The inner experience of Jesus is available to all: The Son of Man is within you

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Fascinating look at the early Christian writings and history,

November 6, 2003

By Frank Mclaughlin " frank mclaughlin " (Herndon, VA USA)

 

Elaine Pagels is an exceptionally engaging writer with a talent for

locating and explaining hidden wisdom. She wrote an earlier

book, " The Gnostic Gospels: A New Account of the Origins of

Christianity, " that brilliantly summarized the ancient and rambling

Nag Hammadi texts, which describe the teachings of Jesus as captured

by early Christian writers. In " Beyond Belief, " a title that

addresses the audience she wishes to reach, Pagels examines more

closely these ancient texts and how they compare to the four gospels.

She focus on the " Gospel of Thomas " (90 ce) comparing it to the

Gospel of John (100 ce) and current christian beliefs about the

teachings of Jesus.

 

" Beyond Belief " is intensely interesting to the right audience. It is

part gospel analysis, which she translates from ancient Greek, part

early Christian history and part personal story meant to provide

context in understanding the beauty of modern Christianity. One

audience for this book is those seeking to understand factually what

Jesus taught and what happened to Christianity in the early centuries

following his death (30 ce) and how the Gospel of Thomas can shed

light on that understanding.

 

But another audience, the one for whom this book will resonate most

deeply, are readers with an intuitive grasp of " transcendence " and

the teachings of Jesus that verify the union that can be experienced

between God and man. This is what Saint John of the Cross referred to

when he wrote " All and Nothing. " ( " Here I stand alone transcending

all knowledge " ). Pagels points out that this experience is taught by

Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas and expressed in the Vedic literature

of India. ( " I am That " ). It is found in the writings from many

religious traditions. One Catholic University scholar has compared

the description of the higher states of consciousness from the

Upanishads to the rooms described by Saint Theresa of Avila in

her " Interior Castle " (Seven states of consciousness; seven rooms in

the castle).

 

There is no doubt that saints the world over have written of union

with God. The Christian tradition is no exception (read Alan

Watts, " The Supreme Identity. " ): " It seemed to me, as if [my soul]

was wholly and altogether passed into its God, to make but one and

the same thing with Him; even as a little drop of water, cast into

the sea, receives the qualities of the sea. Oh, union of unity,

demanded of God by Jesus Christ for men and merited by him! " -Jeanne-

Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon. Or " Blessedness consists primarily

in the fact that the soul sees God in herself. Only in God's

knowledge does she become wholly still. Therefore it is in Oneness

that God is found and they who would find God must themselves become

One. " And the famous " My eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing,

one knowing, one love. " -Meister Eckhart.

 

I wonder sometimes how we got from these sublime expressions to the

crap that is dispensed by our Churches. Nobody explains this better

than Pagels. She attempts to explain why, if the experience of union

with God is universal, it is not prominently recognized in the four

gospels and most Christian teaching.

 

The problem, Pagels explains as she accounts for the development of

early church othodoxy, is that the apostles and the early Christian

writers built Church teaching upon revelation and visions. " Without

visions and revelations, the Christian movement would not have begun.

But who can tell the holy spirit when to stop?... " And when so many

people--some of them rivals and even antagonists--all claim to to be

divinely inspired, who knows who has the spirit and who does not? She

claims that Irenaeus, the promoter of the four gospels, and only

those four, was confronted not by " a lack of spiritual revelation but

an overwhelming surplus. 'How' he asked 'can we tell the difference

between the word of God and mere human words?' " It is in this climate

the first attempt to unify Christian believers began.

