Bible Discourse 50 Never man spake like this man—Jesus Confounds his cricks in Jerusalem

Discourse 50

Never man spake like this man—Jesus Confounds his cricks in Jerusalem

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.  His brethren therefore said unto him, “Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. For there is no man that doeth in 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 always ready.  The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works there of 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 Jesus sought him at the feast, and said, “”Where is he?”  And there were 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.

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?

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 appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

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 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 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.”

Then they sought to take him: but no man laid his 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’?”

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.)

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 the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”  So there was a division among the people because of him.  And some 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 into his own house.”

                                                                           John 7:1--53 

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.  His brethren therefore said unto him, “Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. For there is no man that doeth in 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 always ready.  The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works there of 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.                                                           John 7:1--9

Curiosity seekers, some of his own ‘brethren, relatives, inner circle of disciples, and other sundry followed Jesus. The brethren wanted Jesus to perform the miracles not only in front of his believers, but before all others by going to the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. They wanted the Jesus should display his prowess.  Jesus could not be tempted to demonstrate his miracles. A divine life is guided by God-received intuition.

Jesus said: All aspects of my life, the minute details of my plans and actions, are governed by the influence of the will of God on the free choices made by my will.  I love the world and want it to be saved, so I mind not the penalty I shall pay for daring to expose its faults.  Happiness, success, and peace of mind accrue by striving in everything to attune oneself through meditation and prayers with God’s will. 

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 Jesus sought him at the feast, and said, “”Where is he?”  And there were 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.

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 7:10—20

Jesus said: My teachings are His that sent me. Everything of mine is His only.  My knowledge that has come through the soul contact with Infinite Wisdom of His. I am attuned with His will. I preach truth desired by Him.

Jesus did not go to school. His knowledge did not come of pedantic traditions of ordinary or religious schooling. Jesus said: I came to declare Him. Moses did not give you the law to kill. How is ii that you disobey his commandment. I know this intent of killing is is your mind. It is a pretext of yours that is  ‘I am deranged by a devil’.

Yaavaanartha udaapaane sarvatah samplutodake

Taavaan sarveshuvedeshu Braahmanasya vijaanatah      Gita 2--46

What is the utility of small water bodies like well etc when there is a flood of stream water, abundance of water bodies, around.  Likewise the knower of Parabrahman will have the ultimate beatitude which encompasses all the uses said of the acts and deeds of Karma Kanda in Vedas.  In comparison this beatitude is unparallel. 

   

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 appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”     John 7:21—24

Jesus said: ‘I have done one work’  Jesus implies that at the pool of Bethesda he healed the impotent man on the Sabbath. This has provoked the authorities in regard to murderous wrath against Jesus. “And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.”             John 5:1—18

 Circumcision was permitted on Sabbath day. “Judge not actions of others from a hasty, superficial standpoint, but judge wisely according to the righteousness of the 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 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 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

Jesus was incarnated as a free soul. Jesus was sent on earth by the will of God. People knew very well that the Pharisees wanted the life of Jesus.  Jesus was daring to teach openly and boldly at the feast of Tabernacles.  They were of the view that rulers become convinced that Jesus was Messiah.

Jesus said: You know me as the son of Joseph and my home. But you do not know my true origin. My Father is immanent in all space. You people do not feel His Omnipresence. My Christ Consciousness is reflection of Cosmic Consciousness of Father.   

Then they sought to take him: but no man laid his 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

Jesus said: This little body will be on earth for some little while. People will realize me after I am gone. When I was easily accessible on eqarth you did not approach me. My Christ Consciousness is now and shall remain forever and it is eternal. Ordinary people are ignorant of Christ Consciousness. But it their good fortune or a little good karma that they could see me in my body encasement. In Spirit there is no past or Future, only the everlasting present. God always is. Jesus expressed that everlasting Consciousness by saying, “Where I am”.  Jesus said: “Before Abraham was, I am.”

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

Life force and consciousness ascend from body consciousness as ‘Rivers of living water’ through spinal centres to God-consciousness. This would be understood  by those who would be in tune with Christ Consciousness. 

Descending into creation—into every particle of thought, life energy, and matter constituting the causal, astral, and physical realms—Cosmic Consciousness is called Christ Consciousness (Kootastha Chaitanya).

Flowing into the soul and pure mind of man, it is called Super-consciousness.

Carried on the current of life energy down through the subtle spinal centres (chakras), it is called sub-consciousness. In the process the consciousness loses its divinity.  It identifies with body. It operates the body mechanism through the life energy in physical brain, spine, and viscera.

Descending further, out into the muscles and senses, the river of consciousness settles in the level of the ordinary waking state.  It enliven the muscular and sensory activities of the body. It creates attach

-ments and material experiences. 

The out flowing energy in the lower three chakras, i.e. Manipura, Swadhistana, and Mooladharaq, man tries in vain to quench the thirst of desires from the wells of sensory experiences. But worldly pleasure is like salt water. It creates greater thirst.

Scientific yoga meditation quenches the thirst of man’s spiritual thirst.  If any man is mad of desires, and lack of peace, must be attuned to Christ Consciousness. Then that man will find that out of his belly—the ganglia of nerves with their astral energy in solar plexus and in the lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal regions of the spine—many rivers of light or life force. By meditation will flow up through the spine into the nectar-bliss of Spirit in the brain. His thirst will then be quenched.

Master the kriyayoga meditation through an accomplished Guru preceptor. Withdraw the attention from the motor, and sensory nerves, and heart. And withdraw from the subtle astral centre in the coccigeal region. During deep meditation these accumulated life force (s) or consciousness moves up through sacral, lumbar, dorsal, cervical, and medullary centres. And finally reaches the abode of Spirit in the thousand-petaled lotus of light and consciousness in the brain.

Remember the downward trend causes delusion and world or physical consciousness.

Jesus said: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.   John 4:14

I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.”   John 6:35

Jesus makes it clear man can satisfy his soul thirst and hunger is by controlling the outgoing river of life and consciousness.

Apoorvamaana Machala Pratishtham Samudramaapah Pravisanti Yadwat

Tadvatkaa Maayam Pravisanti sarve SaSaanti maapnoti Na KaamaKaamee     Gita 2—70

The brimful Ocean remains unmoved in spite of water entering and filling up fully. Likewise all the sense pleasures will get eradicated and shall make the blissful yogi unmoved. Such a Yogi will get peace and not the man who lusts after desires.

Jesus Christ was one of the greatest yogis ever lived.  He demonstrated his God-union and mastered the principles of life and consciousness.  

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 the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”  So there was a division among the people because of him.  And some 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 into his own house.”  

                                                                                  John 7:40—53

That Christ would come from the house of David and out of the town of Bethlehem was predicted in the Judaic scriptures.

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.   Micah 5:2

Thus Jesus, born to David at Bethlehem.  Without ascertaining this fact, they were quick to accuse Jesus as an imposter. The officers sent by Pharisees to arrest Jesus came away marvelling, saying, “Never man spake like this man.”

Nicodemus the Pharisee worshipped Jesus in secret. He ventured a mild defence  of the Lord but Jesus was condemned.