
Subtle system with Kundalini rising
Agnya
Chakra (6)
"The
sixth centre is called Agnya Chakra and has only two petals. This
is the centre placed where the two optic nerves cross each other in the
brain (optic chiasma). The centre caters for pituitary and pineal
body which manifest the two institutions of ego and superego within
us."
Shri
Ajna-Chakrabja-nilaya Shri Nirmala Devi
(Ajna-chakrabja-nilaya
(521st): Resides in the two-petalled Ajna-chakra. Residing in this Chakra,
She controls various organs (Indriyas). Hence, it is known as Ajna-Chakra situated between the eye-brows.)
"Jesus
Christ possesses all Powers of Ekadesha Rudras, that is,
eleven Powers of Destruction. These Powers have their centres located
around the cranium of our head. When the Incarnation of Kalki takes place,
all these eleven Powers perform the work of Destruction. Out of these
eleven Powers one is that of Shri Hanumana, the other of Shri Bhairava. In
the Bible, these two Powers are named as Saint Gabriel and Saint Michael
respectively. After Self-Realization in Sahaja Yoga one can awaken
these Powers by addressing them in Sanskrit, Marathi or even in English. .
. .
The
aforesaid matters can be verified by any person after Self-Realization in Sahaja
Yoga. The purpose why I am telling you all this is to impress upon you
that it is absurd to quarrel against yourselves after groupings as Hindus
or Muslims or Christians. If you could see the principle behind all this,
you would realize that all these saints are like many flowers on the same
Tree of Religion, and are all connected with each other because of the One
and the same Power.
"New Age teachers call the forehead chakra the
third eye, or the Ajna Center. This energy point on the forehead is
thought to be the 'passport to higher consciousness,' or godhood, for
a person. The Ajna Center is also said to be the site of the 'sacred
fire.' Today's Hindu monks, swamis, gurus, and spiritual seekers
literally mark themselves over the forehead with a bit of red, yellow,
or white powder or paste on this center as a sign."
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Perhaps
you would be surprised to know that in Sahaja Yoga the awakening of
the Kundalini very much depends on the condition of the Agnya Chakra of the seeker. In the present age many persons are found
with highly inflated ego. That is because most of them lead an extremely
egocentric life. It is on account of the egotistical attitude that man
falls from True Religion. Man is misled, and therefore remains
continuously busy working, thinking, etcetera, which are complimentary to
the growth of ego. Jesus Christ is of great help for securing freedom from
the ego. As Paigamber (Prophet) Muhammad wrote about awakening of
the Kundalini and the ways of protecting oneself from wicked
powers. So also Jesus Christ told in very lucid manner about the Powers in
us as well as the weapons. . . .
Jesus
Christ possessed a number of Powers and that He was endowed with the
Powers of Ekadesha Rudras. Then how is it that He was crucified and
could not save Himself from the dreadful event? Jesus Christ, with His
several Powers, could have completely annihilated His opponents in a
moment. His Mother, Mary, was none else but Adi Shakti, the Primordial Mother
Herself. She also could not bear the atrocities on Her Son. And yet
it happened. Perhaps God desired to stage a Drama. Really speaking, Jesus
Christ was beyond happiness or sorrow and He had to enact the Drama in
perfect and faultless manner. . . .
Agnya
Chakra is very subtle. The physicians are also unable to notice it.
There is a very subtle door in this Chakra. That is why Jesus
Christ said,
"I am the Door." Jesus Christ incarnated on this
Earth for facilitating the passage through this Door, and He Himself was
the first to pass through it."
Shri
Guhyakaradhya Shri Nirmala Devi
Shri
Kundalini Shakti And Shri Jesus Christ,
Bombay,
India - September 26, 1979
Karma, reincarnation, self-realization and
the Divine Feminine as Holy Ghost -- God the Mother. Christ's teachings are more
Eastern than the Churches would have us believe or would like to admit.
The two centuries after Christ, saw the
Christian Gnostic teachings of spiritual awareness disseminated alongside the
blind faith doctrines of Paul's formulation. In the third Century, the Roman
Church's council of Nicaea acted to stamp out the Gnostics and their
anti-dogmatic approach to spirituality.
The Gnostic's were declared heretical,
their texts destroyed and the Gnostics themselves persecuted into extinction.
However, a small amount of Gnostic teachings survived, hidden in caves or in
watered-down form in other "heretical" texts (broadly labeled as
"Apocrypha").
The Christian Gnostics practiced a
spirituality more similar to Eastern traditions than to the Western Christianity
we know today. "Gnostic" is Greek for "knower" and it is
"Gnosis" or "Knowledge" that they were seeking. Unlike the
blind faith demanded by today's Churches, 'Gnosis' meant direct, mystical
experience of the divine, which was to be found by individual spiritual
evolution to Self-Realization, and not within the confines of intellectual
dogma. The experience of Gnosis was trans-rational and non-intellectual.
From the Nag Hammadi Library, the Book of
Thomas, Christ tells us "For whoever does not know self, does not know
anything, but whoever knows self, already has acquired knowledge about the depth
of the universe". Compare this with a tract from the Upanishads, the Indian
metaphysical treatise on Self Realization: "It is not by argument that the
self is known... Distinguish the self from the body and mind. The self, the
atman, the highest refuge of all, pervades the Universe and dwells in the hearts
of all. Those who are instructed in the self and who practice constant
meditation attain that changeless and self effulgent atman ( spirit/ self). Do
Thou Likewise, for bliss eternal lies before you..."
In another Gnostic text, the Secret Gospel
of Thomas, Christ promises us spiritual fulfillment "I shall give you what
no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched and what has
never arisen in the human mind." This description is not unlike the
Upanishadic experience "the Self is devoid of birth and death, it neither
grows old nor decays and the accidents of life do not affect it. The Self
transcends space and time; what is great is not too great for it to comprehend
and what is small is not too small to escape its attention. It is the Self of
All".
