Trinity

This paper presents an explanation on the Trinity of God. It is hoped, that it will provide an understanding of this mysterious aspect.

In Christianity the aspect is refers to as: Father, Son, Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit.

In Yoga and in Vedanta the Trinity is referred to Sat, Tat, Om

Within the Hindu Trinity it is Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer.

The Bhagwad Gita states that:

"Tat" means ‘that’ which refers to God.

"Sat" means Truth, Existence, and Being

"Om" is the Sound symbol of God. If we want to express God in the form of sound, we should do so by chanting "Om".

"Om Tat Sat" is that which is everlasting and unchanging, God, who’s infinite Existence - Consciousness Bliss is denoted by Om.

All manifestation is in Om.

The Bible refers to "Om" as the "Word"

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." expressed in a different way: "In the beginning was the Om, and the Om was with God, and Om was God."

If anyone knows the meaning of the above saying, they need not go anywhere. They know everything.

Trinity in Christianity refers to "Father, Son, Holy Ghost KJV, or Holy Spirit". These three words of Christianity corresponds to the above said three words only "Sat, Tat, Om". "Father" corresponds to "Sat". "Son", corresponds to "Tat" and "Holy Ghost" corresponds to "Om". This threefold nature of God is well related in his book "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda.

Aum:

‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God’. – John 1:1.

‘For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son’. – John 5:22. ‘No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him’. – John 1:18. ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father’. – John 14:12. ‘But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you’. – John 14:26.

These Biblical words refer to the threefold nature of God as Father, Son, Holy Ghost (Sat, Tat, Aum in the Bhagavad Gita). God the Father is the Absolute, Unmanifested, existing beyond vibratory creation. God the Son is the Christ Consciousness (Brahma or Kutastha Chaitanya) existing within vibratory creation; this Christ Consciousness is the ‘only begotten’ or sole reflection of the Uncreated Infinite. Its outward manifestation or ‘witness’ is Aum or Holy Ghost, the divine, creative, invisible power which structures all creation through vibration. Aum the blissful Comforter is heard in meditation and reveals to the devotee the ultimate Truth’ (Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda).

"Sat" or "Father" aspect of God is one who lives beyond this vibratory creation of ours.

"Tat" or "Son or Christ Consciousness" aspect of God is one who lives within this vibratory creation and is everywhere present within space or vibratory creation. It is therefore called the omnipresent God.

"Om" or "Holy Ghost" aspect of God is one who is the witness of this "Tat" or "Son or Christ Consciousness" aspect of God.

The outward manifestation of the omnipresent Christ Consciousness is referred to as Tat, its Witness is Om, the Word or Holy Ghost. This Om is the invisible divine power, the only doer, the sole causative and activating force that upholds all creation through vibration; it is the creative vibration that externalizes all creation.

What Is AUM, Om? The Philosophy of AUM

AUM is an aspect of God — it is the divine creative vibration of the whole universe. Everything in creation is vibrating with God’s power. AUM is the sound made by the vibration of God’s presence within us and all around us. Where there is vibration, there is sound, and if there is sound, we can train ourselves to perceive it, to “hear” it, and to attune ourselves to it, thus actually heightening our own vibrations , changing ourselves from material, ego-centered beings, into superconscious, free souls.

Traditionally in India, AUM is the third aspect of the three-fold nature of God or Satchitananda (Sat, ever-existing; Chid, ever-conscious; Ananda, ever-new joy). This three-fold nature is called as Sat, Tat, and AUM. Sat represents the God beyond creation, uninvolved and unknowable through ordinary human consciousness. Sat is universal, timeless, formless, omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipresent.

When God (Sat) manifested the universe, the only “building blocks” available were movement, since before that, there was only oneness or perfect stillness. Thus that one, unmoving Presence “moved” or vibrated and thus creating Maya, or opposites, such as left and right; up and down; in and out,

and light, and so on. This movement or vibration among opposites is called AUM or sometimes called the Divine Mother. Through the Divine Mother (AUM) was born the second aspect called Tat, the Son of God or Christ Consciousness, which represents the presence of God within all creation.

    Sat: God beyond creation

    Tat: God within creation

    AUM: The cosmic vibration, making it all possible

To go from the knowable to the unknowable, to merge into oneness with God — this is our divine destiny. An efficient way to approach God-realization is through the agency of sound (listening for the AUM vibration).

Interestingly enough, sound is one of the eight aspects of God mentioned in the path of yoga (love, joy, peace, wisdom, calmness, power, light, and sound) and it is actually said to be the best and most effective way of all the eight to reach God. Thus we re-trace our steps back to oneness with God, first through perceiving God’s vibration within ourselves and all nature (AUM), to God’s actual presence in ourselves and everything (Tat), to the final liberation and oneness to God, both within and beyond creation (Sat).

John 1: 1-4

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.

“Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men.

I think these first four sentences of The Book of John are capturing and expressing the reality of the Trinity. They’re saying that God comes in three modes: Absolute and unchanging (“God”); exuberantly creative (“Word”); and personally and specifically inside of each and every man (“the light of men”).

And there’s the ineffable mystery of the three-in-one God. There, in four (heartbreakingly elegant) sentences, is the basis for the entirety of Christianity.

Jesus, of course, is the Word, the active aspect of God; he is God’s unending potential manifested in real space and time. Jesus is the perfect means by which God’s absolute, undifferentiated power is physically, corporeally expressed.

“Word” perfectly captures that extraordinary dynamic. A thing doesn’t really have an identity, hasn’t ever been definitively differentiated from everything else in the world, until it has been named—until someone has attached a unique word to it that, from then on out, refers exclusively to that thing, and only that thing. Naming something marks the finality of the process by which something gains its own distinct, enduring presence; it is how a thing transforms from unknown to known.

Put in the broadest possible terms, it’s how a thing moves from the world of undivided and absolute God, to the differentiated, relative, human world in which God became Jesus.

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

And there it is: by the power of the active, creative force of God—which ultimately personified itself into the Jesus we worship today—all things that ever were or will be were created. Jesus is the Word through which God created us, and our world.

In him was life was life, and that life was the light of men.

That’s just an extremely perfect way of saying that, ultimately, what Jesus brought is the means by which his essence (“the light”) is meant to be fully imparted and awakened in the hearts and minds of all who believe that he was, in fact, exactly who he said he was.

And that is the Holy Spirit