The Comforter (Holy Spirit) would be like a breath, like a wind, something they couldn't see

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> Even so will the Breath of God Almighty or Winds Of Resurrection

> (surah 35:9 Fatir) begin blowing from the hands and heads of those

> born again of the Spirit (John 3:3-8) or having received the Baptism

> of Allah (surah 2:138 Al Baqarah) upon the Messaih's (Isa 11:2;

> 42:1; 61:1) arrival and declaration of the Last Judgment for all

> humanity.

>

> " One spring afternoon in 1992, a Norwegian friend who was living in

> my village for a year whilst he completed a Master of Business

> Administration at Bath University dropped over for coffee. After

> exchanging the usual set of pleasantries about the weather and a few

> comments about the local primary school, he introduced a new topic

> into the conversation. Knowing my interest in new religions, he

> said, was i aware that some people in the next village were 'giving

> cool breezes'? I confessed my ignorance and pressed him for

> details. One, a woman called Jane, he continued, had given him a

> sort of massage and as as result he had felt a cool breeze on the

> top of his head. " I really did, you know! " he went on, looking

> slightly uncomfortable, as he did not quite believe it himself.

> " What's it all about? "

>

> This book is my attempt, as a sociologist of religion, to answer the

> question raised by my friend that day. It is about Sahaja Yoga, the

> new religious movement (NRM) whose member was responsible for

> the 'cool breezes' which he felt. "

>

> Judith Coney, Sahaja Yoga (Introduction)

> Hardcover: 269 pages

> Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon; 1 edition (May 24 1999)

> ISBN-13: 978-0700710614

>

>

> So is everyone who is born of the Spirit (going to feel the Divine

> Wind - Rûach, Qi, Prana, Ruh, Pneuma, Spiritus) John 3.8

>

> Jesus answered and said unto him,

> Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man born be born again,

> He cannot see the Kingdom of God.

> Nicodemus saith unto him,

> How can a man be born again when he is old?

> Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

> Jesus answered: Verily, verily, I say unto thee,

> Except a man born of water and the Spirit,

> He cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

> That which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of

> Spirit is spirit,

> Marvel not that I said unto thee: Ye must be born again.

> The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound

> thereof,

> But cannot tell whence it comes and where it goeth:

> So is every one that is born of the Spirit.

>

> John 3:3-8

>

 

 

The Holy Spirit: God's Power at Work

 

" Four words—two Hebrew and two Greek—are translated " spirit " in the

Bible. Of these four, two are used only twice: the Hebrew word

neshamah, which means " breath, " and the Greek word phantasma, which

means " phantom " or " apparition. " The other two words are the Hebrew

ruach and the Greek pneuma, each used several hundred times.

Understanding these words is crucial to understanding the Holy Spirit.

 

Ruach means " breath, air; strength; wind; breeze; spirit; courage;

temper; Spirit " (Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New

Testament Words, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, 1985, p. 240).

Of the 378 times it is used in the King James Version, it is

translated " Spirit " or " spirit " 272 times, " wind " 92 times, " breath "

27 times and in other ways 27 times. Ruach is used similarly in most

other Bible versions....

 

'Spirit' in Greek

 

What is the meaning of pneuma? This word " primarily denotes 'the

wind' (akin to pneo, 'to breathe, blow'); also 'breath'; then,

especially 'the spirit,' which, like the wind, is invisible,

immaterial and powerful " (ibid., p. 593). It is used 385 times in the

King James Version and is usually translated " Spirit " or " spirit. " ...

 

Pneuma is the equivalent of the Hebrew ruach. In Luke 4:18, where

Christ read from Isaiah 61:1, the account substitutes pneuma for the

Hebrew ruach in referring to " the Spirit [ruach/pneuma] of the Lord. "

The Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures (known

commonly as the Old Testament) prepared in the third and second

century B.C. and used in the time of the early Church, translated

ruach as pneuma (Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study

Dictionary: New Testament, AMG Publishers, Chattanooga, 1992, p.

1185).

 

Connected concepts

 

We see the same connection between spirit, breath and wind continued

in the New Testament. Although the Greek (unlike the Hebrew) has a

different word for wind (anemos), pneuma and its related verb pneo

are translated " breath " (2 Thessalonians 2:8; Revelation

11:11), " wind " (John 3:8; Acts 27:40) and " blow " (Luke 12:55).

 

Jesus Christ made this connection Himself. Without the understanding

of this background, details of the incident in which Jesus appeared

to His followers after His resurrection are puzzling. After Jesus

showed them the wounds in His hands and side, verifying that He had

indeed been raised from the dead, John records that Jesus

said: " 'Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.'

And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to

them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit [pneuma]' " (John 20:21-22).

 

Earlier He had told them He would send them a " helper " and

a " comforter, " the Holy Spirit. Here He repeats that promise. He also

demonstrates the nature of the Spirit that He would send: It would be

like a breath, like a wind, something they couldn't see, but they

would be influenced by its power. "

 

Scott Ashley, The Holy Spirit: God's Power at Work

 

 

Cool breeze is the sign of the Holy Ghost.

 

" The Kundalini rises through a very thin line of Brahmanadi. In the

beginning only a hair like thing rises, it pierces through. In some

people, of course, in a big way it rises also. And then it pierces

this fontanel bone area which is a real baptism, real. Today only

people felt the cool breeze coming out of their heads. Can you do

that by jumping, or by paying money? They felt the cool breeze in the

hand. It's written in the Bible, even in the Bible very clearly, that

it's the cool breeze. Cool breeze is the sign of the Holy Ghost. You

start feeling the cool breeze in your hands and you start feeling the

cool breeze on your head. This is the actualization.

 

Of course, you people don't read other books which are very good,

like Adi Shankaracharya. People don't even like the mention of his

name who has really and clearly said that it is the cool breeze, the

chaitanya, is to be felt like cool breeze in the hands. They do not

want that you should know the truth. And this is the truth that when

you get your realization, you have to feel the cool breeze in your

hands yourself. You have to judge yourself. I'm not going to tell

you. It is you who has to see, it is you who has to feel. And then

you have to grow and you have to know all and everything - all the

secrets of Divine Science. You become the master then, you are the

guru.

 

You are the Spirit, and you should get it. It's your own which is

given to you. I have nothing to do about it. I'm just a catalyst. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Maccabean Hall, Australia on March 22, 1981