JESUS, THE ORDINARY MAN VERSUS CHRIST, THE CONSCIOUSNESS
There is Shakti in everything, so you are having Gurushakti right now. If you believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus. Do not relinquish your belief in Jesus. You must not stop. The difference between a true Spiritual Master and Jesus or Krishna or Buddha is only of time and different bodies. The consciousness these men bring to the world is the same, for there is only one consciousness, but because Divinity is abstract, consciousness has to take a human form to impart the impulse to another human.
Very few people know the real life of Jesus. The various Churches have devised the life of Jesus that you know about but have done this for their personal needs. The two most prosperous and wealthiest organisations are the Church and Insurance Companies. The Church promises heaven after you are dead, and the Insurance Company promises you a lot of money after you are dead. They tell you to build up a store for yourself in heaven. Do you know where heaven is? And if you do not know where heaven is, how are you going to build a store up there? If you do not know where Dublin is or understand how you will get there? How do I get there? You need a guide to show you, and everything in life is a Guru. Even when you drive and go into an unknown place, you use a map. That map is guiding you.
Do not relinquish your belief in Jesus; remember, it is a belief. You have not experienced Jesus, so how can you have faith? And if you have not developed that faith, how can you become one with Him?
Jesus was not as the interpretation of these church institutions says; he was an ordinary man. He never died on the Cross; he just went into a coma. Nicodemus was his patron and organised it so that Jesus did not have to stay too long on the Cross. Many people were crucified, and crucifixion was not only for Jesus, but that was the method they used in those times, as we have the electric chair or hanging today. It was not exclusive.
There was a lot of politics involved in getting rid of Jesus. The Romans did not like him and feared he might gather all the people to overthrow the Roman rule within Israel. So, there were political reasons. Jesus was the most despised man of his time. His people did not like him. The Sanhedrin did not want him. The Zealots did not like him; they hated him. He was the most despised man, and there would have been no Christian religion at all if there were not his followers who wrote about him, and that happened forty, fifty years after he departed. The Christian Church only became formalised when all the Cardinals met at the First Council of Mycenae, 325 AD. I think it is. That is how it became formalised.
The difference is that you can speak and converse with a living Master but cannot communicate with a dead Master unless you are highly spiritually developed. He cannot answer you back. How many of you could tell me that you have spoken to Jesus, and he gave you an answer? But you can ask me a question, and I will provide you with an answer. So, Jesus, Krishna, and Buddha were ordinary people, as I have said before, ordinary people who were very, very human. Jesus even had a child with Mary Magdalene. They were not married, but these things have been hidden away, and this was found in some later scrolls dug up in Egypt somewhere and translated. It was even published in the Observer Newspaper in England. So, Jesus was an ordinary man. But what I believe in is Christ, and Christ means consciousness, total consciousness.
A TRUE MASTER WILL ALWAYS SHOW HIMSELF TO HUMANS AS A HUMAN
Man in the world is very little conscious; his consciousness is minute. Compare that minuteness with the infinite consciousness that Christhood, Krishnahood, or Buddhahood could bring about. When Krishna and Christ said, “No one goes to the Father but by me,” it does not mean Jesus the man. It means that consciousness, which we can call Christ, is consciousness. When you evolve to a particular stage of reaching that consciousness, only you can become one with what we call Father, and we call it Father because there was not a single woman on those councils where the Bible was re-formulated.
Speaking, that eternal energy, which we call Father, is neither man nor woman. It is an energy. You can have that energy in you in the form of a woman or the form of a man. You can call it Mother, and you can call it Father. It is the same because Divinity is sexless; it is neither He nor She. For example, last night, when I did the Communion Practice in which many of you had beautiful experiences, I was away from the entire Universe. I merged into that Divine energy, which is neither He nor She, and yet I would walk amongst you. When we meet outside or sit at dinner, I joke with you, laugh with you, and tease with you.
I will even use a few cuss words to make you laugh, to demonstrate to you that I am like you as a man, a human. I will even use f’s and b’s; why not? You hear it on television daily, and in all those plays little children listen to. I do not need to use them, but I emphasise things to show you that I am very human. I will not mind using the word bastard, for example, in a private company. I will not mind, for I am one. My mother had an affair with a king. She used to work in the palace, which is how I was born. And even the word bastard is in the dictionary; open up any dictionary, and you will find it. Does that make me wrong? When Jesus slept with Mary Magdalene, did it make him bad? When he dined and wined and got pissed with those Sanhedrins and the moneylenders, did that make him wrong? No. The Eternal Spirit and an authentic Master will always show himself to humans as a human. He will show himself as a dog to a dog, as a cat to a cat. That is the difference between a Master of two thousand years ago and a living Master of today. You can experience him, feel him, touch him, smell him, anything.