Just as Christ warned us against sin and
encourages moral perfection in the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment, so too do
the Eastern texts "No intellectual acumen can help one realize it, it can
be realized only by those who surrender to it and who make themselves worthy by
grace, by desisting from all that is sinful, who engage in the practice of
perfection by constant meditation"( Upanishads).
The most ancient Eastern spiritual texts,
the Vedas, of India, tell us that the process of spiritual awakening by which
one attains truth -awareness is called 'Self-Realization'. The Self Realized
person lives in direct experience of reality -- this is called "Jnana"
( a traditional sanskrit word meaning 'knowledge' or 'Gnosis'). Such a person is
called a "Jnani" ('knower ' or 'gnostic' ) or "dwijaha"
('twice born'; first from a human mother to the earthly plane then secondly as a
child of the Goddess, or Divine Mother, who gives the seeker their second,
spiritual birth, Self- Realisation, into the plane of mystic awareness- gnosis!
). The traditional Indian texts extol the
'Divine Mother' as the Cosmic Matriarch,
bestower of the highest treasure of Self-Realization upon Her deserving
children. Many Indian mystic traditions say this same goddess is represented
within the human being as the divine feminine power called Kundalini.
What of Western tradition? In the Secret
Book of John Christ explains that human redemption before the Heavenly Father
occurs by the mediation of a Divine Feminine principle, which he calls the
Earthly Mother. It is the Earthly Mother who removes the sins of the children
that they can become worthy of their divine heritage; "when all sins and
all uncleanesses are gone from your body, your blood shall become as pure as our
Earthly Mother's blood and as pure as the river's foam sporting in the sunlight.
And your breath shall become as pure as the breath of odorous flowers; your
flesh as pure as the flesh of fresh fruits reddening upon the leaves of trees;
the light of your eye as clear and bright as the brightness of the sun shining
upon the blue sky. And now shall all the angels of the Earthly Mother serve you
and your breath, your blood, your flesh shall be one with the breath, the blood
and the flesh of the Earthly Mother, that your spirit also become one with the
Spirit of your Heavenly Father. For truly no-one can reach the Heavenly Father
unless through the Heavenly Mother. Even as the newborn babe cannot understand
the teaching of his father until his mother has suckled him, bathed him, nursed
him, put him to sleep and nurtured him". The Earthly Mother is a divine
mediator through which the seekers, the Sons of Man, are raised to the Heavenly
Father. Another part of the same text says "Honor your Earthly Mother and
keep her laws that your days may be long on this earth and honor your Heavenly
Father, that eternal life may be yours in the Heavens. For the Heavenly Father
is a hundred times greater than all the fathers by seed and by blood, and
greater is the Earthly Mother than all mothers by the body". The Holy
Trinity, then is God the Father, God the Son (ie. Christ) and, it seems, God the
Mother. The Divine Mother particularly is the means and power of spiritual
evolution.
The Secret Book of John relates Christ's
description of the Divine Feminine as the power of God Almighty. "She is
the first power. She preceded everything, and came forth from the Father's mind
as forethought of all. Her light resembles the Father's light; as the perfect
power She is the image of the perfect and invisible Virgin Spirit. She is the
first power, the glory, Barbello, the perfect glory among the worlds, the
emerging glory, She glorified and praised the Virgin Spirit for she had come
forth through the Spirit. She is the first thought, image of the Spirit. he
became the
universal womb, for She precedes
everything, the common parent, the first humanity, the Holy Spirit". The
Holy Spirit is here described as the Divine Power of God Himself. This power is
maternal in its character (universal womb, She, the common parent) and all
powerful as the 'first emanation of God'. More so, She is pure (Virgin) and She
glorifies purity. So ancient Christian tradition seems to tell us that the holy
spirit is actually the Divine Mother!
One cannot overlook the Eastern parallels.
God Almighty in Indian mythology is represented as Sada-Shiva. His state is
eternal perfection (Sat Chit Ananda). His power is the Adi Shakti (primordial
power) who is His feminine counterpart or spouse. It is She who does all things.
She created the universe and the gods who attend over it (for example, the
triune Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu). The Adi Shakti is the Mother of all things. She
gave birth to the universe and is the feminine power of every deity and
celestial being (usually represented as their spouse). The Secret Book of John
parallels this "She became the universal womb, for She precedes everything,
the common parent, the first humanity, the Holy Spirit, the triple male (Shiva,
Brahma,
Vishnu?) the triple power (Parvati,
Saraswati, Lakshmi, who are spouses of the triple males-or the triple Goddess of
Western mythological tradition?)". Thus the Christian mystics understood
that the Holy Spirit is the Divine Feminine, the Goddess, the Universal Mother
herself. The Syriac Christians worshiped the Holy Ghost as the Great Mother.
Phillip suggests that Mary Herself is the Holy Spirit (for who else but God the
Mother can give birth to God the Son?). Other Apocryphal Scriptures describe
Mary as the focus of Temple activities. Her early life was punctuated by
auspicious portents all implying her own Divinity.
Just as Mary and the Holy Ghost appear to
parallel aspects of the Divine Mother described in the East, so too does Christ,
the son of God reflect the Eastern principle of the Divine Child. The Divine
Child in the Eastern mythological tradition is commonly worshiped as the dual
child-gods Ganesha and Kartikeya. Ganesha represents the fabric of the cosmos,
the primordial Aum or Logos from which the creation was constructed. Christ
affirmed the same primordial nature of himself when he said "I am the
first" and "I am the alpha". Ganesha is the primordial child who
is the embodiment of purity and innocence. Similarly Christ venerated children
and the innocence that they manifested. He even urged the apostles (and us) to
cultivate our own childlike innocence " let the children come to me for the
kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these" and "assuredly whoever
does not receive the kingdom of god as a little child will by no means enter
it"(Mark 10). Kartikeya is the same principle of innocence in dynamic
action- the slayer of evil; as Christ did when he ejected the money lenders from
the temple.
So, Christ seems to be telling us that the
kingdom of Heaven, which is a state of God-like perfection and child-like
innocence is attained by some inner phenomenon. In the Gnostic Scriptures Christ
spoke directly of this as an inner transformation, self realisation. He also
told us that the Holy Ghost or Divine Mother is the power by which this is
accomplished, but by what mechanism?
