Teachers,and teachings of Jesus in his lost years

Teachings of Jesus in his lost years

There is a lot of talk in metaphysical circles about a balanced life. Jesus shows us what that really means. Whenever he engaged in intense teaching or other external activity he would withdraw by himself and engage in equally intense meditation. This is needful for those who would ascend to divine awareness. No one is exempt, not even the great masters. Meditation is the basis for meaningful life.

In Lassa of Tibet there was a master’s temple, rich in manuscripts of ancient lore. The Indian sage had read these manuscripts, and he revealed to Jesus many of the secret lessons they contained; but Jesus wished to read them for himself” (Aquarian Gospel 36:1, 2).

The significant part of this verse is the fact that Jesus had many, many teachers.Beginning with his super natural mother, he was taught by the wisest of many lands. Buddha said that no one was his friend who claimed he taught what he did not teach, or who denied that he taught what he actually did teach. It is the same with Jesus. To mythologize (lie) about him and claim he is the creator of the world and omniscient God is to rob him of the honor he rightly deserves. He is one like us who struggled and persevered, ascending the ladder of evolution until he fully became a god within God. He was truly a jagadguru, a universal teacher, drawing from the legitimate spiritual traditions of the world, of which he was the perfect embodiment.


Recognition


“Now, Meng-ste, greatest sage of all the farther East, was in this temple of Tibet. The path across Emodus heights was difficult; but Jesus started on his way, and Vidyapati sent with him a trusted guide. And Vidyapati sent a message to Meng-ste, in which he told about the Hebrew sage, and spoke for him a welcome by the temple priests. Now, after many days, and perils great, the guide and Jesus reached the Lassa temple in Tibet. And Meng-ste opened wide the temple doors, and all the priests and masters gave a welcome to the Hebrew sage”(Aquarian Gospel 36:3-7).
Spiritual roots

And Jesus had access to all the sacred manuscripts, and, with the help of Meng-ste, read them all” (Aquarian Gospel 36:8).
Again we see that Jesus drew from the wells of all the world’s spiritual traditions.
And Meng-ste often talked with Jesus of the coming age, and of the sacred service best adapted to the people of the age” (Aquarian Gospel 36:9).
The master teachers of India certainly shaped the thought and teaching of Jesus, instructing him in the ways he should present his wisdom to the world.
The Himis Monastery
In Lassa Jesus did not teach. When he finished all his studies in the temple schools he journeyed toward the West. In many villages he tarried for a time and taught. At last he reached the pass, and in the Ladak city, Leh, he was received with favor by the monks, the merchants, and the men of low estate. And in the monastery he abode, and taught; and then he sought the common people in the marts of trade; and there he taught” (Aquarian Gospel 36:10-12).
Healing
Not far away a woman lived, whose infant son was sick nigh unto death. The doctors had declared, There is no hope; the child must die. The woman heard that Jesus was a teacher sent from God, and she believed that he had power to heal her son. And so she clasped the dying infant in her arms and ran with haste and asked to see the man of God.
When Jesus saw her faith he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, My Father-God, let power divine o’ershadow me, and let the Holy Breath fill full this child that it may live. And in the presence of the multitude he laid his hand upon the child and said, Good woman you are blest; your faith has saved your son. And then the child was well.
The people were astonished and they said, This surely is the Holy One made flesh, for man alone cannot rebuke a fever thus and save a child from death. Then many of the people brought their sick, and Jesus spoke the Word, and they were healed.
Among the Ladaks Jesus tarried many days; he taught them how to heal; how sins are blotted out, and how to make on earth a heaven of joy. The people loved him for his words and works, and when he must depart they grieved as children grieve when mother goes away” (Aquarian Gospel 36:13-23).


There are some facts about healing–whether physical, mental, or spiritual–that are found in these verses. I think we are all familiar with Michaelangelo’s painting of the creation of Adam in which Adam extends his forefinger to be touched by the forefinger of God. This is a profound symbolism of spiritual birth-creation. Man and God must “touch” at that point where they are identical: Spirit. Then life flows between them both. This is the glory of yoga–it is the science of the Divine Touch. Action is required on both the finite and infinite levels of Being, and yoga shows us just how that is done–not in a haphazard emotional way or in prayer implying helplessness on the part of the yogi, but with the intelligent application of the eternal principles revealed at the beginning of the human race to those highly evolved souls that first came into physical embodiment. Wonder of wonders, that same knowledge has been handed on unbrokenly throughout the succeeding ages, and is as valid and effective today as it was then.


