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THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
Volume 3
BY PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
From the Original unchanged writings of
Paramhansa Yogananda’s interpretations
of the sayings of
JESUS CHRIST.
“The light of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” (Luke 11:34)
AMRITA FOUNDATION, INC.
Publishers
Dallas, Texas
1986
All Biblical quotations have been taken from the King James Version
May Paramhansa Yogananda’s interpretations of the Holy Scriptures reveal the Universal Christ to each Truth-seeker.
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Paramhansa Yogananda was born on January 5, 1893 in Gorakhpur in northeastern
India near the Himalaya Mountains. From the earliest years of his life, he longed to know
God, to taste the thirst-quenching waters of Spirit.
His search for the Infinite led him to Sri Yukteswar, his Preceptor. Under the
guidance of this God-realized teacher, he attained Supreme Realization and was given the
revered title of Paramhansa* by his Preceptor in 1935. Paramhansa Yogananda+ later
brought the special Techniques of Concentration and Meditation to the Western World,
including Kriya Yoga which is the scientific method to accelerate the devotee’s spiritual
unfoldment.
In addition to bringing the Techniques of Concentration and Meditation to the West,
Paramhansaji’s great spiritual mission included imparting his intuitively-perceived
interpretations of the Christian Bible. Throughout the text of The Second Coming of Christ,
Paramhansa Yogananda uses capitalization to place emphasis on a specific truth to aid the
reader. In the instances where there is redundancy of material, he includes it because it
relates and clarifies the new material introduced.
* Paramhansa – literally, param, highest; hansa, swan. The hansa is represented in scriptural lore as the
vehicle of Brahma, Supreme Spirit; as the symbol of discrimination, the white hansa swan is thought of as
able to separate the true soma nectar from a mixture of milk and water.
+ Yogananda means “Bliss (ananda) through divine union (yoga)”.
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PREFACE
These spiritual interpretations, received and interpreted through Christ
Consciousness, are the methods which the Masters have taken to show the world the
common, scientific platform of intuitive perception, where the Christian Bible, the Hindu
Bhagavad Gita, (Hindu Old and New Testaments), and true Scriptures of all true religions,
can find unity. The Spiritual interpretation of the Christian Bible reveals and liberates the
Truth hidden in the dark caves of theoretical and theological studies.
Jesus Christ was crucified once, but His Christian teaching has been, and is now
being crucified by ignorant people. The understanding and application of these intuitivelyperceived
teachings are attempting to show how the Christ Consciousness of Jesus, free
from theological crucifixion, can be brought back a second time into the souls of men.
These spiritual interpretations are born of intuition, and will be found to be universally
true if they are meditated upon with intuitive perception.
PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA wrote:
“O Christ – Thou Rarest Flower of Hearts.”
“O Thou Great Lover of error-torn brothers – as unseen monument of the mightiest
miracle of love was established in each heart when the magic wand of Thy Voice uttered:
“Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
“O Shepherd of Souls, wandering hearts are of themselves seeking the one fold of
divine devotion. We have heard the ever-calling music of Thy infinite kindness. Our one
desire is to be at home with Thee, to receive the Cosmic Father with joyous, open eyes of
wisdom, and to know that we are all sons of our own One God.”
(Excerpts from the original 1929 edition of Whispers From Eternity).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Publisher’s Note...................................................................................................3
Preface..................................................................................................................4
The Universal Christ.............................................................................................7
A Sacred Remembrance......................................................................................8
Chapter 1 Did Jesus Believe in Rebirth? – His
Teaching on Reincarnation ..............................................................9
Chapter 2 Why Jesus Said All Men Must Become
as Little Children to Enter Heaven –
Why God Is Humble …....................................................................20
Chapter 3 The Real Meaning of “Hell-Fire” as Used by
Jesus in the Bible – The “Hell” of Desire,
Where the “Fire Is Not Quenched” ...................................................25
Chapter 4 Can Prayer Win Forgiveness for Man
from Suffering the Lawful Effects of
His Evil Deeds? …............................................................................36
Chapter 5 “Never Man Spake Like This Man” –
Jesus Confounds His Critics
The Eternal Now …...........................................................................42
Chapter 6 “Go and Sin No More” – Why Christ
Forgave the Woman Taken in Adultery …........................................48
Chapter 7 “Before Abraham Was, I Am” – Jesus
Explains the Omnipresent Christ Consciousness
by Which All Time and Space Are Annihilated …..............................56
Chapter 8 “I Am the Good Shepherd; The Good
Shepherd Giveth His Life for the Sheep” …......................................64
Chapter 9 Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Grave –
“I Am the Resurrection and the Life” …..............................................70
Chapter 10 Jesus Explains the Meaning of Satan and
How to Overcome His World Delusion.
The Twofold Duty of Man …..............................................................77
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Chapter 11 All Devotees Must Be a Combination of
Martha and Mary ............................................................................87
Chapter 12 The Inner Meaning of “The Lord's Prayer” ….................................89
Chapter 13 Meaning of “When Thy Eye Be Single, Thy
Whole Body Shall Be Full of Light” ................................................94
Chapter 14 Jesus' Advice – How To Build a World Free
from Wars …..................................................................................101
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THE UNIVERSAL CHRIST
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.” (John 1:12)
As a small cup cannot hold an ocean within it, no matter how willing it may be to do
so, likewise the cup of material human consciousness cannot grasp the universal Christ
Consciousness, no matter how desirous it is, but when the student, by the Praecepta*
method of Concentration and Meditation, enlarges the caliber of his consciousness in all
atoms (Christ Consciousness) within his own. This is what is meant by “received Him”.
Thus, according to Jesus, all souls who can actually find their souls one with Christ
Consciousness, by intuitive Self-Realization, can be called the “Sons of God”.
All Scriptures, such as the Bhagavad Gita, or the Hindu Bible, and the Christian
Bible, have a three-fold meaning. In other words, the Scriptures deal with three factors of
human beings, namely, the material, the mental, and the spiritual. Hence, all true Scriptures
have been so written that they serve to be beneficial to the body, mind, and soul of man.
True Scriptures are like the wells of Divine waters, which can quench the three-fold
material, mental, and spiritual thirsts of man. In addition, the Scriptures, in order to be
worth-while, should really help the businessman, the mental man, and the spiritual man.
Although both the material and the psychological interpretations of the Scriptures are
necessary, it should be remembered that the scriptural authors undertook with great pains
to point out to man that the spiritual interpretations are of supreme importance to him.
A materially or intellectually successful man may not be truly, scientifically successful
man who makes a perfect success of life; whereas, a spiritual man is the happy “all-round”
man, who is healthy, intellectual, contented, and truly prosperous, with all-satisfying
wisdom. Since by intuition the spiritual authors first sought to make man primarily spiritual, I
give the spiritual interpretation with the psychological and material interpretations
interwoven. These interpretations will help alike the spiritual aspirant, the intellectual man,
and the businessman.
These intuitively-perceived spiritual interpretations of the words spoken by Jesus
Christ are to be studied every day conscientiously and meditated upon by true Christian
and all true devotees of God.
Universal Christ Consciousness appeared in the vehicle of Jesus, and now through
the specific techniques of concentration and meditation as taught in the original Praecepta
Lessons, and these intuitionally-received interpretations of the Scriptures, the Christ
Consciousness is coming a second time to manifest through the consciousness of every
true devotee of God.
PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
*Initially the organizational name and the written teachings in America of Paramhansa Yogananda were
known as Yogoda Sat-Sanga Society and Yogoda Course, respectively. He later enlarged his written
teachings and changed the name of them to the Praecepta. The Techniques of Concentration and Meditation
and Kriya Yoga as taught in the original Praecepta Lessons are available from Amrita Foundation, Inc.
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A SACRED REMEMBRANCE
When Paramhansa Yogananda began writing his intuitively-perceived interpretations
of the sayings of Jesus, he prayed for Christ to guide him in divining the true meaning in his
words.
Paramhansaji was blessed with the presence and vision of Jesus Christ many times
during his life. On one such occasion, in later years, he asked a question of Jesus
pertaining to these writings.
It was a time of silent prayer and his room became filled with an opal-blue light, and
Christ appeared – radiant and about him a glow of golden light. Looking into his wondrously
beautiful eyes, he asked Christ if he had pleased him in the way he had interpreted his
teachings.
At once a Chalice appeared at Christ’s lips, and then came over to touch his own,
and Christ answered:
“Your lips have quaffed the same LIVING WATERS from which I drink.”
Words of matchless assurance! This holy response was sacredly cherished
within his heart.
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Chapter 1
DID JESUS BELIEVE IN REBIRTH?
– HIS TEACHING ON REINCARNATION
“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, 'IF ANY MAN WILL COME AFTER ME, LET
HIM DENY HIMSELF, AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS, AND FOLLOW ME. FOR
WHOSOEVER WILL SAVE HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT: AND WHOSOEVER WILL LOSE
HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE SHALL FIND IT. FOR WHAT IS A MAN PROFITED, IF HE
SHALL GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL? OR WHAT SHALL A
MAN GIVE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS SOUL?'”
(Matthew 16:24-26)
“Let any devotee who wants to attain me or my Christ Consciousness rise
by meditation above the consciousness of his physical self and let him keep his
attention constantly focused in his Christ peace even though he is daily crucified
by restlessness and other trials and distractions. For whosoever will keep his life
identified with the body and foolishly protect his body from the trials and
restlessness felt in the struggle to meditate shall find that ultimately he will lose
all the temporary joys of mundane life; but the devotee who is prepared to give
up the pleasures of his physical life for the superior ever-new bliss of Christ
Consciousness felt in deep meditation will certainly find his life saved or
endowed with eternal happiness of Spirit.”
Preaches by His Life
“Any devotee who lives the Christ life and preaches about it through the
vibrations of his divine perceptions and not through book reading and who
foregoes all physical pleasures of life or the body itself will attain immortality. If a
man gains the whole world it is of little profit to him, for he cannot use all the
comforts of the world in one life and he has to lose the kingdom of the earth at
death.
“Thus it is foolishness for a man to strive to gain the temporary joys of
mundane life. A man who lives identified with material riches finds at the end of
his life that he is without riches as well as without God Consciousness. A man,
by the intoxication of his unspiritual life, loses the soul in the mires of ignorance.
No earthly pleasures, however great, are good enough to buy back the lost
immortal happiness of soul consciousness or superconsciousness felt in
meditation. Therefore, no one should give up the joys of superconsciousness felt
in meditation in preference to the joys of sense pleasures.”
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"'FOR THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME IN THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER WITH
HIS ANGELS; AND THEN HE SHALL REWARD EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS
WORKS. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of
death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.'”
(Matthew 16:27-28)
“When, to the Son of man, or in the body, the Cosmic Consciousness of
the Father and the glory of its angelic joys and wisdom are revealed, then the
devotee knows that everyone is rewarded according to his labors of meditation in
reaping the plenteous harvest of God Consciousness. Every devotee according
to the depth of his meditation finds the angels of different states of Selfrealization
revealed in his human consciousness (Son-of-man) through the
ecstatic communion of Cosmic Consciousness.”
Devotees See Angels
“Every devotee according to the law of cause and effect or the law of
karma which governs his various degrees of meditation and all his actions finds
himself farther or nearer to God. Advanced devotees through the light of Cosmic
Consciousness perceive disembodied advanced souls in the shape of luminous
angels. Any devotee who is ashamed to express the joys of Christ
Consciousness and the words of wisdom springing from it to the body-identified,
divine-bliss-deserting souls, will find a deterioration of his state of Christ
Consciousness which he had contacted within his body due to the ecstatic
revelations of Cosmic Consciousness and of the sacred angels of inspirations
springing from it.
“Any devotee who forgets to be courageous and unselfish and does not try
to share his ecstatic joys with body-identified souls will find his consciousness
becoming limited within the confinement of his own ego. He who tries to transmit
his ecstasy to other souls will find himself expanding. A soul who feels his joy in
other souls gradually feels himself as the Self of all and ultimately becomes
identified with the omnipresent consciousness of God the Father.
“All devotees who contact Christ Consciousness in earth life but for fear of
persecution or ridicule do not try to transmit their consciousness to their ignorant
brothers will find, after death, a deterioration of their Christ Consciousness. Such
selfish souls visiting Christ Consciousness in the after-death state are again sent
back to earth to learn to share their spiritual attainments with body-identified
souls who are the sleeping children of God.”
“Shall Not Taste Death”
“Verily I truthfully reveal unto you there are some devotees who are
standing around me who shall first feel the all-powerful Cosmic Consciousness
within their human consciousness before they make a transition from their
present bodily existence to another plane.”
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Law of Materialization
“AND AFTER SIX DAYS JESUS TAKETH PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN HIS
BROTHER, AND BRINGETH THEM UP INTO AN HIGH MOUNTAIN APART, AND
WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM: AND HIS FACE DID SHINE AS THE SUN, AND
HIS RAIMENT WAS WHITE AS THE LIGHT. And, behold, there appeared unto them
Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, 'Lord, it is
good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and
one for Moses, and one for Elias.'
“WHILE HE YET SPAKE, BEHOLD, A BRIGHT CLOUD OVERSHADOWED THEM:
AND BEHOLD A VOICE OUT OF THE CLOUD, WHICH SAID, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED
SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED; HEAR YE HIM.' And when the disciples heard it,
they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said,
'Arise, and be not afraid.' And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save
Jesus only.”
(Matthew 17:1-8)
It is extremely important to know the way by which Jesus transfigured
himself, and how Elias and Moses materialized themselves and came to Jesus.
When a person is intently watching a picture being played in a motion
picture house, he might be so engrossed as to think all the actors and players in
the picture to be real. When he arouses himself and watches the pictures
closely, he realizes they are caused by a ray of electrical light falling on the
screen. Thus he beholds their true electrical nature and their unlikeness to real
earthly forms and figures.
Likewise, most human beings are so busy watching the earthly motion
picture playing on the screen of their consciousness and space, that they
overlook their real nature. A Master, one who has tuned his consciousness with
God, realizes that the earth, with all its solids, liquids, gaseous substances,
human beings, sky and stars, is nothing but the different forms of vibrations of
electro-protonic rays playing on the screen of space.
Electrical Nature of the Universe
Jesus was a great Master who had realized the electrical nature of his own
body and the universe. When he was praying on the mountain top, consciously
communing with Cosmic Consciousness, the delusive human consciousness in
him and his disciples, which made the universe appear as matter, completely
vanished. That is why the body of Jesus was shorn of the mask of delusion and
the consciousness of solidity, and appeared luminous and ethereal.
Intensified prayer produces ecstasy or oneness with Cosmic
Consciousness. A Master who has experienced highest ecstasy with God
Consciousness actually sees his body and all the worldly forms as made of light.
Such a one, also, can make his very advanced disciples behold all forms of
matter as made of electrical energy. All liberated Masters, even though they
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merge in Cosmic Consciousness, retain their individuality so that by the mere
willing they can come out of the Cosmic Ocean and materialize their forms in any
way they want. Thus it is that Elias and Moses, being liberated souls, remained
in Spirit, but materialized their forms and appeared on the mountain top with
Jesus according to divine ordinance.
Elias Was Jesus' Guru in a Former Incarnation
It must be especially noted that the appearance of Elias on the mountain
top with Jesus Christ was very significant. I have pointed out before that Elias or
Elijah was no other than the Guru-Preceptor of Jesus in Jesus' former
incarnation as Elisha (Eleseus). Jesus, himself, acknowledged that Elias had
come already as John the Baptist. Thus it is significant and easily understood
why Jesus asked the reincarnated Elijah or John the Baptist to baptize him, for it
is the Guru who gives spiritual baptism to the disciple. When Jesus came to John
for baptism, Jesus said, “SUFFER IT TO BE SO; FOR THUS IT BECOMETH US
TO FULFIL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Matt. 3:15), that is, it is the divine law that
all righteous individuals find liberation through divine union of souls, between
Guru-Preceptor and disciple.
Liberated After Ordeal
It must be also carefully noted that the appearance of Elias (Elijah) on the
mountain top where Jesus was transfigured, happened after John the Baptist
was beheaded and by this ordeal found his complete liberation. The soul of
Elias, after leaving the body of Elias, reincarnated in the body of John the
Baptist. When the body of John the Baptist was beheaded, the soul of Elias
became completely liberated in spirit. That is why Elias appeared as Elias and
not as John the Baptist on the mount where Jesus experienced his
transfiguration.
Moses and Jesus Together
On the Mount of Transfiguration
It has been described before that the Guru-Preceptor is the highest
messenger chosen by God to liberate a true devotee. The Guru-Preceptor and
the true devotee form a pact of unconditional love and try to help each other
through incarnations until the final liberation is reached. Elias and Jesus, both
being highly spiritually advanced, had been in touch with each other in many
incarnations, not known to man. That is why Elias appeared to Jesus Christ to
give him his spiritual strength that he might without difficulty overcome the
greatest ordeal of death on the cross.
Moses appeared with Jesus to show that both of them were inseparably
connected in the spiritual path and had been connected in divine work in many
incarnations. The modern Jews, therefore, should find and establish their
brotherhood with Christians. Moses, the Master of the Jews, and Jesus, the
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Master of the Christians, having appeared together on the Mount of
Transfiguration in divine glory, ought to be the inspiration of the Christian and
Jewish people alike.
Moses and Jesus, being present in heaven now, with grief consciously
watch the clannish differences that have arisen between the Jewish and
Christian children of God. Jesus Christ's body came from the Jewish race. The
entire Jewish people are not to blame because a few wicked Jews were
instruments in the crucifixion of Jesus. Jewish people should acknowledge the
greatness of Moses because he appeared with Jesus on the Mount of
Transfiguration.
Great Ones Unite
The united presence of Moses and Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration
was a divine beacon light installed in the dark past by God that it might shine
through future Ages to dissolve the dark differences of denominationalism which
exist between His Jewish and Christian children.
The vibrating voice of the Father and the celestial cloud which enveloped
the three Masters and the disciples of Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration
distinctly reveals that the Heavenly Father had a special message for the world
through the united liberated lives of Jesus, Moses and Elias.
The appearance of Elias with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration also
establishes the fact that all truth-seeking souls, including great Masters like
Jesus, cannot find liberation through themselves or by following a blind teacher,
but by tuning in with a God-sent Guru-Preceptor. Jesus said: “None can come
unto me, unless the Heavenly Father draweth him.” That is, only when a devotee
intensely prays to God to know truth can he be sent a true Guru-Preceptor for
guidance.
Every devotee should remember that in order to find a true Guru-
Preceptor, he must constantly pray to God. And if the devotee thoroughly
believes and continuously prays, then God will surely send him a true Guru-
Preceptor. God, Himself, teaches the eager devotee through the words,
thoughts, wisdom, and intuitions of a true Guru-Preceptor.
Jesus Explains That John the Baptist Was Formerly Elias
"And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, 'Tell the
vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.' And his disciples
asked him, saying, 'Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?'
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, 'Elias truly shall first come, and restore all
things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have
done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.'
“Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.”
(Matthew 17:9-13)
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The disciples did not understand what Jesus meant about “rising again
from the dead”. The last paragraph of the Jewish Scriptures, the Old Testament,
said that “ELIAS SHALL TRULY FIRST COME AND RESTORE ALL THINGS”
(Malachi 4:5), and it was about this prophecy that the disciples questioned
Jesus.
That John the Baptist was the incarnation of Elias (Elijah) is explained in
the first chapter of Luke, where the angel appeared to Zacarias to foretell the
birth of a son, “AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JOHN” (verse 13); “AND HE
SHALL GO BEFORE HIM IN THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF ELIAS … TO MAKE
READY A PEOPLE PREPARED FOR THE LORD” (verse 17).
Jesus said: “It has also been written in the Scriptures how the son of man
or my physical self would suffer many trials and find resistance from the people
he would teach. By the Christ Consciousness in me I know and declare unto you
that Elias has already come before me, reborn as John the Baptist, who has
already been beheaded and received back into heaven in the state of final
liberation as Elias whom you saw with me on the mount where I was
transfigured. So Elias has already come in the body of John the Baptist but the
people did not recognize him and they have already killed him. I prophesy that
my body also will suffer like John the Baptist's at the hands of the ignorant
people.”
In the above words of Jesus is the great answer to all Christians as to
whether Jesus believed in reincarnation or not. Some of the prophets of the Old
Testament who predicted the reincarnation of Elias knew and not merely
believed that reincarnation was based on the law of cause and effect governing
all lives.
It must be remembered that the doctrine of reincarnation is very ancient.
Two hundred million people of India, five hundred million Buddhists in China and
Japan and India, the ancient Druid priests and eminent philosophers of the East
and West have believed and do believe in the doctrine of reincarnation.
Without the law of reincarnation no one can explain why some people are
born blind or why some are born rich and some are born poor and others are
born wicked and some are born good. The premature death of people also shows
that when they die in an imperfect state they could not find liberation;
necessarily they must reincarnate on earth in order to get an opportunity to
perfect themselves. If this life is the beginning and the end then it clearly reveals
the injustice and partiality of nature and God in making some people good and
well and in making others evil and sick.
Jesus said before, “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his
Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his
works.” All souls after death, on their arrival in the astral world according to the
cosmic law emanating from Christ Consciousness, find themselves judged
according to their works or karma while they lived on earth.
Karma – Cosmic Law
Thus the cosmic law liberates the very advanced souls into God. They,
having overcome material desires, become pillars, or immortal entities in the
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omnipresent mansion of God, and they need go out no more through
reincarnation on earth.
“HIM THAT OVERCOMETH WILL I MAKE A PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE OF
MY GOD, AND HE SHALL GO NO MORE OUT” (Revelation 3:12).
But other souls, according to their various material desires and good or
evil activities, are born into various kinds of good or bad families on earth. If we
are the tools of destiny and if we have to live according to the predestined laws
of God then the endowment of freedom of will becomes meaningless to us. We
are endowed with free will and act as we like, thus accumulating good or bad
seeds of actions which govern all our future lives. Having free will we are the
architects of our own destiny.
Lack of prenatal memory does not prove that a man did not reincarnate
before, for a man does not remember his life at birth or the first year of his
existence. Great saints who can keep their consciousness and memory intact
during death and after, remember who they were before they died, and
remember their former lives after they are reborn. Since Jesus knew who John
the Baptist was before – Elias (Elijah) – so he also knew that he himself was
Eleseus (Elisha), the disciple of Elias.
An earthly judge has sense enough to pronounce the term of imprisonment
of a criminal according to the nature of his crime. So also the greatest of all
judges, the Cosmic Law, helps people to reap their rewards or punishments
according to their karmas or actions on the earth plane. A million incarnations of
sin committed by a soul could attract a million years of vile incarnations but no
more. A soul, being primarily and essentially made in the image of God, even if
responsible for a million years of sin, could not attract eternal damnation. Finite
acts could not reap infinite results.
Man Is the Image of God
Then comes the question, how can a man by virtuous actions of one or
more incarnation, become eternally liberated? It must be remembered that man
being made in the image of God is always eternally good, and becomes only
temporarily deluded. This temporary delusion leads man to think he is mortal. So
long as he thinks he is mortal so long must he suffer.
This mortal consciousness in a soul may extend to few or many
incarnations, but through self-effort and law of God the prodigal soul finds
wisdom. As soon as a prodigal soul is illumined he remembers the eternal image
of God within him and returns to his home of Cosmic Consciousness. Then the
Father serves him with the fatted calf or eternal wisdom and liberates him
forever.
Delusion Is Temporary
Man, being made primarily in the image of God may misuse his free will for
a time and consider himself mortal, but that temporary delusion can never erase
from within him the mark of immortality and God's image of perfection. Hence,
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souls being made in the image of God can never by means of temporary delusion
be essentially changed into eternally evil entities.
A baby who was never baptized and prematurely dies cannot possibly have
used his free will to be either virtuous enough to be liberated or vicious enough
to be damned. Nature must bring the baby back to earth to give it a chance to
use its free will to work out the past karma for which it met death, and to perform
enough good actions to liberate itself. So all souls made in the image of God,
after a number of incarnations of delusive earthly living, by self-effort and
awakening of wisdom ultimately merge in their eternal abode in Spirit.
If an immortal soul does not work out his delusion in one school of life he
has to have another or more schoolings before he returns home in Cosmic
Consciousness by remembering his immortality. Ordinary souls usually
reincarnate being compelled by their earth-bound desires; great souls come on
earth partially to work out their karma but principally to act as noble sons of God
to show lost children the way to their heavenly Father's all-liberating home.
Great Souls Can Take On the Karma of Others
“And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain
man, kneeling down to him, and saying, 'Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is
lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. And I
brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.'
“Then Jesus answered and said, 'O faithless and perverse generation, how long
shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.'”
(Matthew 17:14-17)
“O, ye generation of people filled with ignorance and without selfrealization
of Spirit, I have been so long with you and you have not appreciated
me, and how long shall I suffer beholding your agonies and also for taking your
evil karmas on myself? Anyway, bring your son to me.”
In the above words Jesus expressed sorrow for constantly overburdening
himself with the evil karma of others. Great souls by their will power can work
out the suffering of others in their own souls and thus relive them, as a rich man
might save a criminal from imprisonment by paying his fine. But it must be
remembered that this happens only to repentant souls who, by their good karma,
happen to meet a Master who can partially minimize their sufferings. The
forgiving of sins and working out of karmas by another will be discussed more
fully later on.
Jesus knew that by accumulating the evil karmas or sinful actions of others
he would ultimately have to pay in the shape of the crucifixion of his body. Jesus
gave up man's dearest possession, his body, for working out the karmas of
others by his crucifixion.
While Jesus let his body be crucified through the sins of others yet by
superior soul force he resurrected his body and proved his victory over all karma
of himself and of others. Realizing the terrible ordeal which he would have to go
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through for taking on the karma of others, he said, “How long shall I suffer for
you and stand for the impositions of your karma on my soul?” Even though Jesus
realized he would have to carry much evil karma by healing the possessed son
of the man still, due to his infinite compassion, he agreed to heal the boy.
“And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the
spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. And he asked his
father, 'How long is it ago since this came unto him?' And he said, 'Of a child. And ofttimes
it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any
thing, have compassion on us, and help us.' Jesus said unto him, 'IF THOU CANST
BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM THAT BELIEVETH.' And straightway the
father of the child cried out, and said with tears, 'LORD, I BELIEVE; HELP THOU MINE
UNBELIEF.' When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul
spirit, saying unto him, 'Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and
enter no more into him.'
“And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one
dead; insomuch that many said, 'He is dead.' But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted
him up; and he arose. And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him
privately, 'Why could not we cast him out?' And he said unto them, 'THIS KIND CAN
COME FORTH BY NOTHING, BUT BY PRAYER AND FASTING.'”
(Mark 9:20-29)
A person who believes in his own power and in the power of God
continuously without doubt can accomplish everything, spiritual or material,
whatever he wants. It must be remembered that people must not expect to
accomplish all results by a moment's belief.
How To Cultivate Faith
There is a way to cultivate belief until it becomes faith or absolute
conviction. Belief is the initial recipient attitude of the mind necessary for the
seed of a desire to be planted. When the soil of belief is continuously watered
with belief in Self and a Master then it sprouts into faith or absolute conviction
that the desired result will be accomplished.
As a person learns the laws of planting for a good harvest so a truthseeking
individual must learn how to cultivate belief so that it may yield the
desired result. Jesus knew the laws of truth; he was equipped with all-mighty
God-consciousness and knew that any one who believed in his words would
create a channel through which the Christ-Consciousness could easily be
transferred to him. All spiritual teachers could not say what Jesus said because
they themselves are not always convinced of the all-accomplishing power of
divine will and intuition-born faith or conviction.
Jesus said: “O thou wicked, disembodied soul, thou hast been deaf and
dumb in the astral world because of thy evil karma. Instead of working out thy
evil actions why art thou piling more evil actions in your soul by possessing this
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child before me? O evil spirit, because you have been deaf and dumb that is why
your obsession has caused the loss of speech and hearing in the child before
me. I command you to come out of his body and do not possess him any more.”
In the above Jesus evidently hints that there are deaf and dumb spirits who
try to possess earthly souls in order that they might hear or speak but due to
their evil karmas, even whey they unlawfully possess an individual, they are still
unable to hear or speak and in that way destroy the vocal chords and the
auditory nerves of the possessed individual. Such spirits, being condemned by
their own karmas to be deaf and dumb cannot hear or speak even when they
possess other bodies. Such is the immutable law of karma or cause and effect
which governs all life.