Let's take lateral look at the Indian
tradition of Kundalini of which many local saints have spoken. Shankaracharya
(700AD) and Gyaneshwara (1200AD) are two well known mystic exponents of
Kundalini. They both describe the actualization of self-realization in their
classic poetry, such as the Saundarya-Lahari, Sivananda-Lahari and the
Gyaneshwari (itself a commentary on the Kundalini Yoga described by Krishna in
the Bhagavad Gita ). They describe a force of pure (virgin) spirituality, which
lies dormant within the human being.
By constant purification and self
perfection the seven vital energy centres (chakras) which govern all aspects of
mind, body and soul, are prepared for the awakening of Kundalini. Once awakened
by divine grace, the Kundalini passes through these centres, not unlike a string
through beads, enlightening each as it passes through. Arriving at the seventh
centre (Sahasrara) the seeker's awareness is united with the
eternal-self-within. The experience is transrational, non causal, a tangible and
real bliss of truth-awareness. Indian mystics called the Sahasrara
"Paradise", "Heaven" or, as Christ has called it "The
Kingdom of God Within". As the Kundalini passes through each of the vital
centres, they are stimulated to produce a pure, nourishing energy. The Vedas
(Ancient Scriptures of India) describe this energy as a sacred river emitted by
each of the seven chakras. Shankaracharya called this energy "spun".
He too described its nature as being like divine water showering down upon him
as he meditated in the ecstacy of devotion. Other Indian scriptures call this
energy "Paramchaitanya" (energy of supreme consciousness).The miracle
of Whitsunday wherein the Apostles became empowered with their spirituality
sounds similar to the experience of these chakras manifesting this same divine
energy.
Shankaracharya said "All Glory unto
the current of Divine Bliss which, brimming from the river of Thy Holy stories,
flows into the lake of my mind, through the canals of intellect, subduing the
dust of sin and cooling the heat of memory". Much of the gnostic texts
repeat this ancient Eastern understanding.
Consider this tract from the Book of Hymns
of the Dead Sea Scrolls: "I have reached the inner vision and through Thy
Spirit in me I have heard Thy wondrous secret, through Thy mystic insight Thou
hast caused a spring of knowledge to well up within me, a fountain of power,
pouring forth living waters, a flood of love and of all embracing wisdom, like
the splendor of eternal light". The "fountain of power",
"spring of knowledge", "Living water", "flood of
love", "eternal light" all directly describe the experience of
Kundalini awakening! Consider this from the Nag Hammadi Library, the Apocryphal
Gospel of Phillip "The Tree of Life is in the centre of Paradise, as is the
oil tree from which the anointment Chrisma comes. The Chrism is the source of
resurrection". Krishna, the divine being, c4000BC, also described the
Kundalini as an inverted Tree of spirituality, whose roots lay in the brain. The
'Tree of Life' is a well recognized symbolic parallel of the Kundalini. So too
is the Holy Grail, the cup from which Christ drank at the last supper its
symbolic significance being that Christ's sustenance arose from a cup, that is,
an object whose receptive qualities reflect the nature of the divine feminine --
yet another parallel of the Kundalini.
It is likely that St Phillip's 'Chrisma'
is the same 'spun' described by Shankaracharya, the 'Paramchaitanya' or in
Christian terminology 'God's grace'. In the Gospel of Peace, Christ explains
that the experience of spirituality is foremost. He says the Scriptures are
merely conveying an intellectual knowledge, but we are to have the 'living
knowledge', that is the experience of our own spirituality. He says "Seek
not the law in your Scriptures for the law is life, whereas the Scripture is
dead. I tell you truly Moses received not his laws from God as writing but
through the living word. The law is living word for living God to living
prophets for living men. In everything that is life to the law is the law
written, for I tell you truly all living things are nearer to God than the
Scripture which is without life. I tell you truly that the Scripture is the work
of man, but life and all its hosts are the work of our God. Wherefore do you not
listen to the words of God which are written in his works? And wherefore do you
study the dead Scriptures which are from the hands of men?". That is, seek
the divine experience which is beyond definition, do not settle for mundane
human interpretations of the mystic's suprahuman experience. Thus Christ's law
is a living, cosmic and experiential one, and is actuated by the awakening of
the spiritual experience within the seeker, not by intellectual study or by
following those who themselves have not truly had the experience. This directly
parallels the eastern teachings; that self-realization, the pure spiritual
awakening, is attained by the righteous and itself gives greater righteousness.
More so, self realisation is a process of genuine, inner spiritual
transformation which must be experienced to be understood, since it lies beyond
the domain of scriptural description or theological definition.
Since it is gained by the grace of the
Divine Mother( Holy Spirit) alone, it is most certainly not possible to organize
or institutionalize this experience in human terms.
This contrasts with the way in which the
Churches have pigeonholed and categorized Christianity in terms of 'blind
faith', 'obedience to the church' and empty ritual. In the Gnostic Scriptures,
untouched by the organized churches, Christ urges us to perceive and experience
the cosmic order for ourselves and not to rely on so-called scriptural
authorities -- such as the churches -- to prescribe it to us.
C.G. Jung recognized the link between the
Divine Feminine and the Eastern principle of Kundalini. He understood that the
Kundalini was the representation of the Goddess within each of us. Is the Holy
Ghost the Kundalini? Was the Kundalini a central principle in early mystic
Christianity? Such an assumption would help us reinterpret many parts of the
mainstream bible, for example; In the Gospel of John, Christ explains to the
Pharisee Nicodemus, " Verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water
and the spirit; he cannot enter the kingdom of God", this second birth far
from being a license for so many born again Christian fundamentalists is
something much more mystical and subtle in
nature. To be "born of the water and the spirit" describes the
awakening of Kundalini. She is often described as a divine mother whose ascent
within the spine of the seeker gives them rebirth into mystic/gnostic awareness,
the 'divine water' is its nourishing energy. The Kundalini enters the Sahasrara
and there unites the seeker's awareness with the self or spirit. This is
described as a blissful, infinite experience of the kingdom of God within. Thus,
Christ's 'born again' Christianity might actually refer to those Christians who
have entered the realm of direct experience of divinity, in the state of self
realisation.
