That nonsense of Christianity ... has nothing to do with Christ, believe me

[Guest guest]

" Before we start the celebrations of the birth of Christ, we have to

have a little bit of a review, of what we have done after His Birth,

so we can understand where we stand in relation to Him. For He was

the Son of a Virgin, so that not even the slightest blot on His name

should be created because He was to do the greatest job of creating

the Agnya awareness for us, which would help us to suck in all our

sins, all our conditionings, and all our egos. And this great

personality was created for such a great work within ourselves.

 

But unfortunately, we have spoilt both these institutions within us

to such an extent that it is the most difficult task to give

realisation to Christians. On the one side we have too much

conditioning, as you know, through Catholicism and other ideas about

Christianity which created a horrible conditioning in our super ego,

which is just like a solid rock, I think, sometimes. And those who

have been in catholic churches still get stuck up with it...

 

All kinds of nonsensical 'donkey people' were created, absolutely!

They have nothing to do with the Christ, they have nothing to do with

God, they have no idea of Divine Life! And to them, prohibiting

people from doing something was fully religion! And this has taken

the West into such darkness that Sahaja Yoga has to be worked out at

a very great speed and in a very expansive way, otherwise you cannot

get over these horrible ideas of Archbishops, and the Bishops and the

Popes... I find that all Sahaja Yogis who are from the West are still

attached to Christianity and not to Christ. There is a lingering

Christianity still within you, and the Christianity has to drop out...

 

But in the West, we still are very much attached to that nonsense of

Christianity. It has nothing to do with Christ, believe me, and this

fanaticism which is lingering still in your mind must be given-up,

otherwise you do not do any justice to Christ. That by no chance means

that you take to another religion like Hinduism or any nonsensical

Jainism, or any thing. The essence, the Tattwa of Christianity is

Christ. And it is so thickly clouded by all these non-sensical things

that you really have to drop-out this word 'Christianity' from your

vocabulary completely, and from your mind. Otherwise you can never go

to the essence. It is a fact, take it from me. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Christmas Eve Puja Talk, Pune, India, 24 December, 1982

 

 

" For the Gnostics, Jesus is not the son of a partisan Jewish god, but

the son of the true God who is the oneness that underlies all. He

comes not to save people from offending against the rules laid down

by an autocratic creator, but directly to reveal the transcendent

truth. The true God of Jesus is beyond all ideas, and so can be

equally pictured as both father and mother. A Gnostic text has God

declaring:

 

I am the Thought that dwells in the Light. She who exists above all,

I move in every creature. I am the Invisible One within the All. I am

perfection. I am knowledge. I cry out in everyone and they know a

seed dwells within them. I am androgynous. I am both Mother and

Father, since I make love with myself. I am the womb that gives shape

to All. I am the Glorious Mother….

 

The Gnostic mystics believed that Jesus had come as a spiritual guide

with the power to transform his followers into his equals. In the

same way that after `enlightenment' a Buddhist becomes a Buddha, when

a mystic achieved gnosis he was `no longer a Christian, but a

`Christ'. The purpose of spiritual authority is to outgrow it. The

Gospel of Philip has Jesus teaching: " You saw the spirit, you become

the spirit. You saw Christ, you become Christ. You saw the Father,

you shall become the Father. You see your Self, and what you see you

will become.' In the Apocalypse of Peter, the disciple relates how he

was initiated by Jesus: `The Saviour said to me, " Put your hands over

your eyes and tell me what you see. " But when I had done it, I saw

nothing. I said, " No one see this way. " He told me, " Do it again " ,

and there came into me fear with joy, for I saw a Light, greater than

the light of day.'

 

Simon Magus, who knew Jesus, describes each human being as a place in

which `dwells an infinite power ... the root of the universe'. The

Gnostic master Valentinus, echoing the teaching of the Mystery

Schools, says that it is a person's guardian angel which conveys

gnosis to him, but that this angelic being is actually the seeker's

higher Self. He writes: " When the human self and the divine " I " are

interconnected they can achieve perfection and eternity.' The master

Monoimus instructs:

 

Abandon the search for God and the creation and other similar

matters. Look for Him by taking yourself as the starting point. Learn

who it is within you who makes everything his own and says, `My God,

my mind, my thought, my soul, my body.' Learn the source of sorrow,

joy, love, hate…. If you carefully investigate these matters you will

find God in your Self.

 

In the Dialogue of the Saviour, the disciple Matthew asks Jesus where

the `place of life, the pure light' is. Jesus replies, `Every one of

you who has known himself has seen it.' His disciples question: `Who

is the one who seeks, and who is the one who reveals?' Like a Zen

master, Jesus answers that `The one who seeks is also the one who

reveals.' In the Testimony of Truth, Jesus advises a follower to

become a disciple of his own mind because it is the `Father of Truth'.

 

The sage Valentinus gives the central Gnostic teaching, which is the

same perennial wisdom taught by all Christian mystics and, indeed,

all other mystical traditions: `Knock on yourself as upon a door and

walk upon yourself as on a straight road. For if you walk on this

road, it is impossible to go astray. Open the `door for yourself that

you may know.' For as Jesus himself says in the New Testament, `The

kingdom of Heaven is within you.' "

 

The Complete Guide to World Mysticism (Paperback)

by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, page 104-6

Publisher: Piatkus Books; New Ed edition (October 1998)

ISBN-10: 0749917768

ISBN-13: 978-0749917760