Discourse on matters of Spirit III

Jesus. “I am in the Father and the Father is in me”.

He who has, by ecstasy, contacted the Christ consciousness in me, my true Self, has automatically also contacted the Cosmic Consciousness whose reflection I am.

Jesus often stated that the words of wisdom do not come from himself, but from the vibrations of Cosmic Consciousness to which his consciousness was attuned.

Most human beings are guided by their ego; but Jesus recognized that the cosmic Father dwelling behind his Christ consciousness was the soul doer working through his body and Christ (pure) mind.

Then – by the totality of the present, past and future truth which Jesus perceived in himself – he prophesied to his disciples, that any devotee who, by deep meditation, realizes the presence of the omnipresent Christ Consciousness in himself, as it was in Jesus, shall be able to perform the miraculous acts of healing, raising the dead and every manner of good works that were manifested through the body called Jesus.

This prophesy included future devotees, for he meant that all who were (and are now or will be) in tune with Christ Consciousness would perform what he had done.

“ The eight principle divine powers, which can be manifested by the incarnate being who has attained mastery over the forces of creation mentioned in Swami Shri Yukteswar’s Holy Science are:

 1) as small as desired (anima),

2) as large as desired (mahima),

3) as light in weight as desired (laghima) and

4) as heavy as desired (garima); the power

5) to obtain anything desired (prapti),

6) to bring anything under his control (vashitva),

7) to satisfy all desires by the force of his will (prakamya),

8) to become Isha, Lord over everything.

 In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, other powers (siddhis) are also discussed.

The attainment of mastery over phenomenal creation is not a goal of the enlightened man, but is a natural endowment of the omnipotent, omniscient soul – the immortal Self, which becomes manifest, as it gradually sheds its coverings of delusions.

Emerson’s address to Harvard Divinity School in 1838

“Jesus Christ belongs to the great race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul… Ravished with its beauty, he lived in it, and had his being there… One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates in man, and evermore goes forth to take possession of His world. He said, in his jubilee of sublime emotion, “ I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, God speaks. Would you see God, see me; or see thee, when though also thinkest as I now think.”  

The message for us is, we must first realize the Grand Price, Seek the kingdom with discipline and humility. Never stray from the path and all will be revealed to us.