Charged By Cosmic Energy
Due to this boy being possessed by the evil spirit since childhood his
nervous system was completely exhausted. Thus, even when the evil spirit left
him, the boy appeared as dead. But Jesus took him by the hand and charged
Cosmic Energy in it and lifted him up. From that hour the boy was cured.
Jesus said to his disciples: “To cast out the evil spirit long lodged in that
boy required steady faith. When you failed to heal him by one or two attempts
you disbelieved and because of your unbelief he was not healed. I declare unto
you through my Christ Consciousness that if you have meditation-born intuitive
conviction, even as little as a mustard seed, then you can tell the mountain of
difficulties to disappear and it will do so. It is the cosmic conviction of God which
is all-powerful and has created stars, planets, human beings. God knows that He
is all-powerful; He intuitively feels He can do anything so whatever He thinks He
can do, He does.
“So souls by deeper and deeper meditation can ultimately acquire the
almighty intuitive conviction of God. When souls possess this intuitive conviction
they will understand that all cosmic vibrations of matter and its manifestations
are controlled and guided by God's intuitive conviction. Realizing that, a soul can
transfer a mountain from one place to another. When advanced souls find their
convictions in tune with God's convictions then they realize the relation of
intuition and matter. Thus an advanced soul by the power of his intuitive
conviction can create anything in matter.
“All the figures and forms in a dream are controlled and manifested by the
imagination of the dreamer. The imagination of the dreamer can create any
changes in the dream he perceives. So a person who can dream at will realizes
he can create anything or any changes in the dreamland. Likewise the cosmic
dream is sustained by God's consciousness and I, Christ, being in tune with that
consciousness can create any changes in the cosmic dream-manifestations. That
is how I healed the obsessed son of that father.
“But remember, I am not telling you that if you mentally imagine a
mountain to go from one place to another, it will. It is only when you have
developed your faith by God-contact that you can accomplish anything. When
you have acquired this God-consciousness which controls all the dream forms in
the cosmos, then through that consciousness you can create any changes in the
universe. But I strongly warn you again that this power to accomplish anything by
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faith cannot come by doing nothing or by mere belief. It comes by constant
demand for Cosmic Consciousness in meditation (prayer) and by remaining away
and aloof from the body-consciousness by occasional fasting.”
Not By Imagination
It is inspiring how Jesus says that people cannot achieve wonderful results
by imagination but must commune with Cosmic Consciousness in prayer and by
not stimulating the body-consciousness by constant eating. Those who meditate
deeply, fast often and stay away from the body-consciousness ultimately develop
their intuition and all-accomplishing power of conviction or faith. Jesus says that
even a little intuitive-power can accomplish wonders, more than great power of
imagination. He emphasizes that this power of faith or intuitive conviction does
not come by a mental belief or intellectual conviction but by regular, deep prayer
or meditation and by subjecting the body to the discipline involved in fasting and
moral living. Thus as the consciousness of the devotee is finally united to
Cosmic Consciousness, he realizes that he can create any changes in the
cosmic dream which is sustained by that Cosmic Consciousness.
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Chapter 2
WHY JESUS SAID ALL MEN MUST BECOME
AS LITTLE CHILDREN TO ENTER HEAVEN
– WHY GOD IS HUMBLE
“And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to
Peter, and said, 'Doth not your master pay tribute?' He saith, 'Yes.' And when he was come
into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, 'What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the
kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?'
Peter saith unto him, 'Of strangers.' Jesus saith unto him, 'Then are the children free.
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and
take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find
a piece of money; that take, and give unto them for me and thee.'”
(Matthew 17:24-27)
Jesus said: “The kings of the earth do not gather tribute from their own
children. They go free. Likewise, those that are materially-minded and worldly
needs must give taxes to earthly kings, but we, being the children of God,
consider all things in the world belong to God. Being the children of God who
owns the cosmos, we also own it.
“However, though we know in our minds we are the children of God, still,
lest we offend the order of the world, let us do our part in paying taxes. Dear
Simon, that you may know I am the child of God, you shall see His glory, that He
will free me from the earthly obligations of paying taxes by miraculously sending
me some money through a fish in the sea.”
“And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, 'What was it
that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?' But they held their peace: for by the
way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. And he
sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, 'IF ANY MAN DESIRE TO BE
FIRST, THE SAME SHALL BE LAST OF ALL, AND SERVANT OF ALL.'”
(Mark 9:33-35)
“If any devotee wants to be foremost in God's eyes, he should desire to be
least in the world's estimation. He should be the humblest and serve all with love
and humility in utter forgetfulness of egoism or selfishness. A person who
desires to be the greatest in heaven, must endeavor, as long as he lives, to
contact Christ Consciousness in meditation, and must outwardly keep his
consciousness ready to serve all. It is not the person who wishes to be foremost
that is the greatest, but the person who is in tune, to the end of his days, with
Christ Consciousness and is ready to be the servant of all. His consciousness
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becomes one with the Great Spirit – Cosmic Consciousness – and consequently
he would be considered greatest in heaven.”
In these words of Jesus we find wonderful hints as to who can be the
greatest in the cosmos. God never wants to be foremost, therefore He silently
serves all creation and all creatures to the end of eternity, without asking
anything in return. God, being in love with all, feels His oneness with all things
and creatures. Thus, He is the greatest. There can be no one greater than God.
Anyone who wants to be the greatest in the universe must be humble like God
and be in eternal tune with Him.
Child Is Not Egotistical
“And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
and said, 'VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, EXCEPT YE BE CONVERTED, AND
BECOME AS LITTLE CHILDREN, YE SHALL NOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN. WHOSOEVER THEREFORE SHALL HUMBLE HIMSELF AS THIS
LITTLE CHILD, THE SAME IS GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.'”
(Matthew 18:2-4)
“Through the verification of my divine knowledge, I declare unto you that
unless, by meditation and a proper guru-preceptor's help, you change your egoguided
worldly nature into the soul-guided childlike nature, you will never be able
to rise above your body-consciousness and let your inner Self enter into the
ever-new bliss state of Christ Consciousness. On the mountain peak of egoconsciousness
the raindrops of divine mercy do not remain. But in the vast valley
of childlike humbleness (unegotistical mentality) the mercy-drops of divinity ever
gather into a vast lake of wisdom.
“An egotistical person identifies his unlimited soul consciousness with
certain physical, mental or astral powers and thus creates around himself a
hedge of limitation which shuts out the greater part of Cosmic Consciousness.
My Heavenly Father, being all-powerful, does not identify His consciousness with
any one power, and thus limit Himself by egotism. My Father in Heaven does not
separate Himself from His powers by being conscious of them. He keeps His
infinite qualities infinitely dissolved in the fathomless ocean of His humbleness.
All good and beautiful children made after the pure image of the Father are
humble and unaware of their priceless qualities. So any devotee who rises above
ego-consciousness by identifying himself with the childlike humble qualities of
God is the greatest in His kingdom.
“God is the greatest in His heavenly kingdom of bliss, so the humble
devotee being one with Him is also the greatest, possessing all God's powers
because he doest not claim any one of them. Any devotee who by divine
communion and ecstasy absorbs in his cosmic-vibration-saturated
consciousness the divine childlike qualities, receives Me or gradually manifests
my omnipresent Christ Consciousness. But any wicked person who by egotism
and love for his physical body deliberately disturbs and offends any inner
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childlike divine quality which manifests my Christ Consciousness, will feel the
millstone of misery heavy in his life, drowning him in the depths of the sea of
ignorance.”
Physical Child Not Meant
In the above words of Christ, it must be strictly noted what Jesus means by
the humble little child being the greatest in heaven. A humble, little ignorant child
on earth may be dear to all, but he is not considered as the greatest soul on
earth. But a wise man who contacts God in meditation manifests the childlike
humble quality of God.
The Hindu Scriptures say the one who knows Brahman or Spirit is Spirit
Himself, so the wise man who is one with God is God Himself. Egotism is the
surest sign of an ignorant man. A childlike humble nature in a wise man is the
surest sign that he contacts God. There is a proverb that a few fish in a small
bowl make a lot of noise, but the whales and big denizens moving in the ocean
do not create much commotion. So egotists with their little powers brag about
them, but great Masters who in divine vision can see the whole cosmos in the
twinkling of an eye hardly speak of their powers. God has every power
conceivable in the universe, yet He never uses them for the sake of display. That
is how far He is humble.
Humbleness does not signify an assumed meekness; a pretense of
humbleness doest not make one humble. A person who is continuously busy
developing great powers within him is so absorbed in so doing that he never
speaks of it. Thus, when a person is so absorbed in doing great things that he
has no time to talk about it, he is really humble. But a person who remains
mentally and physically idle imagining that he is doing great things, spends all
his time telling how great he is. The egotistical person talks all the time about his
powers.
The most humble person being completely busy with the Great God has no
time to talk about himself. A wonderful child blooms like a flower, unable to talk
or advertise about its fragrance or beauty. So a divine man must be, absorbed in
the beauty of God, unaware like a child of his own qualities. To love children is
to worship some of the most beautiful of God's qualities on the altar of love.
Deep Christ Saying
Any person who thinks it is all a simple matter, that if he receives a child in
his home in the name of Jesus Christ he will know Him, is mistaken. Only when a
devotee develops childlike qualities in meditation does he gradually manifest
Christ Consciousness.
All the great master minds that I have seen are childlike. The masters
display all the qualities of sincerity, frankness, nonattachment, universality,
uniformity of action, thought and speech, forgiveness, truthfulness, calmness,
sweetness, laughter and worrilessness, belonging to a child, minus the latter's
ignorance.
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A person who does not cultivate the above-mentioned childlike qualities
latent in the soul is constantly tortured by selfishness, suspicion, worries, fear
and attachment which drown his peace in the ocean of misery. Just as a child
lives happily, confidently secure in the protecting power of parents, so a divine
man relinquishes fear, worldliness and egotistical living, by becoming a divine
child, completely depending on the all-protecting power of God.
All divine masters who are liberated in God preserve their individuality
throughout eternity even though they all become one with God. In other words,
the liberated divine masters all know they come out of God and then merge in
Him. Thus knowing God, they understand that He became their many selves, as
Christ, Christna, Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sriyukteswarji and other saints of
God.
"'WHOSOEVER SHALL RECEIVE ONE OF SUCH CHILDREN; IN MY
NAME, RECEIVETH ME; AND WHOSOEVER SHALL RECEIVE ME, RECEIVETH
NOT ME, BUT HIM THAT SENT ME.’”
(Mark 9:37)
Jesus said: “Any devotee who is in tune with my Christ Consciousness and
with a childlike spirit loves a child and his heavenly qualities will feel my
presence in his guileless mentality. Any devotee who expands his consciousness
by deep meditation and thus can receive or be in tune with my Christ
Consciousness shall not find his consciousness limited by the Christ Intelligence
present in all vibratory creation, but shall rise through his Christ Consciousness
to the Cosmic Consciousness which exists even beyond all creative vibrations.”
Soul Becomes Released
“The devotee who is in tune with Christ Consciousness does not remain
confined there but gets in tune with Cosmic Consciousness through me (Christ
Consciousness), which is the reflection of the Cosmic Consciousness. The soul
of any devotee who has banished his ego-consciousness or body-consciousness
becomes released to be one with the omnipresent great Cosmic Consciousness.
Hence the devotee who has little or no body-consciousness, being one with God,
is considered greatest in the eyes of the metaphysical law.”
Jesus did not mean that anybody who loves children will have Christ
Consciousness, but anyone who with wisdom and Christ Spirit loves children will
feel Christ Consciousness in them. Jesus emphasizes the fact that devotees
should receive and absorb the best qualities of children (lack of egotism, bodyconsciousness,
selfishness and attachment, and presence of purity,
guilelessness, innocence, obedience, humbleness, meekness, love, trust and
joy).
In children lies the manifestation of some of the best qualities of Christ
Consciousness, therefore Jesus points out that if a devotee is in tune with some
of the best qualities of children, he will easily know how to contact Christ
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Consciousness. To love the best in children is the easiest way to practice
tangible Christ qualities in daily life.
Jesus also meant that he who is egotistical and considers himself great is
thrown down from the temple of others' hearts and set at the lowest point of their
estimation. But the person who loves and serves all without a selfish motive
becomes the great emperor sitting on the throne of all hearts.
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Chapter 3
THE REAL MEANING OF “HELL-FIRE”
AS USED BY JESUS IN THE BIBLE – THE “HELL”
OF DESIRE, WHERE THE “FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED”
“And John answered him, saying, 'Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy
name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.' But Jesus
said, 'FORBID HIM NOT: FOR THERE IS NO MAN WHICH SHALL DO A MIRACLE IN MY
NAME, THAT CAN LIGHTLY SPEAK EVIL OF ME. FOR HE THAT IS NOT AGAINST US
IS ON OUR PART. For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name,
because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.'
“'And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better
for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. AND IF
THY HAND OFFEND THEE, CUT IT OFF: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed,
than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where
their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.'
“'AND IF THY FOOT OFFEND THEE, CUT IT OFF: it is better for thee to enter halt
into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. AND IF THINE EYE OFFEND
THEE, PLUCK IT OUT: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye,
than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.’”
(Mark 9:38-48)
“Beloved disciples, do not cast out any man who is working healings in my
name (through my Christ Consciousness). It does not matter whether a man has
outward connections with us or not; so long as he is in tune with the Christ
Consciousness, he is one with me and all of us and is justified to perform divine
healings, which cannot be monopolized by anyone.
“Anyone who works the divine law is justified to administer divine healings
to stricken children of God. Any person who works the miracle of divine healing
through the vibration of my Christ Consciousness cannot in any way talk against
me, in whom Christ Consciousness is fully manifested.”
Expansion of Consciousness
“Any devotee who does not practice anything against our principles is
naturally in tune with us. Any person who shall help you even with a cup of water
when you are thirsty will be rewarded because of the manifestation of Christ
Consciousness in the consciousness of all. Anyone who is in sympathy with you
all is in tune with the Christ Consciousness present in you all and will be
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rewarded by expansion of consciousness. A person in tune with you all will
automatically and sympathetically attract the qualities of Christ Consciousness.
“Anyone who shall persecute in any way any disciple who is in tune with
me and manifests the divine qualities of little children, will attract evil to himself,
being used by the evil force. Anyone who would persecute disciples with Christ
Consciousness would attract to himself great spiritual and physical misery, far
greater than if he hung a millstone around his neck and cast himself into the sea.
“Physical misery ends with death but spiritual misery born of ignorant actions
continues after death, in the astral world on to postnatal existence, according to the law of
karma.
“If financial greed (hand) offends the divine law and keeps you from attaining
spirituality, destroy your greed. It is better that you maim your unspiritual qualities or even
your body in the attempt to reach eternal happiness. It is better to have everlasting
happiness in preference to bodily happiness which has to be thrown into the fire of death,
misery and the unquenchable fires of earthly desires.
“Those who do not forsake their evil mortal habits during their earth-life carry those
torturing worms of evil tendencies into the astral world and their next incarnation and are
continuously burnt by the inextinguishable fires of ever-increasing evil desires.”
Foot Symbol of Activity
“And if the foot, symbol of material activity, prevents you from meditating and
attaining the kingdom of every-new joy felt in meditation, then by all means drop most of
your obstructing material activities. It is better to have the joy of eternal life than the
temporary pleasure through material activities which will end in the ever-increasing fire of
material desires, spreading from one incarnation to another.
“Anyone who does not attain heavenly happiness but remains engrossed in material
activities will find, after death, the worms of worries chasing him from one incarnation to
another, and the insatiable fires of material desires torturing him through many
incarnations.
“If any devotee finds his eye or material understanding conflicting with his spiritual
aspirations, he should modify it or give it up. It is better to enter by meditation into the
kingdom of eternal joy with one intuitional eye of wisdom than, with two material eyes of
duality and relativity, to remain burning in a hell-fire of miserable unsatisfying material
consciousness and bodily pleasures.
“Any person who remains identified with material desires and passes out in that state
will find the worms of material understanding bothering him in the astral world and from
incarnation to incarnation with continuous tendencies of distraction and desire for sensepleasures.
Such a person who has no divine wisdom finds himself continuously burning
with the fire of material desires.”
In the above words, when Jesus speaks of doing away with hand, foot or eye for
attaining the kingdom of God, he has a threefold message – one for the Christlike martyr,
one for the moralist and one for the yogi who scientifically tries to unite his soul with Spirit.
This threefold message is explained as follows:
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Divine Bravery
(1) After Cranmer, 16th Century martyr, wrote with his right hand something against
his religious convictions because he was going to be burnt at the stake with Latimer, he
cried, “Latimer, my unworthy hand shall burn first. We will light such a candle (of
Protestantism) as shall never be put out.” Cranmer smilingly burnt his right hand first and
then consecrated his whole body and its temporary pleasures to the flames, consciously
ascending into the heavenly region of Spirit.
Jesus gave up the temporary pleasures of his body on the cross to attain eternal
happiness, but if he had chosen bodily happiness in preference to eternal happiness of
Cosmic Consciousness, today perhaps through twenty centuries his soul might be still
roaming, afflicted with desires, suffering from the bites of the worms of worries through
many incarnations.
When Jesus saw that his hand, foot, eyes and his whole body were being tempted
by satanic ignorance, he gave them up so that even though physically maimed, he gained
everlasting life and also resurrection of the maimed body.
Jesus was wise to do that, for by sacrificing a temporal body, he inherited eternal
life. Those people who for complete pleasure of a healthy body, give up the desire to
meditate and be in God Consciousness are foolish, for they forsake eternal happiness and
immortality in order to enjoy the short-lasting physical happiness of a few years of bodily
existence on earth.
(2) The moral individual must give up his hand or love of money, his foot or
attachment to material activities of life, and his eye or worldly understanding, for the eternal
happiness of a moral spiritual life.
(3) To the yogi, Jesus, through his above words, gives the following message: “Any
devotee who tries to scientifically unite his soul with Spirit must know that meditation is the
only way to attain the eternal happiness of divine ecstatic contact. The devotee or yogi
during meditation often finds the sensations in his hands, feet and eyes in the shape of
sense-temptations or optical temptations of beauty and scenery trying to invade his brain
and distract his attention from marching toward the ecstatic union with God Consciousness
and ever-new joy of meditation. He should overcome by deep meditation, mental
concentration and the art of switching off the life force from the optical and auditory and
tactual sensory nerves, as is done unconsciously during the state of sleep.
“When the yogi by deep meditation enjoys the eternal happiness of God-contact, he
realizes that it is far better for him to enter the kingdom of ever-new joy of meditation by
maiming himself (silencing his physical self) or switching off his attention from the
consciousness of sensations of touch, hearing, sight, taste and smell.”
When the yogi by technique of meditation learns to switch off the life force from the
five sense telephones of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch, then he finds that his
attention becomes disconnected with the body and united with God Consciousness. When
a yogi, by switching off his attention from sensations, can enjoy ecstatic communion with
God, then he realizes that he will never again crave to indulge in physical happiness and
thereby remain continuously burning with material desires, love of sense-pleasures and
worries.
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Hell-Fire of Desire
So to the yogi Jesus says: “If bodily sensation and sense-pleasures prevent thee
from uniting your consciousness with the eternal ever-new happiness of meditation, then
cut them off by switching off your attention from the sensations. It is better to be united with
the eternal happiness found in meditation than to remain conscious of the body constantly
burning with the hell-fires of desires born of insatiable love of sense-pleasures and bitten
continuously by the worms of worries.”
“'Woe unto the world because of offences; for it must needs be that offences come;
but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!'”.
(Matthew 18:7)
Cosmic Delusion
“Physical, mental and soul sufferings and woes ensue in the world because of the
delusions and evils created by Satan or cosmic delusion. Because of the rebellion of the
cosmic delusion against God's words, the presence of evils or offences in the world is
unavoidable. Man did not create anger, greed, selfishness, sex consciousness; they were
implanted in him by Satan or cosmic delusion, along with the godly qualities implanted in
him by God.
“It is man who by the use of his free will and direction of inner wisdom can choose to
cultivate the goodness planted in him by God, and become forever happy and liberated.
But woe and threefold misery visit that physical man who identifies himself with the evil
passions planted within him by cosmic delusion. A man who acts according to the urge of
delusion brings the offences or evils from within him and lets them flow into his actions and
poison them.
“That is why you should disconnect the consciousness, attention and energy from
the hand or foot when it is used, or about to be used, as the instrument of evil. For physical
cutting of the hand or foot or the bodily organs does not destroy the evil in them. Destroying
the tongue does not destroy its greed. Greed must be destroyed from within.
“By will power you should cut off the currents and evil consciousness from the hands
and feet when they are about to become instruments of evil. After switching off the evil
impulses which engage your hands and feet to do evil, forever cast them off from you and
your consciousness.
Physical Cutting Off
Of Hands Not Meant
“I am not telling you to cut off your hands or feet if they have been the instruments of
evil, or to cast them off, for by doing so you destroy only the instruments of evil but not the
evil tendencies themselves, which are the real forces which urge your innocent hands and
feet to commit evil. Cutting off hands and feet may disable you from doing physical evil but
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it will not prevent you from doing mental evil which is the real cause of physical evil and the
downfall of the soul.
“It is better for you to enter into the consciousness of divine pleasure and eternal life
by halting or maiming or forever destroying your inclinations for temporal sense-pleasures.
It is better for you to relinquish temporary pleasures for the eternal bliss-God of meditation
rather than allowing the sense organs and nervous system to be continuously used to burn
with the insatiable fire of physical lust. If you are identified with your sense-pleasures, they
will inevitably make you aware that sensuality is everlastingly insatiable and productive of
fire-like burning misery.
“Pluck out the impulse in the optic nerves by disconnecting it by the power of
concentration when you are led to see evil or to act according to evil. After doing that
forever destroy the impulse of greed in your eyes. It is better for you to enter into Christ
Consciousness by opening the all-seeing eye of wisdom and meditative intuition rather than
use your two eyes of relativity and sense consciousness and thus remain bound in the
misery-making hell-fire of insatiable sensations.”
“'Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in
heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.'”
(Matthew 18:10)
“Be careful that you do not hate the consciousness of children, or their little selves.
The cosmic vibration which I feel within me and the cosmic heavenly light which I behold
within me reveal that the angels or astral bodies of children who passed on from the earth
without a chance to acquire wisdom get a chance between incarnations to behold the
materialized form of any being or saint in whose face shines the consciousness of God the
Father. Christ Consciousness appeared in my body named Jesus so that through my
consciousness and teachings the souls who have lost themselves in the jungles of material
desires and earthly lives could find their way home back to the Father.”
“'FOR EVERYONE SHALL BE SALTED WITH FIRE, AND EVERY SACRIFICE
SHALL BE SALTED WITH SALT. SALT IS GOOD: BUT IF THE SALT HAVE LOST HIS
SALTNESS, WHEREWITH WILL YE SEASON IT? HAVE SALT IN YOURSELVES, AND
HAVE PEACE ONE WITH ANOTHER.'”
(Mark 9:49-50)
“Every soul by meditation must salt himself or saturate himself with the fire or
realization that he may be acceptable to God in the astral world. Everyone who sacrifices
material pleasure will find his soul salted or saturated with the fire of divine realization. Salt
is good, – that is, when the fire of divine realization or the divine taste saturates human
consciousness it is saved from the decay of death and becomes immortal. This salt of
divine realization is good for the soul and bestows immortality. But if by concentrating on
material pleasures and egotism to be materially great, you lose the flavor of the divine salt,
then how can you awaken your divine memory and season your soul with it except by
acquiring the fresh salt of Self-realization within your souls by daily meditation and by
absorbing the mutual divine Self-realization of peace through attentive good fellowship?”
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In the above, Jesus hints about the deterioration of the divine realization of some of
his disciples brought about by their desire to be materially great. This fact was evidenced in
that the disciples could not heal the son of the man who was possessed of an evil spirit
from childhood. Jesus hints that the disciples would regain their new Self-realization by
cutting out all material pleasures and by meditation. And with the new-found salt of Selfrealization
they could saturate their souls and make them immortal in Christ
Consciousness.
The God of Love
Never Created Eternal Punishment
It must be plain that by hell-fire, Jesus did not mean that the great God of love has
created leaping tongues of hell-fire in some point of space to burn the disembodied souls of
sinners with bad karma. The Heavenly Spirit who is the Father of all human children could
not possibly roast them alive forever because they made some temporary mistakes during
their sojourn on earth. Souls by the misuse of their God-given independence suffer through
karma or the results of their own evil actions, and they reward themselves through their
own good karma or virtuous deeds.
Those humans who act evilly create evil tendencies which remain concealed in the
brain ready to pour out fiery suffering at a suitable time. These hidden misery-making fiery
tendencies or hell-fires are carried into the astral world at death by a soul with bad karma.
The word “hell” is from the Anglo-Saxon root helan, to conceal. The Greek root is
helos, sun or fire. Therefore, the word hell-fire is very appropriate to depict the concealed
fire of agony which stored-up tendencies can produce in the earthy life or in the astral
world. A soul with evil conscience suffers from hell-fire or agony in this life and when dead
suffers the effects of bad karma like a fiery nightmare in the astral world.
Whenever a man has evil tendencies, he has willed it, and suffers both in this life
and in the astral body after death. Just as a murderer burns with evil conscience during
wakefulness and with subconscious terror during sleep, so a soul suffers from fiery evils in
the wakeful state of human life and in the sleep state of death. The hell-fire of hidden evil
tendencies is created by the wrongs perpetuated by a man.
A benign father could never eternally burn a soul, made in His own image, for its
temporary mistakes on earth. God, as a just Judge, could not infinitely punish a child soul
for a finite period of sin. The idea of eternal punishment is illogical. A soul through eternity
is made after the image of God. Even a million years of sin could not change its essential
eternal divine character. Man's unforgiving wrath against the evil actions of his brethren has
created this misconception of hell-fire.
My Experience With
An Orthodox Believer in Hell-Fire
Once I met and old man near Seattle. I had been sitting near the sea, much inspired
by its vastness of divinity. After that inspiration fled, I felt hungry, and went to the
farmhouse of this man, seeking some cherries. He, with rosy cheeks, looked very happy,
and showed me kind hospitality. A divine impulse came over me and I asked him, “Dear
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man, you look very happy, but there is a hidden suffering in your life.” He said, “Are you a
fortune-teller?” I said, “No; I tell people how to correct their lives.” He said, “You know, we
are all sinners and the Lord is going to burn our souls in brimstone and hell-fire.” I replied,
“How could a man, losing his body at death and becoming an invisible soul, be burned by
the fire created by material brimstones?” He was very angry and went on repeating, “We
certainly will burn in hell-fire.” Then I said, “Did you get a radiogram about this from God,
that He would burn us with hell-fire?” At this the old man became more and more excited.
To mollify him I changed the subject and said, “What about your unhappiness and
your wicked son?” He was surprised at my words and acknowledged that he was
constantly burning with misery about an incorrigible son. He explained that he was helpless
to correct his son and his sorrows remained as a burning fire in the background of his mind.
Suddenly I said, “I have a remedy for the absolute cure of your son.” The old man's eyes
gleamed with joy and he smiled.
With a whispering mysterious attitude, as if about to reveal something very grand to
reform his son, I asked him, “Have you got a very big stove with a broiler?” He said “Why,
yes.” Then I said, “Please heat it to red-hot temperature. Have you two trusted friends who
would not tell anything against you?” He again said, “Why yes.” The I said, “All the better
for you. Have you got some strong ropes? Get your friends and the ropes in your cellar and
call your son there and bind him hand and foot and slip him in the red-hot oven.”
Human Love Is From God
The old man was furious and shook his fist at me and shouted, “You blunthead, who
ever heard of a father burning a son, no matter how wicked?” I said, “That is exactly what I
wanted to tell you. Please find out who is a blunthead, you or I. You who are human, where
did you get this instinct of love, except from the Divine Father's love? Even a human father
cannot stand the cruel thought of roasting his son alive to put him out of his misery. Then
how could you think of the ever-loving Divine Father, who has infinitely greater love than
you and who makes parents love their children by the gift of His love, as one who burns His
own created children with brimstone and hell-fire?” The old man's eyes were filled with
tears of repentance as he said, “I know now that the Heavenly Father is a God of love. We
punish ourselves by our own evil actions, and reward ourselves by our own good deeds.”
