40 Days and 40 Nights

Often, at the most auspicious moment of spiritual insight, the strongest doubts appear. It is said that just after the baptism of Christ, he was led into the wilderness. The spirit of God led him into the wilderness to meet who? Mr Psychological Mind, the highest personification of ego, the tempter — Satan himself.

The voice of God says, 'This is my son in whom I am well pleased,' and the next moment he is in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. Alone.  Here to withstand the temptations of the deceitful one. A passage he must go through before his ministry can begin. He is not with friends. No, this is not a social moment.

Rather, he will become tired, lonely and hungry. Christ was compelled to invite or induce a state of weakness upon himself — a mental, emotional and physical weakness. He was preparing himself to meet the devil, for he had to overcome Satan's powerful deceptions while in his own weakest state. The Tempter would not be able to challenge him in his strength. In man's weakest moment does he stand the chance to find his greatest strength.

Is such strength from man or from God?

Everyone has to go through his own version of '40 days and 40 nights' in the wilderness of personal identity. This 'walk through the valley of the shadows of death and temptations' he must pass through at some time or another and in some place or another. We are not different from Christ, except that most have not recognised their true Self and continue to believe they are merely their body-mind identity.

Know that the core of your Self is ever one with the Supreme Being.

~ Mooji ~

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