Other Canon (mainstream) Scriptures can be
more deeply understood in this light. In the Gospel of Matthew, Christ says
"Be Ye Perfect, even as Your Father which is in Heaven is perfect".
(Ch.5, v. 48). This is a clear exhortation by Christ to strive and achieve
spiritual perfection, just as the Buddha and other Eastern sages taught their
disciples. Christ tells us about our innately divine nature "Ye are
Gods" (Psalm 82, v.6; John 10, v.34). Furthermore "Behold the Kingdom
of God is within you" (Luke 17, v.21), that is the experience of Heaven is
an internal phenomenon. This implies that the inner state of the seeker is the
source of their spiritual fulfillment. We could well say that Christ's idea of
Heavenly Salvation was an internal state of Godlike perfection.
When the seeker's awareness is completely
united with the Eternal Spirit/Self/Atman the true self (not ego, mind,
intellect, personality, body or memory) is experienced or realized. Since the
spirit is no less than a reflection of God itself then in the state of complete
Self-Realization the seeker experiences perfection" as our Father in Heaven
is perfect". The Eastern term for this state of Self-Realization is God-Realization
and it represents the final stage of our spiritual evolution.
There are deeper references to the chakras
and kundalini in the Scriptures. For example, Revelations may also symbolically
describe the chakras in St. John's spiritual vision;" I saw seven standing
lamps of gold" (the chakras emitting the divine light?), John sees Christ
as one of the seven lamps (you will see the significance of this later), Christ
is holding the "seven stars" (demonstrating his command of the chakra
system?) and speaks of the "seven churches" (the divine institution
within each chakra?). In Genesis Jacob envisions a divine ladder directly
connecting his earthly being with God in Heaven- this precisely describes the
experience and purpose of the kundalini!
Consider this idea: The term 'Jesus of
Nazareth', does not (say German theologians) relate to Christ's times in
Nazareth. Proper understanding of the original language shows that such a term
is not linguistically possible (despite the fact that Paul uses it). The
original term is more likely,
"Jesus the Nazareen." Nazareen
is an Aramaic word meaning "one who has bound himself to the service of
God" or "one who is anointed." Compare this to the meaning of
Yoga, "Union with God" and 'Yogi' – one who has union with god or to
descriptions of the awakening of the Kundalini, "the mystical
anointment". The Nazaria were a group of Gnostics contemporary to Christ.
They taught a mystic spirituality similar to the Eastern ideas already
described. It has been suggested by some authorities that this Gnostic word is
ultimately derived from the Hindustani 'Nazar.' This is a yogic term for the
point between the eyebrows and above the nose (the 'third eye') where sages of
old performed meditation. 'Nazaren' means to envision or behold. Then a more
accurate meaning of "Jesus the Nazareen" would be "Jesus who has
Yoga or Self Realisation" or "Jesus who meditates". Considering
Christ's status as the" Son of God" perhaps a more appropriate meaning
would be "Jesus who is the object of meditation". Was Christ himself
the object of meditation as are many deities in Eastern cultures? Christ himself
might well be the Nazaren.
The Nazar physically corresponds to the
location of the Agnya chakra, the sixth vital chakra through which the Kundalini
must pass before She enters the Sahasrara. The Agnya manifests physically as the
'optic chiasm' whose shape itself is cruciform! Is the cosmic Christ represented
within each of us in the Nazar, Agnya chakra, just as the cosmic Mother or Holy
Ghost is represented within us as the Kundalini?
The position of the Agnya chakra is such
that it is the final centre to be crossed before the Kundalini finishes its
journey to the Sahasrara ( the 'Kingdom of God Within'). Entry of the Kundalini
into the Sahasrara gives the blissful experience of divine awareness. This
literally explains Christ's words, "None can enter Heaven except through
me".
Ponder also on Christ's instruction 'to be
as little children' or "look at the birds of the air for they neither sow
nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly father feeds them....which of
you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?" (Matthew 6). The
innocence of mind which he describes is that same Zen awareness obtained in the
state of meditation, when the Agnya chakra is pierced by the Kundalini giving
rise to a heightened awareness of the present moment, all thoughts of past and
future neutralized. Consider also that Christ himself told us, "When your
two eyes become one, your body will be filled with light." This implies
that when we go beyond the physical sight ( the two eyes) to the subtle
experience or perception which occurs by opening of the third eye and thus entry
of the awareness into the Sahasrara our body is filled with light, purity, grace
etc.
There is further symbolism eg. the twelve
apostles represent six pairs which are symbolic of the lower six chakras from
Mooladhara to Agnya. These six chakras are limited to dual awareness, ie. past
and present, cause and effect. However, the final chakra, Sahasrara, represented
here by Christ, who was the leader of the twelve apostles is non-dual, being
derived from an awareness higher than the causal plane.
Here are some possible conclusions which
are equally reasonable, though entirely contrary to modern dogma about Christ
and Christianity. Christ's spirituality differed radically from our modern
understanding. His teaching was dynamic and zen-like focusing on the experience
of inner purification and transformation, the elevation of the seeker's
awareness into the state (not concept or dogma) of self-realization. He sought
to overthrow the immoral culture of the Romans and to deliver to the dogmatic,
letter-bound Jews the mystic fulfillment promised to them in the Mosaic
covenant.
Central to his teaching was the
understanding that the feminine aspect of God, God the Mother, was the means by
which self-realization and spiritual evolution to god-awareness occurred. Christ
venerated the Divine Mother as the Holy Spirit. It is this power, described in
the East as residing in the human being as the Kundalini, that is the last
vestige of the Goddess-tradition in the Christian West.
Mary was in her own right a divine being.
She was venerated as such by Christ and some of the suppressed scriptures
describe her as the Holy Spirit incarnate.
