Cross:Symbol of Christ as Cosmic Purusha

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By Bhakti Ananda Goswami

Why the Cross is the Symbol of Jesus Christ as the Cosmic Purusha

Hare Krishna ! Jesu ki jaya !

 

Dear Devotees,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances.

 

At the beginning of every cosmic manifestation, the Second Person of

the Godhead, Lord Baladeva, the Servitor Lord, Original Spiritual

Master and Savior of all devotees, sacrifices Himself as the cosmic

Purusha, for the creation, maintenance and redemption of the entire

universe. The Rishis (compare Hebrew Roeh 'Seers') assist Him at His

Self sacrifice. The remnants of His sacrifice become the food of all

beings. Commemoration of His sacrifice becomes the central rite /

act of worship in the whole universe. His consecrated Body /

Remnants / Sesha or PURUSHA-IDA / Prasadam are the 'remnants of His

sacrifice' sacramental food of the twice-born. All of the Devas are

born from His sacrifice. From His head the brahmanas are manifest,

from His arms the kshatriyas, from His belly the vaishyas and from

His legs the shudras are manifest. Thus the varnashrama dharma

sacramental 'Mystical Social Body' of Purusha is the primal cause of

theocentric human civilization and all sacramental social life.

 

The Vedic sacrifices all began with this cosmic Self-sacrifice of

Purusha Yupa Dhvaja, and ultimately commemorated His 'once-and-all-

sufficient' Self-offering. Thus Purusha or Yagna Purusha as 'Self

Sacrifice Personified' was called Yupa Dhvaja ('Stake-flagged')

because the instrument of His cosmic sacrifice was the sacred Axis

Mundi Yupa Stake, Cross or Post to which He was fixed in the primal

Purusha Sukta Hymn, for His cosmic sacrifice. Thus in the Vedic

Sacrificial system, sacrificial victims were fixed to a post, pole

or cross called a Yupa, in memory of Purusha's cosmic sacrifice.

Since He was sacrificed on the cosmic Yupa Axis Mundi or 'Cross of

all Creation', He was called Yupa Dhvaja....or the One Whose eternal

emblem or symbol (or 'heraldic device' for His Flag / Dhvaja ) was

the instrument (Yupa Post) of His cosmic sacrifice.

 

All the Vedic sacrifices related to the Purusha Sukta were

intercessory or ATONING in nature. Thus Vedic kings and brahmanas,

JUST LIKE THE JEWS would perform great Vedic sacrifices to atone for

the sins of the nation. This was still going on in India when Shakya

Muni Buddha promoted His ahimsa doctrine to stop it. In fact

a 'SCAPE GOAT' type of Vedic Rite was recently performed in Nepal,

to cleanse the Nation of its bad karma for the assassination of its

royal family.

 

The Apostolic Catholic and related Christian worship of Jesus Christ

as the Second Person of the Godhead Self-offered for the salvation

of the whole universe, is the worship of Baladeva, the original

Spiritual Master as Yupa Dhvaja, Who "takes away the sins of the

world". Thus the sacramental social body of Christ in Catholicism

is related to the mystical social body of Purusha Yupa Dhvaja or

Yagna Purusha, and the Eucharist is Lord Jesus Purusha's Maha

Prasadam. As the Second Person of the Godhead, He is the Original

Spiritual Master and the Savior of all universes. None come to the

Father but through, with, in and by Him.

 

So, please don't blaspheme Lord Baladeva as Purusha Yupa Dhvaja, and

don't ridicule His Christian devotees for worshiping Him in His Sign

of the Yupa or Cross, according to the ancient Vedic Tradition...as

Yupa Dhvaja. He is the cosmic Redeemer Form of the Original

Spiritual Master, Who has taken away the sins of the entire cosmic

manifestation ! To really behold His Cross / Yupa is to see the

FINAL END of all the universe's sins, as the central fact or Axis

Mundi of all creation. In the Cross / Yupa of Lord Baladeva as

Jesus Purusha, all things past and future, human and Divine, are

finally reconciled IN HIS SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE.

 

An aspiring devotee of Lord Baladeva as Yupa Dhvaja, Jesus / Yashas

Purusha

 

Bhakti Ananda Goswami