WHEN YOU HAVE REACHED CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS YOU CAN TRULY SAY, “I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE”
On the one hand, we say we believe in the Bible and on the other hand, we do everything contrary to the Bible. We say the Bible says, “Judge ye not that ye may not be judged,” yet people go around judging others every moment of the day. What right have they? And do you know what judgment is? You are only reflecting yourself, your mind. To me, everyone is Divine. Even a murderer is Divine to me. People are murdering all day. Say a business person, in his business, cuts someone’s throat to gain and grab his money. Is that not a kind of murder?
You do find honest business people, too, like Charles. So, all the time, we are doing that, and those are the very people who crucified Jesus on the cross, and He was not afraid. He went into the Jewish Temple, broke up the tables of the moneylenders and set the poor animals that were to be sacrificed at the altar. And you know what used to happen to all those lambs and chickens sacrificed at the altar? Those priests and all of them used to have barbecues and a lovely time. They did not throw it away. Excellent, easy way to get food and the best of it. It is all a damn racket, I tell you, believe you me. And when religions could not capture people with love, they instilled fear into people, eternal damnation, and the very two words are contradictory to each other because how can damnation ever be eternal? They teach, “Save yourself, be saved.” Yes, you can be saved if you know how to go deep within yourself to find your true self and become an integrated being.
Every Spiritual Master said, “Come to me, and you shall be saved”. Krishna, Buddha and Jesus have said that. That is very true, but what is meant by that? All religions have been taken very literally and not figuratively. They have misused the true meaning. Because “Come to me and be saved” means, “Reach my level of consciousness and then you are saved, you become close to God, you become one with God”. To the peasants, Jesus used to say, “Believe in thy Father in Heaven”. That is all the peasants could understand, but to his very close ones, he said, “I and my Father are one”, and everyone can become that once they reach Christ, Krishna, or Buddha consciousness.
I WILL MAKE YOU EXPERIENCE DIVINITY
That is what I teach: how to reach that consciousness and become more and more aware. People think they live, but they do not; they just exist. They get up in the morning, go to work, come home, go to bed, get up in the morning, go to work, come home, go to bed, like a boat without a rudder, no direction. How many have time to look at the trees or stand near a tree and listen to the beautiful symphony of the wind blowing through the leaves? How many have the time to appreciate that? How many have the time to look at the grass swaying there in its eternal dance? Everything is so beautiful, and that is what the Guru teaches.
He is not teaching from the side of man; he teaches from the level of pure consciousness. That is what a Guru does, and there is only one pure consciousness in Christ, in Jesus, in Buddha and Krishna. I never tell anyone to believe. In those times two thousand years ago, you could say, “Believe in thy Father in Heaven.” It could be blind faith because you have not seen the Father in Heaven. But I say, I will make you experience Divinity. Then you can honestly believe and have faith; that is the difference.
“LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF?”
This consciousness comes in many forms and teaches according to the times. There will come a time when this consciousness will return. It will take six thousand years. I told some mediators in England a few years ago. This consciousness will return to this Earth planet after six thousand years. It will not be two thousand years now; it will be six thousand years. So live life in such a way as if it is going to be your last breath, your very end. Be aware of everything, be mindful of people’s feelings, and never be afraid of people’s judgements against you because people talk according to the development of their minds and how much the mind is developed. Even the so-called world genius Einstein only used eight percent of his brain. You might be using perhaps one percent, yet Einstein used only eight percent, and he was a genius. So, with that one little percent, what right have you to judge anyone? And then you say, “Love thy brother as thyself.” Is that not a fallacy? Is that not hypocrisy?
On the one hand, you go judging; on the other hand, you say, “Love thy neighbour as thyself.” The two most important commandments in the Bible are these, “Love thy neighbour as thyself” and “Do unto others as you would expect to be done unto you.” You would not like to be cursed; why must you blaspheme others? You want your neighbour to love you, but how much do you love your neighbour, and then you blame the neighbour!
