DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS IS FOREVER PRESENT
There shall never be a Second Coming, for Divine Consciousness is forever present. But what happens is this: from time to time, when a more significant imbalance occurs in this world when a more substantial amount of tamas dominates, then that totality of consciousness takes a human form.
The totality of that consciousness takes a human form to bring about the balance. Therefore, it is said in the Bhagavad Gita that when evil rises, when great injustice is done, and when the truth is forgotten or trampled down, “Then I shall take birth from age to age.”
When we have great masters, it means that the totality of Christ’s Consciousness does not necessarily need to come down. There have been great masters who have brought forth a part of that totality to bring knowledge to the world in preparation for the total coming. That is very symbolic of what the Bible says: John the Baptist came to prepare the way. This has always happened.
You find this very much in the West also. For example, if you have not read Vivekananda Ramakrishna or Yogananda, you would not be able to understand me. So many teachers come to prepare the way, and it is still the same Christ Consciousness. But it only manifests in full force when it is required.
The Avatara is not coming. He is here. But you will not recognise him even if he sits in front of you, stands next to you, or passes you by. Recognising a person of that spiritual stature requires a significant amount of awareness within yourself. You will look at him as an ordinary human being, and he likes to be ordinary, for the more ordinary you become, more ordinary than ordinary, then you are extraordinary. But one thing the Avatara would always teach is this: “Be human, and I am your example of humanness.”
Forget all the ideals that have been perpetrated upon you. It is a hoax. Many churches would ask you for fees to save you on the other side. What a racket. Many churches do different kinds of things. If you do not tithe, you go into eternal damnation. And this applies to every religion today. What must be reformed first is the people, religions, churches, temples, and synagogues. They require the reformation and not the people.
The avatar has to travel from that total universal subtlety and subtleness to assume a gross body. After considering the gross body, after going through that vast procedure from the atom to the stone to the plant to the animal to the man, he has to go through that whole procedure too because even the total of the emanation that makes the Avatar is also subjected to the laws of nature. He has to follow the laws of nature and then only take human birth.
No avatar in this world started teaching before age thirty because he had to find himself, recognise himself, and know himself. With all the experiences gained daily, he realised, “Yes, I am that Totality.” Only then was he qualified to teach and guide. That is the real suffering from the vastness of a body’s little, frail embodiment.
Funny enough, all these great Avataras are only recognised as Avataras after they leave their bodies and not while they are still in them. Then all the people kick their backsides and say, “Oh, God! He was here, and we did not know him.”
BE OF GOOD CHEER
This Universal Force has always been here, for without the permeation of this force, we cannot exist. Jesus is called “the Son of God” because he is pure but does not mix purity with morality. Morality is a man-made law that tries to maintain some form of order in the world but has failed. Purity is from within. A person can be so pure within that he shines in his purity. For in him, there is no hatred, malice, lust, or greed. These are the outward manifestations of such a personage.
Yet he will have an excellent time while on Earth. You see pictures of Jesus being so sad, but he was a good old boy. Yes, he was. Therefore, he taught, “Be of good cheer.” That is what he taught. He said that repeatedly and would not say that if he was a sad sack. Do you see how churches have misinterpreted things? They tell you, “He suffered for you and your sins. So now pay back into our coffers.” Do you see the degeneration that has been going on for ages? And that is the position today.
UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS
When Universal Consciousness, the sum totality of the Universe’s emanation at its finest level, comes down in body form, He will always be an ordinary human being. But his teachings would be profound. He shall not teach from books. He shall not teach from his intellect. Any professor of philosophy can do that because he has studied all the world’s philosophies, but he teaches from the Heart.
When He teaches from the Heart, it reaches your Heart, and a transformation occurs within you. He starts by making you face yourself in the mirror and admit the faults that make you unhappy.
Then, he shows you how to tackle those faults and iron out the wrinkles in the fabric of life.
You reach the Kingdom of Heaven within when those wrinkles are ironed out.
That is all he does. He does not need any studies. For being total, all the wisdom and knowledge throughout the ages and beyond the ages is already within him. He gives it off. From the Heart to the Heart, the mind is used as an instrument, and the voice is used to teach and bring about an awakening in man.
But that is not the only thing he does. Being the totality of all emanations of this universe, being such a powerful spiritual force, his presence alone brings about a certain amount of balance. Bringing about a certain amount of balance, he is called a saviour of mankind. When the theologians say Jesus saves, it is wrong; Christ saves. By Christ, I mean that Universal Consciousness is brought down and imparted by words and his presence.
In the presence of such a being, you feel uplifted. You feel a stillness so that in that calmness and tranquillity, the Spirit within you has a chance if you allow it, to merge with the Spirit of that Universal Consciousness you see in an embodied form. When that mergence occurs, there is nothing more you could ever wish for or desire.
HE SHOWS THE WAY
He shows the way. It has profound significance when we say that man does not live by bread alone. Man does not live by the mundane things of life alone, but there is that inner You, the higher You, the finer You, the pure You that makes you live. That gives you life, not the material, mundane world in which we are so enmeshed. Woven into that fabric that you find it hard to extricate yourself. The Avatara that Consciousness tries to release all those blemishes while keeping the fabric intact. That is the art.
He does not tell you to become a god. He tells you to become a human. You are born as a human but live as an animal. Once you become a human, you are very close to what is divine. The true human could be the closest to the sacred. Animals and plants still have to evolve.
They say man is made in the image of God. He is not made in the image of God. He is God. He is Divine. Every cell in your body is divine because Divinity is omnipresent. It is just the recognition that is required. The cognition is there, was there, and always will be there. But the cognition has to be recognised and recognised. That is what the Avatara teaches.
TEACHING DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE
He taught different things to different people. To some, he taught dualism; to some, qualified non-dualism; and to some, total non-dualism.
As Christ has said, “Pray to thy Father in heaven.” That is dualism. He is separating the Father from you. He had to teach that to a certain kind of people.
He told certain people with a particular understanding, “You are a branch of the same tree. You are a part of God.” That is qualified non-dualism.
To others, he said, “I and my Father are one.” The churches also distorted the “I” so that it did not refer to the man Jesus. The “I” was said to all the I’s in the world: that you are one with your Father.
That is how teaching progresses. You cannot give master class lessons to a child in primary school. You can only give them lessons and things that they can understand. So, being human is the advantage. Having taken on a human body and human attributes, He can communicate with the people or the type of people that He is with at that moment and teach them in a manner that will take them further ahead.
THE GREATEST JOB EVER
So, the Avatara has a great job—the most excellent job ever. The most significant job is to uplift humanity, unfold the Hearts of man—and when we say Heart, we mean the core of himself—to break the hard shell of the coconut until he reaches the fruit in the coconut until he reaches the water in the coconut.
Funny enough, look at the beautiful analogy there, the trinity there: because the shell, fruit, coconut, and water are made of the same substance.
It is made of the same substance: the coconut water, the white fruit and the shell. He helps you to break the hard outer shell, to come to the fruit, and then to the water. See the trinity -from the body to the mind and then to the Spirit.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1982 – 08
