Bible Discourse 7 The Baptism of John

Discourse 7

The Baptism of John

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”                             --Mathew 3:16—17

Dove is the replica of Spiritual eye. Jesus the Spirit descending from Heaven. The third eye of Jesus was awakened. Jesus could see the mergence of his microcosmic consciousness with Macrocosmic consciousness of Spirit. Christ Consciousness, and Cosmic Energy.

The role of Satan in God’s Creation.

Satan originated as the natural consequence of God’s desireless desire to divide His Sea of Oneness into waves of finite creation… the Adversarial Force maintains its realm of influence by the gross obscuration of the true God-nature of all created beings.  

And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil…And Jesus answered and said unto, him, “Get thee behind me, Satan.”                                       Luke 4:1—2, 8

 Jesus became Christ when his consciousness is personified with Christ/Krishna Consciousness. 

“Are not two sparrows sold for farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your father.”  (Mathews 10:29)

Christ omnipresent intelligent vibration is in Holy Ghost. Because of this Jesus could know and foretell the things telepathically. In highly elevated state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi, the sadhak or yogi will be in contact with God, but he may be normal duties with physical and astral bodies. In Savikalpa Samadhi the yogi will be in contact with God when he is in meditative Samadhi. In Maha Samadhi the yogi will be in the spiritual transcendence will be in complete union with God the Father. That is his body, Holy Ghost or Aum or Cosmic vibratory intelligence, Krishna/Christ Consciousness or Son of the Father or Tat, and God the Father or Sat perceived as one with the Spirit. That is the meditating sadhak has conquered the metaphysical and psychological tests of Satan or Maya.

The origin of evil is subjective, arising from psychological factors, from the thoughts and actions of man himself.   The sufferings result from man’s erroneous choices and actions—his lack of harmony with universal laws. God is pure consciousness personified. Man initially uses his free choice do whatever likes.  After maturity he utilizes his Buddhi or intellect to take action justifiably.

It may be argued that a perfect Christ would acknowledge the existence of Satan and the tempting power of Satan. Once you have accepted the       body, you have tacitly accepted the existence of the duality of the world i.e., good and bad both. But with wisdom one will discard bad and accepts only good.   The evil is subjective nature of man’s thoughts and actions. Man may have to depend upon the free choice and the  reasoning power given to him.  Free choice does not mean whatever we wanted to do we will do even if it is detrimental to others and unscientific. Yogavatar Lahiri Mahasaya is the embodiment of Christ Consciousness.  He could perceive the ongoing events telepathically.  So it was with Jesus. 

It is the Divine Mother who tries to protect each baby through instinctive love of parents.  The Divine Mother is the aspect of God that is active in creation. This is called Shakti as per sanatan Dharma. The cause of evil is more subjective than objective. It is chiefly due to the ignorance.  Mind is enslaved and controlled due to habits that are cultivated in the past.  How the mind works is depend upon the impregnation of good or bad habits in the past.  A person may be good in the present but may be doing bad work by virtue of the past.  Habits are called sanskar in Sanskrit. We can nullify the bad by persistently doing good in spite of odds. In fact one may be getting good results in spite of being bad. Two persons may have the same qualification or one may be inferior to other in qualification, but the one with same or inferior qualification will get a better job opportunity than the other.  Hence one should inculcate good habits.  The law of karma is very intricate. It depends upon habits, good or bad. It is not like ten minus two is equal to eight like simple arithmetic.  If one has done ten good habits and two bad habits. Then he will to enjoy the karma, good or bad, proportionate to ten good habits as well as to two bad habits. One has to rid of his karma, good or bad, both, to get liberated.  

Spirit is beyond logic. Creation is limited and subjected to cause and effect.  It is subjected to duality or Dwaita. The law of relativity is imperative to divide one into many. Dualities of good and bad are inherent in Creation.  Maya is naught. It is the modification of God’s consciousness. 

The Creation has come out of the delusion of God. It is subjugated to God.  The Creative Holy Ghost Intelligence is known as Maha Prakriti. This power transcends from Ishvara, God the Father of Creation.  It takes on dual nature.  As Para Prakriti or Pure Nature it creates and expresses all good and beauty in harmony with the God immanent Kutastha Chaitanya or Christ Consciousness.  Its magnificent divine nature is expressed in the causal and astral heavenly realms. Evil in man’s life arises from his own wrong doings and judgment.  Some are born with special tendencies of self-control and some with weak or no self control. If God is impartial then why this disparity?  It is due to law of incarnation and karma.

Why evil has a place in God’s plan?  Dualities of good and bad are inherent in creation. In Christianity two aspects of Prakriti or Nature are referred to.  As per Sanatan Vaideeka Dharma there are Para and Apara  prakritees.  Apara  prakritee is called Maya. They are known as Holy Ghost and Satan in Christianity. The Holy Ghost in tune with Christ Consciousness creates goodness and beauty and draws all manifestation toward a symbiotic harmony and an ultimate oneness with God.  Satan pulls outward from God into entanglement with the delusive world of matter.  Thus Satan is defined as an archangel fell from heaven, a force fallen from the grace of attunement with the Holy Creative Vibration of God.

Jesus said: ‘I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven’. –  Luke 10:18 

The divine Cosmic Vibration with its Creative Light became a divided force called para and Apara prakriti.  The Satanic or apara prakriti or duality or dwaita asserts its independence and turns from God. Jesus referred to this Satanic Force as a devil, a murderer, and a liar.

