Sunday Service: “Spiritual Fruits” June 7, 2026

Sunday, June 7, 2026
Sunday Worship Service
11:00 a.m.
Srimati Karuna, Minister

“Spiritual Fruits”

Fruit goes through many processes before it ripens and becomes sweet. Life involves the pairs of opposites: bitter cold and glorious sunshine, quenching rain and devastating drought. Bite into a mango or an apple or an orange. Can you taste the difficulties the fruit has surmounted to reach its perfection of sweetness and goodness?

We strive to attain the fruits of our spiritual efforts. But scriptures implore us to renounce attachment to the results of our works. We struggle for the same perfect realization as all sages and saints. Yet, the life of duality constantly throws us into the cross winds. Do our experiences harden or soften us toward the world or do they “ripen” us for greater understanding?

“What is the vision of God? It does not mean seeing something with the physical eye or witnessing a miracle. Seeing God means realization of the fact that God abides in our hearts. The yearning must persist until one has this realization and will vanish upon realization. Realization is the final fruit of constant effort.”

M.K. Gandhi

“Sages live by the fruits of their spiritual actions, and thus they become free from all ignorance. But those who perform actions only for their own individual gain are unrighteous and reap the consequences of their misdeeds.”

“Liberated from attachment to the fruit of action, he who is firmly established on the ideal of the highest good attains immutable peace. But one who is identified with objective desires becomes attached to the fruit of his work and thereby a slave to his sensory action.”

Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita: The Revelation of the Self
3:13 and 5:12
Translation by Swami Premananda