Souls in the after-death state have no physical sensations and therefore cannot
suffer from burns resulting from the contact of fire. A bodiless man could not be burned by
physical fire. But souls with bad karma can suffer mental agonies, worse than fiery burns.
“'IN HEAVEN THEIR ANGELS DO ALWAYS BEHOLD THE FACE OF MY FATHER
WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.’”
(Matthew 18:10)
The word angels refers to the astral bodies or luminous forms of nineteen elements
in which disembodied souls with good and bad karma are encased. The “Father which is in
heaven” signifies that a physical man who is identified with his body cannot be conscious of
the presence of God in matter, but a divine soul by meditation can awaken the
superconsciousness by which he can see that all the different forms of matter are nothing
but the dream vibrations of God's light and consciousness.
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The “Father in Heaven” signifies that unless a man sees the whole world as light and
not matter he cannot feel the presence of God hidden behind astral light and the light of
wisdom.
“Face of My Father”
“Face of my Father” does not signify that God carries a body with a face. The
omnipresent Spirit could not be limited by a materialized human form, but just as cold can
freeze invisible hydrogen-oxygen gas into an iceberg, so by the materializing power of
God's will and the devotee's devotion, the Heavenly Father can materialize Himself into any
form. The souls of children, because of their premature going to an astral sphere, see the
Heavenly Father materialized into an angelic form, but after this, the children, blessed by
God's power, reincarnate on earth to work out their karmas and ultimately return to Him.
The “face of my Father” signifies that the omnipresent God Consciousness can reflect in
the face of any angel or saint or in the face of any materialized form. But the omnipresent
consciousness of God in no circumstances could make itself so limited that it enters a
human form and remains there. This is impossible, for if God withdrew His omnipresence
from all space and remained confined within one form, all the planetary systems would fall
apart.
God who created the first man and woman could likewise materialize Himself into
any form he wishes, but God never remains materialized in one form. God can reflect His
omnipresence in one or more forms but He can never limit Himself to one form.
God is often depicted as an Old Man with a hoary beard sitting on a golden throne in
a point of space called heaven. It is mistakenly supposed that all good souls who reach this
heavenly region see God as this benevolent elder.
A devotee by his devotion can see God in any form he likes, as Jesus, Krishna or
any other saint. To make it clearer – God never created a special form for Himself in which
He invariably appears to souls in the astral world or to saints in this world when they can
penetrate their consciousness into the astral world.
Sin Cannot Change a Soul
A soul, being potentially the image of God, can be lost in the jungles of evil
environment for awhile, but no amount of sin can change its eternal nature of divinity. Sin is
a crust which hides the perfect soul made in the image of God. When the crust is dissolved
by meditation, the perfection of the soul is revealed.
“'FOR THE SON OF MAN IS COME TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST:'
“'How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray,
doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that
which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of
that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. EVEN SO IT IS NOT THE
WILL OF YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN, THAT ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES
SHOULD PERISH.'”
(Matthew 18:11-14)
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“God has many virtuous souls on earth who remain within the fold of His attention
but when He sees that a soul, by the misuse of free will and bad company, has lost itself in
the forest of egotism and extreme body consciousness by forgetting to meditate, God
becomes very much concerned for that soul. Due to previous good karma of the man, God
sends unto him some guru-preceptor or some form of spiritual aid to bring him back into His
fold of divine virtuous life.
“Therefore, souls who are little, that is, who have little wisdom, as well as souls of
little children who did not get a chance to work out their karmas on earth, when they are
lost in the forest of material tendencies and mountains of ego-consciousness in the astral
world, God wills to help them out of their karmic miseries. He aids them to reincarnate in
places where they can work out their karmas by His divinely arranged help and liberate
their souls by meditation and wisdom. All souls of the earth belong to the fold of God; the
Invisible Shepherd looks after them. When a soul goes astray, lost in the thickets of
ignorance, God does not like that soul to perish, and is always watchful that the sinner
somehow returns to His fold of virtuous life.”
“'MOREOVER IF THY BROTHER SHALL TRESPASS AGAINST THEE, GO AND
TELL HIM HIS FAULT BETWEEN THEE AND HIM ALONE: if he shall hear thee, thou hast
gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in
the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect
to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto
thee as an heathen man and a publican.’”
(Matthew 18:15-17)
“If thy brother in any way acts wrongly against you, take him aside and tell him his
faults quietly. If he listens to you, then you have regained the good will and love of your
brother. If you tell the faults of your brother in public, you will make him angry and will forfeit
his trust in you, thus turning him into a permanent enemy. If you tell your brother his faults
in secret, he will know you are trying to correct him with love and not ridicule.”
How To Treat An Erring Brother
“If he will not listen to you alone, then take with you one or two trusted friends and
with good intentions try to reform your brother. This will establish in the minds of two or
three witnesses your honest intention to reform your unreasonable brother. If your wicked
brother does not listen to you, then pray for him in the church and in the temple of your
divine consciousness. Also bring his actions to notice before the religious teachers of your
church who may help to settle the differences between you and your brother. But if your
brother neglects the advice of your church teachers, then let him remain unto you a
disbeliever in truth or a heathen, and as a sinner before the tribunal of his own conscience
(or publican).”
In the above, Jesus especially emphasized that a brother should use the influence of
good intentions of himself and the good intentions of virtuous people and religious teachers
to awaken the sleeping conscience of any error-stricken brother, that he might reform. If he
does not reform, at least the erroneous one would remain convicted by his own conscience,
stimulated by the loving pleading thoughts of the brother, good people and religious
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teachers. But when the wicked brother refuses to be awakened by any good method, it is
better to let him alone with his conscience.
“'VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, WHATSOEVER YE SHALL BIND ON EARTH SHALL
BE BOUND IN HEAVEN; AND WHATSOEVER YE SHALL LOOSE ON EARTH SHALL BE
LOOSED IN HEAVEN. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as
touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in
heaven. FOR WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER IN MY NAME,
THERE AM I IN THE MIDST OF THEM.'”
(Matthew 18:18-20)
“By the testimony of cosmic vibration and truth within me, I declare unto you that
whatever bad tendencies you create on earth will limit your earth life, and after death those
tendencies will also limit your soul in the astral world. Whatever good tendencies you will
loosen within your soul, the same vibration of your good tendencies will also expand your
soul after death in the astral world. This is the law of karma or cause and effect, which is
true of souls in earth and in the astral world.”
Carried to the Astral World
“Evil actions performed in the earth will be carried within your souls into the astral
world and thereby you will reincarnate in evil environments. Good actions done on earth will
ultimately give you freedom and you will be with God. Your earthly good qualities in the
astral world after death will give you the opportunity of reincarnation in a good earthly
environment.
“Again I declare unto you if two of you shall agree or unite your concentration during
your earth life and very deeply pray for the realization of any wholesome desire, the
Heavenly Father will know of it and by His Will will grant your wish on earth. But remember
your united concentration must be strong and continuous to reach the Father, before you
can expect Him to grant your good wish. Wherever two or three devotees gather together
and by meditation listen to the cosmic vibration within them, there in that vibration they shall
feel my Christ Consciousness.”
In the above, Jesus is explaining the law of karma which governs human life on
earth and human souls in the astral world after death. When Jesus said, “If two of you shall
agree” he emphasizes that when the human will is reinforced by another will it becomes
stronger. When the united strong will of two or more people deeply meditates on God, their
will becomes changed into the all-powerful, all-accomplishing Divine Will.
Isolates By Egotism
Every soul is a child of God and a reflection of God's will, but by egotism man
isolates his will from the Divine Will and thus limits it. But when by deep concentration and
union with other wills a devotee transforms his will into God's will he remembers his identity
with God and thus recovers His divine heritage, possessing all material or spiritual power
even as God possesses them. Therefore, every devotee must not expect the realization of
his will and prayer until he has strengthened them by divine company and God's contact.
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When Jesus said “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am
I,” he meant that when two or three people get together to concentrate upon God, the
stronger divine concentration of one person strengthens the weaker concentration of
another. But if people gather together in the name of God and then chatter or think of
something else while outwardly praying, or go through a series of mechanical actions
without communing with God, they will not be able to feel the consciousness of Christ.
What Christ meant is that when two or more people unite the depths of their meditation and
hear the Name or Cosmic Vibratory Sound, Om, emanating from Christ Consciousness,
they can feel the Christ Intelligence within the Cosmic Vibration.
St. John in his Revelation said that when he approached Spirit he heard a great
vibration or cosmic sound of all atoms when the consciousness of the Lord or Christ
dawned on him. That is why St. John said, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and heard
behind me a great voice as of a trumpet.” The “trumpet” signified the cosmic vibration which
the devotee hears in meditation. The “Lord's day” signified the day or time when the Christ
Consciousness, lord of all vibratory creation, dawns upon the consciousness of the devotee
in deep meditation.
Power of United Minds
Vast congregations with heterogeneous minds have changed the temple of God into
a lecture hall. The huge congregations with their restless thoughts want to be entertained
by the posturings and intellectual expositions of an aristocratic minister. It is better that two
or three or a small number of souls gather together, uniting their will in meditation in quiet
places, and listening to the cosmic sound vibrating behind the throbs of the heart, thus
awakening their intuition to perceive the universal consciousness of Christ, instead of vast
congregations being held together by music and the personality of a minister. A few people,
earnest seekers, should gather together, deeply meditate and listen to the voice of God
within, feeling Christ Consciousness and keeping themselves bound together by their own
Self-realization.
Instead of big costly churches with an intellectually-trained minister advertising for
more religious customers, there should be started small non-sectarian meditation centers in
quiet places where a divine minister will remain communing with God, permitting a few
truth-seekers to come and meditate with him and learn the way to commune with God in
the company of a few deeply earnest and deeply meditating souls.
By the pure vibrations of a true minister the small meditation centers will draw the
few devotees who really seek God. Such souls by their own realization will keep united to a
living minister who communes with God. A true minister must hear the voice of God within
and not run to a library every week to prepare his undigested Sunday sermons. Jesus
preached to the people, and when he was through, he retired to the mountain tops to
commune with God. After doing that he came back to give his reinforced God
Consciousness to the true seekers. He talked in parables to the crowds, and selected true
seekers from among them who understood the hidden meaning of his parables.
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Chapter 4
CAN PRAYER WIN FORGIVENESS FOR MAN
FROM SUFFERING THE LAWFUL EFFECTS
OF HIS EVIL DEEDS?
“Then came Peter to him, and said, 'LORD, HOW OFT SHALL MY BROTHER SIN
AGAINST ME, AND I FORGIVE HIM? TILL SEVEN TIMES?' Jesus saith unto him, 'I SAY
NOT UNTO THEE, UNTIL SEVEN TIMES: BUT, UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN'.
“'Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take
account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him,
which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord
commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to
be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have
patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Then the lord of that servant was moved with
compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.'
“'But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, which owed
him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay
me that thou owest. And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying,
Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not: but went and cast him
into prison, till he should pay the debt.'
“'So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came
and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord, after that he had called him, said
unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow servant, even as I had pity on
thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that
was due unto him.'
“'So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts
forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.'”
(Matthew 18:21-35)
“I say unto you, that you should forgive your brother's sin against you not only seven
times but seventy times seven. You should forgive your brother not only because he is a
human brother but because he is a divine brother. You must remember that the astral
kingdom which is governed by cosmic intelligence dispenses everything and everybody
according to the law of cause and effect, or karma. If you have many times forgiven your
brother who has many times offended you then your kind heart softened through
forgiveness will attract forgiveness to you on earth while you live and in the astral world
after death, from the cosmic law. That is why you should forgive your sinful brother, that
you also might find forgiveness for your sins against others and the cosmic law.”
Jesus emphasizes that even as God unceasingly forgives the sins of His own
children so man should follow the example of his Heavenly Father. The above story of the
master and his servants illustrates the operation of the law of karma or cause and effect
which governs all human life on earth and all souls in the astral world. Jesus points out that
the effects of already performed evil actions can be modified by prayer and by performing
good actions, which are the antidotes of evil actions. He also says that a person who by
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prayer has found divine help and forgiveness from the necessity of suffering all the results
of his karma, should also learn to forgive the sins of his repentant brothers against him.
Prayer Can Change Karma
Jesus clearly points out that even though the law of karma which governs human
lives is almost unchangeable, still it can be modified by divine prayer. Human beings,
according to earthly law, must necessarily suffer for all their evil actions, but when they tune
themselves to God by deep prayer and remember the perfect image within them, then,
realizing their divinity, they need not suffer for their past human errors. But if these human
beings, after remembering the divine image within them and thus finding freedom from their
karma, again become human by not forgiving the sins of their brothers against them, then
they again subject themselves to be governed by the exacting law of karma.
The only way that human beings can get away from reaping the results of their past
actions is to change their status from a human being to that of a divine child. A soul
identified with the body may do certain evil actions and according to the law of karma will
have to suffer punishment. But if the soul, by meditation, does away with its identification of
the body and beholds itself as a pure image of Spirit, it is no longer subject to punishment
for any mistakes it performed in its human state.
Escape Punishment
Once upon a time a powerful emperor of a country got drunk. Disguised, he went
into a tavern belonging to his estate and in a quarrel there, broke another man's leg. The
innkeepers took him to a judge, appointed to his post by the king. As the judge was about
to sentence the king, he suddenly threw off his disguise and exclaimed: “I am the king who
appointed thee as the judge and I have the power to throw thee into prison. How darest
thou convict me?” Similarly, the soul, which is the perfect image of Spirit, during its
identification with the body may commit an evil and may be adjudged guilty according to the
judge or law of karma, but when that soul identifies its consciousness with God, the Creator
of the judge or law or karma, that royal soul cannot be punished by that judging law.
Jesus says that one can escape the law of karma by identifying himself with God.
Once he is able to do that he should get divine forgiveness by forgiving his brothers who
sin against him. But if that soul, finding divine forgiveness from his own karma by
meditation, again becomes human by practicing unforgiveness against his sinning brothers,
then he again identifies himself with human life and becomes governed by the inscrutable
laws of limiting karma. Therefore Jesus says to every soul to remain divine by being
continuously forgiving and loving like God.
When Jesus says that a man should forgive his brother's trespasses, he means that
man should exempt his guilty brother from suffering the consequences of his evil actions.
According to the legal laws of a country, a judge may sentence a young criminal to three
years in a reformatory school. But the judge usually has the privilege to pardon the young
offender if he repents and promises good behavior. So, according to the law of karma, a
person who acts evilly must reap the consequences of his actions. But if that evil-doer by
intense prayer and meditation appeals to God for pardon, then God, being the Maker of the
Law of karma, can grant him amnesty from punishment.
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Involved Moral Problem
The question arises – if a man performs an evil action against his brother and is
forgiven by him, then is the man free also from the operation of the law of karma? The
answer is very complicated. If the guilty man, being forgiven, repents and does not repeat
his evil actions, then he may eventually be free from acting erroneously again through the
influence of subconscious traces left by the evil activity.
It is evident that if a man finds forgiveness for his evil actions from his fellow being,
he may not necessarily find amnesty from suffering from the law of karma which governs all
lives. Therefore, the sure way for a person to find freedom from the effects of his bad
actions is to cauterize his brain cells and mind by will power and divine energy and thus
erase all traces left by evil activities.
Attention and Life Energy
Are Inseparable Forces
Meditation is the surest way of burning up traces of all past evil actions. In meditation
the mind becomes interiorized and contacts superconscious peace that stimulates all
traces of good actions stored up in the brain and counteracts the traces of evil actions
there.
Likewise, brooding on evil thought stimulates the traces of evil actions left in the
brain. Attention and life energy are inseparable forces working in the brain and the nervous
system during all physical and mental activities of man. When the attention is centralized
on a particular sense-attachment, then energy goes outward and becomes identified with
that specific sense-pleasure. But by deep concentration on a good or evil thought the
attention becomes interiorized. When a good thought becomes interiorized by meditation, it
stimulates all good traces left in the brain.
When the mind becomes interiorized, it withdraws life force from the nervous system
and centralizes it in the brain cells. The life force centralized in the brain by the good
thoughts of deep meditation has a peaceful character and thus stimulates the harmonious
traces of good actions and burns up the inharmonious traces of evil actions let in the roots
of the brain. Likewise, the life force focused on the brain by deep concentrated evil thought
stimulates the traces of evil actions and destroys the traces left by good thoughts.
Three Methods To Overcome
Effects of Past Evil
There are three methods of overcoming the effects of past evil actions:
(1) Divine meditation is the surest way of burning up the prenatal and postnatal
traces of all evil actions and of stimulating the traces of good actions.
(2) There is another very great metaphysical technique by which great masters and
yogis do away with the accumulated traces of bad actions of many, many lives. When a
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man by deep meditation and ecstasy identifies his consciousness with God, he changes his
status from a human being with karma to a perfect image of God or divine soul. Then the
law of karma with it inscrutable ways comes to bring punishment to the changed individual.
But that individual says to the intelligent law of karma: “You cant' punish me for the faults of
a human being who through delusion I dreamed I was before. Now, by wisdom I have
regained consciousness of my true Self, and I am now a perfect image of God already free
from the chains of all karma.” But the law of karma insists: “Whether you are a master now
or were an ordinary human being before, you are the same soul and therefore must pay for
your bad karma.”
Masters Can Create Bodies
By Power of Vision
Then the master, finding himself confronted with this law, devises an ingenious
method to “pay up” and satisfy all karmic debt against himself. The master or yogi who has
scientifically united his soul with God finds out exactly all the evil traces of his actions and
tries to work them out in one or two or many bodies which he creates in a vision. For
example, if the yogi led a worldly life for five incarnations, in his vision he creates five
bodies which undergo the experiences and play out the parts of five different lives in a few
hours. Then the master says to the law of karma: “There in the vision by the intensity of my
concentration and divine consciousness, I have experienced all results of my bad karma in
the materialized vision of five lives; now I am free.”
It must be remembered that this vision-method of working out karma or traces of
past actions can only be performed by advanced masters who are in tune with the Cosmic
Consciousness and thus have complete control over the all-creative Cosmic Energy and
can materialize visions or copies of actualities by the power of will. Ignorant souls do not
learn the right lesson of an experience even by repeating the experience several times
during many years. But the wise man by deep concentration can learn the truth in an
experience in a few minutes.
(3) There is a third way by which great masters can work out the traces of their
actions and the actions of others. The crucifixion of Jesus informs us how he worked out
his own karma and the karma of his disciples. Jesus was not crucified by the will of God but
due to some of his own actions and the evil actions of the disciples. Jesus knew that his
preaching the truth and defying the Pharisees would attract the karma of death and he also
knew he had to pay for forgiving the evil actions of his disciples and others by suffering in
his own body. So Jesus consciously, for the sake of highest gain of God-contact for himself
and others and for working out karmas of himself and others, permitted his body to be
crucified.
Achieved Immortality
Jesus gave up his body to achieve immortality for himself and others. He was wise in
doing so, for by undergoing crucifixion he not only regained immortality for himself and
others, but also resurrected his body. Masters like Jesus can offer their bodies to
experience their own karmas and the karmas of others and thus gain freedom for
themselves and others from the inscrutable laws of karma. Likewise, great masters and
yogis as told above can offer their advanced consciousness to work out the karmas or
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traces of actions of themselves or others in a short time. As soon as an individual
experiences the results of his evil actions, whether in a self-created dream or vision in a
few minutes, or in the ordinary events of life in a number of years, the karmic law has been
satisfied and the man is free.
Whether one goes on horseback in a few months to New York, or in a few hours by
airplane, on his arrival he enjoys the grandeur of that city. Similarly, the time element does
not count in the attainment of freedom from the laws of karma. Though God is the Creator
of man and has ordained the law of cause and effect or karma to govern his life, still man is
the judge of his own actions. When he chooses to act evilly, it is then according to his own
decree and invitation to the law of karma that he creates his own suffering. Likewise, by
good action he compels the law of karma to award him.
The above explanation proves how much is involved in connection with forgiving of
sins by God and by the advanced consciousness of man.
It is especially interesting to know that man has absolute surety about his final
emancipation if he tries hard. Man is essentially and eternally made in the image of God
and the sins of a million lives cannot erase the perfection of his soul. There is no reason
why he should continue a life of ignorance and suffering. By the methods of advanced
meditation he can quickly work out the errors of his many lives and become free, regaining
the lost and forgotten perfection of his soul.
Fatalism Is Not Good
The law of karma should not make people fatalists, but should enable them to
scientifically diagnose all the hidden seeds of self-created miseries, that they may be
properly destroyed in time. Seeds of evil actions, when destroyed, cannot suddenly
germinate to cause suffering through unpreparedness.
Value of Jesus' Time
“After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because
the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand. His brethren
therefore said unto him, 'Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see
the works that thou doest. For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he
himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.' For
neither did his brethren believe in him.
“Then Jesus said unto them, 'My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof
are evil. Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full
come.' When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
“But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not
openly, but as it were in secret. Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, 'Where is
he?' And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, 'He
is a good man:' others said, 'Nay; but he deceiveth the people.' Howbeit no man spake
openly of him for fear of the Jews.”
(John 7:1-13)
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Some of the many curiosity-seekers who followed Jesus but did not believe in his
divine mission sought to persuade him to go openly to the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles.
They claimed that he should do his work, not secretly among a few, but openly before the
world. Jesus replied:
“My life is guided by God. The time for His commandment to me to go to the feast
has not arrived yet, but you all, being guided by worldly desires, can do anything you
please at any time. My time is precious and divinely planned, but your time is unimportant
to you and is always ready to be spent according to your material desires. You are not
interested in taking the responsibility of pointing out the defects of the world, so it will not
hurt you or bother you. Because I love the world and want it to be saved, I mind not what
penalties I shall pay for lovingly but daringly pointing out its faults.”
In the above words, Jesus points out that all minute actions of his life were governed
by the will of God. Jesus did not mechanically obey God, but had found the best thing to do
was to let his will be guided by the wisdom-guided will of the Father. Jesus pointed out that
all people who lead rudderless existences do not plan their life according to divine wisdom.
Jesus not only guided his will according to the will of God, but also performed all
actions according to the ordination of the law of cause and effect, the cosmic law which
governed his life and the world in general. Jesus by his divine wisdom knew the best time
to attend the feast. Ordinary people who are identified with the body do not know that their
lives are governed by the law of cause and effect, and need divine planning.
Beyond Astrology
Some people study astrology to ascertain the influence of their karma through the
medium of planets, thus trying to counteract evil influences by astrological foreknowledge.
But masters go beyond astrology. They govern their lives and all their actions by divine
wisdom. Jesus meekly but wisely answered his disbelieving brothers that whatever he did,
even though not ordinarily understood, was performed according to divine guidance.
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Chapter 5
“NEVER MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN” –
JESUS CONFOUNDS HIS CRITICS
THE ETERNAL NOW
“Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. And the
Jews marvelled, saying, 'How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus
answered them, and said, 'MY DOCTRINE IS NOT MINE, BUT HIS THAT SENT ME. IF
ANY MAN WILL DO HIS WILL, HE SHALL KNOW OF THE DOCTRINE, WHETHER IT BE
OF GOD, OR WHETHER I SPEAK OF MYSELF. HE THAT SPEAKETH OF HIMSELF
SEEKETH HIS OWN GLORY: BUT HE THAT SEEKETH HIS GLORY THAT SENT HIM,
THE SAME IS TRUE, AND NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IS IN HIM.'
“'Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye
about to kill me?'
“The people answered and said, 'Thou hast a devil; who goeth about to kill thee?'”
(John 7:14-20)
Jesus Christ did not wish to publicly demonstrate his miracles like a salesman
advertising his material good, but acted according to divine dignity and divine
commandment.
“I did not prepare anything as a concoction of my own intelligence and imagination.
My teachings are not mine just because I utter them through my mouth.
“My words, my mind, my intelligence, my intuition, my consciousness in all creation
are all inspired by the consciousness of the Father through whose will I am here on earth in
order to declare His message. Any person who is in tune with God's will, will know I am
tuned with His will and that I preach the truth as desired by Him, and that I do not speak
through myself or my ego-consciousness.”
Egotists Are Far From God
“He who speaks actuated by his ego-consciousness always seeks fame and glory
for his little ego. But he who feels the presence of Cosmic Consciousness behind his own
consciousness seeks only to glorify and declare God as his Creator. He is a real prophet
who declares God and thus is loyal to Him. He who is true to God and feels Him constantly,
continuously demonstrating His consciousness through his life, cannot do anything wrong.
Didn't Moses give you the law not to kill? Yet none of you obey the law of divine
commandments as is demonstrated by your desire to kill me. I know this desire is in your
mind, though you deny it.”
Jesus did not learn from any ordinary school of life. His training and wisdom came
from God Consciousness which he acquired in previous lives. Jesus emphasized the fact
that his entire life was guided by God and that he was trying to declare Him and not
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himself. He pointed out because he was trying to do the will of God he could not have any
unrighteous thoughts within him, but that the Jewish people who were egotist did not obey
the divine law as given by Moses and it was they who were harboring unrighteous
thoughts.
“Jesus answered and said unto them, “I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision: (not because it is of Moses, but of the
fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. If a man on the sabbath day receive
circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken, are ye angry at me, because I
have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? JUDGE NOT ACCORDING TO
THE APPEARANCE, BUT JUDGE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT.'”
(John 7:21-24)
Jesus, referring here to his having “done one work”, meant the healing of the
impotent man at the pool of Bethesda, on the Sabbath, which had provoked the murderous
wrath of the Pharisees against him. (John 5:1-18)
Healing on the Sabbath
Though the Mosaic law forbade servile work on the Sabbath, circumcision was
permitted on that day. Jesus points out the inconsistency of his critics in allowing the lesser
purification symbolized by the rite of circumcision, while opposing the total physical and
spiritual rejuvenation accomplished on the Sabbath by the Lord for the man who had “had
an infirmity thirty and eight years.”
“Judge not actions of others from a hasty, superficial standpoint, but judge according
to the inner motive behind them.”
"Then said some of them of Jerusalem, 'Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? But,
lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this
is the very Christ? Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no
man knoweth whence he is.'
“Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, 'Ye both know me, and ye
know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye
know not. But I know him; for I am from him, and he hath sent me.'”
(John 7:25-29)
The people, knowing that the Pharisees sought Jesus' life, wondered why he was
openly teaching at the Feast of Tabernacles. Had the rulers become convinced that Jesus
was the Messiah? Many wondered, but others, referring to some traditional belief that the
family origin of the Messiah would be mysterious (“no man knoweth whence he is”), refused
to believe in Jesus as Christ, since they were acquainted with his family at Nazareth.
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Jesus said: “You all know me as the son of Joseph and you know the place of my
earthly home, but you don't know that I did not come on earth because of my own will, or
exclusively due to the compelling influence of my past karma. My desire to come on earth
was to act as a message-bearer of my Father.
“My Father truly exists in all space even though you don't feel Him in your life or
understanding. But my Christ Consciousness is a reflection of the Cosmic Consciousness
of my Father, therefore I know Him. My universal consciousness also came from Him.”
Divine Message-Bearer
In the above words Jesus was emphasizing His divine origin and the fact that He
came as a message-bearer of the Lord. Because Jesus said that he came from the Father
and was sent by Him does not mean that Jesus through many lives had not made
conscious effort to know God. After attaining a high state of consciousness, Jesus was
chosen as a message-bearer of the Infinite.
With the advanced state of his consciousness Jesus knew that he and all beings
originally were sent to the earth through the will of God. Those beings who do not realize
this truth misuse their God-given free will by identifying themselves with mortal desires,
reincarnating again and again in this misery-making world. All souls who come on earth
according to the will of God and live a life guided by divine will and wisdom go back to God
after fulfilling their divine purposes on earth.
When Jesus said, “I am not come of myself,” he meant that he had not come
compelled by his reincarnation-making earthly desires. Jesus, being very spiritually
advanced, did not come just to work out seeds of actions that might have been left from
some past lives; he came distinctly to fulfill the mission of God.
Advanced masters can work out their seeds of past actions by visions in the earth or
in the astral world. Jesus could have worked out all his seeds of actions in the astral world
and did not need to return to this earth at all. Jesus was very highly advanced in spirit; he
had very little karma to work out, so that it was not at all necessary for him to be born on
earth. Therefore Jesus said: “I come on earth being chosen by the Spirit, and not because
of the karma of my self or my ego.”
“Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was
not yet come. And many of the people believed on him, and said, 'When Christ cometh, will
he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?' The Pharisees heard that the
people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent
officers to take him.