 

Hericlitus, the great Greek philosopher, said " All is One. " If you

recognize the wisdom of this ancient expression and you understand

that, consciousness, the source of thought, is divine and that the

inner experience of Jesus is available to all, you will enjoy this

book. Jesus says in Thomas " I am all: From me all came forth, and to

me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the

stone, and you will find me there. " . Or in the words of the Vedas " I

am That, Thou art That, All this is That. "

 

Understanding the Transcendent may be the key to appreciating this

book. I had been practicing meditation for only about seven years

when I discovered Pagels' first book over twenty years ago. The

Gospel of Thomas and these gnostic writings from the earliest

christians resonated immediately for I could validate it by my

experience. Pagels quotes the gospel of Mary Magdalene, " The Son of

Man is within you. "

 

In the end, the orthodox view, the Church view, prevailed and the

Gnostic writings were suppressed. Perhaps for this reason Hericlitus

had another saying for which he was known: " People who follow

religions are like cattle. "

 

Frank Mclaughlin

 

 

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The inner experience of Jesus is available to all: The Son of Man is

within you

 

Kash was once giving Self-Realization to a new seeker Gurmit Singh

seated comfortably on a chair before the photograph of the Great

Divine Mother. Gurmit, who lived around Lachine and knew Kash's

father for many years, was brought by his Punjab village friend

Bhupinder to have Self-Realization.

 

After putting himself in bandhan Kash asked the help of the Great

Primordial Kundalini to awaken the Kundalini residing within Gurmit.

He then used his hands to channel energy into the sacrum bone of the

seeker, where the Kundalini had laid dormant for ages.

 

He closed his eyes in concentration and vibrations began flowing

profusely from his hands. The Kundalini of Gurmit responded and

informed Kash's Kundalini the condition of the chakras. Kash

instantly decoded this vital information on his fingertips and knew

precisely which chakra was malfunctioning and the extent of damage.

He then proceeded to cleanse these energy centres by invoking the

Deities present at those affected chakras.

 

Every now and then he checked his own Kundalini for any developments.

She kept coordinating with him, advising him to work on another

chakra whenever a 'blockage' was detected. Sometimes he had to rotate

two or three chakras quickly, one after another, as the Kundalini

kept scanning the subtle system like a spiritual virus detector.

 

Occasionally he would coax Gurmit's Kundalini to rise and penetrate

the Sahasrara, raising it all the way from the Mooladhara chakra to

the top of the head. By checking the top of the Brahmarandhra for the

Divine Cool Breeze and finding none, he knew that the Kundalini was

still having obstructions. Then again he had to communicate with his

Kundalini and continue rotating the energy centers in different

combinations, working continuously to open and connect the physical

body to the Universal Self.

 

Kash worked on until the first few strands of the Kundalini pierced

the Thousand-Petal Lotus and the Divine Cool Breeze of the Holy

Spirit began to blow from the top of the fontanel bone area. It was

done. The Great Mother Kundalini within had given second birth to

Gurmit, the genuine baptism of God Almighty. This was the rebirth

that the Holy Scriptures had mentioned, a mystery that no religious

institution knows about or is able to perform.

 

Then Gurmit's friend Bhupinder, who had also helped Kash to awaken

the Kundalini, decided to meditate. Suddenly he got up and began to

shake his head in disbelief: he had felt the presence of Guru Nanak

very strongly and even caught a fleeting vision of Him. Everyone

observed him as he kept on shaking his head in utter amazement, face

flushed with emotion. All turned to Kash to see if he could confirm

this fact.

 

Kash closed his eyes momentarily. What he saw with his spiritual eyes

was stunning — all the Deities were seen sitting on each and every

chakra of Gurmit's subtle body! It was the Divine Vision of the Third

Eye! Kash was given the Divine Vision to witness the spiritual body

of a human being for the very first and only time. He observed that

there were more than 20 Deities, each about an inch in size, sitting

on various chakras inside Gurmit. All these Spiritual Beings were in

a squatting position and in deep meditation.

 

Kash told his father, Bhupinder and Gurmit that he had just seen the

Deities sitting inside the latter's body.