Why did the Churches suppress these true
christian traditions? Partly because they are patriarchal institutions based on
the questionable dogma of Paul who perceived women (and therefore the feminine
principle) as inferior entities. Partly also because spirituality which focused
on the Divine Feminine would also focus on the redemptive power of God the
Mother and on Her role as the grantor and matriarch of mystical experience. This
kind of understanding, like all mystics and mysticism, defies organization,
dogmatic hierarchies and institutions preferring the role of individual
experience, revelation and progressive growth toward divine awareness.
The Holy Ghost, then, threatened to neutralize
the fear-oriented dogma which the Churches have used, in the name of Christ and
Spiritual Truth, to maintain their secular power and wealth.
Christ's promise of a comforter, the
"second coming", implies another divine incarnation to bring about the
redemption of humanity. As we have seen it is the Divine Mother who has the
power to redeem her children, the Sons of Man (as the gnostics put it), in the
eyes of God the Father. Who better to comfort the children who suffer, as does
the West and much of the world from a culture whose ethic of materialism and
immediate gratification is characterized by terms such as "the lost
generation", "eco-disaster", "terrorism", "future
shock" and "psycho-social alienation", than the Divine Mother?
C.G. Jung, in his critique of the Western
psyche keynoted the absence of the Feminine Principle as a major cause of much
of the West's psycho-cultural imbalance. The return of the Divine Feminine would
indeed facilitate the spiritual redemption of Western Culture.
With this perspective we may be able to
understand a key image from Revelations;
"A great Portent in Heaven, a Woman
robed with the Sun, beneath her Feet the Moon, and on her Head a Crown of twelve
Stars. She was pregnant, and in the anguish of Her Labour She cried out to be
Delivered. Then a second Portent appeared in Heaven: a great red Dragon with
seven Heads and ten Horns; on his Heads were seven Diadems, and with his Tail he
swung down a third of the Stars in the Sky and flung them to Earth. The Dragon
stood in front of the Woman who was about to give birth, so that when Her Child
was born He might devour It. She gave birth to a male child, who is destined to
rule all the Nations with an Iron Rod....."
The Divine Woman, a central figure of
Revelations, is the Comforter Herself. The crown of stars indicates that Her
authority and heritage is of the Divine Father, the moon, upon which She resides
is another symbol of the feminine.
As the Divine Mother She is giving birth,
ie. self-realization, and succeeds in producing a man-child. A man indicating
spiritual maturity and dynamic action and yet a child symbolising purity of
heart and that quality of innocence which Christ taught was essential to enter
into the state of Heavenly Experience. The child, having the mystic awareness of
self-realization, rules over the nations indicating command of the earthly plane
as well as over the inner country, the chakra system. The child of the Divine
mother is a Gnostic adept!
He rules with an iron rod, the kundalini,
which mercilessly slays the forces of evil, the obstacles which obstruct her
flow through the chakra system.
The dragon who stands over the Woman as
She labours waiting to devour the child could well be the Churches. Their 2000
year vigil against the Divine Feminine lest she produce a race of Gnostics is
evident in their manipulation and suppression of the scriptures. Revelations
tells us that the Divine Children are destined to overcome the beast and
establish a New Age of divine awareness.
Consider Christ's warning "he who has
blasphemed against the holy ghost shall be damned forever". What then of
the Churches who have virtually edited the divine feminine out of the Western
Cultural tradition in order to maintain their grip on the masses?
Left
Agnya
Causes of catch or obstruction
on left ring finger
A "catch" is an imbalance. If, during meditation we feel heat or
tingling, or maybe even numbness in our fingertips, it means that our
kundalini is alerting us to an imbalance in a particular chakra.
'Your
left ring finger will speak'
if
there is
harm to self, self-pity, inability to forgive
oneself, living in the past
CLEARING
BLOCKAGE OF LEFT AGNYA CHAKRA
One
of the most effective is the mantra of Shri Mahavira:
OM TWAMEVA SHAKSHAT SHRI MAHAVIRA SHAKSHAT
SHRI ADI SHAKTI MATAJI SHRI NIRMALA DEVI NAMOH NAMAH
Right
Agnya
Causes
of catch or obstruction on right ring finger
'Your
right ring finger will speak'
if
there
wrong ideas about
God, harm to others, worries,
aggression, egotism, futurism
CLEARING
BLOCKAGE OF RIGHT AGNYA CHAKRA
One
of the most effective is the mantra of Shri Buddha:
OM TWAMEVA SHAKSHAT SHRI Buddha SHAKSHAT
SHRI ADI SHAKTI MATAJI SHRI NIRMALA DEVI NAMOH NAMAH
Spiritual
manifestation: Self-reproaching
Spirit of Allah within warns of roving
adulterous eyes, murmuring souls (gossip), false guilt, bloated
egos, chattering minds, uncontrolled thinking, worries, sexual fantasies
and unforgiving nature.
In
India I am known as Mahavishnu. But when I came to this Earth, I was
crucified. My Message is that of Resurrection, to show you that you are
the Eternal Spirit and not your body or your thoughts. I was born in a
manger to show you that the Spirit within you has nothing to do with
money, material comfort or power - it is all powerful, all-pervading and
eternal. Forgiving those who would have killed Me, I have opened in the
Cosmos and within your being a narrow passage on the path which leads you
beyond to God. When the Spirit is awakened in you by Kundalini, you are
born again, and cross this Gate. Then you enter the Realm of Divine
Awareness, becoming a child in the Kingdom of God.
The
Agnya Chakra is situated in the centre of the brain area, and represents
the sixth stage of human evolution. We can identify its position as the
middle point of the forehead. The Agnya Chakra is the gateway to the
Sahasrara Chakra, the Kingdom of God.
"He's sitting in a
position of Agnya Chakra controlling pineal and pituitary.
By that, He controls our conditioning. If we follow Him, then we cannot be
conditioned by anything because He talked of Spirit only. Spirit cannot be
conditioned, conditioned by anything. Whatever is good, that will be
accepted; good, congenial to the Spirit."