“Then said Jesus unto them, 'YET A LITTLE WHILE AM I WITH YOU, AND THEN I
GO UNTO HIM THAT SENT ME. YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND SHALL NOT FIND ME; AND
WHERE I AM, THITHER YE CANNOT COME'.
“Then said the Jews among themselves, 'Whither will he go, that we shall not find
him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? What
manner of saying is this that he said, 'Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I
am, thither ye cannot come?'”
(John 7:30-36)
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“It is now only a little while that my body will be on earth with all of you. Then my soul
and the Christ Consciousness in it will mingle in the Cosmic Consciousness from which it
came. Then some of you will realize the importance of my life and will seek me but it will be
too late. I will be gone by that time to the abode of my Father in Cosmic Consciousness
where your consciousness cannot reach. Even in the present moment, I feel my Christ
Consciousness as the Eternal Now that your consciousness cannot comprehend. When my
body will be gone through crucifixion, my Christ Consciousness will remain the same,
knowing the Eternal Now. All this is beyond the grasp of your material consciousness.”
Unique Opportunity
In the above Jesus points out the unique opportunity the people there had in him as
the embodiment of Christ Consciousness. Ordinary people are ignorant of Christ
Consciousness. But even ignorant people in the time of Jesus had the opportunity to
behold with their eyes Christ Consciousness manifested in the body of Jesus. But due to
their perversity they did not utilize this grand opportunity to follow Jesus and become
redeemed.
He said that many would awaken after he was gone and they would seek him and
not find him. Jesus specially speaks of the state of the universal consciousness present in
him. He describes his state as the consciousness of the Eternal Now. In Spirit there is no
past nor future but only the consciousness of the present. Jesus expressed that
consciousness by saying “WHERE I AM.”
The Eternal Now
Jesus knew whether he was in the body or in the Spirit after crucifixion he would
always feel the Eternal Now. This consciousness of the Eternal Presence can be reached,
not by ordinary mortals, but by great devotees. When the advanced devotee feels God as
eternal, the consciousness of past and future vanishes from within him. He always feels he
is forever and not that he was nor will be existing forever. That is why Jesus said, “Where
my consciousness is, experiencing the Eternal Now, that state your consciousness has not
realized.”
The Jews, not understanding the inner meaning of the above sayings of Jesus,
began to misinterpret them in many ways. They thought, “Where will he go that we may not
be able to find him?”
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 'IF ANY
MAN THIRST, LET HIM COME UNTO ME, AND DRINK. HE THAT BELIEVETH ON ME,
AS THE SCRIPTURE HATH SAID, OUT OF HIS BELLY SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF
LIVING WATER.' (But this spake he of the spirit, which they that believe on him should
receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.”
(John 7:37-39)
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“If any man is maddened with desires and has not found peace; if any man is thirsty
for the kingdom of God Consciousness and everlasting bliss, let him tune his
consciousness with the Christ Consciousness within me; let him drink the immortal waters
of bliss flowing from there. The Scriptures have prophesied (for example, Isaiah 58:11) that
any person who will tune his consciousness with the Christ Consciousness by attentive
concentration and devotion will find that out of his belly or solar plexus in the lumbar
regions, many rivers of light or life forces relaxed from the sense regions by meditation will
flow and float his consciousness towards the Spirit in the brain.”
Christ Gives Deep Yoga Instructions
In the above words Jesus describes how devotees like the great Hindu yogis could
satisfy the thirst of mortal desires by controlling them, by renunciation and by uniting them
in meditation with everlasting, ever-new bliss of God. To the ordinary person the saying of
Jesus, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water,” may be meaningless, but these words are very dear to the yogi who
scientifically tries to unite his consciousness with the inner consciousness.
Any devotee who knows the technique of yoga concentration knows that when
concentration becomes interiorized he finds his life force and attention withdrawn from the
motor nerves and heart and accumulated in the coccygeal region. Then during deep
meditation the accumulated life force and consciousness in the coccygeal region begin to
travel through the sacral, lumbar, dorsal, cervical and medullary plexuses to the Spirit in the
brain.
“Rivers of Light”
The yogi devotee in deep meditation finds his consciousness and life force in the
form of luminous rivers of light flowing from coccygeal, sacral and lumbar regions to the
ocean of light of Spirit in the brain. These rivers of light are nothing but life forces and
consciousness withdrawn from the sense regions by meditation and reversed through the
plexuses to the Spirit.
Anyone who cannot understand this technical metaphysical experience should
reflect that consciousness flowing through the five rivers of sight, hearing, smell, taste and
touch makes man conscious of matter. But by meditation when consciousness and life
force are really withdrawn from the five senses they look like several rivers of light or life
force (with consciousness and many other forces in the spine) flowing upward toward the
ocean of light of Spirit in the brain.
In the above words Jesus signified that not only those who believe intellectually in
him but who were in tune with his Christ Consciousness and the Holy Ghost or Creative
Vibrations would understand the meaning of his deep sayings about “river of living water”
flowing from the inward parts of the devotee.
“Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, 'Of a truth this is
the Prophet.' Others said, 'This is the Christ.' But some said, 'Shall Christ come out of
Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of
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the town of Bethlehem, where David was?' So there was a division among the people
because of him.
“And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him. Then
came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, 'Why have
ye not brought him?'
The officers answered, 'Never man spake like this man.' Then answered them the
Pharisees, 'Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on
him? But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.'
“Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
'Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?' They answered
and said unto him, 'Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no
prophet.' And every man went unto his own house.”
(John 7:40-53)
That Christ would come from the house of David was predicted in the Jewish
Scriptures (2 Samuel 7:12), and out of the town of Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). Thus Jesus,
born to the house of David at Bethlehem, fulfilled the Messiah expectations of the Jews,
though his accusers did not stop to investigate the matter and considered him as only from
Galilee.
Nicodemus the Pharisee ventures a mild defense of the Lord, whom he worshipped
in secret (John 3:2) but cannot influence those who were determined to kill Jesus.
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Chapter 6
“GO AND SIN NO MORE” –
WHY CHRIST FORGAVE THE WOMAN
TAKEN IN ADULTERY
“Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into
the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
“And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and
when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, 'Master, this woman was taken in
adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be
stoned: but what sayest thou?' This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse
him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard
them not.
“So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, 'He
that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.' And again he stooped down,
and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own
conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus
was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
“When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her,
'WOMAN, WHERE ARE THOSE THINE ACCUSERS? HATH NO MAN CONDEMNED
THEE?' She said, 'NO MAN, LORD.' And Jesus said unto her, 'NEITHER DO I CONDEMN
THEE: GO, AND SIN NO MORE.'”
(John 8:1-11)
In these words Jesus displays highest wisdom, compassion and spiritual skill in
handling a most difficult situation. He threw a bombshell amidst the sanctimonious
hypocrites who hid their own sins and came to condemn the guilty woman and also
implicate Jesus in lawbreaking if he dared to show compassion to her and thus ignore the
law of Moses. Jesus implied, “You all, being sinners, ought to cast stones and aspersions
first at yourselves.”
Practical Applications
This saying of Jesus is applicable to various departments of life, and can be used in
the following ways: (1) Only the spiritual man who is free from sin is justified in casting the
stone of criticism at the materially-minded man in order to awaken him. (2) Any person
without sin may cast a stone of warning at a sinful individual. (3) Do not criticize anyone for
any fault if you yourself are not free from it. One who is not free from ignorance has no right
to criticize another about his spiritual ignorance. If one is not free from any specific sense
attachment he ought not to criticize others who happen to possess that weakness. He who
does not make social mistakes himself is justified to pass remarks about others' errors in
regard to social conduct. He who is without business mistakes alone can rightfully criticize
business errors in others.
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Jesus said, “I, with my divine understanding and divine wisdom, also do not
condemn you before God even though you have ignorantly sinned. Henceforth, follow the
path of life in righteousness. The Christ Consciousness in me has saved you from reaping
the consequences of your adulterous actions. That is why no man nor myself condemns
you any more for your past sinful actions. Do not identify your mind with temporary
pleasure-producing but soul-joy-devastating, insatiable habits. For if you repeat your sinful
or true joy-killing actions they will grow into a fast habit and you will be compelled to act
sinfully against your will. The more you become a sense-slave, the more you will suffer
from social, mental, moral, spiritual and physical condemnation. Being caught in the toils of
an evil habit, it will be very difficult for you to be forgiven or freed through your own help or
the help of others.”
“Then Jesus spake again unto them, saying, 'I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD:
HE THAT FOLLOWETH ME SHALL NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, BUT SHALL HAVE THE
LIGHT OF LIFE.'”
(John 8:12)
“The Christ Intelligence which I behold within me emanates the light or Cosmic
Energy out of which the world of matter or the physical cosmos has been evolved. The
devotee who follows the path of meditation and leads his consciousness through the
blissful state of subconsciousness and superconsciousness ultimately arrives at the
blessed state of Christ Consciousness. The devotee who succeeds in attaining Christ
Consciousness and thus becomes conscious of the presence of his consciousness in all
matter and vibratory creation, no longer walks or moves in the darkness or limitations of
human consciousness and ignorance, but finds his life force united to the Cosmic Light or
Cosmic Energy which is the source of all living creatures and objects in which life is
potentially present.”
Definition of Spirit
In the above words Jesus again gives a scientific statement and definition of the
Spirit within him. Cosmic Consciousness or God the Father projected cosmic vibration and
energy. Then God the Father projected Himself as Christ Consciousness in all vibratory
creation and energy. An ordinary soul is conscious of his consciousness and life force as
limited by the body; Jesus and devotees spiritually advanced like Jesus find their bodies as
the physical cosmos and their lives as the Cosmic Energy which sustains the physical
cosmos. They also realize the Christ Consciousness present in all creation as their own
consciousness. The words, “I AM” in the above words refer to Christ Consciousness. The
“light of the world” refers to the Cosmic Energy which materializes and appears as the
physical cosmos.
Many so-called Christians who believe that Jesus was the “light of the world” and
follow the intellectually interpreted, theological Christian doctrines, and never meditate, can
never truly understand why Jesus called himself the “light of the world,” nor do they know
what kind of following and spiritual seeking would lead them to achieve the state of Christ
Consciousness.
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Secret Intelligence
Jesus already said, “Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, thither
ye cannot come.” Thus Jesus prophesied about the theology-intoxicated modern Christians
who seek Christ in the wrong theological way and do not find him. Because they do not, by
meditation, lift their consciousness from the physical plane to the plane of Christ
Consciousness, they never reach there.
Theological Christians picture Jesus Christ as limited by a form and the beauties of a
human figure, but souls who have identified their consciousness by meditation with the
universal, omnipresent consciousness which was manifest in Jesus Christ behold the
cosmos as the body of Christ and the energy in it as his life and the secret Intelligence in it
as his Christ Consciousness.
It is by worshipping Christ in the self-erected temple of meditation and Self-
Realization that one can be a true Christian, and be able to bring the Christ Consciousness
which was in Jesus to a “second coming” within the devotee's own soul.
"The Pharisees therefore said unto him, 'Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is
not true.' Jesus answered and said unto them, 'THOUGH I BEAR RECORD OF MYSELF;
YET MY RECORD IS TRUE: FOR I KNOW WHENCE I CAME, AND WHITHER I GO; BUT
YE CANNOT TELL WHENCE I COME, AND WHITHER I GO. YE JUDGE AFTER THE
FLESH; I JUDGE NO MAN.'
“'And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that
sent me. It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. I am one that
bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.'”
(John 8:13-18)
“Because I know through divine memory how the consciousness in my body came
from the omnipresent Christ Consciousness and that ultimately my consciousness will
merge in it, therefore my mind is not limited by the body-identified ego, and I can testify all
about my self or the nature of my Christ Consciousness without distorting it by the
limitations of the physical ego. Egotistical persons often exaggerate when they talk about
themselves. But my Self, being the true Christ Consciousness manifest through my
consciousness, cannot exaggerate or speak untruth when it talks about itself. Because you
do not know how Christ Consciousness descended in my bodily form, called Jesus, or
where that consciousness in it will vanish after the crucifixion, therefore you are judging
after the manner of flesh or worldly judgment and bodily limitations.”
Not Physical Judgment
“The Christ Consciousness in me behold every man made after the image of the
Infinite, therefore I do not judge or measure man according to his physical or mental
appearance. Yet, if I use my omniscient Christ Intelligence, I can see how much a soul is
identified with its physical, human appearance. Whatever my Christ Intelligence judges
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about the physical nature of man is true: If my consciousness were alone or isolated from
God Consciousness, then my judgment would be limited and subject to error. But since my
consciousness is charged with divine wisdom, therefore my judgment about everything is
true.
“It is also described in your human law that the testimony of two individuals is held
as true. I or my human consciousness manifests the consciousness of my Self or Christ
Consciousness present in all vibratory creation. And the Christ Consciousness in me is the
manifestation of the Cosmic Consciousness which exists beyond all vibratory creation.”
Egotistical persons should not speak about themselves and their merits as they
usually exaggerate their virtues. But Jesus said that since he was one with the Father,
whenever he talked about himself he would only talk about his Heavenly Father. Therefore,
it was entirely proper for Jesus to talk about himself through his unegotistical divine
wisdom.
“Then said they unto him, 'Where is thy Father?' Jesus answered, 'YE NEITHER
KNOW ME, NOR MY FATHER: IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, YE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY
FATHER ALSO.'
"These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man
laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.”
(John 8:19-20)
“You have not communed with the Christ Consciousness behind my consciousness,
nor with the Cosmic Consciousness, my originator and Father. If you had communed by
meditation with the Christ Consciousness within me then you would have known also the
Cosmic Consciousness whose only reflection in creation is the Christ Consciousness.”
In Tune With Creation
Jesus points out that if a devotee could be in tune with Christ Consciousness in all
vibratory creation he would automatically perceive the Cosmic Consciousness existent
beyond all vibratory creation.
“Then said Jesus again unto them, 'I GO MY WAY, AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND
SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS; WHITHER I GO, YE CANNOT COME.'”
(John 8:21)
“I follow the way as is directed by the Christ Consciousness in me, and some day
when I am gone from the earth, you shall try to follow me, but not finding me, you will die
with your bad karma and be subject to reincarnation. Unless you meditate deeply in the
present state of your consciousness you cannot comprehend the Christ Consciousness
wherein my human consciousness has merged.”
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“Then said the Jews, 'Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot
come.' And he said unto them, 'YE ARE FROM BENEATH; I AM FROM ABOVE: YE ARE
OF THIS WORLD; I AM NOT OF THIS WORLD. I SAID THEREFORE UNTO YOU, THAT
YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS FOR IF YE BELIEVE NOT THAT I AM HE, YE SHALL DIE
IN YOUR SINS.'”
(John 8:22-24)
“You souls, being earth-bound, and entangled in material desires, reincarnate in this
world of gross vibration from one place to another. My soul came from the finer regions of
the astral world of good vibration. Your souls are tied to this world by earthly desires, but
my Spirit, although encased in a body, moving on this earth, still does not belong to this
earthly sphere of gross vibrations.
“Therefore, I told you that your souls, although immortal, still will experience several
deaths through the law of karma and reincarnation. Your spiritual lives will be dead, buried
beneath the sepulchre of your erroneous sinful actions. Because you do not believe that
the Christ Consciousness in me is the reflection of Cosmic Consciousness, therefore you
will not make the effort to find Christ Consciousness in your own souls. This sin of
ignorance in not trying to know the presence of the Universal Christ Consciousness within
you will keep your souls buried beneath self-created sins of ignorance.”
In these words, Jesus speaks of ordinary people coming from beneath; that is,
worldly people, due to their material karmas, remain reincarnating from one place to
another beneath or under the influence of earthly vibrations.
Under Earthly Vibrations
The word “above” in “I am from above” means that Jesus came from finer regions of
vibration. By saying, “I am not of this world,” Jesus signifies that his Christ Consciousness
was omnipresent in the whole cosmos and not tied to one point of space called “the world.”
“Die in your sins” signifies that their spiritual life lay buried beneath the sins of ignorance.
When Christ uses the words, “I AM HE,” he is using the words which have been
used by master minds of India who have lived before and after the time of Jesus.
Swami Shankara (Shankaracharya) uses the word, Soham, often in his writings to
signify “I am He.”
Materially-minded people often uttering, “I am He”, may develop egotism instead of
God-consciousness. In reality all souls can say, “I am He” but it is better to say, “I am He,”
when one has consciously re-established his identity with God. The ocean can exist without
surface waves but the waves cannot exist without the ocean. God can exist without
creation or the living creatures in it, but they cannot exist without Him. It is an error for the
wave to think, “I am the ocean.” It is better for ordinary people to say, “God is myself” that,
“I am He.” Souls who have attained Christhood can say, “I am He.” What Jesus meant by “I
am He” was that the Christ Consciousness which he felt within himself was one with
Cosmic Consciousness. Jesus felt, “My consciousness in all vibratory creation is one with
Cosmic Consciousness beyond all creation.”
When Jesus said, “For if ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins,” he
meant that those that are identified with their bodies and do not meditate cannot know that
the soul is the reflection of the Spirit (I am He). Divine souls who live on earth identified with
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Cosmic Consciousness create no human desires or karma and thus, at death, become one
with Spirit. But souls who live on earth unaware of the Divine Image in them create earthly
karma or sins. When they die with those unfulfilled earthly desires they must reincarnate
again to fulfill them.
“Then said they unto him, 'Who art thou?' And Jesus saith unto them, 'EVEN THE
SAME THAT I SAID UNTO YOU FROM THE BEGINNING. I HAVE MANY THINGS TO
SAY AND TO JUDGE OF YOU: BUT HE THAT SENT ME IS TRUE; AND I SPEAK TO
THE WORLD THOSE THINGS WHICH I HAVE HEARD OF HIM.' They understood not
that he spake to them of the Father.”
(John 8:25-27)
“I told you from the beginning that 'I am He' and of truth I am that. I have many truths
to declare unto you and according to the standard of my intuitive wisdom, I have to pass
judgment about your conduct and life in general. And I declare unto you that the great God
who appears invisible and thus unreal to you all truly exists. He is untrue to you because
you cannot perceive Him through your sensation. But through the testimony of the infallible
intuition within me I know He exists. Sense perceptions and the senses give you the
knowledge of the appearance of things, but the intuition within you can give you the
knowledge of the Substance behind all appearances. All the words of wisdom which I utter
are the emanations of Cosmic Vibration which come from the Infinite.”
“Then said Jesus unto them, 'When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye
know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I
speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I
do always those things that please him.' As he spake these words, many believed on him.”
(John 8:28-30)
“When by deep meditation you will lift your consciousness from the son of man or
physical body, then you will be able to realize the universal Christ Consciousness which is
present within you and me. Realizing that, you will further perceive that Christ
Consciousness within you and me as the reflection of the Cosmic Consciousness. And
when you realize the Christ Consciousness within yourself and myself then you will know
that you and I perform no bodily nor mental actions actuated by the ego or human
consciousness. As my Father or Cosmic Consciousness has transmitted His wisdom to the
Christ Consciousness in me, so my consciousness reveals that wisdom alone.
“The Cosmic Consciousness which projected and materialized my body is with me
just as the ocean which projects the wave sustains it by remaining behind it. Just as the
wave cannot remain by itself but is maintained by the ocean which remains behind it, so the
Heavenly Father has not isolated my body from Him but always remains behind my
consciousness sustaining it. Those that are tuned to their human desires guide their bodies
and minds according to the dictates of those impulses. But my consciousness is
continuously aware of the presence of the Father in me, thus my human consciousness
always manifests those actions which please the Father and are in tune with His wishes.”
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“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, 'IF YE CONTINUE IN MY
WORD, THEN ARE YE MY DISCIPLES INDEED; AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH,
AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.'”
(John 8:31-32)
“If you will continue to meditate on the Cosmic Vibration (as heard in meditation with
closed ears) and the Christ Consciousness in it, then indeed you can consider yourselves
my disciples, disciplined and guided by my word or Christ Consciousness within you. And it
is by keeping your consciousness tuned with the Cosmic Vibratory Sound and Christ
Consciousness within you that you will be able to know the truth about yourself, all life and
the cosmos. When you will be able to keep your consciousness tuned to Christ
Consciousness, you will no longer identify yourselves with human desires and human
karma, thus freeing your soul from delusion and reincarnations.”
By “continue in my word,” Jesus advised his listeners to continuously meditate on
the words of his wisdom about the technique of contacting Cosmic Vibratory Sound and the
Christ Consciousness in it, thus becoming his real disciples.
Jesus talked to the populace in parables to awaken their curiosity for truth, but to the
disciples he taught plain truths and technique of meditation. St. John, in Revelation 1:10
distinctly speaks of the technique by which he contacted the Spirit as the Cosmic Sound (“I
was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.”)
The trumpet refers to the Cosmic Sound emanating from the Cosmic Vibration.
Hence it is evident that ignorantly believing in the words of Christ does not make one
a Christian. Anyone who aspires to manifest the Christ Consciousness which was present
in the mind of Jesus must be a true disciple. A true disciple is he who continues to feel
Christ Consciousness in his daily life. One who feels Christ Consciousness is in tune with
all creation and knows the truth about himself and all life; knowing that, he is no longer
guided by ignorance, and becomes free from the law of karma and reincarnations.
“They answered him, 'We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any
man; how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?' Jesus answered them, 'VERILY, VERILY, I
SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN. AND
THE SERVANT ABIDETH NOT IN THE HOUSE FOR EVER: BUT THE SON ABIDETH
EVER. IF THE SON THEREFORE SHALL MAKE YOU FREE, YE SHALL BE FREE
INDEED. I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath
no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye
have seen with your father.'”
(John 8:33-38)
“With the certainty of the truth which I intuitively feel within myself, I declare unto you
that anyone who performs erroneous or sinful actions against the happiness of his soul
creates sinful habits. Any individual working under the influence of a strong, sinful habit
becomes its servant, dwelling in the bodily house.
“But even if an individual remains the servant of a sinful habit in his bodily house, still
he should remember that the servant of sinful consciousness cannot forever occupy the
mansion of the soul (body). Sinful habits, no matter how strong, can only temporarily
occupy the mansion of the soul. Every individual enslaved by sinful habits must remember
that the Son or Christ Consciousness is the real Master-Creator who remains forever in the
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temple of the soul. Any devotee who knows that Christ Consciousness or the Son (and not
sin) occupies the temple of the soul and tunes his consciousness with Christ
Consciousness becomes free from all human karmas. Therefore, if you know me as the
Christ Consciousness present in you, that consciousness will free you from all human
bondage, and through the exercise of your own volition you will indeed find freedom from
cosmic delusion.
“I know that you are the descendants of Abraham and also made after the image of
my Father, but because you do not tune in with the words of my all-seeing wisdom, you
have become the servant of sin through your desire to kill me. Therefore, temporarily, being
the servant of sinful thought, you are in bondage. If you would only be in tune with my word
or Cosmic Vibration, you could be free, no longer the servant of sin. My words are inspired
by the wisdom of the Heavenly Father which I intuitively feel within myself, whereas you
speak and act according to the limited understanding and behavior of your earthly parents.”
Good Birth Is Not Enough
In the above words Jesus points out to the descendants of Abraham that they had
lost the quality of their good birth by ignorance, sinful thoughts, and by following tradition
and family habits instead of God's laws.
Some sinful Brahmins of India also boast of their divine parentage, as the
descendants of Abraham did to Jesus. But Jesus points out that physical good birth is not
enough. Each soul, though an image of God and born of good parents, can temporarily
become the servant of sinful habits. So Jesus tells the descendants of Abraham that they
had eclipsed their divine birth and divine consciousness by sinful actions. But while Jesus
speaks of the degradation of Abraham's descendants, he tells them that they could not be
servants of sin forever, but should realize that they are eternally made in the image of God.
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Chapter7
“BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM” –
JESUS EXPLAINS
THE OMNIPRESENT CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS
BY WHICH ALL TIME AND SPACE
ARE ANNIHILATED
"They answered and said unto him, 'Abraham is our father.' Jesus saith unto them,
'If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. But now ye seek to kill
me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.'
“'Ye do the deeds of your father.' Then said they to him, 'We be not born of
fornication; we have one Father, even God.' Jesus said unto them, 'If God were your
Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of
myself, but he sent me.'
“'Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye
are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I
tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the
truth, why do ye not believe me? HE THAT IS OF GOD HEARETH GOD'S WORDS: YE
THEREFORE HEAR THEM NOT, BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF GOD.'”
(John 8:39-47)
“If by meditation you knew God as your Father, you would love me, for the Christ
Consciousness in me is the reflection of God the Father, and my body in which that
consciousness is encased also came from Him. I was not born of myself; He has sent my
body to the earth that the Christ Consciousness reflected in me might remind other
sleeping souls of the Christ Consciousness present in them.”
His Inspired Speech
“Do you realize why you cannot understand my speech? It is because your
consciousness is not tuned to the Cosmic Vibration or the Word, therefore you do not
understand my speech which is inspired by Christ Consciousness vibrating within the
Cosmic Vibration or the Word. You have forgotten the Spirit within you, and by creating evil
habits you are possessed by satanic ignorance which acts as your guiding advising father.
The lustful tendencies implanted within you by your pseudo-father, satanic habit, will be the
guiding force of your actions. Satan and satanic habits are the murderers of soul happiness
from the beginning of creation; they do not manifest truth because they shut it out of their
nature. Satan speaks a lie or works delusion because of the misuse of his own free choice.
Satan is the father of all cosmic delusion which lies about the nature of God and truth.
“Through your evil habits you have invited Satan or cosmic delusion to guide you –
that is why you do not believe the truth in God which Satan always tries to hide. None of
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you can convince me of any value or truth in your sinful ways; why should you not be
convinced of the real truth and believe in it when I present it before you?
“All those great ones, like Abraham, that are the true devotees of God, tuned their
consciousness by meditation to the Cosmic Vibration or God's word within them. You never
meditated; therefore you have not heard the Cosmic Vibration and the presence of God in
it.”
Jesus points out that lust or evil tendencies are implanted in souls by Satan, and
anyone who acts according to the dictates of lustful impulses invites Satan to be his guiding
force. Jesus describes Satan as a liar who by cosmic delusion makes God appear as gross
matter to man. The true devotee who feels the presence of God within himself is not guided
by the prevaricating cosmic delusion and thus perceives God as the Only Existing
Substance in nature and space.
Jesus also says that though all men are created in the image of God, still some by
meditation perceive the presence of God within them as Cosmic Vibration or the Word,
whereas others, being identified with their satanic habits, are oblivious to the presence of
God within them.
“Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, 'Say we not well that thou art a
Samaritan, and hast a devil?' Jesus answered, 'I have not a devil; but I honour my Father,
and ye do dishonor me. And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and
judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, IF A MAN KEEP MY SAYING, HE SHALL NEVER
SEE DEATH.'”
(John 8:48-51)
“I, being aware of the Christ Consciousness within me, am not deluded by cosmic
delusion or Satan. I, Christ Consciousness, honor God the Father whose reflection I am.
My human consciousness does not seek human glory but is glorified with the Christ
Consciousness within me. There is one Cosmic Law which seeks to glorify the Father and
this is the law which judges people according to their good or bad karmas.
“Verily by the truth I feel within me, I declare to you all that if a devotee keeps my
saying – that is, if by daily meditation he contacts the Cosmic Vibration which I feel within
me and follows my teachings and becomes fixed in the Absolute Changeless – he shall
never find his inner vision distracted by the law of change which otherwise immutably rules
the body and matter.”
In the above words Jesus emphasizes that his inner eye of wisdom was open and
that is why he could not behold the darkness of evil anywhere. Beholding God within him,
he could not extol his ego consciousness.
Most people, considering themselves in terms of their own mental acquisitions and
family relations, glorify their material egos. But when a devotee finds his mind detached
from his body and its relationships, he beholds within him nothing but God and seeks to
glorify naught else but God. Thus Jesus says he did not seek to glorify himself.
Cosmic Law Is the Judge
It is the Cosmic Law which seeks the virtues of men and glory of God and declares
its judgment about them. When Jesus uses the words “keep my saying,” he distinctly
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mentions that one has to daily live his teachings and methods of contacting the Cosmic
Vibration. When a man is tossing on a few waves, he has no time to see the whole ocean,
but if he gets out of the waves and stands on the shore, he can have a clear perspective of
the whole ocean. Similarly, an ordinary individual who is busy identifying himself with the
changes in his body and his environment cannot perceive the changeless Infinite within
him. But when the devotee, by meditation, tunes his consciousness with Cosmic Vibration
and the Christ Consciousness within him he beholds the Infinite and becomes free from the
visions of change affecting his body and environment.
