The Sermon on the Mount.....(2)by Swami Prabhavananda

Jesus said;" Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted"................As long as we think that we are rich in worldly goods or in knowledge, we cannot make spiritual progress..When we feel that we are poor in spirit, when we grieve that we have not realized the truth of God, then only will we be comforted....No doubt, we all mourn,,but for what?... For the loss of worldly pleasures and possessions...But that is not the kind of mourning of which Jesus speaks,,The mourning that Christ calls "blessed" is very rare, , because it arises from a sense of spiritual loss, spiritual lonliness....It is a mourning which necessarily comes before God comforts us.........When we begin to mourn as Christ wished us to mourn,,when we shed even one tear for God, then we prepare the way for the comfort of that divine knowledge.........