda

Jesus said;" Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled"...........The righteousness that Jesus speaks of is mentioned a number of times in the Old Testament and is practically synonymous with salvation....in other words, with deliverance from evil, and union with God....This righteousness therefore is not what we ordinarily think of as moral virtues or good qualities, not relative good as opposed to evil or relative virtue as opposed to vice,,but absolute righteousness,,absolute goodness....The hunger and thirst after righteousness of which Christ speaks is a hunger and thirst after God Himself.....We must learn to direct all our thoughts and all our energy consciously toward God....One gigantic thought wave must be raised in the mind,,engulfing all the cravings and passions, which distract us from the spiritual goal...When the mind thus becomes one-pointed and concentrated upon God, we shall be filled with righteousness..................