My Father-God, let power divine o’ershadow me, and let the Holy Breath fill full this child that it may live. If the Holy Spirit was not in the child, then no act of Jesus could bring it to life. Healing is possible only because it is already in potential form within each one of us. All forms of healing are but revelations of what is present inside. But that, too, must be stirred up and awakened. The greatest master in the world can do nothing with those who are dormant inside. Awakening takes place only when the inner consciousness is already active on unseen levels, just waiting for the catalyst to bring it forth. Jesus’ call: “Lazarus, come forth” (John 11:43), would have produced no effect if Lazarus had not been alive, awaiting the command to emerge. It is the same in all aspects of spiritual life. Unless the potential is there and it is the time for awakening, nothing will happen. That is why Jesus said: “ I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me” (John 17:9). “The world” has always been a hopeless cause.
Jesus did not pretend to be unique and possess unique powers. That is why he could teach the people themselves how to heal with the Word–with Aom–and how to expunge their sins with the same Word to “make on earth a heaven of joy. ”
In the scorned Middle Ages, European Christians often prayed to “Jesus, my Mother,” for the masters embody all the aspects of God. That is why when Jesus left that part of Ladakh “they grieved as children grieve when mother goes away.” This attitude exists even today in Tibet, for the title “Lama” given to the monks means “Mother.”
A parable and a prophecy
Now Jesus spoke a parable that might be called a spiritual tragedy–one which applies even today, and which applied then to some of the religionists of India, and certainly to those who would clamor for his death later on in Israel.
And on the morning when he started on his way the multitudes were there to press his hand. To them he spoke a parable; he said, A certain king so loved the people of his land that he sent forth his only son with precious gifts for all. The son went everywhere and scattered forth the gifts with lavish hand. But there were priests who ministered at shrines of foreign gods, who were not pleased because the king did not through them bestow the gifts” (Aquarian Gospel 36:24-27).


Professional religionists are always like this: they hate whoever encroaches on their “territory” or who dares to show them up as the empty souls they are. Christians are the absolute worse offenders, screeching about “the one true Church outside of which there is no salvation” and of course no spiritual life or holiness. It is interesting to see how “the Church” has replaced Jesus as savior. But Jesus said two thousand years ago: “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Matthew 7:22, 23).


Here is Jesus’ attitude: “John said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us” (Luke 9:49, 50). Odd, how different “the Body of Christ” can be from Christ himself!


“And so they sought to cause the people all to hate the son. They said, These gifts are not of any worth; they are but counterfeits. And so the people threw the precious gems, and gold and silver in the streets. They caught the son and beat him, spit upon him, drove him from their midst” (Aquarian Gospel 36:28, 29).


The son resented not their insults and their cruelties; but thus he prayed, My Father-God, forgive these creatures of thy hand; they are but slaves; they know not what they do. And while they yet were beating him he gave them food, and blest them with a boundless love” (Aquarian Gospel 36:30, 31).


The reminds me vividly of a conversation I once had with a saint who had been closely associated with Gandhi. When I spoke of the blasphemy and corruption of so much that called itself Christianity, she smiled and said: “No matter how corrupt the servants may be, the master will not leave the house.” And we see this is so. Whenever anyone in those churches turn to Jesus with a sincere heart and a pure intent, they “find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). Saints are to be found in many churches. Even in the church in which I was raised I found humble, loving children of God, some of whom worked great miracles and, like Moses, conversed with God “face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend” (Exodus 33:11). In the twentieth century two of the greatest spiritual luminaries were the stigmatists Teresa Neuman and Padre Pio–both viewed by the Church with suspicion and even fear. Padre Pio was forbidden to preach! So the love of Jesus cannot be stymied by the ways of the ignorant “Officers of the Law.”


“In certain cities was the son received with joy, and he would gladly have remained to bless the homes; but he could tarry not, for he must carry gifts to every one in all the king’s domain.


“And Jesus said, My Father-God is king of all mankind, and he has sent me forth with all the bounties of his matchless love and boundless wealth. To all the people of all lands, lo, I must bear these gifts–this water and this bread of life. I go my way, but we will meet again; for in my Fatherland is room for all; I will prepare a place for you. And Jesus raised his hand in silent benediction; then he went his way” (Aquarian Gospel 36:32-36).

A caravan of merchantmen were journeying through the Kashmir vale as Jesus passed that way, and they were going to Lahore, a city of the Hand, the five-stream land. The merchantmen had heard the prophet speak, had seen his mighty works in Leh, and they were glad to see him once again. And when they knew that he was going to Lahore and then across the Sind, through Persia and the farther West, and that he had no beast on which to ride, they freely gave to him a noble bactrian beast, well saddled and equipped, and Jesus journeyed with the caravan. And when he reached Lahore, Ajainin and some other Brahmic priests, received him with delight” (Aquarian Gospel 37:1-5).
Teaching Ajainin
Ajainin was the priest who came to Jesus in the night time in Benares many months before, and heard his words of truth. And Jesus was Ajainin’s guest; he taught Ajainin many things; revealed to him the secrets of the healing art. He taught him how he could control the spirits of the air, the fire, the water and the earth; and he explained to him the secret doctrine of forgiveness, and the blotting out of sins” (Aquarian Gospel 37:6-8).


This presents a Jesus undreamed of by those who have read only the Bible. It is also a Jesus that was seen by Anna Catharine Emmerich the stigmatist in her visions (see her Biblical Revelations), a Jesus who even explained the validity of astrology in his teaching.


The important aspect of this passage is the fact that Jesus really did mean it when he said: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also” (John 14:12), and he taught people how to actually do those things themselves. That is why he said: “I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matthew 16:19). And: “Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained” (John 20:23). A person who does not know how to do these things and I do not mean by mere devotional prayer, but by knowing the science behind them and by having the ability to apply those principles successfully is not fully a disciple of Jesus.