 

He positively recognized Shri Ganesha above the anus (Mooladhara),

Shri Vishnu and Shri Lakshmi at the navel (Nabhi), Shri Krishna and

Shri Radha at the throat (Vishuddhi) and Shri Jesus behind and

between both eyes (Agnya). Right on the limbic area of the head

(Sahasrara) was the Spirit of the Living God Shri Mataji Nirmala

Devi, also squatting and meditating.

 

Bhupinder, Gurmit, and the father looked at each other and then at

Kash, unable to believe or understand what they just heard.

 

Note: It has to be clearly understood that at this time Kash was new

to spiritualism and had no knowledge of the subtle human body. The

family members did not even know how to recite the great mantra of

the Great Adi Shakti, let alone know the various chakras, their

locations inside humans, and the presiding Deity. Yet Kash precisely

located their positions, matching them exactly to what Shri Mataji

Nirmala Devi had told humankind since She opened the Sahasrara on May

5, 1970. This simple fact proved that not only was his spiritual

vision flawless, but so was the Truth of the Great Primordial Goddess.

 

The remaining Universal Beings could not be identified because Kash

was still new to spiritualism and did not know their names or

features. Put simply, although he saw all the Immortal Ones

meditating on all the various chakras in Gurmit's body — Shri

Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Mahavira, Lao-tze, Moses, Abraham,

Nanak, Confucius and so on — he could not identify any of them. (It

is just like meeting a group of strangers and trying to ascertain

their identity. The only way to do so would be a formal introduction,

i.e., through previous knowledge or photographic recognition.) This

inability was compounded not only by their small size and multitude,

which made observation and memorization difficult, but also because

of the brief period that this Divine Vision was granted to him.

 

It must be accepted that all the Deities are sitting in every human

being exactly at the energy points Shri Adhiparasakthi Shri Nirmala

Devi has proclaimed. Since Kash has positively identified the

positions of a few, then it is only logical that the other Divine

Beings also exist at precisely at the chakras revealed by the Great

Holy Spirit. Those who want to understand this profound Truth have to

thoroughly understand the immensity of this spiritual Reality —

upheld by many sages, saints and yogis — that " inside each of us are

primal gods and goddesses. " (Deepak Chopra.) This Knowledge is

priceless for all seekers of Truth. It is also the mysterious subtle

Reality briefly mentioned in the Bible and Qur'an, but explicitly

expounded in Vedic scriptures.

 

Again we have to mention that there was just no way Kash could have

identified these Universal Beings — absolutely no way! In the first

place, how did he know that the Immortal Beings are within the body?

No one in the family even knew of this Truth, a fact that took a long

time after this incident to fathom. Then, how was it possible for him

to know exactly where they were sitting? He could have said that Shri

Jesus was seen on the Vishuddhi chakra, Shri Lakshmi/Vishnu at the

Swadisthan, and so on. But he did not. He told exactly what he saw

and those Divine Beings he identified corresponded exactly to that

revealed by the human Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi on Earth.

 

And we must also bear in mind that two non-family members, Gurmit and

Bhupinder, witnessed and heard what Kash told them. (Anyone may

question them to confirm the above facts.)

 

Based on this extraordinary mystical experience the following Truths

are announced to all seekers of the Spirit:

 

Shri Ganesha is meditating in the Mooladhara Chakra — This Revealed

Truth is Absolute.

Shri Lakshmi and Vishnu is meditating in the Nabhi Chakra — This

Revealed Truth is Absolute.

Shri Radha and Krishna is meditating in the Vishuddhi Chakra — This

Revealed Truth is Absolute.

Shri Jesus Christ is meditating in the Agnya Chakra — This Revealed

Truth is Absolute.

Shri Adi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi is meditating in the

Sahasrara Chakra — This Revealed Truth is Absolute.

The Divine Beings are within all human beings — This Revealed Truth

is Absolute.

 

http://adishakti.org/his_beings_within.htm

 

 

“There are Deities who are in the Chakras. When the Kundalini rises

She awakens them just like seeds. Once they are awakened they start

working it out. They know what is their job, what to work out like

they have been appointed. Those Deities you have achieved through

your evolution at different points. So where ever they are settled

they do the job.”

