The Baptism of Jesus - Part 11

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The Baptism of Jesus - Part 11

 

Reversing the flow of

consciousness and life

force to awaken the

spiritual eye

 

(p.120) The flow of life force and consciousness outward through the spine and

nerves causes man to perceive and appreciate sensory phenomena only. As

attention is the conductor of man's life currents and consciousness, persons who

indulge the senses of touch, smell, taste, sound, and sight find the

searchlights of their life force and consciousness concentrated on matter. But

when, by self-mastery in meditation, the attention is focused steadily on the

center of divine perception at the point between the eyebrows, the searchlights

of life force and consciousness are reversed. Withdrawing from the senses, they

reveal the light of the spiritual eye. [break Quote]

 

[Note]: The above description is how people are taught in Kriya Yoga. In Sahaja

Yoga, Shri Mataji has had us put our attention at the Sahasrara instead of at

the 'Third Eye' or Agnya. Shri Mataji, the incarnation of the Great Mother, has

accomplished the Great Task of opening the last Centre, the Sahasrara, for the

en-masse Resurrection of humanity to become their Spirit at this " Blossom Time " ,

as She likes to call it:

 

http://www.adishakti.org/kingdom_of_god.htm

 

 

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As one switch throws light into the two headlights of an automobile, so the

astral center of superconsciousness in the medulla throws its current into the

two physical eyes that behold the world of duality. But by deep concentration on

the point between the two eyes, the light of the medulla flowing into the two

eyes can be made to converge into the one single spiritual eye in the forehead.

Jesus said: " If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of

light. " Through this eye of omnipresence the devotee enters into the realms of

divine consciousness.

 

India's yogis (those who seek union with God through formal scientific methods

of yoga) lay the utmost importance on keeping the spine straight during

meditation, and upon concentrating on the point between the eyebrows. A bent

spine during meditation offers real resistance to the process of reversing the

life currents to flow upward towards the spiritual eye. A bent spine throws the

vertebrae out of alignment and pinches the nerves, trapping the life force in

its accustomed state of body consciousness and mental restlessness.

 

(p.121) The populace in Israel was looking for Christ in a physical body, so

John the Baptist assured them of the coming of one in whom Christ was

manifested; but he also told them subtly that anyone who wanted truly to know

Christ must receive him by uplifting the consciousness through the spine in

meditation ( " the way of the Lord " ). John was emphasizing that just worshipping

the body of Christ Jesus was not the way to know him. The Christ Consciousness

embodied in Jesus could be realized only by awakening the astral centers of the

spine, the straight way of ascension by which the metaphysical Christ

Consciousness in the body of Jesus could be intuitionally perceived.

 

The words of the prophet Isaiah, which were echoed by John the Baptist, show

that both knew that the subjective Lord of Finite Vibratory Creation, or Christ

Consciousness, could be welcomed into one's own consciousness only through the

meditation-awakened straight highway of the spine. Isaiah, John, the yogis, all

know that to receive Christ Consciousness more than a simple physical contact

with a Christlike person is necessary. One must know how to meditate--how to

switch off the attention from the distractions of the senses, and how to keep

the consciousness fixed on the altar of the spiritual eye where Christ

Consciousness can be received in all its glory.

 

Jesus himself and his disciples were products of the intuitive omniscience of

ecstatic meditation and devotion, not results of intellectual theological

seminaries.

 

The Second Coming of Christ (The Resurrection of the Christ Within

You) Volume 1, Discourse 6, pg. 120-121

Paramahansa Yogananda

Printed in the United States of America 1434-J881

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