True master-teachers do not do it all for us, they show us how to do it for ourselves, meditation being the major how-to. The true Gospel of Christ is twofold: the truth of our inner Christ, and the way to manifest that Christ. That which does not teach and so empower us is not Christianity at all, but the darkness of Antichrist, however piously it may be packaged.

Knowledge from past lives
One day Ajainin sat with Jesus in the temple porch a band of wandering singers and musicians paused before the court to sing and play. Their music was most rich and delicate, and Jesus said, Among the high-bred people of the land we hear no sweeter music than that these uncouth children of the wilderness bring here to us.
From whence this talent and this power? In one short life they could not gain such grace of voice, such knowledge of the laws of harmony and tone. Men call them prodigies. There are no prodigies. All things result from natural law. These people are not young. A thousand years would not suffice to give them such divine expressiveness, and such purity of voice and touch.
Ten thousand years ago these people mastered harmony. In days of old they trod the busy thoroughfares of life, and caught the melody of birds, and played on harps of perfect form. And they have come again to learn still other lessons from the varied notes of manifests. These wandering people form a part of heaven’s orchestra, and in the land of perfect things the very angels will delight to hear them play and sing”(Aquarian Gospel 37:9-16).


Certainly it is obvious that a Mozart is not an accidental combination of biochemical forces, but that behind such a one lie aeons of progress. The same is true of geniuses in every aspect of knowledge, including spiritual knowledge. Without understanding karma, rebirth, and evolution of consciousness, nothing can be understood only explained in a wrong manner or relegated to being “a mystery.”
The way to rise to better things
Jesus taught great and profound secrets of life, sublime secrets of subtle metaphysics, but he taught simple and practical things as well. For example

And Jesus taught the common people of Lahore; he healed their sick, and showed to them the way to rise to better things by helpfulness. He said, We are not rich by what we get and hold; the only things we keep are those we give away. If you would live the perfect life, give forth your life in service for your kind, and for the forms of life that men esteem the lower forms of life”(Aquarian Gospel 37:17-19).
We uplift ourselves by uplifting others and showing them the way to uplift themselves. And not only human beings, but all sentient beings should be the recipient of our help. “The only things we keep are those we give away” is a priceless pearl of wisdom.
But Jesus could not tarry longer in Lahore; he bade the priests and other friends farewell; and then he took his camel and he went his way toward the Sind” (Aquarian Gospel 37:20).
The thirty-eighth chapter of the Aquarian Gospel is historical in character and needs no comment, though it is a prelude to spiritual teaching:

Four-and-twenty years of age was Jesus when he entered Persia on his homeward way. In many a hamlet, town and neighborhood he paused a while and taught and healed. The priests and ruling classes did not welcome him, because he censured them for cruelty to those of low estate.
The common people followed him in throngs. At times the chiefs made bold to try to hinder him, forbidding him to teach or heal the sick. But he regarded not their angry threats he taught, and healed the sick.
In time he reached Persepolis, the city where the kings of Persia were entombed; the city of the learned magi, Hor, and Lun, and Mer, the three wise men. Who, four-and-twenty years before, had seen the star of promise rise above Jerusalem, and who had journeyed to the West to find the new-born king; And were the first to honor Jesus as the master of the age, and gave him gifts of gold, gum-thus and myrrh.
These magi knew, by ways that masters always know, when Jesus neared Persepolis and then they girt themselves, and went to meet him on the way. And when they met, a light much brighter than the light of day surrounded them, and men who saw the four stand in the way declared they were transfigured; seeming more like gods than men.
Now, Hor and Lun were aged men, and Jesus placed them on his beast to ride into Persepolis; whilst he and Mer led on the way. And when they reached the magi’s home they all rejoiced. And Jesus told the thrilling story of his life, and Hor and Lun and Mer spoke not; they only looked to heaven, and in their hearts praised God.
Three wise men from the North were in Persepolis; and they were Kaspar, Zara and Melzone; and Kaspar was the wisest master of the Magian land. These three were at the home of Hor and Lun and Mer when Jesus came. For seven days these seven men spoke not; they sat in silence in the council hall in close communion with the Silent Brotherhood. They sought for light, for revelation and for power. The laws and precepts of the coming age required all the wisdom of the masters of the world.” (Aquarian Gospel 38:1-15).

Just conceptions of God and man
A feast in honor of the magian God was being held, and many men were gathered in Persepolis. And on the great day of the feast the ruling magian master said, Within these sacred walls is liberty; whoever wills to speak may speak.
And Jesus, standing in the midst of all the people, said, My brothers, sisters, children of our Father-God: Most blest are you among the sons of men today, because you have such just conceptions of the Holy One and man” (Aquarian Gospel 39:1-4).
The only just conception of God and man is that of their fundamental unity even identity an understanding that it is their nature to be in total harmony with one another, for God to dwell in man and man to dwell in God. This is certainly the viewpoint of Jesus.

