how every soul can attain Christ
consciousness
extracts from lectures by paramahansa
Yogananda
the continuity of God's word through his
avatars was beautifully symbolized by
the spiritual exchange between Jesus at
his birth and the wise men of India come
to honor his incarnation
there is a very strong tradition in
India authoritatively known amongst High
metaphysicians entails well-told and
written in ancient manuscripts that the
wise men of the East who made their way
to the Infant Jesus in Bethlehem were in
fact great sages of India
not only did the Indian Masters come to
Jesus but he reciprocated their visit
during the unaccounted for years of
Jesus life the scripture remains silent
about him from approximately age 14 to
30. he journeyed to India probably
traveling the well-established trade
route that linked the Mediterranean with
China and India
his own God realization reawakened and
reinforced in the company of the Masters
and the spiritual environs of India
provided a background of the
universality of truth from which he
could preach a simple open message
comprehensible to the masses of his
native country yet with underlying
meanings that would be appreciated in
generations to come as the infancy of
man's mind would mature in understanding
those Lost Years of Jesus
in the New Testament the curtain of
Silence comes down on the life of Jesus
after his 12th year not to rise once
more until 18 years later at which time
he receives baptism from John and begins
preaching to the multitude
we are told only
and Jesus increased in wisdom and
stature and in favor with God and man
Luke 2 verse 52.
for the contemporaries of such an
extraordinary figure to find nothing
noteworthy to record from his childhood
to his 30th year is in and of itself
extraordinary
remarkable accounts however do exist not
in the land of Jesus birth but farther
east where he spent most of the
unaccounted for years
hidden away in a Tibetan Monastery
Priceless records lie
they speak of a saint Issa from Israel
in whom was manifest the soul of the
universe who from the age of 14 to 28
was in India and regions of the
Himalayas among the saints monks and
pundits who preached his message
throughout that area and then returned
to teach in his native land where he was
treated vilely condemned and put to
death
except as chronicled in these ancient
manuscripts no other history of the
unknown years of Jesus life has ever
been published
providentially these ancient records
were discovered and copied in the hemis
Monastery in Tibet by a Russian traveler
Nicholas nodevich he published his notes
himself in 1894 under the title The
Unknown life of Jesus Christ
in 1922 Swami abhidananda a direct
disciple of Raman Krishna paramahansa
visited the hemis Monastery and
confirmed all of the Salient details
about Issa published in nodevich's book
Nicholas Rorick in an expedition to
India and Tibet in the mid-1920s saw and
copied verses from ancient manuscripts
that were the same or at least the same
in content as those published by
nodevich
he was also deeply impressed by the oral
traditions of that area
in Srinagar we first encountered the
Curious legend about Christ's visit to
afterwards we saw how widely spread in
India in ladakh and in Central Asia was
the legend of the visit of Christ to
these parts during his long absence
quoted in the gospel
India is the mother of religion
her civilization has been acknowledged
as much older than the legendary
civilization of Egypt
if you study these matters you will see
how the holy scriptures of India
predating all other Revelations have
influenced the Book of the Dead of Egypt
in the Old and New Testaments of the
Bible as well as other religions
all were in touch with and Drew from the
religion of India because India
specialized in religion from time
immemorial
so it was that Jesus himself went to
India notovich's manuscript tells us
Issa secretly abscended himself from his
father's house left Jerusalem and in a
train of merchants journeyed toward the
send with the object of perfecting
himself in the knowledge of the word of
God and the study of the laws of the
great Buddhas
this is not to say that Jesus learned
everything he taught from his spiritual
mentors and Associates in India and
surrounding regions
avatars come with their own endowment of
wisdom
Jesus store of divine realization was
merely awakened and molded to fit his
unique Mission by his sojourn among the
Hindu pundits Buddhist monks and
particularly the great masters of yoga
from whom he received initiation in the
esoteric science of God Union through
meditation
from the knowledge he had gleaned and