“Then said the Jews unto him, 'Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is
dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, 'If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of
death.' Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are
dead: whom makest thou thyself? Jesus answered, 'If I honour myself, my honour is
nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: Yet ye
have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like
unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM REJOICED TO
SEE MY DAY: AND HE SAW IT, AND WAS GLAD.'”
(John 8:52-56)
“If I honor my ego and my bodily connections, it is of little value to the world or God.
It is the Heavenly Father within me, who has been pleased to accept my life and actions,
who has made my life of value to the world. It is the same God whom you declare as your
own God who recognizes the truth in me and therefore wants you all to recognize that truth
in me that you might be benefited.
“You speak of your God about whom you know nothing, but I know Him; if I should
say my human consciousness is not cognizant of the Cosmic Consciousness within it, I
would be speaking untruth as you are used to doing. But I know the Heavenly
Consciousness within me and I practice all the divine rules in my life which I receive from
its inner vibrations.”
Abraham Was Emancipated
“Your enlightened father, Abraham, being tuned to Christ Consciousness within, was
filled with divine bliss beholding “my day” or the light of the same Christ Consciousness
which was within him and which is now within me. Abraham “saw it” or the wisdom in Christ
Consciousness (which I and all liberated souls behold) and was filled with divine delight –
the same joy which I feel within myself.”
In the above words, when Jesus says, “Your father, Abraham, rejoiced to see my
day: and he saw it, and was glad,” he expounds some deep truths. Jesus with his Christ
Consciousness and inner vision could distinctly see all past, present and future in his
Eternal Now consciousness. Ordinarily mortals have their consciousness cut off or
interrupted by death but Jesus, having attained the Absolute, could feel exactly what the
liberated soul of Abraham felt centuries ago. Jesus emphasized that Abraham felt the same
Christ Consciousness that he felt within himself. Jesus knew that the joy of Christ
Consciousness is uniformly the same as felt by him or Abraham or any liberated soul.
When Jesus said, “Abraham rejoiced to see my day,” he meant that Abraham
rejoiced to feel the same eternal Christ Consciousness which he felt within his mind and
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body, but not the body which was called Jesus. Jesus does not say whether he lived in
another form in the time of Abraham, but he distinctly says that with his eternal Christ
Consciousness he could feel exactly what Abraham felt long before the body of Jesus was
born on earth. Such are the remarkable powers of Christ Consciousness by which Jesus
could feel the perceptions of the long-dead Abraham.
No Past, Present or Future
“Then said the Jews unto him, 'Thou are not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen
Abraham?' Jesus said unto them, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS,
I AM.' Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the
temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.”
(John 8:57-59
“Verily, by the eternal, ever-present Christ Consciousness which I feel within me, I
behold no division of past, present or future in my consciousness which, being ever-present
and continuous, is only conscious of the Eternal Now. Therefore, the ever-present
consciousness of the Eternal Now is aware of all the happenings before the time of
Abraham and all the happenings after him and all the happenings yet to come through
eternity.”
In the above words, Jesus describes that in his Christ Consciousness all the
divisions of past, present, and future were annihilated. There was no time nor space in his
consciousness. Whatever he felt, he felt within himself. He felt his oneness with God and
thus realized naught existed but God. Therefore, Jesus saw all things happening within
himself and God. All happenings and all things are God. Jesus, being one with God,
realized His presence in everything; therefore, he said: “Before Abraham was, I am.”
Since nothing can exist without the consciousness of God, all liberated devotees
realize that all things are happening in God in their ever-present, ever-now, eternal
consciousness. An advanced devotee like Jesus finds his consciousness tuned to the
universal Christ Consciousness. Any Christlike devotee who suddenly attains the
omnipresent Christ Consciousness suddenly realizes that the light of his consciousness
simultaneously illumines and reveals the chambers of past, present, and future and all
space. Such an illuminated soul suddenly finds his consciousness evenly present in the
past, present and future and every point of space, so he says: “I am present in the chamber
of the past, present, and future evenly, simultaneously at all times.” That is why Jesus
could say: “I am present before Abraham was, I am present now and, being-pervading, I
am conscious of my presence in the future.”
The ordinary individual being subject to delusion beholds all things as occupying
space and events as happening in time. But Christlike souls find their consciousness
equally distributed in all space and simultaneously present in all past, present and future
categories of time; they find the consciousness of time and space annihilated within
themselves. The ordinary individual beholding the different sizes of things existing in
relation to one another conceives the idea of a space in which all things exist. The divine
individual, finding his consciousness omnipresent sees his Spirit-identified Self existing
through eternity. Such a soul has no room for time and space within his consciousness.
When a man is in the sphere of a dream, he might make a world tour by bicycle in a few
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years but on waking, he discovers that he accomplished his dream world-tour in a few
seconds.
When a man dreams he is making a world tour by bicycle in several years, he
creates the consciousness of space and time which he finds does not exist when he
awakes. This dreamer on waking analyzes his dream world-tour and finds that the space
and time which he required in making that dream-tour were creations of his own
imagination. Jesus and great masters who have awakened in God and forsaken the cosmic
dream and find space and time and all things have been created in the imagination of God
and thus, though temporarily real, are essentially unreal.
“And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his
disciples asked him, saying, 'MASTER, WHO DID SIN, THIS MAN OR HIS PARENTS,
THAT HE WAS BORN BLIND?' JESUS ANSWERED, 'NEITHER HATH THIS MAN
SINNED, NOR HIS PARENTS: BUT THAT THE WORKS OF GOD SHOULD BE MADE
MANIFEST IN HIM. I MUST WORK THE WORKS OF HIM THAT SENT ME, WHILE IT IS
DAY: THE NIGHT COMETH, WHEN NO MAN CAN WORK. AS LONG AS I AM IN THE
WORLD, I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.'”
(John 9:1-5)
“The blindness of this man from birth is not due to his sins of this life or due to the
sins of his parents, but to the hidden sins of a past life. Because this blind man does not
know that he has sinned in a past life he wonders why he is blind, since neither he nor his
parents have committed any sin in their present life. This blind man being good in this life
and coming from virtuous parents has been enabled through some good past karma to
come in contact with me now; thus he will find the miracle of divine healing manifest in his
life.”
“Day” Is Creation
“So long as it is day (i.e., all creation is in manifestation and not dissolved in God),
so long my Christ Intelligence must carry on the work of ordered creation. But when the
night or cosmic dissolution of all creation arrives, my reflected Christ Consciousness,
devoid of its receptacle of vibratory creation in which it is reflected, will be withdrawn in the
transcendental God the Father. Then my Christ Consciousness will have nothing to work
through due to the dissolution of all creation of God.
“So long as the world or cosmic creation exists, so long my Christ Consciousness
shall remain as its guiding light or intelligent principle. But when all vibratory creation is
dissolved in God in Maha Pralaya or complete cosmic dissolution (as distinguished from
partial dissolutions or Khanda Pralaya in which a part of the earth is dissolved as happened
during the flood experienced by Noah), then my Christ Consciousness is automatically
withdrawn from the cosmos and becomes united with the Father even as the reflection of
the moon becomes united with the moon at the destruction of the mirror.”
In the above words, when Jesus says that the man was born blind not because of
his sin or the sin of his parents, many became bewildered to think that God arbitrarily made
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the man blind in order that His miraculous divine powers might be manifested through
Jesus. God would not make a man suffer blindness for years in order to demonstrate divine
healing through Jesus. Jesus simply meant that though neither the man nor his parents
sinned in one life, the blindness of the man was caused by hidden sin of a past life. Jesus
implied that the blind man had some good karma by which he was enabled to contact
Jesus and experience the divine healing.
In this connection, Jesus implies two things – first, that the Christ Consciousness
was manifest in the body of Jesus only for a little while on earth and that he must utilize all
his time on earth to do the will of God. Jesus realized that when his body would be
dissolved in Spirit in the great nocturnal state of dissolution and Cosmic Consciousness, he
could not manifest divine healing to the afflicted people of this earth. That is why Jesus
wanted to do all the good he could so long as his body lasted on earth.
Guide of All Creation
Secondly, Jesus signified that Christ Consciousness was the light of intelligence
which guided the cosmos. When the cosmos disappears during cosmic dissolution, the
Christ Consciousness within him would be united with the transcendental Cosmic
Consciousness of God the Father.
"When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and
he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, 'Go wash in the
pool of Siloam' (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed,
and came seeing. The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he
was blind, said, 'Is not this he that sat and begged?' Some said, 'This is he:' others said,
'He is like him:' but he said, 'I am he.'
“Therefore said they unto him, 'How were thine eyes opened?' He answered and
said, 'A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me,
'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash:' and I went and washed, and I received sight.' Then
said they unto him, 'Where is he?' He said, 'I know not.' They brought to the Pharisees him
that aforetime was blind. And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and
opened his eyes.
“Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said
unto them, 'He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.' Therefore said some
of the Pharisees, 'This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day.'
Others said, 'How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?' And there was a division
among them. They say unto the blind man again, 'What sayest thou of him, that he hath
opened thine eyes?' He said, 'He is a prophet.' But the Jews did not believe concerning
him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that
had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, 'Is this your son, who ye say was
born blind? how then doth he now see?'
“His parents answered them and said, 'We know that this is our son, and that he was
born blind: But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes,
we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.' These words spake his
parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man
did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his
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parents, 'He is of age; ask him.' Then again called they the man that was blind, and said
unto him, 'Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.'
“He answered and said, 'Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know,
that, whereas I was blind, now I see.' Then said they to him again, 'What did he to thee?
how opened he thine eyes?' He answered them, 'I have told you already, and ye did not
hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?' Then they reviled
him, and said, 'Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. We know that God spake
unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.'
“The man answered and said unto them, 'Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye
know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Now we know that God
heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he
heareth. Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that
was born blind. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.' They answered and said
unto him, 'Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us?' And they cast him
out.”
(John 9:6-34)
Though Jesus asked the blind man to go to the pool of Siloam and there wash his
eyes which were anointed by the clay made of spittle, Jesus could have healed him without
the spittle or the waters of the pool of Siloam; he did this in order to create faith in the blind
man. He made the blind man realize that he charged his life force into the clay ointment
which he made with the spittle.
Reinforcing His Faith
In order to reinforce the faith of the blind man, Jesus asked him to go into the pool of
Siloam which was popular for it healing waters. All places of pilgrimage wherein many
people gather and concentrate on divine thoughts posses divine healing vibrations and also
help to create faith in persons desirous of divine healing.
Jesus knew that in all divine healings, the seed of divine power and the proper soil of
faith of the person to be healed were necessary to produce a plant of divine healing. Jesus
was sure of the seed of divine healing power within him, but he was not sure of the proper
divine soil of faith of the blind man in which he wanted to grow the plant of healing. That is
why Jesus went through the outward procedure of creating the clay ointment and asking
the blind man to wash his anointed eyes in the pool of Siloam.
“Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto
him, 'Dost thou believe on the Son of God?’”
(John 9:35)
“Dost thou believe in the Christ Consciousness within me which is the only begotten
reflection, or Son, present in all vibratory creation, and within my body, emanating from
God the Father?”
In the above words of Jesus, the word “Son” signifies the Christ Consciousness
which is the only or sole reflection of God the Father present in all vibratory creation. The
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word “God” signifies God the Father or the Cosmic Consciousness which is present beyond
all vibratory creation.
It must be strictly remembered that Jesus never claimed his body to be the only
begotten Son of God but meant the Christ Consciousness within him. Orthodox Christians
think that the body of Jesus was the only Son of God. All orthodox Christians must rectify
their mistaken idea by admitting the truth of the following saying of Jesus: “ALL THOSE
THAT RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM HE GAVE THE POWER TO BE THE SONS OF GOD.”
Any soul who can tune his consciousness with the Christ Consciousness within him
can become the Son of God. Ignorant souls do not realize the presence of God within
them, but divine souls, by meditation, learn to receive or feel the presence of Christ
Consciousness within them. Just as the sun equally shines on pieces of diamond and
charcoal, so God is equally present in the wise man and the ignorant man steeped in dark
delusion. But as the diamond by its own quality receives and reflects the light of the sun, so
the wise man by his meditations receives and reflects the light of God. As the charcoal by
its own darkness shuts out the rays of the sun, so the ignorant man by his own dark
delusion shuts out the light of God. Jesus himself said that all people who realized by
wisdom and meditation the presence of God within them can become Sons of God. In fact,
all people are potential Sons of God. Liberated souls are awakened Sons of God.
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Chapter 8
“I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD;
THE GOOD SHEPHERD GIVETH
HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP”
“He answered and said, 'Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?' And Jesus
said unto him, 'THOU HAS BOTH SEEN HIM, AND IT IS HE THAT TALKETH WITH
THEE'. And he said, 'Lord, I believe.' And he worshipped him.”
(John 9:36-38)
“Thou hast seen the body in which is encased the Christ Consciousness. It is the
Christ Consciousness, the Son of God, who is behind the speech of the man called Jesus.”
In the above words, the natural humbleness of Jesus is manifest. Jesus never spoke
of his ego as the Christ, but referred to his own reflection of God as the Christ
Consciousness.
“And Jesus said, 'FOR JUDGMENT I AM COME INTO THIS WORLD, THAT THEY
WHICH SEE NOT MIGHT SEE; AND THAT THEY WHICH SEE MIGHT BE MADE
BLIND.'”
(John 9:39)
“I am the Christ Consciousness present in the cosmos to give it judgment and guide
it intelligently. Also, the same Christ Consciousness is manifest in my body that I may give
discriminating wisdom to those who, spiritually ignorant, yet confess their ignorance that
they see not and try their utmost to see the truth. The wisdom manifest in my life will help to
awaken those who think they know truth but are actually ignorant. By my wisdom the
humble, spiritually blind aspirant will see truth, and the light of my wisdom will reveal the
blindness of worldly-wise, spiritually ignorant people who think they see truth and do not.”
Spiritually Blind
“And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto
him, 'Are we blind also.' Jesus said unto them, 'If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but
now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.'”
(John 9:40-41)
“If you acknowledged your spiritually blind mentalities, then you would have no sin,
but would be helped by me to be free from all ignorance; but as you say in your ignorance:
'We see,' while you do not know the truth, therefore the sin of ignorance abides with you.”
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In these words, Jesus points out that those who acknowledge their spiritual
blindness and try to heal themselves with the help of a proper Guru-Preceptor are on the
road to freedom from sin. But those who think they have spiritual vision and do not have it
will find themselves entangled in the net of sin or ignorance.
"'Verily, verily, I say unto you, 'HE THAT ENTERETH NOT BY THE DOOR INTO
THE SHEEPFOLD, BUT CLIMBETH UP SOME OTHER WAY, THE SAME IS A THIEF
AND A ROBBER. BUT HE THAT ENTERETH IN BY THE DOOR IS THE SHEPHERD OF
THE SHEEP. TO HIM THE PORTER OPENETH; AND THE SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE,
AND HE CALLETH HIS OWN SHEEP BY NAME, AND LEADETH THEM OUT. AND
WHEN HE PUTTETH FORTH HIS OWN SHEEP, HE GOETH BEFORE THEM, AND THE
SHEEP FOLLOW HIM: FOR THEY KNOW HIS VOICE AND A STRANGER WILL THEY
NOT FOLLOW, BUT WILL FLEE FROM HIM; FOR THEY KNOW NOT THE VOICE OF
STRANGERS.' This parable spake Jesus unto them; but they understood not what things
they were which he spake unto them.”
(John 10:1-6)
“With the assurance of the intuitive truth which I feel within me, I declare unto you
that any so-called spiritual teacher who has not taken his consciousness through the door
of Cosmic Consciousness, but by pretension, false personality, animal magnetism,
assumed spirituality and insincere oratory seeks to guard the sheepfold of sincere truthseekers
is a metaphysical thief who by false representations steal the devotion of seekers.”
Devotion Is For God
“Any false spiritual teacher who by pretense diverts the devotion of his devotees to
himself is a robber and a thief. The true Guru-Preceptor relays all the devotion of his
disciples to God. The false teacher revels in the adoration of his blind followers and
therefore is a psychological thief. But the spiritual teacher who has attained Christ
Consciousness is the true Guru-Shepherd or guide of the obedient, truth-seeking, meek,
lamblike followers.
“To a true Guru-Preceptor, the Heavenly Father opens the door to all divine
secrecies. The true devotees who are in the tune with the Guru-Preceptor's voice or
vibration and are consciously drawn to him are successful in following his leadership until
they reach the heaven of Cosmic Consciousness. When the spiritual teacher leads the
consciousness of his devotees toward God in meditation he himself goes ahead of them
towards Cosmic Consciousness through deep ecstasy.
“All the sincere devotees, meditating with their ecstasy-tuned advanced Guru-
Preceptor, gradually learn to follow his consciousness to the abode of Cosmic
Consciousness. The devotees, being in tune with their advanced Guru-Preceptor, intuitively
feel his voice or vibrations and try to follow him and be like him. True devotees will not
follow a stranger or a teacher not recognized by God. True devotees will avoid and are not
in tune with self-elected, so-called spiritual teachers.”
In the above words Jesus speaks of “the door”; he signifies that every spiritual
teacher must enter the door of Christ Consciousness before he can be a spiritual shepherd
leading his devotees to God. By “climbeth up some other way,” Jesus signifies that many
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so-called spiritual teachers attract the attention of devotees by a false, material way of
oratory, animal magnetism, and so forth.
When Jesus says, “He that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep”, he
signifies that only those teachers that have attained Christ Consciousness or Cosmic
Consciousness can be the true spiritual shepherd or Guru-Preceptor able to guide
devotees into the kingdom of God. When Jesus says, “A stranger will they not follow,” he
signifies that God sends to true seekers a spiritual teacher or Guru ordained by Him. It has
been said before when a soul seeks God very deeply, He sends him a Guru-Preceptor
through whose voice and intelligence God teaches the devotee.
Sign of a True Teacher
In the above words, Jesus specially signifies that it is God who brings true spiritual
teachers and true devotees together in contra-distinction to self-elected lecturers gathering
a host of followers by animal magnetism, oratory, and other unspiritual means. Jesus said
before: “None can come unto me unless the heavenly Father draweth him.” Therefore, it is
evident according to Jesus that true devotees never follow popular self-elected spiritual
teachers. When a so-called spiritual teacher draws a large following by personal
magnetism and not by Self-realization he is spiritually blind himself, leading other spiritually
blind seekers into the ditch of ignorance.
"Then said Jesus unto them again, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the
sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear
them. I AM THE DOOR: BY ME IF ANY MAN ENTER IN, HE SHALL BE SAVED, AND
SHALL GO IN AND OUT, AND FIND PASTURE. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and
to kill, and to destroy: I AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY
MIGHT HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.'
“'I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he
that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf
coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the
sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I AM
THE GOOD SHEPHERD, AND KNOW MY SHEEP, AND AM KNOWN OF MINE. AS THE
FATHER KNOWETH ME, EVEN SO KNOW I THE FATHER: AND I LAY DOWN MY LIFE
FOR THE SHEEP.'
“'AND OTHER SHEEP I HAVE, WHICH ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD: THEM ALSO I
MUST BRING, AND THEY SHALL HEAR MY VOICE; AND THERE SHALL BE ONE
FOLD, AND ONE SHEPHERD. THEREFORE DOTH MY FATHER LOVE ME, BECAUSE I
LAY DOWN MY LIFE, THAT I MIGHT TAKE IT AGAIN. NO MAN TAKETH IT FROM ME,
BUT I LAY IT DOWN MYSELF. I HAVE POWER TO LAY IT DOWN, AND I HAVE POWER
TO TAKE IT AGAIN. THIS COMMAND HAVE I RECEIVED OF MY FATHER.'”
(John 10:7-18)
“With my divine intuitions I declare unto you, the Christ Consciousness in me as in
other great liberated souls is the only door through which all devotees can enter into
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Cosmic Consciousness. All so-called spiritual teachers who try to exalt and put forth their
consciousness before or ahead of Christ Consciousness are metaphysical thieves and
robbers who steal the devotion of devotees for themselves and not for God.”
Christ Consciousness Is the “Only Door”
“All great teachers who realize that the Christ Consciousness in me is the only door
to God, are real; but all those so-called spiritual teachers who came before me – that is,
presented their consciousness and personality to their devotees ahead of the Christ
Consciousness – are metaphysical thieves and robbers. Those teachers who exalted their
ego consciousness and not the Christ Consciousness in them could not get my sheep or
the true devotees to listen to them.
“The Christ Consciousness in me and all liberated souls is the only door through
which all true devotees will enter into Cosmic Consciousness. If any devotee by meditation
realizes the Christ Consciousness present in me and him, he will be saved from the misery
of reincarnations and will have the privilege of consciously going into Cosmic
Consciousness or of being born in the world again to help mankind; he will find the pasture
of eternal happiness.
“So-called spiritual teachers who are metaphysical thieves come into the world not to
know God or to give His consciousness to others but just to steal the devotion of truthseekers
for themselves. Such false spiritual teachers destroy their own wisdom and the
wisdom of their followers.
“The Christ Consciousness has appeared in my body, called Jesus, that true souls
may find eternal life and its abundant wisdom and freedom. The Christ Consciousness in
me is the shepherd of all true seekers and is the receptacle of all goodness, able to guide
all deeply meditating devotees to Cosmic Consciousness. The shepherd or true spiritual
teacher transmits his eternal life to his obedient humble devotees and is ready to sacrifice
anything necessary for them.
“Any so-called spiritual teacher who is not a real spiritual shepherd does not know
how to tune the consciousness of his devotees with the unperceived Christ Consciousness
within him. All false teachers are helpless and fly away when they find their devotees
attacked by the wolf of ignorance and of material and spiritual difficulties. All blind followers
of ignorant spiritual teachers are caught by the wolf of ignorance and are scattered in the
sphere of rebirths. The hired minister who holds the clerical position only for his living goes
about preaching from one place to another as a matter of routine, not caring what happens
to the souls of his followers.”
Devotees of Other Lives
“The Christ Consciousness in me is a real shepherd who recognizes true spiritual
seekers as distinct from curiosity seekers, and the true seekers recognize the Spirit in me.
Cosmic Consciousness knows the Christ Consciousness in me and the Christ
Consciousness in me knows the Cosmic Consciousness; the Christ Consciousness in me
surrenders the eternal life in it for all true devotees.
“There are other devotees of other incarnations whom I know from the past but who
do not belong to the fold or group of disciples of this life. Them also I must bring through my
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voice or Cosmic Vibration to the Heavenly Father or Cosmic Consciousness. All true
devotees belong to the one fold of truth and they shall have one shepherd of Christ
Consciousness in me.
“The Heavenly Father loves me because I serve true devotees with eternal life
through the body called Jesus and also after that body will be taken away from the earth.
No human being can destroy the eternal life in my Christ Consciousness or destroy the life
in my body except that I am voluntarily surrendering it for the service of all. The Heavenly
Father has given me the power to surrender the life in the body called Jesus and also
materialize the life in it after it is once gone from it. I received this commandment and
power from my Heavenly Father.”
There are some very important things to be clearly understood in the above sayings
of Jesus. When Jesus says: “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the
sheep did not hear them,” he does not mean that Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Buddha, John
the Baptist and great Masters who came before him were all thieves and robbers, but he
meant that all false teachers who tried to exalt their human consciousness by eclipsing the
Christ Consciousness in them were thieves or false prophets who stole the devotion of
devotees for themselves.
By the words “all that ever came before me,” Jesus signifies all ignorant teachers
who put forth their personality before the people and keep their Christ Consciousness
hidden. It is a shame that so many orthodox followers of Churchianity misunderstand the
above words of Jesus and think he meant that all masters who came before Jesus on earth
were thieves and robbers.
Other Great Teachers
Came Before Jesus
Buddha was a great Master born in India and had many liberated disciples in the 5th
Century B.C. Also Elijah, who came long before Jesus, was a great prophet and had true
followers, including Elisha who was Jesus in a former incarnation. Therefore, Jesus could
never have meant that all prophets and seers who came before him were metaphysical
thieves who stole the devotion of true seekers for themselves.
When Jesus says, “I am the door,” he does not speak of his physical personality but
of the eternal Christ Consciousness within himself. When Jesus speaks of hirelings, he
speaks of a type of professional minister who is more interested in the collection from his
followers than their real emancipation by meditation. Such a hireling is never interested
about the real emancipation of the souls of his followers.
Jesus, in order to differentiate himself from false teachers, declared that, being
empowered by God and through his Self-realization, he was able not only to take care of
souls during their earth life but in their after-death state. That is why he says: “Other sheep
I have which are not of this fold.” “This fold” refers to the disciples who lived in the time of
Jesus.
When Jesus says: “I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again,”
he signifies that through the commandment of God and his own Self-realization, he had the
power to get his body crucified on the cross and to resurrect it again at will.
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“There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. And many
of them said, 'He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?' Others said, 'These are not
the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?'
“And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus
walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round about him, and said
unto him, 'How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.' Jesus
answered them, 'I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name,
they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto
you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.'
“'AND I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE; AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH,
NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND. MY FATHER, WHICH
GAVE THEM ME, IS GREATER THAN ALL; AND NO MAN IS ABLE TO PLUCK THEM
OUT OF MY FATHER'S HAND. I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE.'”
(John 10:19-30)
“I told you who I am and you believed me not. The miraculous works of healing
bodies and souls which I have performed in the name of my Heavenly Father bear
testimony to the Christ Consciousness in me. But you do not believe in me because you
are not devoted and awakened like my disciples. My disciples, by meditation, hear the
Cosmic Vibration and feel the Christ Consciousness within them. The Christ
Consciousness in me is in tune with my true devotees who strictly follow me.”
“They Shall Never Perish”
“When my devotees fully contact the Christ Consciousness in me, they will never
experience death but will recognize the eternal life within them. Those devotees will never
feel themselves to be dead like the ordinary human souls. Neither shall any man, nor any
material desire, be able to pluck them away from my Christ Consciousness when they are
once established there. All true devotees once fixed in Christ Consciousness by continuous
deep meditation and ecstasy never have to reincarnate unwillingly again.
“My Father, the Cosmic Consciousness, who emanated the Christ Consciousness in
me as felt by all deep devotees, is greater than all things. Once the devotees reach the
domain of Cosmic Consciousness, they cannot be compelled to reincarnate on earth
through the power of any possible material desires of past incarnations. The Christ
Consciousness present in my body and in all vibratory creation is one with and the
reflection of Cosmic Consciousness present beyond all creation, just as the moon reflected
in a lake is the same moon which shines in the sky.”
When Jesus said, “Ye are not of my sheep,” he meant that the Jews who doubted
him were not worthy to receive divine grace and be redeemed through Jesus. Jesus again
and again emphasizes that no one can find God unless he is a true seeker and is permitted
by God to meet a real Guru-Preceptor. When Jesus says, “Neither shall any man pluck
them out of my hand,” he signifies that neither any man nor material desire shall be able to
take the true devotees away from his hand or the Christ Consciousness in him.
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Chapter 9
JESUS RAISES LAZARUS FROM THE GRAVE –
“I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE”
“Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, 'Many
good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?'
The Jews answered him, saying, 'For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy;
and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.'
“Jesus answered them, 'Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called
them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye
of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest;
because I said, I am the Son of God? IF I DO NOT THE WORKS OF MY FATHER,
BELIEVE ME NOT. BUT IF I DO, THOUGH YE BELIEVE NOT ME, BELIEVE THE
WORKS: THAT YE MAY KNOW, AND BELIEVE, THAT THE FATHER IS IN ME, AND I IN
HIM.'
“Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, And
went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized ; and there he
abode. And many resorted unto him, and said, 'John did no miracle: but all things that John
spake of this man were true.' And many believed on him there.”
(John 10:31-42)
“Is it now written in your spiritual books exactly what I said? – not only I but all of you
are gods? If the Scripture call all people gods because they are born of the Cosmic
Vibration emanating from God the Father, then that truth cannot be nullified by your
disbelief. How can you speak of blasphemy to me who am a perfect image of God and who
has been sanctified and sent by Him as a spiritual example to the world?