Purity in worship and life
Your purity in worship and in life is pleasing unto God; and to your master, Zarathustra, praise is due” (Aquarian Gospel 39:5).
Purity is needed in both belief and deed, for impure belief with eventually produce impure action, and impure acts will corrupt the mind and thereby in time corrupt our beliefs. This is why sincerity alone is not sufficient in spiritual life, even though it is impossible to be truly spiritual without sincerity, which is a form of truthfulness.
Cosmology, There is one God from whose great being there came forth the seven Spirits that created heaven and earth and manifest unto the sons of men are these great Spirits in the sun, and moon, and stars” (Aquarian Gospel 39:6).
The One and the Seven have already been covered earlier, the only new fact here being that the distinctive powers of the Seven are manifested in and through the radiations of the sun and planets. This used to be held by astrologers in Europe that the powers of the seven Archangels were conveyed by the planets, and planetary configurations were interpreted as angelic influences. Life was looked upon as a weaving together of angelic influences, and astrology was primarily a spiritual science, the life being looked upon as totally supernatural. This changed at the advent of “rationalism” and the “Enlightenment,” so that astrology now only tells us about external factors as though they were the real causes rather than the incidental effects.
Evil born of Good?
But in your sacred books we read that two among these seven are of superior strength; that one of these created all the good; the other one created all that evil is. I pray you, honored masters, tell me how that evil can be born of that which is all good?
A magus rose and said, If you will answer me, your problem will be solved. We all do recognize the fact that evil is. Whatever is, must have a cause, If God, the One, made not this evil, then, where is the God who did?” (Aquarian Gospel 39:7-10).
Outside India this was a prevailing dilemma.
Understanding evil
And Jesus said, Whatever God, the One, has made is good, and like the great first Cause, the seven Spirits all are good, and everything that comes from their creative hands is good.
Now, all created things have colors, tones and forms their own; but certain tones, though good and pure themselves, when mixed, produce in harmonies, discordant tones. And certain things, though good and pure, when mixed, produce discordant things, yea, poisonous things, that men call evil things. So evil is the inharmonious blending of the colors, tones, or forms of good.
Now, man is not all-wise, and yet has will his own. He has the power, and he uses it, to mix God’s good things in a multitude of ways, and every day he makes discordant sounds, and evil things. And every tone and form, be it of good, or ill, becomes a living thing, a demon, sprite, or spirit of a good or vicious kind” (Aquarian Gospel 39:11-16).
Two points are made here: that “evil” is only a misapplication or distortion of good, and that many evil forces or entities are really only thought form creations of human beings.
Fear of evil
Man makes his evil thus  and then becomes afraid of him and flees; his devil is emboldened, follows him away and casts him into torturing fires. The devil and the burning fires are both the works of man, and none can put the fires out and dissipate the evil one, but man who made them both” (Aquarian Gospel 39:17, 18).
This is absolutely necessary for us to understand. The sole problem is human ignorance and wrong action. All the evil in our life comes from us and must be dealt with by us. We must remit our own sins through purification of our consciousness. Whining before God accomplishes nothing but reinforcement of our mistaken ideas about evil and about ourselves. We must “save” ourselves. God has given us the means to do this through the teachings of the great sages. Our task is to learn and apply those teachings. Then all will be well.
Entering the inner realm
Then Jesus stood aside, and not a magus answered him. And he departed from the throng and went into a secret place to pray” (Aquarian Gospel 39:19, 20).
There is a lot of talk in metaphysical circles about a balanced life. Jesus shows us what that really means. Whenever he engaged in intense teaching or other external activity he would withdraw by himself and engage in equally intense meditation. This is needful for those who would ascend to divine awareness. No one is exempt, not even the great masters. Meditation is the basis for meaningful life.
Light and wisdom

Now, in the early morning Jesus came again to teach and heal. A light not comprehended shown about, as though some mighty spirit overshadowed him. A magus noted this and asked him privately to tell from whence his wisdom came, and what the meaning of the light” (Aquarian Gospel 40:1-3).
The  phenomenon of light shining around or from the body of a spiritually but neither is it particularly rare. I have seen it several times, and in The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta Swami Prabhavananda gives an impressive account of seeing Swami Premananda, a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, shining with light during a visit to the Vishwanath Temple in Benares (Varanasi).
It is not really the light that matters, but the state of consciousness the inner illumination which it indicates. So the magian asked Jesus where he got his wisdom, no doubt assuming that he would name a teacher or scripture as its source. Instead, Jesus told him that there is an inner state in which the Divine Source is tapped, from which all light, wisdom, love, and power flow. (“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.” James 1:17) There is no way to know, but it might be wondered whether in enumerating these four things Jesus was thinking of karma, jnana, bhakti, and raja yogas.
The Silence
And Jesus said, There is a Silence where the soul may meet its God, and there the fount of wisdom is, and all who enter are immersed in light, and filled with wisdom, love and power” (Aquarian Gospel 40:3).
There is a Silence. Everything is consciousness when consciousness moves we call it energy and matter, but when it is still we call it spirit. Only in the Silence will Spirit be perceived everything else is noise and ultimately unreal.
There are three references in the Bible to mystical experience involving the Silence Jesus speaks about
The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him” (Habakkuk 2:20). “The earth” is all material consciousness and the instruments of its perception and function. Only “heaven” should open in our consciousness and be entered, for Heaven and Silence/Spirit are the same thing in the highest level of mystical thought.
Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation” (Zechariah 2:13). “The flesh” is material consciousness which is silenced when Spirit is exalted within us–for we are temples of God (I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19).
When he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven” (Revelation 8:1). When the consciousness ascends to the seventh level of consciousness–which in the human complex is located in the Thousand-petalled Lotus or Sahasrara Chakra, corresponding to the brain–the divine Silence prevails.
Where the soul may meet its God. There alone God is “met” for God is the Silence into which the yogi enters.
There the fount of wisdom is. Only in Silence is the Word of Eternal Wisdom known from which flows all knowing.