from the wisdom brought forth from his
soul in deep meditation he distilled for
the masses simple Parables of the ideal
principles by which to govern one's life
in the sight of God but to those close
disciples who were ready to receive it
he taught the deeper Mysteries as
evidenced in the New Testament book of
Revelation of Saint John the symbology
of which Accords exactly with the yoga
science of God realization
the Lost teachings of the Gospels
Christ has been much misinterpreted by
the world
even the most Elementary principles of
his teachings have been desecrated and
their esoteric depths have been
forgotten
they have been crucified at the hands of
Dogma Prejudice and cramped
understanding
genocidal Wars have been fought people
have been burned as witches and Heretics
on the presumed authority of man-made
doctrines of Christianity
how to salvage The Immortal teachings
from the hands of ignorance
we must know Jesus as an oriental Christ
a supreme Yogi Who manifested full
Mastery of the universal science of God
Union and thus could speak and act as a
savior with the voice and authority of
God
he has been westernized too much
Jesus was an oriental by birth and blood
and training to separate a teacher from
the background of his nationality is to
blur the understanding through which he
is perceived
no matter what Jesus the Christ was
himself as regards his own soul being
born and maturing in the orient he had
to use the medium of Oriental
civilization Customs mannerisms language
parables in spreading his message
hence to understand Jesus Christ and his
teachings one must be sympathetically
open to the Oriental point of view in
particular India's ancient and present
civilization religious scriptures
Traditions philosophies spiritual
beliefs and intuitive metaphysical
experiences
though esoterically understood the
teachings of Jesus are Universal they
are saturated with the essence of
Oriental culture rooted in Oriental
influences which have been made
adaptable to the Western environment
the gospels can be rightly understood in
the light of the teachings of India not
the cast written Stone worshiping
distorted interpretations of Hinduism
but the philosophical soul-saving wisdom
of horishis the colonel not the husk of
The Vedas upanishads and bhagavad-gita
this essence of Truth the sanatana
Dharma or Eternal principles of
righteousness that uphold man and the
universe was given to the world
thousands of years before the Christian
era and preserved in India with a
spiritual Vitality that has made the
Quest for God the be-all and end-all of
life and not an armchair diversion
the personal realization of Truth is the
science behind all Sciences
but for most persons religion has
devolved to a matter of belief only
One Believes in Catholicism another
believes in some Protestant denomination
others assert belief that the Jewish or
Hindu or Muslim or Buddhist religion is
the true way
the science of religion identifies the
universal truths common to all the basis
of religion and teaches how by their
practical application persons can build
their lives according to the divine plan
India's teaching of Raja yoga the Royal
science of the soul supersedes the
Orthodoxy of religion by setting forth
systematically the practice of those
methods that are universally necessary
for the Perfection of every individual
regardless of race or Creed
what is needed is a reunion of the
science of religion with the spirit or
inspiration of religion the esoteric
with the exoteric
the yoga science taught by Lord Krishna
which provides practical methods for
actual inner experience of God to
supplant the feeble life expectancy of
beliefs and the spirit of Christ love
and Brotherhood preached by Jesus the
only sure Panacea to prevent the world
from tearing itself apart by its
unyielding differences are in tandem one
and the same universal truth taught by
these two christs of east and west
the importance of the comforter or Holy
Ghost
if ye love me keep my Commandments
and I will pray the father and he shall
give you another comforter that he may
abide with you forever even the spirit
of Truth whom the world cannot receive
because it seeth him not neither knoweth
him but ye know him for he dwelleth with
you and shall be in you
I will not leave you comfortless
but the comforter which is the Holy
Ghost whom the father will send in my
name he shall teach you all things and
bring all things to your remembrance
whatsoever I have said unto you
peace I leave with you my peace I give
unto you not as the world giveth give I
unto you
let not your heart be troubled neither
Let It Be Afraid John 14 verses 15 to 18
26 27.