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When
the Kundalini passes through this Chakra, our thought waves elongate so
that the space between the two thoughts grows wider. This space is Silence
and as the petals of the Chakra open up, Silence blossoms in this centre
and spreads outwards, pushing our thoughts to the periphery of our
awareness. This is where the state of thoughtless awareness or Nirvikalpa
Samadhi happens through the Grace of Shri Jesus. In this state we actually
feel the beautiful Silence, the Stillness, which is at the heart of
creation.
QUALITY
Kabir
extols the supreme help afforded by a true
Master
That secret is hidden behind the third eye
center of the Master. The secret of the
Ascension of the Prophet should be seen at a
spot in between the 2 eyes of the Master. Within
the white and black of the third eye shines a
star and within that star is the sun which is
not easily understood. In the center between the two eyes appears a
shining winged moth. In the middle of the wings
is an entry point. When you pierce that veil and
enter within you will have crossed over to the
land of eternal awakening and freedom. This
world will bother you no more. You are
liberated. Only those can enter this gate who
have become perfect and have overcome
relativities and qualities. When they enter the
world of the Absolute they will never be
separated from the Lord ever. There is the seat
of eternal music, the music of the spheres. One
who practices this sound principle gains entry
into this kingdom."
~ From the Dialogues of Kabir.
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The
primary quality of the Agnya Chakra is forgiveness. Inflated egos,
arrogance, aggressiveness, condemnation, contempt, and worry cause this
Chakra to be blocked and gives tension to the whole body.
At
this point in our evolution humans have developed a sophisticated society,
and with it came the problem of ego - the idea that he is doing it all.
This idea of "I"-ness was accelerated by the continuing success
of his material gains throughout history. The natural result of this
brought about an inflated ego, and with further arrogance came the
superego. So ego and superego isolated the human from Spirit.
The
ego and superego are located at the uppermost endpoints of the channels of
Ida Nadi (the Moon Line or Left Channel) and Pingala Nadi (the Sun Line or
Right Channel). These two channels cross over at the Agnya Chakra.
Everything related to the past (such as memories, conditionings and
emotions) accumulates as a residue in the Superego on the right side of
the brain, having crossed over from the Left Channel. Everything relating
to the future (such as thinking, planning and action) likewise accumulates
as a residue, but in the ego on the left side of the brain. Therefore,
before Self-Realization we are always in various stages of imbalance.
The
Ego and Superego border the outlying regions of the subtle universe. The
Superego is in the individual Subconscious realm where all of our past
knowledge and experience are stored. Beyond this is the Collective
Subconscious, which is the area where spiritualists and mediums ply their
trade of the past. The Ego is in the individual Superconscious, the realm
of the future. It is in the Collective Supraconscious that clairvoyants,
visionaries and seekers of power conduct their business of the future.
Exploration of any of these realms is extremely dangerous.
TRADITION
En
route to the Sahasrara Chakra, the Sushumna channel passes through the
centre Agnya Chakra. This is the place of Lord Jesus and Mary. Jesus said
that He is the Path, and it is His Path that leads us to the Kingdom of Heaven in the
Sahasrara.
The
coming of Christ was a major breakthrough in the human spiritual ascent.
Through His power of forgiveness He brought redemption to humankind. He
dissolved all the guilt, sublimated the Ego, taught forgiveness and
proclaimed the immortality of the Spirit through His Resurrection. He was
born again into the Spirit, and we also are born again into our spirit
when our Mother Kundalini gives us our second birth.
GROSS
PHYSICAL ASPECT
Amongst
other things, the Agnya Chakra governs our sight. We should therefore
respect the eyes as a gift with which the beauty of the Divine creation is
revealed to us. We should not abuse it by having adulterous eyes.
GENERAL
ADVICE FROM SHRI MATAJI
Put
left hand towards Her photo and right hand on forehead and try to remain
thoughtless for a few minutes.
Stop
all meditative activities involving the Agnya Chakra - concentration,
visualization, hypnosis, clairvoyance etc.
Forget
the many wrong conditionings presented by the 'Christian'
organizations and churches.
Do
not be futuristic; try to stay in the present.
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Contents:
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The
human subtle system
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Mooladhara
Chakra
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Swadisthan
Chakra
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Nabhi
Chakra
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Anahath
Chakra
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Vishuddhi
Chakra
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Agnya
Chakra
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Sahasrara
Chakra
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The
Void
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Kundalini
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The
Nadis
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A
Universal Truth
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"The
Agnya Chakra
The
sixth chakra is the chakra of forgiveness and compassion. Forgiveness is
the power to let go of anger, hatred and resentment and to discover, in
humility, the nobility and generosity of the Spirit. It is the one that
dissolves all our ego, conditionings, habits, false ideas of racialism,
and all our misidentifications. It is the narrow gate which opens the way
for our consciousness to ascend to its final destination, which is the
seventh center.
Roving
eyes, watching impure things, or self-centeredness damage this chakra.
Watching the sky, earth or nature can help cleanse it."
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"Similar
to Mahavishnu, Shri Jesus represented the ninth Avatar, who opened the
Agnya Chakra within the Cosmic Being. The reflection of this Chakra at the
microcosmic human level is situated in the centre of the forehead where
the left channel (Ida nadi) and the right channel (Pingala nadi) form a
subtle crossing. From an anatomical point of view, this is the place of:
the
chiasma opticalis (optical nerve crossing), corresponding to the anterior
aspect of the chakra (front Agnya);
the
decussatio pyramidum (crossing of the motor nuclei fibres of the spinal
nerves for the upper limb and upper trunk and for the lower limb and
lower trunk respectively), corresponding to the posterior aspect of the
chakra (back Agnya.)
The
three channels cross at the Agnya which represents the
most narrow way for the Kundalini to pass through. It
is the "narrow gate" that Jesus said about:
"Strive with earnestness to enter through the
narrow door, for many, I say, will seek to enter and
will not be able" (Luke 13:24.) "Enter
through the narrow gate" (Matthew 7:13.) Jesus
revealed Himself as the Master of the Agnya chakra:
"I am the door; if any one enter in by Me, he
shall be saved" (John 10.9.) He will be saved
because he will be able to reach the end of the
spiritual ascent, Sahasrara (the Kingdom of Heavens
the synthesis of all chakras, where the individual
Spirit joins with the Universal Spirit - God.)"
