Happy Easter.

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Namaste, IMO,

 

Today is Maunday Thursday or the last

supper/pesach/pasqua/pascua/agape/passover. It is also the day that

Jesus performed 'Pada Namaskar', and washed the feet of his

apostles.It is also the start of the 'Passion', where in the garden

he visualised his own future suffering and the bad karma of others,

that he would take on....A very yogic act.

It is also where Jesus took the final great leap and said 'Thy will

be done', in other words Saranagathi or complete surrender.

Proceeding to his torture and giving up the ego on the cross.

Becoming a complete Jivanmukta at that time.

 

It is interesting that Jesus or Yeshua talked many times as the

Sakti or Goddess, 'the way to the Father is through me', etc. So the

coincidence of feasts is interesting......ONS..Tony.

 

Origins of the name "Easter":

The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess

and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar,

first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named

after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of

the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similar "Teutonic dawn goddess

of fertility [were] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern,

Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." 1 Her

name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar

Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the

Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. Some were:

 

Aphrodite from Cyprus

Astarte, from Phoenicia

Demeter, from Mycenae

Hathor from Egypt

Ishtar from Assyria

Kali, from India

Ostara, a Norse Goddess of fertility.