today the same admonition applies that
Jesus gave to his immediate disciples if
a devotee loves him that is loves
contact with the Christ Consciousness in
him then he or she must Faithfully
follow the Commandments the laws of
bodily and mental discipline and
meditation which are required to
manifest the Christ Consciousness in the
individual's own consciousness
the promise of Jesus to send the Holy
Ghost after he was gone few in the
Christian world have understood
the Holy Ghost is the sacred invisible
vibratory power of God that actively
sustains the universe the word or AUM
Cosmic vibration the great comforter the
Savior from all sorrows
the word God's intelligent Cosmic
vibration
the scientific evolution of cosmic
creation from the Creator Lord is
outlined in Arcane terminology in the
Old Testament book of Genesis
in the New Testament the opening verses
of Saint John's gospel may rightly be
called Genesis according to Saint John
both these profound biblical accounts
when clearly grasped by intuitive
perception correspond exactly to the
spiritual cosmology set forth in the
scriptures of India handed down by her
golden age god-knowing rishis
Saint John was perhaps the greatest of
the Disciples of Jesus
just as a schoolteacher finds among his
pupils one whose Superior comprehension
ranks him first in the class and others
who must be ranked lower so among the
Disciples of Jesus there were differing
degrees of ability to appreciate and
absorb the depth and breadth of the
teachings of the Christ man the records
left by Saint John among the various
books of the New Testament events the
highest degree of divine realization
making known the Deep esoteric truths
experienced by Jesus and transferred to
John
not only in his gospel but in his
Epistles and especially in the profound
metaphysical experiences symbolically
described in the Book of Revelation John
presents the truths taught by Jesus from
the point of view of inward intuitive
realization
in John's words we find Precision that
is why his gospel though last among the
four in the New Testament should be
considered first when the true meaning
of the life and teachings of Jesus is
being sought
in the beginning
with these words commence the
cosmoganies of the Old and New Testament
alike
beginning refers to the birth of finite
creation for in the Eternal absolute
Spirit there is neither beginning nor
end
spirit being the only existing substance
had not but itself with which to create
spirit and its Universal creation could
not be essentially different for two
ever existing infinite forces would
consequently each be absolute which is
by definition an impossibility
an orderly creation requires the duality
of Creator and created
thus Spirit first gave rise to a magic
delusion Maya the cosmic magical
measurer which produces the illusion of
dividing a portion of the indivisible
infinite into separate finite objects
even as a calm ocean becomes distorted
into individual waves on its surface by
the action of a storm
all creation is nothing but Spirit
seemingly in temporarily Diversified by
Spirits creative vibratory activity
before creation there is only
undifferentiated spirit
in manifesting creation Spirit becomes
God the Father Son and Holy Ghost
a cosmic vibration omnipresently active
in space could not of itself create or
sustain the wondrously complex Cosmos
thus the Transcendent consciousness of
God the Father became manifest within
the Holy Ghost vibration as the sun the
Christ Consciousness God's intelligence
in all vibratory creation
this pure reflection of God in the Holy
Ghost indirectly guides it to create
recreate preserve and mold creation
according to God's Divine Purpose
Father Son and Holy Ghost according to
yoga
the Holy Trinity of Christianity Father
Son and Holy Ghost in relation to the
ordinary concept of the Incarnation of
Jesus is Holy inexplicable without
differentiating between Jesus the body
and Jesus the vehicle in which the only
begotten son Christ Consciousness was
manifested
Jesus himself makes such distinction
when speaking of his body as that the
son of man and of his soul which was not
circumscribed by the body but was one
with the only begotten Christ
Consciousness in all specs of vibration
as the son of God
so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son to redeem it that is God
the Father remained hidden beyond the
vibratory realm that went out from his
being but then secreted himself as the
Christ intelligence in all matter and in
all living beings in order to bring by
beautiful evolutional coaxings all
things back to his home of everlasting
blessedness
without this presence of God
ubiquitously permeating creation man
would indeed feel bereft of divine
sucker how sweetly sometimes almost
imperceptibly it comes to his Aid when
he bows his knee in supplication
his creator and supreme benefactor is
never more than a devotional thought
away
Saint John said as many as received him
to them gave you power to become the
sons of God the plural number in sons of
God shows distinctly from the teachings
he received from Jesus that not the body