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

“But you have your own Gods. You have your own Goddesses. You are the

making of your own which are mythical. Face it yourself. You need not

believe into anything but you need nor disbelieve also. Just as you

go into a college you have to study, not believing into anything or

non-believing, but you have to see it for yourself. You have to

experiment yourself.”

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Geneva, Switzerland — June 13, 1985

 

 

“Innocence is innately built within us. So the first and foremost

thing that the Will of God built up was innocence, the

auspiciousness. The first thing HE did was to create Shri Ganesha, or

I would say She, because the Will of God is Adi Shakti. And all this

innocence was created first of all to make the whole world very

beautiful. All those qualities were also placed within you, all those

Deities were placed within you. Specially made human beings were

specially made so that they should become saintly people, that they

should have their saintly, innate sense. But it happened in the

countries which developed, that our brain was bombarded by all kinds

of television, all kinds of things, and we became very vulnerable.”

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

The Will Of God, Sahasrara Puja, Cabella, Italy — May 10, 1992

 

 

“The medulla, principal entrance for the body’s supply of universal

life energy (Aum), is directly connected by polarity with the Christ

Consciousness centre (kutastha chaitanya) in the single eye between

the eyebrows: the seat of man’s power of will. Cosmic energy is then

stored up in the seventh centre, in the brain, as a reservoir of

infinite potentialities (mentioned in the Vedas as the “thousand-

petaled lotus of light.”) The Bible refers to Aum as the Holy Ghost

or invisible life force that divinely upholds all creation. “What?

Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is

in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” — 1

Corinthians 6:19.”

 

Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

Self-Realization Fellowship, 1974, p. 363.

 

 

“The first section (of part III) constitutes from start to finish an

extraordinary hymn to Light, here no longer viewed as an exclusive

possession of God or as something purely external which is the source

of reflected light in Man, but as an all-embracing and all-

penetrating quality that illumines the whole of reality from within

and without. This Light is first and foremost a feature of the

heavenly world, but this same cosmic splendor is to be found also, in

an immediate fashion, in Man. In a word, Man discovers his own

personal, divine, and, of course, human dignity...

 

Man discovers himself as Man, or rather as fully Man, as a center of

the cosmos, fellow with the Gods, and partner of God himself. Between

the two poles of reality Man discovers a link, an unbreakable

relation, and the burden of this consciousness leads him to discover

not only the laws of sacrifice, but also its nature. Man is going to

lose his own life in the experiment, for the discovery that he too is

God, that he may enter into the mystery of reality, not by an

epistemic act of his mind, but by an existential and total

involvement of his being, is going to consume him in the very fire of

the sacrifice that he himself discovers and prepares. All he can do

is to throw himself fully into this adventure and, heedless of all

else, trust that the experiment will succeed. The one who emerges

will not, of course, be the innocent individual of the beginning, but

the risen person, the purusottama, a new being. This fullness is a

plenitude that cannot be encompassed by human nature or by any

individualistic embrace.”

 

Professor Raimundo Panikkar, The Vedic Experience

www.cybrlink.com/vedtoc.htm

 

 

“We are here to know the Truth, first through our mental

understanding and then through our experience, to prove everything

you have heard so far. But the minds are very conditioned. Like in

India when you talk about Christ to Hindus, saying that Christ is

based and placed in the Agnya Chakra, they think that I am trying to

spread Christianity because I was born in a Christian family. But

when people talk about the Deities on the Chakras, which is a fact,

people in the West start thinking they are talking about Hindu

philosophy. But one must know they are all related to each other.

Christ Himself has said in the Bible those who are not against us are

with us...

 

I know the conditioning of the Western mind. They will never try to

understand that there is something beyond what they know from the

missionaries.”

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Seeking In The West, London, U.K. — November 21, 1979

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