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"Well
put. I have been practicing Sahaja
Yoga for the last two years and have most
definitely experienced knowledge through
experience. However, it is the only yoga I know
that actually provides union (yoga) with the
Devine from the very first day. And via a self
realization experience that is %100 verifiable.
In years past, a true Master of Yoga (of which
there have been very few) would work on his
disciple(s) chakras
(energy centers) until they were cleansed and
balanced. He would then give him his realization
by raising the Kundalini.
The Kundalini
is the residual life force left over from our
creation and resides in the sacrum bone which is
located at the base of the spine. This Kundalini
energy is a reflection of the Primordial Mother
which is the power of God that does all the living
work and creation. She is like your own personal
Mother and when awakened, will heal and elighten
your chakras,
your brain and fully awaken your spirit, which
resides in the left heart, and is a reflection of
God Almighty.
In Christianity, Kundalini
is known as the Holy Ghost (yes, the trinity is
actually the Father, the Son and the Mother). The
Father is the source of all, but is the witness.
The Mother is the creative aspect of God, while
the Son is the object of the creation. Hence we
are all children of God. . . .
The seven chakras
are also mapped via our hands, e.g. the five
fingers, palm and heel of hand. Once you start the
cleansing techniques, the chakra
"catches" manifest themselves as
tingling on the fingertips which are then decoded
so you know which chakra needs to be attended to.
The causes of these catches as well as the
techniques for cleansing and clearing them are
taught through the Sahaja
Yoga centers.
In the Koran, Mohammed Saheb said at the
resurrection time (right now) the lips will be
sealed and the hands will speak. It is all built
in. We will judge ourselves. We will not go before
God like a magistrate and plead our case.
The beautiful thing about Sahaja
Yoga is it happens spontaneously, it is all
built in each and every one of us, it costs
absolutely nothing to do it, and other than the
initial self realization experience, you are
dependent on no one to ascend spiritually.
However, I'd like to add that as you become aware
of being part of the collective consciousness, you
realize that the spiritual ascent is happening
collectively, you just aren't dependent on what
human beings do "external" to yourself
to acheive spiritual growth."
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Mark
Mays <mam@tc.fluke.com>
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"SPIRITUAL
ANATOMY AND THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES
Briefly
stated, the spiritual anatomy (subtle system) of
man according to Eastern mystic teaching is
basically that there are three major nadis or
channels in the human being through which
spiritual energy flows. Upon the middle nadi,
which aligns physically with the spine there rests
7 chakras corresponding with major nerve plexuses.
Each chakra represents one or more divine
attributes. Upon the left and right nadis, which
run parallel to the middle nadi, some of the
chakras extend. . . .
Christian scripture includes the Jewish Holy
books. In the last book of Christian scripture,
The Revelation, there are four references to the
"Seven Spirits of God." Please note well that
Christianity and Judaism are strictly monotheistic
religions. Such references to Seven Spirits of God
must be viewed with great care and nimbleness of
mind by monotheistic commentators.
The Revelation 1:4 states the following:
"John to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is,
and which was, and which is to come; and from the
seven Spirits which are before his throne."
So too, this passage is from The Revelation 3:1:
"And unto the angel of the church in Sardis
write; These things saith he that hath the seven
Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy
works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and
art dead."
Many Christian commentators will direct the reader
to the Jewish prophet Isaiah to explain these very
mysterious passages about the Seven Spirits of
God. We find in Isaiah 11:1-2 the following:
"1. And there shall come forth a rod out of the
stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his
roots:
2. And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him,
the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit
of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and
of the fear of the LORD."
This passage in Isaiah is traditionally considered
a prophetic passage concerning the Messiah. In
verse 2, we discover what the Seven Spirits of God
are:
1. The spirit of the Lord
2. The spirit of wisdom
3. The spirit of understanding
4. The spirit of counsel
5. The spirit of might
6. The spirit of knowledge
7. The spirit of the fear of the Lord.
The following are the aspects of the chakras as
found in some Eastern teachings:
1. Integration/Absolute Perception of Reality
2. Forgiveness/Compassion
3. Diplomacy/Pure Relationships with
Others/Playful Detachment
4. Compassion/Love/Courage
5. Generosity/Satisfaction/Contentment/ Mastery
(Void aspect)
6. Creativity/Pure Knowledge/Pure Attention
7. Innocence
It is up to the reader to see correspondences. I
do see many, but I will not try to make things
fit. Turning back to the Book of Revelation, there
are two more passages referring to the Seven
Spirits of God:
Rev. 4:1
"And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and
thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps
of fire burning before the throne, which are the
seven Spirits of God."
Rev. 5:1
"And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the
throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of
the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the
seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the
earth."
In first passage, as from out of the throne
proceeded "lightnings," it is stated that the
"seven lamps of fire burning before the
throne," are the seven Spirits of God. In the
second passage, it is also said that the seven
eyes of the Lamb are the seven Spirits of God,
"sent forth into all the earth." The Lamb
refers to Christ who is the Incarnation of God,
according to Christian theology.
Due to these allusions, one must again go to the
Jewish scriptures but to another prophet,
Zechariah. It is in fact, all of chapter 4 of
Zechariah that we must view. I will comment on
each passage as it is quoted.
Zechariah 4
"1 And the angel that talked with me came again,
and waked me, as a man
that is wakened out of his sleep,
2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I
have looked, and
behold a candlestick all [of] gold, with a bowl
upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon,
and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which [are]
upon the top thereof:"
Commentary:
Herein is described a golden "candlestick,"
which would relate to the central channel of
consciousness. The "seven lamps" are the seven
chakras. The "pipes" could indicate that oil
feeds the lamps – oil is a common Biblical
symbol for the Spirit of God. When one was
anointed with oil, this anointing is symbolic of
the anointing by God's Spirit. The Messiah means
the "Anointed One."
"3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right
[side] of the bowl,
and the other upon the left [side] thereof."