All who enter are immersed in light. For “God is light” (I John 1:5), “the light of the living” (Psalms 56:13), and “the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light” (Isaiah 60:19), “for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (II Corinthians 4:6), who has taught us about that Light, being himself the living embodiment of that Light.
And filled with wisdom, love and power–all of which are manifestations of the Divine Presence in us, that Presence, the Silence, and the Light being the One: “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).
A wise query
The magus said, Tell me about this Silence and this light, that I may go and there abide” (Aquarian Gospel 40:4).
The magian is not without good spiritual sense. Unlike so many “seekers” who simply want to get a little buzz to brag about later, or to loot God and come away to their own and others’ admiration, he understands what divine experience is intended to produce. He wisely seeks to abide in God permanently. For him the quest of God is not a trip to the beach for a little bit of paddling in the water only to go back to the dry land mistakenly called “home.” He wants to merge in the ocean and remain in its depths forever. Because of this, Jesus freely speaks to him of spiritual realities.
Everywhere
And Jesus said, The Silence is not circumscribed; is not a place closed in with wall, or rocky steeps, nor guarded by the sword of man. Men carry with them all the time the secret place where they might meet their God. It matters not where men abide, on mountain top, in deepest vale, in marts of trade, or in the quiet home; they may at once, at any time, fling wide the door, and find the Silence, find the house of God; it is within the soul” (Aquarian Gospel 40:5-7).
We need not go to some place, thinking that only there we will find perfect conditions for interior life and meditation. Rather, we carry right within us the ideal place for spiritual opening: our own spirit, our true Self. “For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21).
In the Gospel of Matthew (6:6) Jesus speaks of our inner consciousness as a “closet.” “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret.” The Greek wordtameion means an inner room of a house where valuables were kept and people went to be totally alone. He tells us to shut the “door” of the mind and the senses and be “alone” with God, perceiving Him alone in the depths of meditation. Later in the Aquarian Gospel we will find these words: “But when you pray, go to the closet of your soul; close all the doors, and in the holy silence, pray.” (Aquarian Gospel 94:5)
Yet…solitude

One may not be so much disturbed by noise of business, and the words and thoughts of men if he goes all alone into the valley or the mountain pass. And when life’s heavy load is pressing hard, it is far better to go out and seek a quiet place to pray and meditate” (Aquarian Gospel 40:8, 9).
Even though “the secret place” is always with(in) us, yet it helps to have a good environment. A special meditation room or place is extremely helpful. But it is also good to occasionally go to a place that is outwardly solitary, as well. Here is what Sri Ramakrishna had to say about it:


The mind does not turn to God if one is immersed day and night in the world and practical affairs. It is very necessary now and then to retire into solitude and think of him. In the beginning it is very difficult to keep the mind on God without retiring into solitude.
When a plant is young it is necessary to put a fence round it. Without a fence it is eaten up by goats and cows. To meditate you should withdraw yourself within or retire to a secluded spot or into the forest and always discriminate between the real and the unreal. God alone is truth; namely, the reality, and all the rest is unreal and transitory. Discriminating in this manner renounce the transient things from the mind.
to acquire the love of God it is necessary to retire into solitude. To churn butter milk has to be set in a quiet place to curdle. Milk won’t turn into curd if it is shaken off and on. Next, sitting in a quiet place and leaving aside all work the curd has to be churned. Then alone you get butter.
And notice also that this very mind acquires knowledge, dispassion and devotion by dwelling on God in solitude.…
The world is water and the mind is like milk. If you pour milk into water they get mixed and you cannot find pure milk anymore. If you churn butter after turning milk into curd and put it in water it will float. So first churn the butter of knowledge and devotion by following spiritual practices in solitude. That butter will never mix. Even if you put it in the water of the world it will float.
Mahendranath Gupta (“M”), the recorder of these words, followed this counsel all his life. He had several rented rooms around Calcutta where he would withdraw frequently and practice meditation in solitude. Think of that right in crowded and noisy Calcutta! But each must do as he can, and his circumstances did not allow him to go far away for his solitude. To see the results he gained from following Sri Ramakrishna’s advice, read the ninth chapter of Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi: “The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance.”
Throughout the Gospels we find that Jesus regularly would go into solitude–just as did Buddha.
In meditation
In Eastern Christianity, meditation is called Hesychia–a Greek word meaning Silence. A monastery is often called a hesychasterion, a place of silence. Regarding meditation, Jesus tells the magian

