Inner Vineyard Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the parable as a portrait of your own consciousness. The lord of the vineyard stands for your I AM, your perpetual awareness that never fails. The husbandmen are the recurring thoughts of fear, pride, and habit—state-attachments that pretend ownership and withhold the fruits of life. When the owner comes and asks for fruits, your inner response shows you the law in action: to the degree you cling to doubt, the 'wicked' tenants remain; to the degree you release them, a transfer occurs and new stewards rise within you. The judgment is not external punishment but the collapsing of old agreements of separation. The vineyard will be entrusted to others—the higher states of consciousness that yield in season: gratitude, faith, compassion, decisive intention. When you imagine the owner removing the old tenants, you implicitly authorize the emergence of your better self who produces fruits through desire rightly directed and feeling-right. The transfer—kingdom to others—signifies that your awareness can reassign its energies, choosing harmony over struggle. In your present moment, you can ask: what inner tenants no longer serve? Then, by assumption, invite the new stewards to come, and notice the fruits appear.