“Believe in My Divine Work”
“Because I truthfully made a statement that Christ Consciousness in me is the Son
or the only reflection of God the Father, you erroneously imagine that I am indulging in
blasphemy. If I do not manifest the divine actions as inspired by the Cosmic Consciousness
reflected in my Christ Consciousness, then do not believe me. But if I manifest the works as
inspired by Cosmic Consciousness, even though you do not believe me, believe in the
Divine manifested in my works. By believing and concentrating on divine work it is quite
possible that you may know and believe that Cosmic Consciousness is reflected in the
Christ Consciousness within me and that my Christ Consciousness is the reflection of
Cosmic Consciousness.”
In the above words, when Jesus quotes the Scripture (Psalms 82:6) that “ye are
gods,” he signifies that all pure souls are potentially made in the image of God, the Father.
It can be said that ten people with their eyes wide open, and ninety people with their eyes
closed sunbathing on the beach are all revealed by the sun. But the ninety who have their
eyes closed do not see the sun like the ten who have their eyes open. Similarly, some
souls with open eyes of wisdom behold themselves as emanations of God, while other
souls, even though they are emanations of God, do not realize it because their eyes of
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wisdom are closed. That is why even though all souls are potentially made in the image of
God, there is a difference among them according to the degree of their Self-realization.
Jesus, who truly realized the presence of God within him, did not speak of his human
nature as God, so he was justified in saying, “I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE.” But people
who have not consciously realized the God in them should in no way say, “I am God,” even
though they are potential gods. Unless one knows and feels the presence of God within
him, he should never say, “I am God.” Jesus never said: “I am God.” But he manifested the
truth that his consciousness, having emanated from God, was one with Him.
Ocean and the Wave
It has been said before that the wave is made of the same essence as the ocean,
but the wave could not say, “I am the ocean,” although the ocean could say, “I am the
wave.” So man, being made in the image of God, is a manifestation of God. He could not
say, “I am God,” but he could say truthfully, “God has become myself.” As the calm ocean
could remain without the wave but the wave could not remain without the ocean, so God
the Father could exist without creation and man but they could not exist without Him.
“Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her
sister Martha. (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet
with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying,
'Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.' When Jesus heard that, he said, 'This sickness
is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.'
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When he had heard therefore that
he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.”
(John 11:1-6)
“This sickness of Lazarus though it may bring death will not end in death. When
Lazarus dies of sickness he will be resurrected again that the power of God as manifested
in the Son of God might be gloriously revealed to bring the hope of immortal life in deathhounded
man.”
In the above words Jesus points out that some sicknesses end in death but Lazarus'
sickness would manifest the glory of divine resurrection. Jesus did not mean that Lazarus
was destined to die especially for the manifestation of the divine power of resurrection, but
that Jesus by divine power would be able to resurrect Lazarus whom he saw through his
prophetic eye was to be the victim of death.
“Then after that saith he to his disciples, 'Let us go into Judaea again.' His disciples
say unto him, 'Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?'
Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? IF ANY MAN WALK IN THE DAY,
HE STUMBLETH NOT, BECAUSE HE SEETH THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD. BUT IF A
MAN WALK IN THE NIGHT, HE STUMBLETH, BECAUSE THERE IS NO LIGHT IN HIM.'”
(John 11:7-10)
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“One who walks in the day does not stumble. He who walks at night stumbles. If any
soul walks in the light of wisdom, he sees the great light which governs the cosmos and
cannot make any errors in his actions. But an ignorant soul walking in the night of
ignorance stumbles and commits blunders in his activities, for he beholds no guiding light of
wisdom within him.”
“The Light of the World”
When Jesus speaks of “the light of the world,” he signifies Cosmic Energy and the
light of wisdom. God the Father is reflected as Christ Consciousness and Cosmic Vibration.
Christ Consciousness and “the light of the world” (or the intelligence governing all creation)
are one and the same thing. The light of the world also signifies Cosmic Energy. Cosmic
Vibration manifests itself as Cosmic Sound and Cosmic Energy. Devotees can hear the
Cosmic Sound and see the Cosmic Energy pervading all creation, and can feel the light of
wisdom or Christ Consciousness latent in Cosmic Vibration manifested as Cosmic Sound
and Cosmic Energy.
“These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, 'Our friend Lazarus
sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.' Then said his disciples, 'Lord, if he
sleep, he shall do well.' Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had
spoken of taking of rest in sleep.”
(John 11:11-13)
“Our friend Lazarus is sleeping the sleep of delusive death but I am going to him that
the Christ Consciousness in me can make him forsake his delusion.”
Sleep is a temporary death and death is a prolonged sleep. Both the ordinary state
of slumber and the state of death are a part of cosmic dream delusion. As in a dream a
person can walk or sleep or die, so human beings under the influence of a cosmic dream
behold themselves sleeping the sleep of death or waking in the after-death state. Christ
knew the universe as a cosmic dream, so he said: “I see the soul of Lazarus is dreaming
the sleep of death. I am going to make him dream he is living instead. Having realized the
cosmos to be a dream, I will make the soul of Lazarus dream life, instead of death.”
“Then said Jesus unto them plainly, 'Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sakes
that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.' Then said
Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, 'Let us also go, that we may die
with him.' Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
“Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off: And many of the
Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. Then Martha, as
soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the
house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, 'Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not
died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.'
“Jesus saith unto her, 'Thy brother shall rise again.' Martha saith unto him, 'I know
that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.'”
(John 11:14-24)
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“The soul of Lazarus has left his physical body and I am glad for your sake that I
was not there to prevent his death for then you would not be able to witness the miracle of
divine resurrection. My intention is that when you witness the miracle of divine resurrection
of Lazarus through the will of God you will then understand His glory and power.”
In the above words, Jesus hints that if he had been with Lazarus during his sickness,
Lazarus would not have died and consequently the disciples would not have had the
opportunity to see his resurrection and thus behold the miracle-working power of God.
Meaning of “Resurrection”
“Resurrection at the last day” means that after good and bad souls depart from this
earth and enter the astral world, they stay there for a time enjoying the after-death or rest –
a pension from the hard work of life. Then after that period of rest, all souls are judged
according to the accumulated good and bad actions of their past lives or the law of karma
to be resurrected in a higher sphere or in a lower sphere or in the earth plane.
Resurrection refers to the transition of a soul from one body to another, as Elias was
reborn as John the Baptist. Resurrection also means the revival of life a second time in a
dead body as illustrated in the case of Lazarus. Resurrection also signifies the rising of
souls from the after-death state of sleep or rest to the wakefulness in higher or lower
spheres.
The last day is not a fixed day in time when all souls will reappear in their dead
bodies by the sound of a trumpet. That idea of resurrection is absurd, for God in His
wisdom is not keeping souls waiting thousands of years to be resurrected on a certain day
which has never arrived. If Gabriel happens to sound his trumpet tomorrow, then souls that
died and were buried today would be resurrected tomorrow, while souls buried twenty
centuries ago would wake up after waiting twenty centuries. God could not allow such an
erratic arrangement. Intelligent souls after death could never remain guarding their
crumbling bones through thousands of years waiting for a trumpet-call.
Gabriel's trumpet refers to the sound of Cosmic Vibration which all souls hear who
are resurrected from the after-death state of sleep to higher spheres. The last day refers to
the particular time when any soul after enjoying the sleep of death is judged by the cosmic
law of action to go into other spheres.
“Jesus said unto her, 'I AM THE RESURRECTION, AND THE LIFE: HE THAT
BELIEVETH IN ME, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE: AND
WHOSOEVER LIVETH AND BELIEVETH IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE. Believest thou this?'
She saith unto him, 'Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which
should come into the world.'
“And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly,
saying, 'The Master is come, and calleth for thee.' As soon as she heard that, she arose
quickly, and came unto him. Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that
place where Martha met him.
“The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they
saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, 'She goeth unto the
grave to weep there.' Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell
down at his feet, saying unto him, 'Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.'
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When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her,
he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.”
(John 11:25-33)
“My soul, not being identified with the bodily life, is not limited by the I Am or Ego
Consciousness. The soul identified with the body and its limitations is the I Am or Ego
Consciousness. But I (my Spirit) am the resurrection and the life. My soul is one with the
Christ Consciousness and the Cosmic Life in it in which I witness that souls are resurrected
in various ways from the after-death state of sleep to the wakefulness in higher or lower
spheres or in the earth plane.
No Forced Reincarnation
“That devotee who by meditation learns to commune with the Christ Consciousness
and Cosmic Life learns also to believe in the Christ Consciousness in me. Even if he is
physically or spiritually dead he may resurrect his life in his dead body or resurrect his soul
from the sleep of death to the sphere of Cosmic Consciousness. Any advanced soul who
learns to permanently feel the eternal life in me and believes or communes with the Christ
Consciousness in me shall never be forced to reincarnate into a physical body and witness
the change of death which befalls it. Dost thou believe all this I say?”
In the above words of Jesus it must be understood what he means by “I AM”.
Whenever Jesus speaks of “I Am”, he speaks of his soul being one with Christ
Consciousness. But when the ordinary person speaks of “I Am” he refers to his body, or
physical possessions or intellectual acquisitions; as for example, a man may say, “I am
strong,” or, “I am rich,” or, “I am a specialist in literature or philosophy.” Whenever an
ordinary man says, “I am full of vitality,” he speaks of the youthful life limited by the frame of
his body.
But when Jesus says, “I am the resurrection,” he means, “I am Christ Consciousness
in which all souls rise from a lower state of consciousness to a higher state of inner
development.” When Jesus says, “I am the life,” he cannot be accused of egotism, since he
meant, “My life is one with the cosmic life in everything. That is why I feel all living creatures
are born out of me and sleep in me.”
Meaning of “Belief”
His words, “He that believeth in me,” refers not to those who believe Jesus lived
physically, but to those advanced devotees who have practically convinced themselves of
their consciousness' expansion to the Christ Consciousness in everything.
“Though he were dead” refers to both physical death and spiritual death. One who is
in tune with Christ Consciousness can reappear in his dead body if he wishes. One who is
temporarily spiritually dead can regain his Christ Consciousness. “Yet shall he live” refers
to the resurrection of life in the physical body or the resurrection of a soul from a lower
sphere to a higher sphere of consciousness.
“Whosoever liveth in me and believeth in me” refers to anyone who permanently
communes with Christ Consciousness within him and hence believeth or is convinced of
the immortal Christ Consciousness equally present in him and Christ.
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“Shall never die” refers both to spiritual and physical death. All souls who can
permanently commune with Christ Consciousness will never witness spiritual death through
ignorance or physical death through forced reincarnations. Souls who live on earth
identified with their bodies create human desires which bring them back there many times
until their earthly desires are worked out and they return to God. Souls who overcome
material desires become pillars in the mansion of God and “go no more out.” Liberated
souls do not have to incarnate and consequently do not experience the death of the
physical body. Souls who are one with Christ Consciousness will also never experience the
death of wisdom through ignorance.
Martha, being an advanced disciple of Jesus, understood what he meant when he
said, “I am the resurrection and the life,” and thus with realization and justification she
spoke, unlike the ordinary blind believer, “Yes, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the
son of God manifest in this body named Jesus.”
“And said, 'Where have ye laid him?' They said unto him, 'Lord, come and see.'
Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, 'Behold how he loved him!'
“And some of them said, 'Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind,
have caused that even this man should not have died?' Jesus therefore again groaning in
himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.”
(John 11:34-38)
His Universal Sympathy
When Jesus, human and divine as he was, saw Mary and the Jews weeping he felt
the vibrations of their sorrow within his great spirit through his universal sympathy. Jesus
wept not because he was overwhelmed with grief but because with his tender divinely
sensitive heart he felt the overwhelming grief of his beloved disciples, Mary and Martha,
and their friends.
“Jesus said, 'Take ye away the stone.' Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith
unto him, 'Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.'
“Jesus saith unto her, 'Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou
shouldest see the glory of God?'
(John 11:39-40)
“Did not I tell you and make you feel my vibrations that if you are convinced of the
all-powerful Christ Consciousness in me you will be able to behold the power and glory of
Cosmic Consciousness, to be manifested shortly?”
The above words, “GLORY OF GOD,” signifies, not that God seeks glory or the
recognition of man, but that advanced devotees are privileged to behold the glory or active
manifestation of the power of God on earth.
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“Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus
lifted up his eyes, and said, 'FATHER, I THANK THEE THAT THOU HAST HEARD ME.
AND I KNEW THAT THOU HEAREST ME ALWAYS: BUT BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE
WHICH STAND BY I SAID IT, THAT THEY MAY BELIEVE THAT THOU HAST SENT
ME.'”
(John 11:41-42)
“O ever-conscious, ever-wise, ever-responding Cosmic Consciousness, I thank thee
that thou hast vibrated thy absolute power in the Christ Consciousness in me. Without
doubt I absolutely and intuitively know that thou dost always vibrate thy absolute power of
Cosmic Consciousness in response to the vibrating divine wishes in my Christ Intelligence.
But for the benefit of the people around me I declared it (thou hearest me always), that they
may know my Christ Consciousness is the reflection of Thy Cosmic Consciousness and
has been manifest in my body called Jesus through thy sovereign wish.”
When Jesus said, “Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me,” he teaches all
mankind that God is not only a Spirit but through devotion responds like a human father. If
the human father's kindness to the child is the reflection of the Heavenly Father's kindness
then how much more kind is the Heavenly Father to that child and to all his human children.
When Jesus says, “I knew that thou hearest me always,” he signifies that through eternity
the Christ Intelligence which he felt within himself is able to intelligently direct the work of all
creation through power received from Cosmic Consciousness.
“Always” indicates throughout eternity the Christ Consciousness is working the will of
Cosmic Consciousness in the universe.
“And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come forth.'
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face
was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, 'Loose him, and let him go.'”
(John 11:43-44)
“O ye disembodied soul of Lazarus, reappear in the body made whole by the Cosmic
Energy of God.”
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Chapter 10
JESUS EXPLAINS THE MEANING OF SATAN
AND HOW TO OVERCOME HIS WORLD DELUSION –
THE TWOFOLD DUTY OF MAN
“Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus
did, believed on him. But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them
what things Jesus had done. Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council,
and said, 'What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men
will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.'
“And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto
them, 'Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should
die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.' And this spake he not of himself:
but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; And not
for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that
were scattered abroad.
“Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death. Jesus
therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to
the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples. And the
Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem
before the passover, to purify themselves. Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among
themselves, as they stood in the temple, 'What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?'
Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man
knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.”
(John 11:45-57)
“And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he
steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, And sent messengers before his face: and they
went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not
receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
“And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, 'Lord, wilt thou that we
command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?'
“But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, 'YE KNOW NOT WHAT MANNER OF
SPIRIT YE ARE OF. FOR THE SON OF MAN IS NOT COME TO DESTROY MEN'S
LIVES, BUT TO SAVE THEM.' And they went to another village.”
(Luke 9:51-56)
“You are not aware of what divine nature you are made. Otherwise you would not
express the spirit of revenge, thus using the evil force, being influenced by satanic
emotions. For the Christ Consciousness is manifest in the body (the Son of Man) not to
destroy men's lives by evil forces but to save them from death and delusion by divine power
and divine ways.”
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In the above words, Jesus tells his disciples to differentiate the image of God and
divine qualities in them from the satanic forces and evils arising in them through the
channel of ignorance. Jesus, clearly remembering his divine mission on earth, points out
that he was to use divine force not for working destruction but for saving souls.
Jesus realized that if he used the divine force for evil purposes, he would become
the instrument of Satan. He told his disciples that, in order to please God, they ought to
bring out the hidden goodness by good actions which is often eclipsed behind satanic
thoughts. Jesus told his disciples, further, that the evil force could not be conquered by evil
but by the good force of God.
Love Conquers Anger
It is a common blunder for people to try to conquer anger in others by anger, when
anger can be conquered only by love. To try to suppress evil people by fire and sword is
ineffectual; even if their bodies are conquered by evil power, their souls remain stronger in
evil and anger just the same. In order to conquer evil, one must use the divine power of
love. Millions of people are doing evil, but they are not dramatically punished by powerful
forces sent from heaven, because God wants to conquer them only by love and wisdom,
whispered to them through their own conscience. Since God has given men free will to
choose between good and evil, He therefore does not interfere with man by stopping his
evil actions by use of heavenly powers.
God tries to influence his error-stricken children through the humble forgiving
personalities of his true saints and devotees. Christlike souls who commune with God have
distinctly declared that anyone who aspires to know Him must behave in a Godlike manner
and must learn to conquer evil by good, hate by love, revengeful actions by loving helpful
actions, unkindness by kindness, harshness by sweetness, pride by humbleness, cruelty by
kindness, unrighteousness by righteousness, falsehood by truth, jealousy by love,
temptation by meditation, restlessness by calmness, harsh speech by sweet speech, evil
behavior by good behavior, selfishness by unselfish behavior, theological arrogance by
Self-realization.
Jesus clearly told his disciples to remember the presence of God and goodness in
them and to destroy all parasites of evil which came into them through ignorance. He told
his disciples that his mission on earth was to expand human lives into the consciousness of
God and not destroy them into the oblivion of death.
“AND ANOTHER ALSO SAID, 'LORD, I WILL FOLLOW THEE; BUT LET ME FIRST
GO BID THEM FAREWELL, WHICH ARE AT HOME AT MY HOUSE.'
“AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, 'NO MAN, HAVING PUT HIS HAND TO THE
PLOUGH, AND LOOKING BACK, IS FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.'”
(Luke 9:61-62)
Any spiritual man of renunciation who, having renounced the limitations of a material
environment and getting ready to plough his consciousness with discipline and wisdom,
looks backward to his forsaken material environment, is not fit to concentrate on the
attainment of the vast kingdom of Cosmic Consciousness hidden within.
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In the above words, Jesus describes very clearly the strict path of the man of
renunciation. To renounce all things for the attainment of God Consciousness is wise
because nothing can be enjoyed without the consciousness borrowed from God. During
death every one is compelled to leave everything instantaneously, without notice. It is wiser
to leave everything voluntarily and do away with all material entanglements for the
attainment of God, until God is realized. It is better to perform all material duties after
realizing God, for then they cannot produce misery. To try to perform material duties with a
spiritually untrained human consciousness is to be the victim of greed, anger, selfishness,
disease, misery, worry, fear and death. Therefore, saints are justified in thinking that when
they perform material duties after attaining God, they can really be happy spiritually and
materially.
The Scriptures of India advise that children should leave their material home
environment and live in the company of great spiritual teachers for several years. After
receiving a thorough spiritual training the children return to lead the lives of householders.
They become ideal spiritual examples in society in that they govern their material lives by
spiritual discipline and divine happiness. Of course, there are some children in India who
become renunciates throughout life. Jesus himself was a man of renunciation, never having
married nor identified himself with a single family. He knew his father was God and his
kingdom was in all space.
The Bhagavad Gita says, “Forsake all duties in order to think of Me alone,” for no
duties can be performed without borrowing the powers of brain and mental energy which
come from God alone. “I shall free thee from all sin accruing from the non-performance of
small duties and other sins if you sincerely seek Me, who am the giver of life to all.”
In another place the Bhagavad Gita says, “Anyone who outwardly renounces the
limitations of a material environment and retires in solitude but inwardly keeps thinking of
the temporary joys of that forsaken material environment is a pretender and not fit to
understand the importance of forsaking the transitory pleasure of life for the ever-lasting
bliss of Spirit.”
Jesus knew that the psychology of renunciation consisted in evacuating all material
desires from the mind in order to make it a temple of God Consciousness. Jesus, as in the
Bhagavad Gita, pointed out that a person is foolish to outwardly renounce material
pleasures while he is inwardly thinking of them. Such a person does not receive the benefit
of God-contact. Along with outward renunciation of material pleasures, there must be
inward renunciation of them also. When that is accomplished the mind, free from sensepleasure
and material habits begins to be established in the kingdom of bliss in meditation.
Inner Renunciation
It is a psychological and metaphysical impossibility to be free from a bad habit by
material renunciation. Evil habits are gone only when they are cast off from the domain of
thought as well as actions. Since thought is the spring of action, thinking evil may be as
dangerous as acting evil. All devotees must realize that mental renunciation is of primary
importance in the attainment of God. It is better to practice inner renunciation in the world
than, without preparation, to run away from the world in a forest and remain there, brooding
over the forsaken earthy joys. The path of Yoga teaches one to commune with God first by
spiritual technique while living in the world, and not merely to outwardly renounce the world
and become a social parasite, depending for food on the earnings of hard-working worldly
people.
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Great teachers who renounce the world and offer high spiritual service are justified in
renouncing the smaller duties of a family life for the greater duty to the greater human
family. Many people who are afraid to struggle for a living often try to renounce worldly life
and live on others. Such people become mentally and physically and spiritually idle and
never attain God Consciousness. Only those who leave everything, inwardly impelled by
the sincere love of God, are justified in their renunciation. Such renunciates do not care
whether they starve or die for the love of God.
“'GO YOUR WAYS: BEHOLD, I SEND YOU FORTH AS LAMBS AMONG WOLVES.
CARRY NEITHER PURSE, NOR SCRIP, NOR SHOES: AND SALUTE NO MAN BY THE
WAY.'
“'AND INTO WHATSOEVER HOUSE YE ENTER, FIRST SAY, 'PEACE BE TO
THIS HOUSE.' AND IF THE SON OF PEACE BE THERE, YOUR PEACE SHALL REST
UPON IT: IF NOT, IT SHALL TURN TO YOU AGAIN.'
“'AND IN THE SAME HOUSE REMAIN, EATING AND DRINKING SUCH THINGS
AS THEY GIVE: FOR THE LABOURER IS WORTHY OF HIS HIRE. GO NOT FROM
HOUSE TO HOUSE. AND INTO WHATSOEVER CITY YE ENTER, AND THEY RECEIVE
YOU, EAT SUCH THINGS AS ARE SET BEFORE YOU: AND HEAL THE SICK THAT
ARE THEREIN, AND SAY UNTO THEM, 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS COME NIGH UNTO
YOU.'”
(Luke 10:3-9)
“After being true laborers or devotees and having reaped the harvest of wisdom and
God-contact, go to the world to share your divine realization with others. In your travels do
not burden your consciousness with material things like purses and clothes. Do not salute
any man on the way but within your mind keep thinking of God, giving highest respect to
Him. When you enter a house give peace unto it. Remain there accepting that hospitality,
eat anything given you, heal the sick and tell them the kingdom of heavenly bliss lies
hidden very near, just behind their waking consciousness. Teach them by meditation to
enter into the kingdom of Cosmic Consciousness and divine bliss.”
“'HE THAT HEARETH YOU HEARETH ME: AND HE THAT DESPISETH YOU
DESPISETH ME: AND HE THAT DESPISETH ME DESPISETH HIM THAT SENT ME.'”
(Luke 10:16)
“Any devotee who listens to your teachings and follows you follows me. O ye
disciples, my Christ Consciousness is with you through your devotion and meditation, and
anyone who will be in tune with you will be in tune with my Christ Consciousness. Anyone
who hates you hates my Christ Consciousness and rebels against it; he is out of tune with
the Cosmic Consciousness, whose reflection I am.”
In the above words Jesus emphasizes how truth-seekers can reach Cosmic
Consciousness by tuning their consciousness with true guru-preceptors, who in turn have
been trained by their Christlike teachers. Through the hierarchy and chain of true gurupreceptors
a truth-seeker is properly introduced to God.
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“And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, 'Lord, even the devils are subject
unto us through thy name.'
“And he said unto them, 'I BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN.'
“'BEHOLD, I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER TO TREAD ON SERPENTS AND
SCORPIONS, AND OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY: AND NOTHING SHALL
BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU.'
“'NOTWITHSTANDING IN THIS REJOICE NOT, THAT THE SPIRITS ARE
SUBJECT UNTO YOU; BUT RATHER REJOICE, BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE
WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.'”
(Luke 10:17-20)
“While I was in my omnipresent Christ Consciousness I beheld satanic delusion as a
conscious cosmic force and lightning-like energy repulsed out of heavenly Cosmic
Consciousness. Behold, I give you divine power by which you will be able to conquer
Satan-created serpents and scorpions and all human enemies and animal pests so that
nothing shall in any way hurt you physically. Behold, through my Christ Consciousness I
will give you the willpower by which you will be able to control the coiled serpent force at
the base of the spine which feeds the sex desires and other scorpion-like, tormenting,
poisonous, evil instincts. When you know the technique of withdrawing the coiled serpent
force from the base of the spine to the heavenly region in the cerebrum, then you will have
full self-control over the unruly sex-force and all other tormenting evil desires which obstruct
the devotee from attaining heavenly bliss. Be not elated that the evil spirits and evil forces
are under your control, but rather rejoice in the positive fact that your souls have attained
enough divine Self-realization that they have access to the heavenly region of Cosmic
Consciousness.”
Origin of Satan
In these words, Jesus describes the origin of Satan who was originally an archangel
or conscious heavenly force endowed with cosmic energy to create only beautiful things in
creation. This archangel of God was given the power and freedom to create anything he
pleased according to the will of God. But later when all created things reached perfection
and began to retire into God again, the archangel was afraid of losing his power of creation
after all things were withdrawn into God after a perfect mundane existence. Therefore the
archangel rebelled against God and created patterns of evils to counteract the patterns of
good created according to the will of God. Ever since Satan has created pain, mortal
desires, death, inharmony and warfare in nature and men, so that by imperfection they
become tied to the earth plane and cannot retire in God and become dissolved in Him. This
is what Jesus meant by Satan falling from heaven.
The archangel, with cosmic energy tuned with heaven, created perfect heavenly
things in all creation. But ever since the archangel rebelled against God Consciousness, he
was turned into a force fallen from divine grace, not guided by heavenly vibrations of God.
All Cosmic Intelligent Energy, working in tune with the vibrations of Cosmic Consciousness
or the will of God, is called energy working in tune with God Consciousness. But any
energy which is controlled by the conscious cosmic force of Satan is termed satanic energy
fallen from heaven. As in space the Cosmic Consciousness is heaven, so that sphere of
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space where there is the creation and presence of imperfect creation is the field of the
satanic evil force trying to work imperfection in all creation.
Similarly, in the human body there are two distinct regions – the heavenly region and
the satanic region. In the human body the heavenly region extends from the dorsal plexus
and heart center up to the cerebral plexus. The satanic region and the receptacle of baser
instincts extend from below the heart, through the lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses.
When all the energy from the senses in centered in the brain by meditation, the devotee is
spoken of as having attained heaven. But most people who do not meditate find their
consciousness flowing downwards with the satanic lighting, or life force falling from the
heavenly region of the brain down to the region of the senses.
Avoid Sense Delusion
The satanic force in every human being keeps the lightning-like life force
continuously falling from the heavenly region towards the senses. That is why the
searchlight of the senses reveals to us the attraction of sense objects only. That is what
Jesus also found in the bodies of his disciples – the life force falling from the brain
downwards. But Jesus taught them by meditation and will power to reverse the life force
brainward. This enabled the disciples to enjoy the heavenly consciousness in the brain and
become free from the torturing sex forces.
The life force withdrawn into the brain reveals heavenly bliss and heavenly forces
and prevents the baser sensations which pervade the lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal
plexuses from reaching the brain. This is why Jesus said to his disciples that they should
rejoice, not only for being free from devils or evil passions at the base of the spine, but for
the power to withdraw the energy through the coiled serpent-like passage at the base of the
spine and thus establish their consciousness in the heavenly region in the brain.
When Jesus said, “Your names are written in heaven,” he meant that the disciples
had acquired enough spirituality by obedience and meditation to be recalled to the mansion
of the Heavenly Father.
“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, 'I THANK THEE, O FATHER, LORD
OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THAT THOU HAST HID THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE
AND PRUDENT, AND HAST REVEALED THEM UNTO BABES: EVEN SO, FATHER;
FOR SO IT SEEMED GOOD IN THY SIGHT.'
“'ALL THINGS ARE DELIVERED TO ME OF MY FATHER: AND NO MAN
KNOWETH WHO THE SON IS, BUT THE FATHER; AND WHO THE FATHER IS, BUT
THE SON, AND HE TO WHOM THE SON WILL REVEAL HIM.'”
(Luke 10:21-22)
Hidden From Egotists
“I thank Thee, O Heavenly Father, pervading as Cosmic Consciousness in the
vibrationless region beyond creation (heaven), and as Christ Consciousness existing in all
vibratory creation (earth), because You have kept the inner wisdom hidden from the
egotistically wise and theoretically prudent individuals, and have revealed the mystery of
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truth unto simple, childlike sons of Thine who are but babes in wisdom compared to Thy
wisdom. Even so, Heavenly Father, for the above procedure of revealing Yourself unto Thy
children who are filled with spiritual simplicity and sincerity seems proper in Thy judgment.