The Silence is the kingdom of the soul, which is not seen by human eyes. When in the Silence, phantom forms may flit before the mind; but they are all subservient to the will; the master soul may speak and they are gone” (Aquarian Gospel 40:10, 11).
Now this is very important. By saying The Silence is the kingdom of the soul, Jesus indicates that meditation is not really a practice in the sense of a mechanical methodology that is intended to produce a result, such as turning a key in a lock. Rather, meditation is spiritual experience itself. Meditation is experiencing Spirit not a means or a process that hopefully will produce in time the result we want. No. Right from the beginning we are experiencing God. That experience may be so faint or so subtle that we do not even realize it. We may consider that we are only feeling peaceful, happier, or more clear in our mind, but it is not our mind we are experiencing but our pure spirit which, as it is rooted in God, is also the experiencing of God.
Certainly our perception is limited, like looking at the vast ocean through a tiny porthole, but we are nonetheless “meeting” God, and by continually entering into meditation we enlarge the scope of our perception and “see” more and more of that which, as Jesus says, is beyond the scope of human perception. But we are not human we are divine, and such experience is natural and normal for us. It is absolutely necessary for us to grasp this. In our yoga practice we need not must not–be straining and stressing.


Buddha said Turn around, and lo! The other shore!” Jesus continually exhorted people to Turn Around–not “repent” as it is absurdly translated. The Greek word metanoeo, is a compound of two words: meta, which means “around” or “across,” and noieo, which means “to use/exercise the mind.” In other words: “Turn your mind around” or “Transfer your mind across,” mind in this instance being both the instrument of consciousness and our consciousness itself.
Jesus is not speaking of just everything that is called meditation. He has a very specific practice in mind: that which is centered in invocation of the Divine Word (Aom). For it is the Divine Word that dispels the “phantom forms” that “may flit before the mind” during meditation.
The expression “master soul” does not mean some rare, skilled meditator, but any intelligent human being/soul that speaks the Word. For we are not weak and helpless mortals, we are gods, made in the image of God. “Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High” (Psalms 82:6). “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him” (Genesis 1:27).
The power of The Word is ours we need only discover that. We will be looking a great deal at this subject of The Word, but now we need to continue with Jesus’ general observations on meditation itself.

Preparation for meditation
A sure sign of a genuine spiritual aspirant–in contrast with a window-shopping dabbler–is their immediately asking: “What do I have to do?” And they mean this is the sense of wanting to know how they can qualify themselves for spiritual life. They do not just walk up and say: “Gimme,” they know they have to prepare themselves. Meditation especially requires preparation. For although it is the most natural thing, we have so schooled and distorted ourselves to unnatural ways that there must be some undoing before we can take up the real doing.

If you would find this Silence of the soul you must yourself prepare the way. None but the pure in heart may enter here. And you must lay aside all tenseness of the mind, all business cares, all fears, all doubts and troubled thoughts. Your human will must be absorbed by the divine; then you will come into a consciousness of holiness” (Aquarian Gospel 40:12-14).


You must yourself prepare the way. There must be preparation, and it must be done by us not by God, or “guru’s grace,” or some other factor, such as passively “being ready.” When we first enter into relative existence we do evolve passively, pushed onward from within and without by factors of which we are mostly unconscious, but the time comes when that phase is over and we must consciously, intelligently, and willfully take charge of our further development. Depending on any thing or person other than ourselves must come to an end. All the past foolishness of “surrender” and “letting go” must be cast aside like the soul-killing trash it really is. We must stand up like conscious, responsible beings with a living awareness of the eternal truth, THOU ART THAT, and start manifesting it. No excuse-making, no false humility which is really only evasion of responsibility, and certainly no “God will do it all for me,” or the much worse: “All I need to do is love.” These poisonous, cowardly, and spirit-denying lies must be annihilated from our consciousness forever by us. In spiritual life we are like God: one, only, and without a second.
None but the pure in heart may enter here. There is no entry into the meditation that is the experience of the Self without purification on all levels of every aspect of our life. In the regular four Gospels, the word for “pure” iskatharos. This word has three distinct meanings: clean; clear; and without any admixture. Our life, our total being, must be free from negativity in any form. We must also be absolutely clear no cloudiness of consciousness, intent, or will. There also cannot be in us even a particle of an atom of that which is not our Self, our spirit. Not a speck of delusion, illusion, or distortion can lodge in our entire being.
In his first epistle, the Beloved Apostle John uses the phrase “as he is” five times. In each instance “he” refers to God not just Jesus. So the ideal is of the highest. He tells us that we must “walk [live] in the light, as he is in the light” (I John 1:7). If we do so, “we shall see him as he is” (I John 3:2). Yet, to do this, we must purify ourselves, “even as he is pure” (I John 3:3). This is necessary, for “he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous” (I John 3:7). Those who follow this ideal can then say: “As he is, so are we in this world” (I John 4:17). What an ideal! There is no place in this for the “poor miserable sinner” attitude, nor for a “sinner saved by grace” idea. Instead, Saint John says to us: “Beloved, now are we the sons of God” (I John 3:2). Hence he calls upon us with confidence to demonstrate this glorious truth.
You must lay aside…. Indeed we must. We must lay aside everything that is cluttering up our life and blinding us to realities and Reality. As Saint Paul says: “Let us lay aside every weight, and…run…the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1). The list of “lay asides” is incredibly long, but Jesus cites five things: “all tenseness of the mind, all business cares, all fears, all doubts and troubled thoughts.” When we do that, we will be well on the way.
Your human will must be absorbed by the divine. Our petty, little egoic will that is nothing more than a bundle of foolish “wants,” must become our true spiritual will, the eternal will of our eternal Self–and thus the Eternal Will of God. This is a very active, a very positive, thing not a passive giving up or becoming numb and indifferent. We must transform our human will into the divine will the will of our divine Self.
Then you will come into a consciousness of holiness the “holiness without which no man shall see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14). For God is holiness itself. Jesus assures us that when we have prepared ourselves we will enter into the very Consciousness of God. As I said before, we will not be able right away to encompass the fullness, the infinity, of that Consciousness, but It will Itself begin to expand our capacity until we shall do so.
In the depths of meditation