Commentary:
Verse 3 describes two olive trees of the left and
right side of the candlestick. This could easily
equate with the left and right nadis.
"4 So I answered and spake to the angel that
talked with me, saying,
What [are] these, my lord?
5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and
said unto me,
Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my
lord.
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This
[is] the word of
the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might,
nor by power, but by
my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts."
Commentary:
This is a rather long passage wherein the meaning
of this vision is revealed. The meaning of this
revelation is summed up in this passage: "Not by
might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the
Lord of hosts."
Therefore, the symbolism expressed with the
candlestick, seven lamps, oil flowing and olive
trees, relates to an understanding of God's
Spirit. This is the key.
"7 Who [art] thou, O great mountain? before
Zerubbabel [thou shalt
become] a plain: and he shall bring forth the
headstone [thereof with]
shoutings, [crying], Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation
of this house; his
hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know
that the LORD of hosts
hath sent me unto you.
10 For who hath despised the day of small things?
for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet
in the hand of Zerubbabel [with]
those seven; they [are] the eyes of the LORD,
which run to and fro through the whole earth."
Commentary:
In Revelation 4:1, the "seven lamps" were
associated with the "Seven Spirits of God" and
in Zechariah 4:2 we have mention of the "seven
lamps." In Zechariah 4:10, it is stated that
"those seven; they [are] the eyes of the Lord,
which run to and fro through the whole earth."
This ties in neatly with Revelation 5:1, when it
is said, "and seven eyes, which are the seven
Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."
Therefore, we have a double tie in with the
Revelation passages to Zechariah chapter 4, that
the Seven Spirits of God are seven lamps, which
are also seven eyes sent forth into all the earth.
If these Seven Spirits of God represent the divine
attributes of God, then this is a most powerful
and poetic description as to how these aspects of
God are eyes throughout the earth as each person
contains these attributes within themselves.
"11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What
[are] these two olive
trees upon the right [side] of the candlestick and
upon the left
[side] thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What
[be these] two olive
branches which through the two golden pipes empty
the golden [oil] out
of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not
what these [be]? And
I said, No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These [are] the two anointed
ones, that stand by the
Lord of the whole earth."
Commentary:
To me, this is most interesting. Zechariah asks to
know what are these two olive trees upon the right
and upon the left of the candlestick. Suddenly, in
verse 12, these olive trees change into two golden
pipes that empty the golden oil out of themselves.
Those with an understanding of what happens when
the kundalini rises can relate to this
description. For, it is my understanding that when
kundalini rises in meditation through the central
(Sushumna) channel, if it can not rise through the
Agnya chakra (the narrow gate between the ego and
superego), then she spreads on to the lower brain
plate and melts down on the ida (left channel) and
pingala (right channel).
This event will give the experience of coolness on
the hands. However, the kundalini as she descends,
will thus rise again through the central channel
with triple force as the left channel is linked to
the Mooladhara and the right channel is linked
with the Swadisthan chakra. Thus, through the Nabi
(Manipura), or third chakra, kundalini flows
upward again with enough force to open the Agnya
chakra and pierce the Crown or Sahasrara chakra.
The cool breeze then flows up through the
Brahmaranda as it opens. This is self-realization!
This very specific detail in Zechariah 4:12 is
absolutely extraordinary -- two golden pipes
through which golden oil (spirit) empties.
With this detail, combined with the description of
three channels (nadis), seven lamps (chakras), oil
(spirit), seven spirits of God (aspects), it would
be hard to not take this entire passage seriously
as a description of the spiritual anatomy of man,
and the entire process of self-realization –
"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit. .
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In Kabbalah, the Tree of Life has 10 "aspects"
delineated. Since Kabbalah is a Western mystical
system originating from Judaism, one should think
that either there should be "10 spirits of
God" referenced in the Bible, or, that Kabbalah
should list 7 rather than 10 aspects. However,
interestingly enough, those 10 aspects or fruit on
the Tree of Life in Kabbalah can be grouped into
7. But this is a topic for another paper."
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"Hell,
paradise, Holy Spirit, Abode of the Creator - what
to choose and how to reach?
Some people do all kinds of silly things for
the sake of spiritual development or "for the
sake of God" - as they think. Some torture
and kill people and animals, bluntly and violently
impose "their" rules of behavior on
others, some drink urine, some learn to stop the
lower orifices of the body to avoid dropping out
through them into the hell (this is taught by
visiting Buddhist "masters"). Others
devote life to ritual movements of the body (one
needs not movement of the body but of the
consciousness - because it is the consciousness
that has to get better on the evolution path to
the state of the Creator). There are fools who
instead of making efforts hope that they will get
to heaven by having "priests" pray for
them. In some religious confessions people are
edified to recite every day the same
"prayers" (some of these
"prayers" make them programmed into
hell). But what sense from such prayings for God
or for praying people? It only digresses people
from the work of serving God (the work of helping
other people to make positive evolutional
progress) and also from the work of ethical
self-perfecting and of development of oneself (as
consciousness) through meditation. (The only help
of such standard prayers-requests, very little
that it is, is to accustom oneself that there is
God. So they can help only on very early stages of
the faith - to make it stronger). Also there are
absurd prescriptions to "open the spiritual
heart" by kowtowing a lot every day - but of
course kowtows cannot help in this matter. . . .
God
is cognizable, though the majority of the
followers of the modern "Christian"
movements believes the opposite.
The founder of Christianity Jesus Christ taught
about cognizability of God [2].
And He is cognizable indeed: very simply in the
aspect of the Holy Spirit and in the aspect of
Jesus Christ who lives now (though not in a
physical body) and can be seen. It is much more
difficult but also possible to cognize Him
directly in the aspect of God-the-Father.
But to do this one should be not a
pseudo-Christian who speaks again and again about
Christ but lives in contradiction with His
Teaching but a true Christian who lives not for
himself but for God, who lives in love and seeks
to serve Him, to know Him and merge with Him in
love.
And for the "Christians" who are sure
that God is not cognizable, who drink, kill, damn,
hate - He is not cognizable indeed. For they are
not Christians at all."
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