“All truth and wisdom in Cosmic Consciousness are transmitted to the Christ
Consciousness so that all creation can be intelligently governed by it. No materially-minded
man knows who the Christ Consciousness (Son) is except the Cosmic Consciousness
which is the Father of Christ Consciousness; no one knows the Cosmic Consciousness
unless he tries to know it through Christ Consciousness (Son). Devotees can reach Cosmic
Consciousness only by first feeling the Christ Consciousness in meditation.”
Jesus also said elsewhere: “I and my Father are one.” Jesus scientifically realized the
unity of the Christ Consciousness within his consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness.
As the reflection of the moon in the lake and the moon in the sky are essentially the same,
so Cosmic Consciousness, mirrored in all cosmic vibration as Christ Consciousness, is the
same as the Cosmic Consciousness which exists beyond all vibration.
The Higher Ecstasy
The ordinary man is bound by the consciousness of the body and its relations, but by
meditation he does away with all bodily attachments and realizes the super-bliss of
meditation which lies beyond the subconscious. The subconscious is experienced during
sleep or in a semi-conscious state of drowsiness. The deep superconscious state is
marked by an unfathomable depth of bliss.
When the devotee goes into ecstasy and becomes one with the superconscious
state for many years, then he attains, with the help of his Guru-Preceptor and higher
techniques, the higher ecstasy in which he perceives a vast light, and feels an endless
consciousness in which he finds all planets, universes, star-rivers and vibratory objects
glimmering like glow-worms. When the devotee by his inner eye can see this vast space
and see his body as well as all other things in it, he is spoken of as having attained Christ
Consciousness. In this state, the devotee feels the whole universe of vibration and
everything in it as his own, just as he feels all the cells and the different parts of his own
physical body. After attaining Christ Consciousness, the devotee goes further, beyond all
vibratory space, into an indescribable state of Cosmic Consciousness where exist pure,
ever-new joy, consciousness and existence. Here in this Cosmic Consciousness no eddies
of vibration or change can ever disturb the vision of consciousness of the devotee.
After attaining this state in this highest ecstasy or Nirbikalpa Samadhi, the devotee
simultaneously beholds and feels both the vibrationless Cosmic Consciousness, and the
ocean of vibration with bubbles of created planets, nebulae, comets, stars and universes.
Christ attained this state, hence he said, “The Father (Cosmic Consciousness) knows the
Son (Christ Consciousness) and the Son knows the Father.”
“And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, 'BLESSED ARE THE
EYES WHICH SEE THE THINGS THAT YE SEE:'
“'For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which
ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear and have not
heard them.'”
(Luke 10:23-24)
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“Blessed are your physical eyes, for your lives are full of good karma by which you
see the miracles of the silent God through my life. Many prophets and powerful kings have
desired to see those divine demonstration which you see, and they have not been able to
see them. Many devotees have tried to hear the words of wisdom from a God-known soul
but have not been able to have that privilege.”
The Humility of God
Centuries pass before a divine soul comes on earth who can openly and yet subtly
demonstrate the powers and proofs of the presence of the great God, who in His
humbleness has vowed Himself to silence. God is so great and so all-knowing and everunderstanding
that He silently goes on regulating His vast family of the cosmos without
seeking any recognition from man by any show of His power and excellence.
Man, on the other hand, likes to believe in God through some definite proof of His
existence and by divine miracles. Great devotees know that God never satisfies by
miracles the idle curiosity of doubting Thomases. But God has been working enough
miracles in nature and has given man the greatest gift of intelligence so that he should be
able to understand that all things including his mind come from Divine Intelligence.
Man should use his God-given intelligence and freedom of will to love and seek God
in preference to the objects created by Him in the cosmos. God gave man freedom to
choose Him and His Wisdom, or Satan and his delusion. God gave man, made in His own
image, His highest gift of freedom of will. If perchance man uses his free will to cast Satan
away and seek God, that would please Him most. That is why Jesus said, “Thomas,
because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen, and
yet have believed.”
It is the nature of God to silently and subtly reveal Himself unto His devotees. Jesus,
knowing God's will, refused to offer spectacular signs and miracles to prove his divinity and
God's presence. Jesus revealed his miracles of healing, raising the dead, walking on the
sea, to the true believers, strictly under divine guidance and permission. He always
emphasized that he was strictly doing the will of God who sent him. That is why Jesus says
that it was very fortunate for the disciples to be able to witness the manifestation of divine
powers which are very seldom openly manifested as in the life of Jesus and a few great
masters of India.
“And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, 'Master, what
shall I do to inherit eternal life?'
“He said unto him, 'What is written in the law? how readest thou?'
“And he answering said, 'THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL
THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH, AND WITH
ALL THY MIND; AND THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF.'
“And he said unto him, 'Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.'”
(Luke 10:25-28)
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Twofold Duty of Man
“If you can love God by actual, daily meditation and communion, and show by your
actions that you love your neighbor (your divine brother) as you love yourself, then you will
rise above the consciousness of delusive change and behold the changeless Spirit
everywhere.”
One of the most earnest prayers from Whispers from Eternity is: “Heavenly Father,
may Thy love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion and may I be able to awaken
Thy love in all hearts.” This prayer points out the highest duty of man – to love God and to
share that love with his fellow man.
One should share his divine attainment with his neighbors because neighbors live
outside the family and yet are nearer than the world at large. Persons through instinct
usually give everything to their families in preference to strangers. People neglect the
world, thinking it to be far and distant. When a person lives just for himself, from the
spiritual standpoint he does not live at all, for he chokes the expansion of his life. But when
a person extends his sympathy from his family to his neighbors and to the world, he
expands his little life into the greater life of God. This connects man's life to its source, the
Eternal Life.
Most people live in a narrow well of selfishness, never feeling the greater life of God.
Anyone who lives without knowing that his life comes from the eternal life does not live at
all. The souls of those who live a material life, die and reincarnate, forget their past lives
and hence may be said not to live at all. Any devotee who by meditation feels the eternal
life behind his mortal life lives forever – that is, he is conscious of his existence even after
his death, or even if he has to go through several more incarnations on earth.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
“But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, 'And who is my neighbour?'
“And Jesus answering said, 'A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed,
leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when
he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the
place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.'
“'But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw
him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil
and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.'
“'And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to
the host, and said unto him, 'Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when
I come again, I will repay thee.' Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour
unto him that fell among the thieves?' And he said, 'He that shewed mercy on him.' Then
said Jesus unto him, 'Go, and do thou likewise.'”
(Luke 10:29-37)
Jesus here marvelously describes the meaning of a neighbor, and every man's duty
to his fellow man. Jesus realized that it is not possible for any man to look after all his own
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duties and also those of the stricken people of the world. Human life is short and it can do
only so much. Even Jesus explained he came mostly for the needs of a certain people.
Who Is Our “Neighbor”?
Even though Jesus and the masters schedule the time of their lives in order to help
true devotees, still their teachings can be universally followed through all times. By the
above illustration Jesus intimated that though one cannot look after all the afflicted people
of the world, he should help any afflicted person who is definitely thrown in his path.
If a man sees somebody meet with an accident, he should consider him as a
neighbor or one who is near him and render him every help, as he would like to be helped if
he were in the same position. Helping any person who happens to be near you in your own
neighborhood or in a foreign land is to love your neighbor as yourself. Anywhere, anyone
who comes in close relationship with a person physically, mentally or spiritually, is a
neighbor.
There are two ways of knowing God: (1) By loving God by mind, by heart and by
soul. To love God “by strength” means to switch off the vitality or life force from the five
sense telephones of sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste, and thus free the mind from
disturbances of Satan. A man could not inwardly love God and concentrate at the same
time on any sense-pleasure. After the mind is interiorized and disconnected from
sensations, then the devotee can use that free mind to love God. When the devotee can
love God with a free inwardly concentrated mind, then he begins to love God in his heart.
After the devotee feels God saturated in his heart, he feels Him in the deepest recess of the
soul. After feeling God in the soul, he feels Him everywhere. This is the transcendental way
of knowing God by withdrawing the mind from all nature.
(2) As one learns to feel God within, he should also try to share his experience of
God with his neighbors. To give physical help to a neighbor is good, to give him mental and
moral help is better, and to give him God Consciousness and freedom from ignorance is
the best. One should serve his neighbor in accordance with this rule.
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Chapter 11
ALL DEVOTEES MUST BE
A COMBINATION OF MARTHA AND MARY
“Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a
certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called
Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about
much serving, and came to him, and said, 'Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left
me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.'
“And Jesus answered and said unto her, 'Martha, Martha, thou art careful and
troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and MARY HATH CHOSEN THAT
GOOD PART, WHICH SHALL NOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER.'”
(Luke 10:38-42)
“Martha, you are careful about material things and material duties; you are worried
and your mind is scattered, thinking of many things, but all you need is to carefully do your
one highest spiritual duty to God, by thinking of Him all the time during the performance of
your various material duties. Mary has chosen that good part of thinking of God alone and
cultivating her love for God through the inspiration of my words and wisdom. Thus her
desire to listen to me in preference to the distracting material duties of the world shall be
granted to her.”
Lesson for All
In these words of Jesus there is a great lesson for all seekers of God, whether they
live in a family or a hermitage. Some renunciates in a hermitage think that if they perform
the material duties there, that would be sufficient to be spiritual. Other renunciates think
they can attain God Consciousness by performing their spiritual duties of meditating with
the great teacher and Guru-Preceptor in charge of the hermitage.
Of course the highest purpose of a hermitage is to offer a haven in which to seek
God. Renunciates who are so much engrossed in material duties that they forget to
meditate upon God are not justified to live in a hermitage. No one can gainsay that the only
purpose of a hermitage should be to attain God. If some students there attain God by
neglecting material duties, it is all right, but material duties in a hermitage have to be
performed by some members of the group. Those that do material duties in a hermitage
with the thought of serving God are on the right road and will ultimately receive the grace of
God. But those who do material duties in a hermitage by forgetting God do not deserve to
stay there, for they receive no spiritual satisfaction.
But it must be remembered it is better to do material duties in a spiritual environment
than in a material environment, because the person who is absorbed in material duties in a
hermitage has a better chance to think of God there than if he were engrossed in material
duties in a material environment. Jesus warned Martha that though she was doing
necessary household duties, still her mind was very much distracted from God while she
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was performing them, and that she should think of one thing only – God – while she
performed all her material duties. Jesus thus upheld the action of Mary to listen to his
words and think of God first in preference to all other duties. Mary did not want to shun
household work deliberately but her mind was so engrossed in Jesus and God that she
could not possibly do any other work.
That is the reason Jesus upheld her action. But Martha was so busy doing
housework that she could not keep her mind from being scattered and away from God.
That is why Jesus told her that her highest necessity was to think of one thing – God –
during the performance of all other duties.
Both Martha and Mary
Duty or no duty, if one tried his utmost to know God first, that is the highest virtue, for
no duty can be performed without borrowing the powers of God. To perform the highest
duty of trying to know God in preference to performing smaller duties is all right, but to do
material duties in a spiritual environment by forgetting God is senseless and unpardonable.
But to do material duties in a hermitage by thinking of God all the time is no doubt the
highest virtue.
In other words, every spiritual member of a hermitage must possess both the
qualities of Martha and Mary in order to reach perfection. That spiritual aspirant who serves
God and man equally receives quick enlightenment and divine grace. Martha served Jesus
and pleased him, but Mary spiritually served Jesus by listening to his words and thereby
she pleased him more. Martha was pleased in serving Jesus, but not absorbing his spirit,
but Mary did her utmost to be one with the spirit of Jesus. Jesus did not want Mary to
imitate Martha's material ways. Jesus wanted Martha to follow the footsteps of Mary and
Jesus would have allowed Mary to help Martha in her household duties if she did those
duties with one thought of God and without distraction.
Every one in a hermitage should be able to play the roles of Martha and Mary
alternately in order to reach perfection. Any truth-seeker, whether living in a family or a
hermitage, should be able to express the dual nature of Martha and Mary, doing material
duties with the thought of God, or doing the spiritual duty of meditating on God alone
without being distracted by material duties, as the situation calls for. No member of a family
or a hermitage, by pretending to meditate, should neglect material duties, as no member
should disturb another spiritual member of a family or hermitage, when that individual is
really engrossed in God.
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Chapter 12
THE INNER MEANING OF “THE LORD'S PRAYER"
“And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased,
one of his disciples said unto him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his
disciples.'
“And he said unto them, 'When ye pray, say,
“'OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN,
HALLOWED BE THY NAME.
THY KINGDOM COME.
THY WILL BE DONE,
AS IN HEAVEN, SO IN EARTH.'
“'GIVE US DAY BY DAY OUR DAILY BREAD.'
“'AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS;
FOR WE ALSO FORGIVE EVERY ONE
THAT IS INDEBTED TO US.
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION;
BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.'”
(Luke 11:1-4)
“When you pray, say within your mind: O Fountain of all our consciousness, our
Father Cosmic Consciousness, which is present in the vibrationless region of heavenly
bliss, may the cosmic vibrations (Thy name) emanating from Thee in the earth be
consecrated and used for cultivating Thy consciousness and not material consciousness.
Let Thy absolute royal consciousness appear in human consciousness. Let Thy wisdomguided
will be the guiding force of deluded earthly people, as Thy will is followed by
liberated souls in the astral world.
“Give us our daily bread, food and prosperity for the body, efficiency and power for
the mind, wisdom and bliss for our souls. Give us the physical, mental, and spiritual bread
which nourishes our bodies, minds, and souls. As we forgive a brother who is indebted to
us, forgive us, thy children, for our sins of not remembering our indebtedness to Thee – that
we owe our health, life and soul to Thee.
“Lead us not into temptation, even by way of testing our little spiritual power. Leave
us not in the pit of temptation wherein we fell through the misuse of Thy given reason, but if
it is Thy will to test us when we are stronger, then, Father, make Thyself more tempting
than temptation, but help us that by our own effort through Thy spiritual force, we may be
free from all misery-making, physical, mental, and spiritual evils.”
In the above words, Jesus says that though this earth came from divine vibration, it
is not consecrated by His name or vibrations because of the wickedness of the people. As
God's bliss and wisdom are the only kingly powers which exist in Cosmic Consciousness,
so Jesus prays that those absolute powers of God may manifest in human consciousness
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which is often steeped in delusion. Jesus also prays that, as angels are guided by God's
wisdom-guided will, so also might earthly people willingly be guided by God's wisdom.
Jesus prays for the three-fold bread which nourishes the body, mind and soul. Jesus also
says that as we ought to forgive those of our brethren who are indebted to us and yet forget
their obligation to us, so God should forgive His children even if they have forgotten that
they owe their life and everything to Him.
“Save Us From Temptation”
Jesus implies that God could never, like a mischievous schoolboy, lead anyone into
evil or temptation. God could only allow Satan to test true devotees by way of proving them.
Jesus meant: “God, leave us not in temptation.” Jesus meant “leave us not” and not “lead
us not.” Jesus prayed that the Heavenly Father deliver every soul from the enthrallment of
Satan and Cosmic Delusion (evil).
“And he said unto them, 'Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at
midnight, and say unto him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves; For a friend of mine in his
journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?'
“And he from within shall answer and say, 'Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and
my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.' I say unto you, Though he will
not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise
and give him as many as he needeth.'
“And I say unto you, 'ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU; SEEK, AND YE SHALL
FIND; KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU. FOR EVERY ONE THAT
ASKETH RECEIVETH; AND HE THAT SEEKETH FINDETH; AND TO HIM THAT
KNOCKETH IT SHALL BE OPENED.'
“'If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if
he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer
him a scorpion? IF YE THEN, BEING EVIL, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS UNTO
YOUR CHILDREN: HOW MUCH MORE SHALL YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE
HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK HIM?'”
(Luke 11:5-13)
“I declare unto you, if your persistently ask the divine truth from God, you will receive
it. If you seek God perseveringly in the dark forest of meditation, you will find Him. By
continuously knocking with your prayers at the gate of silence leading to God, it shall be
opened unto you and your consciousness will be able to enter into the heavenly region of
bliss. Every devotee who persistently asks for God-realization receives divine
enlightenment without fail.”
Slums of Matter
“Every prodigal son of God who has run away from the bliss of meditation into the
slums of material distraction, will someday come back toward God through the gate of
peace, and will be allowed to enter his own home of inner bliss. The devotee, being a child
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of God, even though lost in the forest of material desires, persistently seeking a way out,
will find his way back to the mansion of bliss. He who knocks at the door of God with the
throbs of his heartful devotion continuously will certainly find that God will receive him
within the open gates of His heart.
“Devotion can force the gate of God's heart to open for the devotee to enter in. If any
human son of God asks the Heavenly Father for the bread of eternal life, He will not give
him the stone of material ignorance. If the devotee asks of God the food of wisdom, God
will not give him the serpent of delusion. If the devotee asks God for divine manna and allaround
divine bliss, He will not give him the scorpion of restlessness and mental misery.
“If even deluded human beings know how to give good gifts to their children, how
much more will our Heavenly Father, who is a receptacle of all goodness, give the
knowledge of cosmic vibration and all power to His human children made after His image?
God gives highest wisdom without fail to His own children who demand it. God also
surrenders Himself unto the devotee who persistently wants Him.”
“And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted
up her voice, and said unto him, 'Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou
hast sucked.' But he said, 'Yea, rather, BLESSED ARE THEY THAT HEAR THE WORD OF
GOD, AND KEEP IT.'”
(Luke 11:27-28)
“Better than bearing divine children on the physical plane is the knowledge by which
an individual can hear in meditation the revealing omniscient word of God or Cosmic Sound
of Om (or Amen), knowing how to be in tune continuously with it and discipline (one's) life
by its inner intuitive directions.”
Cosmic Sound or Om
In the above words, Jesus, like Patanjali, the great Oriental yogi (one who
scientifically knows how to unite human consciousness with divine consciousness), speaks
of God as manifesting as the Cosmic Vibration, which in turn manifests as the Cosmic
Sound and Cosmic Light. God is a Spirit, He is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new
Bliss. In the transcendental state without creation, God is spoken of as being without any
vibration or change. When God wished to create the cosmos, He sent out of Himself a
cosmic intelligent vibration. The intelligence of God as working in vibratory creation is called
the Christ Intelligence.
The first manifestation of God when He wished to create resulted in cosmic vibration.
God has no mouth or vocal chords or lungs or breath that He could be heard by anybody to
speak like an ordinary human being. God is Spirit present in all space. His word or vibration
in creation is always present as the cosmic sound. This cosmic sound is the Holy Ghost or
holy vibration, heard by Saint John as the cosmic “trumpet” of meditation. All true devotees
can hear the cosmic sound emanating from the cosmic vibratory manifestation of God. This
cosmic sound contains the intelligence of God and intimates all its divine wishes to the
devotee through intuitive feelings.
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This cosmic sound is the word of God. The Spirit of God speaks to the devotees
through the cosmic sound. This cosmic sound or Om, during the devotee's meditation, can
vibrate the divine wish into any kind of audible or intelligible language. God can also use
this cosmic sound to vibrate into luminous letters of any language, revealed in the
meditation of a devotee. The etheric language in sounds or letters emanating from the
cosmic sound may be audible or visible to a single devotee or a group of devotees
according to the divine wish. Thus, God gives vibrating advice to the devotee through His
cosmic sound.
The disciples of Christ on the day of Pentecost were filled with Holy Ghost or cosmic
sound and thus could speak in diverse tongues. The cosmic sound is the mother of all
human languages and all forms of rays which are in the cosmos. Jesus tells the esoteric
devotee that he must know how to receive the guidance of God through the cosmic sound
heard in meditation and that he must know how, by regularly contacting this cosmic sound,
to discipline his entire life.
“Holy Ghost” or OM
All Oriental Yogis and great devotees who have really advanced in meditation know
how to contact God as Cosmic Vibration. Such Yogis are intoxicated with the joy felt in the
cosmic sound. The disciples of Christ, under the influence of this comic sound or Holy
Ghost, felt exhilarated as if they had indulged in new wine. Jesus spoke of sending the Holy
Ghost to his disciples after the inspiration of his bodily presence was taken away from
them. When Jesus was resurrected and met his disciples, he also taught them the art of
contacting the Holy Ghost. “RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST,” he said.
Every devotee, whether he goes into silence blindly or by a conscious technique,
discovers, when his concentration grows deep, the first thing he hears is the cosmic sound.
God appears to the devotee who meditates as Cosmic Sound, Cosmic Light, feeling of
Cosmic Vibration, Cosmic Ever-New Joy, Cosmic Wisdom, Cosmic Love, Cosmic Devotion.
These are the seven manifestations of God as distinctly felt by devotees who go deep in
meditation.
Seven Manifestations of God
“It would be well for all devotees to remember about the seven manifestations of
God which can be felt in meditation. Many devotees are bewildered about the
manifestations of God and thus cannot realize these seven distinct manifestations of God.
Any devotee who sees God in meditation not as a little light but as a Cosmic Light has Godcontact.
Likewise, any devotee who feels God as Cosmic Ever-New-Joy or any of the
seven manifestations can be certain he is contacting God. The devotee who contacts God
as wisdom in meditation need not study books. A true devotee like him receives all wisdom
through his intuition.”
In the above words Jesus clearly tells how God talks to the devotees through the Word
or Cosmic Vibration. He also cautions his audience that listening once or twice to the cosmic
sound was not enough, but that one must keep at it, that is, permanently keep the cosmic
sound in his consciousness and be guided by it.
The original Praecepta Lessons for the first time in the Western World teaches its
followers one of the greatest techniques of tunning in with God through the cosmic sound or
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Holy Ghost. The Praecepta-given technique fulfills the promise of Christ of sending the Holy
Ghost after his departure from the earth. Therefore, after twenty centuries, Christ will appear a
second time in the consciousness of every devotee and follower of the original Praecepta-given
technique of contacting the Holy Ghost, the Great Comforter.
Jesus, by speaking of the Holy Ghost as a Great Comforter, describes God as the
Cosmic Vibration (Holy Ghost) and Word or Cosmic Sound or Amen. When Jesus speaks of
the Holy Ghost as the Great Comforter, he means that God appears not only as the Cosmic
Vibration but as Ever-New Joy in meditation which gives man the greatest comfort and freedom
from all sorrows.
Jesus taught the technique of contacting God through the Holy Ghost, but through the
centuries, due to strict secrecy, this technique has gone out of Christian living.
“And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, 'This is an evil
generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the
prophet. For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this
generation. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this
generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the
wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineve shall rise
up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the
preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.'”
(Luke 11:29-32)
“The ordinary people seek a spectacular sign or miracle about the power and
presence of God. But God seldom permits such spectacular demonstration of His
presence.”
God's Daily Miracles
In the above words, Jesus points out that God is working enough miracles in nature
and man that they should testify of Him. The all-powerful Heavenly Father, being endowed
with all grace, is humble. He expects all His devotees, who want to be all-powerful like Him
and manifest His true image, to be humble and not demonstrate miracles or signs just to
satisfy the curiosity of unthinking, disbelieving people. Jesus worked miracles to help
people and subtly demonstrate the presence of God. He never used miracles to suppress
the wickedness of man by compulsion or brute force.
Jesus came to show the superiority of spiritual force over brute force. That is why He
said, “I could borrow twelve legions of angels from my Father, but I will not. Let Thy will be
done, O Lord.” The greatest miracle that Jesus performed on the cross was to conquer his
enemies with an expression of love. Divine souls like Jesus, even when they use miracles,
use them not as a challenge to brute force or wickedness of man but as a benign helping
force humbly expressing the secret mightiness of God. Therefore, no devotees who
possess miraculous powers should use them to forcibly suppress the wickedness of man or
to satisfy his curiosity.
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Chapter 13
MEANING OF “WHEN THY EYE BE SINGLE,
THY WHOLE BODY SHALL BE FULL OF LIGHT”
"'No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a
bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.'
“'THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE: THEREFORE WHEN THINE EYE IS
SINGLE, THY WHOLE BODY ALSO IS FULL OF LIGHT; but when thine eye is evil, thy
body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not
darkness.'
“'If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be
full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.”
(Luke 11:33-36)
“No true devotee likes to perform miracles or display his divine powers as a
challenge to disbelievers. But when a devotee has lighted the candle of wisdom within him
he doesn't put it in a secret place of his mind nor hide it under the bushel of indifference.
He sets it on the candlestick of open and sincere living, that truth-seekers may see and
profit by the light of his wisdom.
“The God-revealing light in the body is the spiritual eye in the middle of the forehead,
as seen by devotees when their eyes are closed in meditation. When the devotee with halfclosed
eyes focuses his vision at the point between the eyebrows the two lights of the two
eyes become one and single, visible as the single spiritual eye, the divine telescope with
which the kingdom of God can be visioned. When the devotee can perceive through this
spiritual eye, his whole body as well as his cosmic body becomes filled with the light
emanating from cosmic vibration.
“But when a man's gaze and mind become concentrated on evil motives and
actions, his life is filled with the darkness of ignorance and misery-making habits.”
Filled With Astral Light
“Therefore, take care that the cosmic light and wisdom which are in you do not
remain hidden behind the darkness of ignorance, spiritual indifference and non-meditating
habits. If your whole body is filled with astral light and wisdom, all physical and mental
darkness will be gone and the whole cosmos will be seen as filled with cosmic light, cosmic
wisdom and joy. Just as a brightly shining candle gives light, so when this light of Selfrealization
will be fully manifest in you, you will receive indescribable joy and the unending
guidance of divine wisdom.”
"And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in,
and sat down to meat.
“And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before
dinner.
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“And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the
cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.'
“'Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.'
“'But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and
pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the
other undone.'
“'Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and
greetings in the markets.'
“'Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which
appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.'”
(Luke 11:37-44)
“O ye hypocrites, you are used to display the physical cleanliness of your outer cup
of life, but you neglect to clean your inner life which is filled with ravening and wickedness
and evil thoughts. You are foolish not to know that God made both the outside and inside of
the cup of your life. You should keep your outer life clean by good actions and your inner
life clean by good thoughts and meditation. Your body, mind and soul, being made after the
perfect image of God, must be kept uniformly perfect, by inner and outer discipline.
“You must not so concentrate on the outer discipline that you forget to cleanse your
inner life. After cleaning your inner and outer life with wisdom and meditation, give alms or
share your spiritual life with others. You will then find that the whole cosmos is filled with
purity. Be pure and make others pure. But O ye hypocrites, you will reap many miseries
due to your own evil actions. You prefer to tithe your people with money and spices but
forget to teach them the law of karma or the law of cause and effect which divinely judges
the actions of all men. You forget to teach them how they can purify their inward life by
feeling the love of God in meditation. You ought first to have cleaned your inner life, at the
same time not neglecting the cleansing of your outer life.”
Shun Outer Praise
“O ye Pharisees, you will attract misery unto yourselves through your love of man's
recognition and not God's recognition. By your desire for human praise you keep your outer
life hypocritically disciplined, thus forgetting to pay attention to the spiritualization of your
inner life. By forgetting to cultivate the joys of eternal life you attract unto yourself much
misery. Ignorantly you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and the greetings of the
people in the markets who feed your vanity, thus increasing your ignorance and
aggravating your misery.
“Because of your hypocritical action of being outwardly holy for effect, you will attract
much misery through the deepening of your ignorance. As the outward surface of a grave
usually looks nice while its inside is filled with a hideous corpse, so, by your veneer of
outward holiness you look like beautiful graves while your inside is filled with decaying life
and rotting wisdom. People see your outside beauty and forget your inward ugliness.”
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“Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, 'Master, thus saying thou
reproachest us also.'
“And he said, 'Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous
to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.'
“'Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed
them.'
“'Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed
them, and ye build their sepulchres.'
“'Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles,
and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
“'That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world,
may be required of this generation:
“'From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the
altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, 'It shall be required of this generation.'
“'Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered
not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.'
“And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to
urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
“Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they
might accuse him.”
(Luke 11:45-54)
“According to the law of karma the wickedness born from shedding the blood of
prophets since the foundation of the world vibrates upon this wicked generation, causing
them various miseries. The sins accruing from the blood of Abel and of Zacharias which
perished before the altar of the temple, and of slain prophets vibrating in the ether, will
cause many miseries to this generation.”