Each person will experience meditation in a different way, even if there are points of similarity with that of others. Also, meditations can vary greatly for each of us. Sometimes a great deal happens, at other times nothing seems to be going on at all, and we may mistakenly think something has gone wrong and we are just marking time. But this will not be so. Meditation produces profound and far-reaching changes in our extremely complex makeup. Therefore some meditations will be very active, and others will be quiet times of assimilation of what has taken place before and an adjusting to get ready for more change. Also, a great deal of the effects of meditation are beyond our immediate perception. We can be assured that everything is going on just as it should be. Yet there are some things that each meditator will at some time encounter, and Jesus will now describe them and tell us what to do when they occur.
You are in the Holy Place, and you will see upon a living shrine the candle of the Lord aflame. And when you see it burning there, look deep into the temple of your brain, and you will see it all aglow” (Aquarian Gospel 40:15, 16).


We are “the temple of the living God” (II Corinthians 6:16), and when we meditate we are immediately in the Holy Place the Holy of Holies. One of the first phenomena we experience in meditation is inner light in some form or other–it can vary greatly. But whatever form it takes, we should look into it. Jesus tells us to “look deep into the temple of your brain.” This will happen automatically at such times.
In every part, from head to foot, are candles all in place, just waiting to be lighted by the flaming torch of love” (Aquarian Gospel 40:17).
Many mistakenly think that the body is darkness shrouding the light of the spirit, but in its subtle regions the body is a great lampstand holding many lamps that await being lighted to reveal the Self, the spirit.
And when you see the candles all aflame, just look, and you will see, with eyes of soul, the waters of the fount of wisdom rushing on; and you may drink, and there abide” (Aquarian Gospel 40:18).
There is a great enlivening that takes place in the depths of meditation, as the faithful meditator will experience and make a permanent state.
All true knowledge of time and eternity lies within us awaiting our discovery in meditation. For Jesus next says
And then the curtains part, and you are in the Holiest of All, where rests the Ark of God, whose covering is the Mercy Seat. Fear not to lift the sacred board; the Tables of the Law are in the Ark concealed. Take them and read them well; for they contain all precepts and commands that men will ever need. And in the Ark, the magic wand of prophecy lies waiting for your hand; it is the key to all the hidden meanings of the present, future, past” (Aquarian Gospel 40:19-22).
The Ark of God is the very core of our being, where God awaits to communicate with us. There we will find all we ever need. Supreme knowledge will be ours.
And then, behold the manna there, the hidden bread of life; and he who eats shall never die” (Aquarian Gospel 40:23).
Beyond perfect knowledge we will find immortality pervading our total being. Like Jesus, we will become the Bread of Life itself.
The next verse is very intriguing: “The cherubim have guarded well for every soul this treasure box, and whosoever will may enter in and find his own” (Aquarian Gospel 40:24).
Jesus has told us that this revelation of eternal life will take place in the head, which the yogis call the Thousand-petalled Lotus. The two six-winged cherubim that guard this treasury are the two hemispheres of the brain that cover and guard the core of the brain. The real “third eye” is there in the middle the pineal gland. When we meditate correctly the attention automatically ascends to the Holy Place of the brain. There is no need for deliberate concentration in fact such concentration may interfere with that which should occur spontaneously.


It is of great significance that Jesus refers to the meditator’s inner treasure as “his own.” This has a twofold meaning. One is that each one carries within himself his own treasure. The other is that it is really the seeker’s own eternal nature that is the treasure. Enlightenment is the entering in to our Self with full intention and awareness. We have possessed it forever, but now are about to “find” it. Meditation is the way into our treasurehouse, as well as the lamp that lights our way.
Now Kaspar heard the Hebrew master speak and he exclaimed, Behold, the wisdom of the gods has come to men!” (Aquarian Gospel 40:25).
Instruction in meditation is the wisdom of God that transforms men into gods.
And Jesus went his way, and in the sacred groves of Cyrus, where the multitudes were met, he taught and healed the sick” (Aquarian Gospel 40:26)–by the Word.
At the Healing Fount