of Jesus but his state of Christ
Consciousness was the only begotten son
and that all those who could clarify
their Consciousness and receive or in an
unobstructed way reflect the power of
God could become the sons of God
they could be one with the only begotten
reflection of God in all matter as was
Jesus and through the son Christ
Consciousness Ascend to the Father the
Supreme Cosmic consciousness
India's Priceless contribution to the
world discovered anciently by hirishis
is the science of religion yoga Divine
Union by which God can be known not as a
theological concept but as an actual
personal experience
of all scientific knowledge the yoga
science of God realization is of the
highest value to man for its strikes at
the root cause of all human maladies
ignorance the be clouding envelopment of
when one becomes firmly established in
God realization delusion is transcended
and the subordinate mortal Consciousness
is elevated to christ-like status
receiving Christ Consciousness by
communion with the Holy Ghost in
meditation
but as many as received him to them gave
he power to become the sons of God even
to them that believe on his name which
were born not of blood nor of the will
of the flesh nor of the will of man but
of God John 1 verses 12 to 13.
the light of God shines equally in all
but because of delusive ignorance all do
not receive reflect it alike
sunlight Falls the same on a lump of
coal and a diamond but only the diamond
receives and reflects the light in
brilliant splendor
the carbon in the coal has the potential
to become a diamond
all it requires is conversion under high
pressure
so it is said here that everyone can be
like Christ whosoever clarifies his
Consciousness by a moral and spiritual
life and especially by the purification
of meditation in which rudimentary
mortality is sublimed into the Soul's
Perfection of immortality
to be a Son of God is not something one
has to acquire rather one has only to
receive his light and realize God has
already conferred on him at his very
Inception that blessed status
even to them that believe on his name
when even the name of God Rouses one's
devotion and anchors one's thoughts in
him it becomes a door to Salvation
when the mere mention of his name sets
the soul of fire with love for God it
will start the devotee on his way to
liberation
the deeper meaning of name is a
reference to Cosmic vibration the word
AUM amen
God is Spirit has no circumscribing name
whether one refers to the absolute as
God or Jehovah or Brahman or Allah that
does not express him
God the Creator and father of all
vibrates through nature as the eternal
life and that life has the sound of the
great amen or AUM
that name most accurately defines God
those who believe on his name means
those who commune with that om sound the
voice of God in the Holy Ghost vibration
when one hears that name of God that
Cosmic vibration he is on his way to
becoming a Son of God for in that sound
his Consciousness touches the imminent
Christ Consciousness which will
introduce him to God as Cosmic
consciousness
Sage patanjali India's greatest exponent
of yoga describes God the Creator as
ishvara the cosmic Lord or ruler
his symbol is pranav the holy word or
sound AUM
by prayerful repeated chanting of Alum
and meditation on its meaning obstacles
disappear and the Consciousness turns
inward away from external sensory
identification yoga sutras i 27 29
essential sons of God Clear Reflections
of the Father untarnished by delusion
have become sons of Man by
identification with the Flesh and
forgetfulness of their origin in spirit
deluded man is just a beggar on the
street of time
but as Jesus received and reflected
through his purified Consciousness the
Divine sonship of Christ Consciousness
so also every man by yoga meditation can
clarify his mind and become a
diamond-like mentality who will receive
and reflect the light of God
the method of contacting this Cosmic
vibration the Holy Ghost is for the
first time being spread worldwide by
means of definite meditation techniques
of the kriya yoga science
through the blessing of communion with
the Holy Ghost the cup of human
consciousness is expanded to receive the
ocean of Christ consciousness
the Adept in the practice of the science
of kriya yoga who consciously
experiences the presence of the Holy
Ghost comforter and merges in the Sun or
imminent Christ Consciousness attains
thereby realization of God the father
and entry into the infinite kingdom of
God
Christ will thus appear a second time in
the consciousness of every devout Adept
who Masters the technique of contacting
the Holy Ghost the bestor of
indescribable Blissful comfort in spirit
[Music]
yoga bestows the true baptism in spirit
foreign
the way of Ascension was made manifest
in the baptism of Jesus
As Told in The Gospel According to Saint
Matthew
and Jesus when he was baptized went up
straightway out of the water and lo the
heavens were opened unto him and he saw
the spirit of God descending like a dove
and lighting upon him and lo a voice
from Heaven saying this is my beloved
Son in whom I am well pleased Matthew 3
verses 16 to 17.