Etheric Vibrations
A very prominent honest lawyer of modern times said to his client: “If you want to
keep out of trouble, keep away from lawsuits, and law courts, and lawyers, and from me,
too, who is a lawyer.” Many wicked lawyers for mercenary gain have obscured truth by their
clever arguments and freed criminals while sending the innocent to ruin or death. Many
wicked lawyers have fought against truth and have been the cause of suffering to good
men. Many wicked people have murdered prophets and saints. The evil effects (karma)
resulting from the sins of murderers who go unpunished vibrate in the ether through
generations, causing famines, fires, epidemics, pestilence, earthquakes, wars, bloody
feuds and strifes, debauchery and wickedness. Just as disease germs spread by an
unhygienic clan may persist and remain in a community even after the clansmen migrate
away, so the bacteria of sinful vibrating thoughts and tendencies created by the people of
one generation in a place persist and continue in the next or many later generations. All the
different modern races of people of the earth are composed of the good and evil vibrations
of all their forefathers since the earth began.
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As an individual is responsible for all the seeds of actions of his past lives, subtly stored
up in his subconscious mind and brain, so every individual race is responsible for the past
actions of its fathers and forefathers subtly accumulated in the subconsciousness mind of that
race. This is what makes racial differences – the Americans, utilitarians; Hindus, spiritual
seekers; the English, colonists; the French, liberals; and so forth.
The Hindus love peace because their forefathers loved peace, and some of the Western
nations want to fight because of their warlike ancestry. Every generation suffers or prospers
more or less according to some of the past actions of its forefathers. That is what Jesus meant
when he said: “The blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world,
may be required of this generation.”
“In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of
people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first
of all, 'BEWARE YE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES, WHICH IS HYPOCRISY.'
“'FOR THERE IS NOTHING COVERED, THAT SHALL NOT BE REVEALED;
NEITHER HID, THAT SHALL NOT BE KNOWN.'
“'THEREFORE WHATSOEVER YE HAVE SPOKEN IN DARKNESS SHALL BE
HEARD IN THE LIGHT; AND THAT WHICH YE HAVE SPOKEN IN THE EAR IN
CLOSETS SHALL BE PROCLAIMED UPON THE HOUSETOPS.'”
(Luke 12:1-3
“As fermentation spoils milk, so the Pharisees use hypocrisy to ferment and destroy
their minds and souls. As the leaven secretly works in the bread, so hypocrisy secretly
inflates the ego. No matter how people, like Pharisees, keep wickedness hidden beneath
the mask of hypocritical goodness, still all hidden wickedness like fire will burn the veil
which hides it and makes itself manifest to the world.”
All Will Be Known
“Nothing can be hidden which will not be known. All good and bad things are
ultimately revealed. Even all wicked thoughts which people think and speak within
themselves in the dark secrecy and privacy of their minds vibrate in the ether and are
registered there.
“God, who is omnipresent and omniscient, knows all good and bad things which
quietly come and go in the secrecy of human minds. Through the law of vibration, all
secrets spoken or whispered in closets may be known in public some time or other. In
reality there are no secrets in the world, for even when a man dies with certain secrets in
his soul, they are openly read by God who has countless eyes in ether and all space. God,
being the Mind of all minds and the Life of all the cosmos, knows everything which arises
and dies in human minds and all things which happen in nature and every speck of cosmic
space.”
“'AND I SAY UNTO YOU MY FRIENDS, BE NOT AFRAID OF THEM THAT KILL
THE BODY, AND AFTER THAT HAVE NO MORE THAT THEY CAN DO.
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“'BUT I WILL FOREWARN YOU WHOM YE SHALL FEAR: FEAR HIM, WHICH
AFTER HE HATH KILLED HATH POWER TO CAST INTO HELL; YEA, I SAY UNTO YOU,
FEAR HIM.
“'ARE NOT FIVE SPARROWS SOLD FOR TWO FARTHINGS, AND NOT ONE OF
THEM IS FORGOTTEN BEFORE GOD?
“'BUT EVEN THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL NUMBERED. FEAR
NOT THEREFORE: YE ARE OF MORE VALUE THAN MANY SPARROWS.'”
(Luke 12:4-7)
“I vehemently declare unto you, my friends, (friends elected through the choice of my
Father's love in my heart and not imposed upon me as relatives by nature) do not be afraid
of those that threaten to kill your body, for even if they can do so, they cannot kill or cause
grief to your mind or soul. But I will warn all those that are wicked, that you must learn to
respect and love God who has the power, even after the death of your bodies, to make
your souls conscious and consciously to make them suffer all their accumulated
wickedness of one life or many lives. Therefore, learn more to fear your own wicked actions
which can compel the divine law to make you conscious of your evil actions and tendencies
even in the after-death state. You must fear to disobey the divine law which can make you
conscious of your self-created after-death burning conscience and wicked tendencies
(hell).”
Omniscience of God
“God being omniscient and omnipresent does not fail to direct the destiny of insignificant
sparrows nor forget to count how many hairs you have on your head.
“All this universe with all its detail is planned by the intelligence of the Cosmic Father.
When you will know Him, you will understand the why of all inexplicable circumstances and
happenings and you will marvel at the wisdom of the Father which guides everything and tries
to foil the inharmonious actions of Satan and Cosmic Delusion. You, being made in the image
of God and much more valuable than sparrows, must not be afraid of divine negligence but
must be sure that He will help you to retrace your footsteps to His Kingdom of Eternal Bliss, if
you make the effort to know Him by deep meditation.”
By the above words, it must be realized that though fire and sword can hurt the body,
ignorance hurts the soul after it passes out of the body. The conception of hell as a place where
souls are burned with fire and smoke is ridiculous. Material fire can produce sensations of
burning on the physical body only. In the after-death state, the soul is disembodied and cannot
be conscious of physical sensation. But the soul could be conscious of hellish wicked
tendencies acquired in the earth life. These wicked tendencies can create a self-created mental
hell or torture which can be worse than a physical fiery hell.
A fiery hell can torture the body only for a little while, for the unconsciousness of death
shuts out all physical sensations. But the mental hell of wickedness can persist in the soul in
the after-death state indefinitely unless the individual soul repents and prays for release. Each
soul by its stubborness and doggedness to be wicked even in the after-death state may make
this mental hell everlasting as he desires. This is what is meant by everlasting hell-fire. In
earthly life also one can create a mental hell.
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“'Also I say unto you, WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS ME BEFORE MEN, HIM
SHALL THE SON OF MAN ALSO CONFESS BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD. BUT HE
THAT DENIETH ME BEFORE MEN SHALL BE DENIED BEFORE THE ANGELS OF
GOD.
“'AND WHOSOEVER SHALL SPEAK A WORD AGAINST THE SON OF MAN, IT
SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM: BUT UNTO HIM THAT BLASPHEMETH AGAINST THE
HOLY GHOST IT SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN.
“'AND WHEN THEY BRING YOU UNTO THE SYNAGOGUES, AND UNTO
MAGISTRATES, AND POWERS, TAKE YE NO THOUGHT HOW OR WHAT THING YE
SHALL ANSWER, OR WHAT YE SHALL SAY: FOR THE HOLY GHOST SHALL TEACH
YOU IN THE SAME HOUR WHAT YE OUGHT TO SAY.'”
(Luke 12:8-12)
“The intelligent Cosmic Vibration, the physical manifestation of God, will drop the
specific needed wisdom within your developed intuition at the time you are required to
speak something in defense of truth and yourself, living for its cause.”
In the above passages, Jesus tells advanced devotees to use the Cosmic Vibration
and its wisdom, and not the ego with its limitations, for general guidance of conduct in
critical moments. Most people speak, guided only by their selfishness, fear and limited ego.
Hence the outcome of their speech often becomes disastrous to them. Advanced souls find
it wise to guide their intelligence and free will and speech by the divine wisdom in the Holy
Ghost (OM). All true devotees who have felt this Cosmic Sound or Holy Ghost in meditation
can fruitfully guide their intuition and speech in all problems of life, according to the
direction of infinite wisdom.
“And one of the company said unto him, 'Master, speak to my brother, that he divide
the inheritance with me.' And he said unto him, 'Man, who made me a judge or a divider
over you?'”
(Luke 12:13-14)
“Materially-minded man, God and your karma should be the judge to divide the
inheritance in question.”
In the above, Jesus signifies that he was principally interested in spiritual matters,
therefore, he did not want to bother about the division of properties.
“And he said unto them, 'Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life
consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.'”
(Luke 12:15)
It is quite usual for people who possess too many things to be unhappy, for their time
is spent in worrying about their possessions and not in enjoying what they have. Jesus also
points out that those persons who think their lives are secure because of possessions are
greatly mistaken. He goes on to illustrate that point by the following parable:
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“And he spake a parable unto them, saying, 'The ground of a certain rich man
brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, because I
have no room where to bestow my fruits?' And he said, 'This will I do: I will pull down my
barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say
to my soul, 'Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink,
and be merry.'
“'But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then
whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?' So is he that layeth up treasure for
himself, and is not rich toward God.'”
(Luke 12:16-21)
In the above words, Jesus speaks of the false security which covetousness for
material possession imparts to the soul. Many men work so hard in the world for material
things, and accumulate vast sums of money, only to die when they are about to enjoy them.
Such events distinctly show how foolish it is to spend all one's time in making money for the
fleeting body which can die at any moment.
It is better for every person to acquire the riches of lasting bliss of daily meditation,
wisdom and divine qualities by serving others. Hard-earned material riches have to be
forsaken without notice at the call of death, but all spiritual qualities acquired by meditation,
self-denial and self-discipline are lasting treasures of the soul which accompany it to
eternity when the body ceases to exist.
Material riches temporarily bring admiration from worldly people, but they are
useless at death. Spiritual riches acquired by anyone may not attract admiration of worldly
people but they are very useful to the soul in the after-death state. Spiritual riches ensure
eternal freedom and the security of lasting happiness to the soul. Therefore, Jesus says,
human beings should try their utmost to use the short precious time of life to acquire the
harvest of immortality and not disillusionment.
Money and riches do not ensure freedom from sickness or death or accidents or
mental sorrows, but the divine bliss acquired in meditation gives unchangeable happiness
to the soul in moments of great trials and tribulations and also at the time of death. Jesus in
his life demonstrated that. He gave up all material comforts and even the comfort of his
flesh to become free and virtuous before the eyes of God.
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Chapter 14
JESUS' ADVICE –
HOW TO BUILD A WORLD FREE FROM WARS
"And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your
life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat,
and the body is more than raiment.'
“'Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse
nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? And which
of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? If ye then be not able to do that
thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?'
“'Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto
you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe
the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more
will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?'
“'AND SEEK NOT YE WHAT YE SHALL EAT, OR WHAT YE SHALL DRINK,
NEITHER BE YE OF DOUBTFUL MIND. FOR ALL THESE THINGS DO THE NATIONS
OF THE WORLD SEEK AFTER: AND YOUR FATHER KNOWETH THAT YE HAVE NEED
OF THESE THINGS. BUT RATHER SEEK YE THE KINGDOM OF GOD; AND ALL
THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU.'”
(Luke 12:22-31)
“Therefore, I say unto you, do not worry all the time as to what kind of food you will
eat or how many styles of dress you will put on. It takes eternal life to sustain human life
and not meat alone, you must realize that, and the body was made to express soul wisdom
and not only to be decorated with dress.
“Look at the ravens – they do not complicate their lives by unnecessary desires or
yearnings for unlimited riches and yet God feeds them, though they have no storehouse or
barn nor money in the bank. You too – who are more important than ravens – will also be
looked after by God, provided you learn to have absolute faith that He is the Life behind
your life, and that bread and raiment are not the things that sustain and maintain your life.
“When you cannot add one cubit to your stature by all your struggles and efforts,
then why should you worry about your body which is directly maintained by God and the
abundance of nature and indirectly by your earning capacity and physical efforts?”
Consider the Lilies
“Look at the lilies, how they are beautiful and fragrant. They maintain themselves
without a salary or starting a business! Solomon with all his acquired earthly powers and
kingly dresses could not look so graceful and divine as the God-grown lily. God has the
power of life and death over all big and small things; He will clothe you who are made in His
image and yet have so little faith in the immortal powers within you as a direct descendent
of God. Do not spend all your time looking after your bodily needs, and do not be in doubt
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that God, who has given you life and created all edible things to sustain it, will remember to
support your life.
“All the nations of the earth foolishly spend all their time seeking after food and drink
and physical national well-being – that is why they mislead themselves and become
involved in industrial selfishness leading to wars and destruction. Let the nations of the
earth seek God instead and live beneath the canopy of international spiritual brotherhood.
To such brother nations who live in peace and God-consciousness, the Heavenly Father,
who knows the needs of all, bestows lasting prosperity, well-earned by international
brotherhood, goodwill and international business. The nations of the earth and individuals
who seek the kingdom of God by acquiring lasting happiness by daily meditation, will find
that along with the acquirement of lasting spiritual happiness and harmony they will
automatically attract health, prosperity, and material riches.”
In these words, Jesus gives to the nations of the earth and individuals the greatest
recipe for individual and national happiness. The state of the modern man and nation who
are money-mad distinctly shows that by selfishness they are wrecking individual and
national happiness. Individual selfishness and patriotic selfishness both create disorder and
want in the family and in the nation. Modern competitive business life is pernicious because
each one tries to take away the possessions of others. Thus in a community of one
thousand businessmen each businessman has 999 enemies and competitors. Jesus told
each man to share his possessions with all. According to that law, each person in a
community of 1000, has 999 helpers. If the dictators of different nations, instead of
concentrating on armaments and patriotic selfishness, turned the minds of their followers
toward the acquirement of peace, prosperity, international brotherhood and the bliss of
meditation, the earth today would be a heaven; prosperity, health and material well-being
would be added unto all the spiritual treasures of the nations.
Complications of Civilization
If the nations of the earth did not complicate civilization by industrial selfishness
which leads to overproduction, then all peoples would have plenty to eat and to live in
prosperity. But since patriotic selfishness and material prosperity are the sole aims of
almost all nations, the world is thrown into chaos and confusion resulting in famine and the
avoidable miseries of wars.
If all the nations of the earth lived in brotherhood and wanted to please God and
Christ, they would exchange food and raiment and would never suffer from lack, famine or
poverty. The present economic system of profiteering and exploitation has failed, and a
brotherhood of nations and a brotherhood of necessary industries and industrialists can
alone bring lasting prosperity to the world.
It is imperative now that individuals and nations forsake industrial selfishness, to
feed and clothe the international body. Nations of the earth should learn to acquire wisdom,
to meditate and be in tune with the Infinite, so they can feed the national soul with everlasting
happiness. Nations who are rich in prosperity but not in wisdom and God-bliss of
meditation may lose their unbalanced material prosperity through civil war, fights between
capital and labor, and troubles with envious neighbors who may be jealous of their material
prosperity. Capital and labor like brain and limbs should cooperate for the happiness of the
body and soul of the nation and not fight and run into mutual destruction.
Individuals and nations living in tune with God and His ideals of brotherhood and
peace would exist in perpetual prosperity and spiritual happiness. But all nations who
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believe in the power of the sword and in industrial and patriotic selfishness sooner or later
bring physical, mental and spiritual disaster to themselves and other brother nations.
God, who is the Provider of the cosmos, knows the needs of individuals and nations
and if He feeds the raven how much more would He provide everything to the individual
and the nation who are in tune with His ideals!
Modern chaotic conditions over the world are the result of living by ungodly ideals.
Individuals and nations can be protected from utter destruction if they live by heavenly
ideals of brotherhood, industrial cooperation and international exchange of earthly goods
and spiritual experiences. Patriotic selfishness has failed to impart national security and
prosperity and instead has brought on national disasters, wars, unemployment, fears,
insecurity, starvation and natural calamities (such as earthquakes, hurricanes, dust storms
which are the indirect results of the accumulated evil actions of individuals and nations).
Material Riches
In the above words, Jesus did not mean that no one should eat or put on clothes, or
meet the conditions imperative to life. He meant that people should not spent their lives in
just thinking of food and clothing as most of the people of the world do. Great scientists and
literary men also eat and dress, but their whole minds are engrossed in the subjects in
which they have specialized.
Jesus warns people not to be material and use all their energies in worrying about
food and raiment. Jesus tells us to concentrate on eternal life which is the source of all
lives, and attain immortality, while casually eating or clothing the body without much
worrying. Jesus ate and clothed himself but his whole mind was on God. By this he found
the source of life and did not waste time in acquiring the transitory necessities which
support the impermanent bodily house of the immortal soul.
Likewise, nations of the earth could be much happier if they advocated plain living
and high thinking and concentrated their minds in spiritual development, poetry and
philosophy and less on complicated business development and money-madness which
leads to the destruction of physical happiness. Business is for the happiness of man and
man was not made for business. Only that much business is necessary which does not
interfere with the spiritual development of man. Modern business being competitive takes
the entire time of man and leaves him ragged and thus makes him unable to concentrate in
making his life truly and spiritually happy.
"'FEAR NOT, LITTLE FLOCK; FOR IT IS YOUR FATHER'S GOOD PLEASURE TO
GIVE YOU THE KINGDOM. SELL THAT YE HAVE, AND GIVE ALMS; PROVIDE
YOURSELVES BAGS WHICH WAX NOT OLD, A TREASURE IN THE HEAVENS THAT
FAILETH NOT, WHERE NO THIEF APPROACHETH, NEITHER MOTH CORRUPTETH.
FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO.’”
(Luke 12:32-34)
“Fear not, little flock of devotees, for through your devotion the Father will feel
justified and pleased to give you the kingdom of Omnipresence which belongs to you as
you are made in His image.”
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Desire For God Only
“Your only desire being to know God and to follow the path of renunciation, sell all
your earthly property and give away the money received to the poor and the needy. Do not
concentrate in carrying material bags which rot and decay with use but carry with you the
undecaying receptacle of intuition developed by deep meditation. Store there the treasures
of wisdom, ever-new bliss, consciousness of Omnipresence, which will never fail or be
taken away from you. Such heavenly treasures acquired by meditation cannot be taken
away by the thief of death or destroyed by the moth of time. Worldly people concentrate on
the insecurity of material pleasures, but let your heart be concentrated on your acquired
everlasting pleasures of God-realization.”
In the above words, Jesus points out that prodigal children of God must remember
the divine image in them and thus merit spiritual emancipation. No one can wrest the
spiritual kingdom from God by following the spiritual law alone, for the Heavenly Father
reserves the right to give salvation when He thinks fit. But it must also be remembered that
God already made man in His image and therefore man is bound to recover his divinity
even though he is deeply buried beneath the debris of incarnations of delusion. It has been
the good pleasure of the Heavenly Father to stamp His perfect image in all His human
children and when they forsake their identification with their human nature and bring out
their perfect divine image, then and then only the Heavenly Father is pleased to receive
them back in His home of immortality.
In the above words, Jesus enunciates the duty of the man of absolute renunciation
who wants to know God alone by forsaking everything else. That is why Jesus says all
renunciates who have any possessions should sell them and give alms, and concentrate
only on acquirement of the bag of intuition full of the heavenly treasures of imperishable
divine qualities.
"'Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto
men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and
knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. BLESSED ARE THOSE SERVANTS,
WHOM THE LORD WHEN HE COMETH SHALL FIND WATCHING: VERILY I SAY UNTO
YOU, THAT HE SHALL GIRD HIMSELF, AND MAKE THEM TO SIT DOWN TO MEAT,
AND WILL COME FORTH AND SERVE THEM.
“'And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them
so, blessed are those servants. And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known
what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house
to be broken through. BE YE THEREFORE READY ALSO: FOR THE SON OF MAN
COMETH AT AN HOUR WHEN YE THINK NOT.'
“Then Peter said unto him, 'Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?'
And the Lord said, 'Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make
ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?'
“'Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Of a
truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. But and if that servant
say in his heart, 'My lord delayeth his coming;' and shall begin to beat the menservants and
maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; The lord of that servant will come in a
day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in
sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.'
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“'And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did
according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.'
“'But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with
few stripes. FOR UNTO WHOMSOEVER MUCH IS GIVEN, OF HIM SHALL BE MUCH
REQUIRED: AND TO WHOM MEN HAVE COMMITTED MUCH, OF HIM THEY WILL ASK
THE MORE.'”
(Luke 12:35-48)
“Keep your spiritual will ready and concentrated within, beholding the different lights
or stars in the spinal cord by which you can lead your consciousness from the finite body to
the infinite by sending your consciousness and life force through them into Spirit. You
should be like true devotees waiting for the divine cosmic consciousness to be manifest in
your bodily house, after that cosmic consciousness returns from its wedded unity with all
nature and thus distinctly makes itself manifest through the consciousness of the devotee
without the hidden covering of nature's manifestations.”
Cosmic Consciousness
“When the cosmic consciousness comes and knocks at the gates of the devotee's
intuition it must be received with devotion. Those servants and devotees of God are
blessed with eternal emancipation when the cosmic consciousness arrives in their
consciousness and finds them alive with wisdom and watching to receive God and disband
ignorance.
“Verily I declare by the truth which I feel within me, God shall come to the true
devotee and serve him with the meat of true wisdom and divine communion. And when
God comes, once or twice or thrice, in the watchful consciousness of the devotees, they will
be blessed by spiritual freedom for having passed all the tests of divine communion. That
devotee is good who keeps his bodily and mental house well guarded with wisdom so that
the thief of ignorance cannot come in suddenly and break through his consciousness,
stealing his spiritual qualities. Just as the thief enter suddenly and stealthily in a house, so
remember that Christ Consciousness comes to the devotee suddenly and stealthily to see if
he is ready to receive him.”
Delay is Dangerous
“The true devotee is always watchful and receives the Christ Consciousness no
matter when it comes, but the fitfully wise devotee often misses the manifestation of Christ
Consciousness. That servant who is unceasingly faithful and constantly wise and everwatchful,
is made master by the Lord God of his bodily and mental house, and is given
enough meat or wisdom to control all his servant senses. When the Christ Consciousness
suddenly visits the devotee and finds him alive with wisdom, then truly that devotee finds
complete self-mastery over himself by the permanent contact of Christ Consciousness.
“But the careless and whimsical devotee who thinks that he will not meditate every
day because the manifestation of God Consciousness is delayed, and thus goes on to illtreat
his servant senses and insult and misuse the maidens of his fine feelings and to enjoy
sense objects and be drunk with delusion, will find that the Christ Consciousness will be
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consciously manifested to him some day when he will not be looking for it, at a time when
he will not be spiritually watchful and, finding him spiritually negligent, will separate and go
away from the careless devotee's consciousness.
“Such a negligent devotee due to his devotion receives a temporary contact of God
but through negligence loses Him again and becomes classed with the unbelievers who
never have the contact of God. That devotee who intuitively felt God's will and did not
prepare himself to meet the divine testes or obey the divine will shall find himself lashed by
worries and the acute sorrow of losing God after finding Him. But that devotee who is
unconsciously neglectful of God's coming will not suffer so much. Much watchfulness and
spiritual sanity is required of devotees with wisdom, just as men expect much from
responsible social leaders.”
In the above, Jesus speaks of advanced devotes who should never concentrate on
the body but on the seven receptacles of energy in the spine and divine consciousness so
that ignorance may never invade them and they be always ready to receive the
manifestation of God who is hidden behind His consort, nature. The returning of the Lord
from the wedding signifies that God is hidden and busy in nature, but He disbands all the
delusions of natural manifestations and reveals Himself as cosmic consciousness and light
to the true devotee.
God may come, due to the careless devotee's devotion, but goes away because he
is negligent and indulges in sense enjoyment. Those devotees who consciously know that
God can manifest in them and yet neglect to renounce sense pleasure, find the sudden
manifestation of God in them and His sudden departure. Such devotees then realize the
acuteness of mental suffering for having found God, the Emancipator of the universe, and
then suddenly losing Him.
The Purpose of God
The purpose of God visiting the devotee is that He always responds to the devotee's
devotion, but if the devotee happens to lead an unspiritual life He goes away after
manifesting Himself in a glimpses to the devotee. While the disappearance of God from
such careless devotees seems to bring suffering to them, still the devotees should be
encouraged to seek God permanently. Thousands believe that the contact of God is
impossible but the careless devotee knows differently even if for only a little while. Even in
his suffering he realizes that he will be able to know God permanently by forsaking his
careless unspiritual habits.
Then Jesus speaks of the third class of devotees who follow spiritual rules
mechanically. If by chance they contact God for a trice in meditation, they don't suffer much
for losing Him, because of lack of depth in their spiritual feeling for God.
God never beats the devotees with stripes but they feel the pangs of suffering
through their own folly of losing God after once finding Him. When the devotee's devotion is
ripe, God manifests Himself unto him, even though he may not be looking for divine
manifestations. But to contact God permanently, the devotee must be ever-watchful of his
divine consciousness in the states of sleep, dream and wakefulness. Any devotee who
emphasizes any bodily or mental act other than concentrating wholly on God cannot retain
Him permanently.
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"'I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? But I
have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE ON EARTH? I TELL YOU, NAY; BUT
RATHER DIVISION: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three
against two, and two against three.'
“'The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the
mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law
against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.' And he
said also to the people, 'When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say,
There cometh a shower;' and so it is. And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, 'There
will be heat;' and it cometh to pass. Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of
the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? Yea, and why even of yourselves
judge ye not what is right?'”
(Luke 12:49-57)
“I am come on earth to spread the fire of wisdom which will mercilessly burn all
barriers of ignorance. Now that fire is already kindled with the fire of ignorance-burning
wisdom and how can I feel satisfied until that is accomplished? Some of you who think that
I came on earth only to give peace, are mistaken, for my wisdom is going to create also
division, between the good and the bad. All my followers who follow me in truth and
understanding will separate themselves from those who live in darkness. Peace cannot
reign in a family where the father may follow my teachings and the son may follow satanic
delusions.”
In the above words, Jesus is speaking about the fiery nature of wisdom. Wisdom
gives peace to those who are in tune with it and burns those who are against it. Truth is like
a fire which handled properly gives warmth and light, but anyone who tries to get into it and
wrestle with it, gets burned.
Truth has a fiery vibration. True devotees tune themselves with truth by raising their
vibration by spiritual discipline, but ignorant people who fight truth by ignorance find
themselves miserable.
"'When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way,
give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and
the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison. I tell thee, thou
shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.'”
(Luke 12:58-59)
“Any devotee who in his introspection finds that his adversary – the karmic law – has
arrayed him before the magistrate of cosmic law, must pray that he be delivered from
reaping the results of his bad actions, for most people condemned by the judge of cosmic
law are delivered into the prison of suffering by the officers of karmic tendencies
(tendencies arising from evil actions.) I tell you that you cannot get away from the tribunal
of the cosmic law and law of karma governing all human actions until you have paid up by
working out your evil karmas, by suffering and prayer.”
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In the above words, Jesus is speaking of the inscrutable law of cause and effect
governing all actions (law of karma), so that when a person has already performed good or
evil actions, he must reap their good and bad results. The law of evil karma is the great
adversary of man for it brings numerous sufferings. Man can be partially and in time wholly
free from the effects of evil karma if he continuously prays for pardon to the divine
magistrate, the maker of the cosmic law, which governs all lives and all actions.
"There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose
blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them,
'Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they
suffered such things?'
“'I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen,
upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above
all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?' I tell you, 'Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish.'”
(Luke 13:1-5)
In the above words, Jesus is speaking of the law of karma (cause and effect which
governs all human actions). Jesus is correcting an error in the minds of those who thought
they were virtuous because they were living while those that were killed by Pilate or the
falling of the tower were great sinners.
It is ridiculous for escaped murderers to pity those murderers who have paid the
penalty with death. For the escaped murderers will meet the same fate whenever they
happen to be caught. Likewise Jesus explained that the people around him were actual
sinners for whom lawful punishment awaited. It was ridiculous for them to think that the
slain Galileans and the eighteen perished by the tower were greater sinners. Jesus meant
that death by legal law or accident did not always show that persons dead were great
sinners. Some people living might be much greater sinners than those who were dead.
Death is not always the result of sins, neither does God send death because of one's sinful
actions.
Sin certainly brings spiritual death, loss of immortal joy which is greater than physical
death. Sin brings torture of conscience and corroding inner mental punishment which
sometimes are greater than physical death. So Jesus says, “Don't think that the slain
people were greater sinners, for among you are sinners greater than them. Unless you
mend your ways and forsake your evil actions, your spiritual life will perish which will be
greater than physical death.” Jesus warns against the practice of some people who never
analyze themselves, thinking they are more virtuous than others who have suffered disease
or death.
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