A flowing spring that people called the Healing Fount was near Persepolis. And all the people thought that at a certain time of the year their deity came down and gave a virtue to the waters of the fount, and that the sick who then would plunge into the fount and wash would be made whole. About the fount a multitude of people were in waiting for the Holy One to come and potentize the waters of the fount. The blind, the lame, the deaf, the dumb, and those obsessed were there”(Aquarian Gospel 41:1-4).
We will be given more on this subject of healing waters in chapter ninety-one. But now Jesus challenges those present.
A challenge
And Jesus, standing in the midst of them, exclaimed, Behold the spring of life! These waters that will fail are honored as the special blessing of your God. From whence do healing virtues come? Why is your God so partial with his gifts? Why does he bless this spring today, and then tomorrow take his blessings all away? A deity of power could fill these waters full of healing virtue every day”(Aquarian Gospel 41:5-7).
This is completely straightforward and needs no explanation, but I would like to point out a principle that is valuable to spiritual seekers. Jesus asks how it is that one day the waters would have healing power and the next day lack them. Anyone who perseveres in spiritual life will experience this phenomenon: what inspires and empowers us at a phase of our development will in time cease to inspire and empower often the opposite. Does that mean we were deluded, that there was never any real value there? No; it means that we have grown beyond the point where those things could help us and we need to move on to higher and better things and be ready to move beyond those as well until the Goal is reached where there is no “beyond.”
The source of healing

Hear me, you sick, disconsolate: The virtue of this fount is not a special gift of God. Faith is the healing power of every drop of all the waters of this spring. He who believes with all his heart that he will be made whole by washing in this fount will be made whole when he has washed; and he may wash at any time. Let every one who has this faith in God and in himself plunge in these waters now and wash” (Aquarian Gospel 41:8-11).
Faith is the healing power of every drop of all the waters of this spring. Similar statements in the four gospels are often misunderstood as meaning that it is only our faith that is the power behind miracles including healing. For example, Jesus said: “Thy faith hath saved thee” (Luke 7:50; 18:42), and there is no doubt that faith is a power that does bring about changes. But there is more to it than that. Faith is often the force that opens the channels for the reception of healing and blessing. That this is so is revealed in the gospels of Matthew and Mark where unbelief prevented healing: “And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58). “And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief” (Mark 6:5, 6).
Even if we are immersed in water, if we do not open our mouth no water will come in. Similarly, if a bucket is held upside down under a waterfall it will stay dry inside. But if it is turned upward a bit, some water will enter, and if it is turned fully upright it will be completely filled. So it is with faith. Faith enables us to receive outside forces and unbelief blocks them. Those who believe negative things can attract negativity into their lives, and the same is true of positive beliefs having the power to attract positive things.
He who believes with all his heart that he will be made whole by washing in this fount will be made whole when he has washed. Being made in the image of the Creator, we too can create within our limited life sphere. Actually, we all are creating our life from moment to moment. Even karma is in our mind not outside us. “The Lord does not create either the means of action or the actions of people, or the union with the fruit of action.
Let every one who has this faith in God and in himself plunge in these waters now and wash.” So Jesus did not exhort the people to only look inside and not bother with the healing waters–just the opposite. Whatever will stimulate or release the inner power of good and benefit should be put to use. Margaret Laird, one of the greatest metaphysical thinkers of the twentieth century, was at one time on the board of the Christian Science Church, but she resigned because of philosophical differences, one of the major ones being that anything which triggered faith and healing should be used including medicine. If people were able to cure themselves by mental means alone, she advocated that, but if it took a pill to make a person believe in their recovery, then she recommended that. As the great healer Ben Bibb often said to us: “You can’t argue with results
Metaphysical greed

And many of the people plunged into the crystal fount; and they were healed. And then there was a rush, for all the people were inspired with faith, and each one strove to be among the first to wash, lest all the virtue be absorbed”(Aquarian Gospel 41:12, 13).
And Jesus saw a little child, weak, faint and helpless, sitting all alone beyond the surging crowd; and there was none to help her to the fount. And Jesus said, My little one, why do you sit and wait? Why not arise and hasten to the fount and wash, and be made well? The child replied, I need not haste; the blessings of my Father in the sky are measured not in tiny cups [see John 3:34]; they never fail; their virtues are the same for evermore. When these whose faith is weak must haste to wash for fear their faith will fail, have all been cured, these waters will be just as powerful for me. Then I can go and stay a long, long time within the blessed waters of the spring. And Jesus said, Behold a master soul! She came to earth to teach to men the power of faith”(Aquarian Gospel 41:14-19).

Here again we have reincarnation expounded, and the understanding that a child may be a sage, wiser far than those with older bodies.
In the master’s hands

And then he lifted up the child and said, Why wait for anything? The very air we breathe is filled with balm of life. Breathe in this balm of life in faith and be made whole. The child breathed in the balm of life in faith, and she was well”(Aquarian Gospel 41:20, 21).
The cure of sin and sickness

The people marveled much at what they heard and saw; they said, This man must surely be the god of health made flesh. And Jesus said, The fount of life is not a little pool; it is as wide as are the spaces of the heavens. The waters of the fount are love; the potency is faith, and he who plunges deep into the living springs, in living faith, may wash away his guilt and be made whole, and freed from sin”(Aquarian Gospel 41:22-24).
After healing a paralyzed man, Jesus told him: “Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee” (John 5:14), indicating that it was negative karma that had brought the sickness upon him. The cure for all illness of body, mind, and soul is not greed or demanding prayer, but entering into the abundance of God’s love which inspires the needed faith.


BK