‘The devil…..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’   --John 8:44

Satan originated as the natural consequence of God’s desireless desire to divide His Sea of Oneness into finite creation—a power of independent will that would wield the laws of material creation to manifest and sustain its existence. The plan of Spirit was that this conscious Cosmic Delusive Force should be endowed with independence in order to use maya and avidya to create God-reflecting finite objects out of Holy Ghost cosmic vibratory energy, in harmonious attunement with the divine Christ Intelligence present there in.

The conflict in Creation is between God tuned Holy Ghost with its immanent Christ intelligence and Satan. 

Adam and Eve are the symbolic beings initially. They have succumbed to temptations of Satan and hence their descendants were also influenced by hereditary ignorance Genesis is deeply symbolic. It is not to be understood literally. “Tree of life is human body. The spinal cord is like an upturned tree. Man’s hair is its roots.  Afferent and efferent nerves are its branches.  The tree of the nervous system bears many enjoyable fruits. They are the sensations of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. In these, man may rightfully indulge; but he was forbidden sex. This is the apple of the body.  It is in the midst of the garden. The serpent represents the spinal energy.   It is coiled up at the base.  It stimulates the sex nerves. Adam is the embodiment of reasoning. Eve is the embodiment of feeling.

God created the animal species through his will.  They are lacking   reasoning and are bound by instinct. Then he created human species through his will. God made the first human bodies Adam and Eve symbolically. For upward evolution He transferred the souls. Reason predominated in Adam or man.  Feeling predominated in Eve or woman.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils, and the man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)

Now the serpent (sex force) was more subtle than any beast of the field (any other sense of the body).  (Genesis 3:1)

And the Lord planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.  (Genesis 2:8)

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. (Genesis 3:23)

The divine man first made by God had his consciousness centered in the omnipotent single eye in the forehead (eastward).  The all-creative powers of his will, focused at that spot were lost to man when began to ‘till the ground’ of his physical nature.

The human body was the result of evolution from beasts but also from special creation by God. Man was given the unique opportunity of thousand petaled lotus in the brain and also awakened occult centers in the spine.   

The delusion of body identification produces the false idea of death. Eden is symbolic of divine consciousness. It was lost to the original Adam and Eve. As such Adam and Eve were identified with the gross physical form and its limitations.  

Adam and Eve could see themselves encased in a triune body of consciousness, life force, and atomic radiation.

Satan cannot work as a separate identity.  Nothing can work independently barring the Spirit or God the father.  Everything inclusive of Satan has to work within the jurisdiction of God the Father or sat. Without sat or God the Father everything is an inert body.

Satan or anything else has to be subjugated to God the Father. They are not independent authorities. In computer any programme has to work subjected to Central Processing Unit.  Satan entraps souls in the mortal labyrinth of earthly incarnations or avatars. Man, the highest intellectual being is the soul image of God. Man is made in the image of God.  He forgot all his immortality. Greed or avariciousness made him want more.  He began to exercise his free will in pursuit of a desire for temporal fulfilment. One desire lead or leads to another and there is no end to it. Immortals became mortals. They fall into the trap or labyrinth of cause and effect theory.  This made the free souls into slave souls. This has fitted the Satan’s cunningness. Mortal souls became subjugated and in bondage to the karmic law of recurrence. They could not return to God as a perfect soul with their Satanic desires.  They repeatedly return to earth through birth and rebirth in flesh and blood.  Birth and rebirth has become a vicious circle.     

Satan has cleverly used forgetfulness. Satan could bound the slave souls to finite state.   Pain and sorrow, pleasure and unhappiness, jealousy, avarice,  wavering mind, buddhi or intellect, chittam or sphere of thinking, ego, one up man ship, were the strategies of Satan. With the expiration of desires and Karma the soul will be able to break their bondage and entanglement with Satan and shall return to God the Father.

If one can feel and know that he is the child of God, he can be free. This is what he has to acquire by and by.  After acquiring  he could get liberated from the clutches of Satan.  Man’s place is in between the conflict between God’s goodness and Satan’s temptations. God has given freedom to Satan. Noah’s time much of the earth devastated by a flood as described in Genesis.

God could annihilate and subjugate Satan in an instant. But it is against His laws. God’s munificence is expressed in His incarnate sons, divine saviours.  His silent voice speaks audibly to man. Jesus is an unique manifestation of God. He came to speak for God of His eternal kingdom of Heaven.

Lay not upeav for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.   Mathews 6:19

Permanent happiness is found only in God.  This is the Message of Jesus regarding love of God.

Possessing Christ Consciousness one has to encounter the conflict between the perfect, universally intelligent Holy Ghost Vibration manifesting Divine consciousness and imperfect pull of Satan towards evil and finite creation.

Everyone has to face the Evil.  Confront it with the armaments of wisdom to become victorious. Satan is subjective and objective both. Objective Satan is destructive. He opposes Divinity.  Satan explains evil. It cannot be relegated solely to the individual or subjective ignorance. God alone is Alpha and Omega in Cosmos. There is nothing but Spirit, the only Substance—the ever existing, ever conscious, and ever new bliss.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.  He came unto his own. And his own received him not.

                                                           St. John1:10—11

‘made’ means the Spirit by the condensing power of will, materialized Itself by cosmic delusion into a fabulous universe.  Having manifested Itself as Its own creation, that creation did not receive, did not reflect, its true Spirit Essence.  Spirit is perceived as the only reality, the sole Eternal Substance, when one’s consciousness enters the deep Samadhi experience of divine union with Spirit.

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armour of God, that may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the world…..”   (Ephesians 6:10—12)