[Music]
when one is baptized by immersion in the
light of spirit the microcosmic
spiritual eye in the body may be seen in
its relation to the light of descending
Spirit as the cosmic Trinity
in the baptism of Jesus this is
described metaphorically as Spirit
descending like a dove and lighting upon
him
the duff symbolizes the spiritually seen
by deeply meditating devotees at the
Christ Consciousness Center in the
forehead between the two physical eyes
this eye of light and Consciousness
appears as a golden aura the Holy Ghost
vibration surrounding an opal blue
sphere Christ Consciousness in the
center of which is a five-pointed star
of brilliant white light Doorway to the
cosmic consciousness of spirit
the threefold light of God in the
spiritual eye is symbolized by a dove
because it brings perennial peace
[Music]
also looking in the spiritual life
produces in man's Consciousness the
Purity signified by the dove
the mouth of the symbolic Dove
represents the star in the spiritual eye
the secret passage to Cosmic
consciousness
the two wings of the dove represent the
two spheres of Consciousness emanating
from cosmic consciousness
[Music]
foreign
the blue light of the spiritual eye is
the microcosm of the subjective Christ
intelligence in all creation and the
Golden Ring of light in the spiritual
eye is the microcosmic objective cosmic
energy Cosmic vibration or Holy Ghost
[Music]
during baptism by spirit in the form of
the Holy Ghost as experienced by Jesus
he saw the light of the spiritual eye as
descended from the macrocosmic Divine
Light and from this came the voice of
ayum the intelligent all creative
Heavenly sound vibrating as an
intelligible voice
Thou Art my son having lifted thy
Consciousness from the limitation of the
body in all matter to realize thyself as
one with my perfect reflection my only
begotten image imminent in all
manifestation
I am Bliss and my joy I express in the
rejoicing in Attunement with my
omnipresence
[Music]
foreign
Jesus felt his Consciousness attuned to
the Christ Consciousness that only
begotten reflection of God the father's
intelligence and the holy vibration he
first felt his body as the entire
vibratory Creation in which his little
body was included then within his Cosmic
body of all creation he experienced his
Oneness with God's innate presence as
the infinite Christ or Universal
intelligence a magnetic Aura of blissful
Divine love in which God's presence
holds all beings
foreign
[Music]
as practiced by those who are advanced
in the technique of kriya yoga the
devotee experiences not only expansion
in the own vibration voice from heaven
but finds himself able also to follow
the microcosmic light of spirit in the
straight way of the spine into the light
of the spiritual like Dove descending
from heaven
[Music]
[Laughter]
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foreign
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through his two physical eyes man sees
only his body and a little portion of
the Earth at a time
but spiritual baptism or initiation
received from a true Guru expands the
consciousness
anyone who can see as did Jesus the
spiritual Dove a light on him that is
who can behold his spiritual eye of
omnipresent omniscience and through
perseverance in ever deeper meditation
penetrate his gaze through its light
will perceive the entire Kingdom of
cosmic energy and the consciousness of
God existing within it and Beyond in the
infinite Bliss of spirit
excerpts from the book The Yoga of Jesus
by paramahansa Yogananda
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