In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God. The same thing was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
John 1:1-4
In Yoga, Word means intelligent vibration, intelligent energy, carrying material power and going out from God.
Official church doctrine has for centuries interpreted “the Word” (Logos in the original Greek) to be a reference to Jesus, but according to historians, Alfred A. Knopf, 1993 writes:” The author of the Book of Proverbs written in the third century BCE (with which John and any other Jewish person of his time would have been familiar), personifies Wisdom, seemingly as a separate person.
“Yahweh created me (wisdom) when his purpose fist unfolded, before the oldest of his works. From everlasting I was firmly set, from the beginning, before the earth came into being ... when he laid the foundation of the earth, I was at his side, a master craftsman, delighting him day after day, ever at play at his presence, at play everywhere in the world, delighting to be with the son of men. (Proverbs 8:22-23, 30-31; the Jerusalem Bible).
Early church fathers also indentified the ‘Word’ with wisdom.
According to Yoga, the word (vibration) is the beginning and source of all created substances. Before creation, there was only undifferentiated Spirit (Void). In manifesting creation, Spirit becomes God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.
As soon as Spirit evolved a cosmic vibratory thought, through the action of maya (delusion), the un-manifest Spirit becomes God the Father, the Creator of all creative vibrations.
God the Father in yoga is called Ishvara (the cosmic Ruler) or Sat (the supreme pure essence of Cosmic Consciousness).
The vibratory force emanating from Spirit, endowed with the illusory creative power of maya, is the Holy Ghost, (called Holy because it acts according to the will of God and is made manifest in the immanent Christ Consciousness. Ghost implies an intelligent, invisible, conscious force) or Cosmic Vibration, the Word, Aum (Om) or Amen.
The Holy Ghost in yoga is called the Aum or Maha-Prakriti (Great Nature, Cosmic or Divine mother that gives birth to creation).
“These things said the Amen (the Word, Aum), the faithful and true witness, of the manifested Divine Presence in all creation.
“Among the words I am the one syllable Aum”.
Bhagavad Gita X:25
“Of all manifestation, I am the beginning, middle and end”.
Bhagavad Gita X:32
Aum or Holy Ghost creates all things, preserves them in different forms and ultimately dissolves them again in God until all becomes re-created again. The renewal of life and form is an ongoing process of God.
“I am the Unchanging and Everlasting, sustain and permeate the entire cosmos with but one fragment of My Being”.
Bhagavad Gita X:42
Some scientists insist that the universe is inert. but a cosmic vibration omnipresent in space could not of itself create or sustain the complex cosmos. The universe is more than combinations of vibrating forces and sub atomic particles, as suggested by some scientists.
Blind forces cannot of themselves organize into intelligent structured objects, which suggests, that there must be the presence of a hidden (immanent) intelligence.
This intelligence is the transcendent consciousness of God the Father that became manifest within the Holy Ghost vibration as the Son, the Christ Consciousness, God’s intelligence in all vibratory creation. This pure reflection of God in the Holy Ghost indirectly guides the process to create, re-create, preserve and shape creation according to God’s divine plan.
A comparison of the biblical concept of the Trinity with yoga may serve to illustrate how One Eternal Spirit becomes the Holy Trinity: God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, in yoga Sat, Tat, Aum.
When the eternal Spirit stirs Itself to create the universe, He becomes God the Father, wedded to Cosmic vibration, giving birth to His reflection, the only begotten Son, Christ Consciousness , present in all of creation.
“My womb is the Great Prakriti (nature) into which I deposit the seed of My Intelligence; this is the cause of the birth of all things.”
Bhagavad Gita XIV: 3
In accordance with esoteric teachings, the Christ of God is the universal intelligence omnipresent in all matter and in all living beings, with the ultimate purpose of guiding all things back to God again.
The incarnation of an avatar (incarnation of God) as in Jesus. In better understanding the incarnation of an avatar, we need to differentiate between Jesus the son of man and Jesus in which the only begotten Son, or Christ Consciousness was manifest. Jesus himself makes the distinction when speaking of the body as the son of man, and his soul which was one with Christ Consciousness, as the son of God.
The implication of this is significant in that when man, through spiritual practices, raises his ordinary consciousness to Christ consciousness, by living a Christ like life, he can becomes a son of God.
“For as many as receive him, to them gave he power to become sons of God”.
St. John 1:12
Sons of God shows distinctly, that not the body of Jesus, but the state of Christ Consciousness was the only begotten son, and that all those who can clarify their consciousness and receive, or in an unobstructed way reflect the power or Spirit of God, can become sons of God. They could become one with the only begotten reflection of God in all matter as Jesus was; and through the son, or Christ Consciousness, ascend to the Father, the supreme Cosmic Consciousness.
This process can be achieved by anyone through practice of super conscious meditation.
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