“WHEN EVIL RISES WHEN THE WORLD IS OUT OF BALANCE, I SHALL TAKE BIRTH FROM AGE TO AGE”
When Jesus did his work, he was chased from town to town in hard times, a hard life, a tough life. But because the teachings were sound, they persisted and still exist. Even after two thousand years, they are still just as powerful. At that time, people were not ready for techniques. It was primarily based on Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion. It was perfect. But in a technological age, we need techniques to develop Bhakti or devotion, build knowledge, and open up our brain cells more so that the universal mind can flow through it to our conscious life. Therefore, this vast consciousness comes down from age to age as the Bhagavad Gita would say, “When evil rises, when injustice is done when the world is out of balance, I shall take birth from age to age”, which is very accurate.
When Jesus was alive, no one recognised him. They said, “Oh, he is mad, he is a rebel,” and just a few said he was a Messiah, but that was all, and yet his closest disciples, twelve of them, one gave him away, Judas and the other one, you know the story, he told him that before the cock crows thrice you will give me away. And when he was crucified, all his closest ran away. No one was at his side. I could go on because I have done a lot of research. My life has been one of total study, meditation and absorption in God, and I am at one with Him. Therefore, I could impart peace and joy to you. Consequently, I could make you experience the power of Divinity. Thus, I could bring that vast energy into this room to unfold your hearts.
WHEN THE HEART IS OPENED, EVERYTHING COMES RIGHT
My message is of love and the opening of the human Heart, and when that is opened, everything comes right; then you can love your neighbour as yourself, and then you will do unto others as you would expect others to do unto you. But once your Heart is closed and you build the walls around it, you cannot achieve it. You do not need to break down the wall in one go; you cannot. Just remove one brick from the wall, and you will find that slowly, all the other bricks will come loose; they will loosen up until there is no wall left around your Heart.
JUDGE YE NOT THAT YE NOT BE JUDGED
That is how I could love everyone, even the greatest sinner that people consider a sinner. I know a man who was put in certain circumstances where he did not mean it, but he killed someone, and he was charged with the murder, and the charge was reduced to manslaughter, and he spent about five years in jail. When he was released, he went around looking for a job. He was an educated man, and of course, today, if you want a job, they usually give you low menial jobs. Still, in high positions, they give you a questionnaire to fill out: name, age, marital status, any illnesses, and any convictions. He could not lie. He put down, “I was in jail for five years”. No one would give him a job because of his conviction, and when he came to my centre and sat and chatted with me, I found him to be a highly spiritual being. The five years he spent in jail were devoted to meditation devoted to God, and he was a very high spiritual being. He came to see me and said, “Gururaj, what must I do? I need a job very badly; what must I do?” So, I phoned a few friends who had big businesses, and they knew me well because I was in business. I dealt with them a lot during my business days. I said, would you interview this person I am sending to you in view of a job and see what you can do, and I personally guarantee that this is a wonderful person. He will be an asset to the company. So, he went for the interview and got the job, and after just three or four years, they appointed him as a Director on the Board of a huge company. An ordinary person would see him in the street and say, “Ah, there goes a murderer.” They look down upon him. But I saw something different in him, and I gave my recommendation to this friend who owned this significant business, and this friend, having trust in me, accepted this man. I said, “Take him on trial, see what happens, do me that favour.” He did, and the man has risen to a high position. So, therefore, judge ye not that ye not be judged. Do not judge a book by the cover, as the English saying goes, but try to read and understand the contents. The cover could be torn, or dirty or whatever. Still, the contents could be something extraordinary, or you could have a beautiful book and a beautiful cover, a lovely painting or drawing on it, and yet when you open the book, it is all rubbish inside it.
THERE IS ONLY ONE CONSCIOUSNESS
That is the difference: there is only one consciousness, and when evil rises too much, the consciousness comes down to human beings in human form to teach, to bring the message of love and peace and the opening of the Heart to help the world.
I have said this before in other Satsangs but not in Ireland as it is the first time I am here, that around about the year two thousand and twenty-five to two thousand and fifty, the world is facing a great calamity through nuclear energy and even stuff much more potent than the atomic energy because inventions are going on every day. Many Governments have a lot of inventions that they are suppressing from people; they are not letting people know because the people will go into panic. This catastrophe will be so big that it will not only destroy this earth, but it will disturb or destroy the entire solar system, which will reverberate into the whole galaxy.
People talk of UFOs, and I have seen an UFO. I spoke to the occupant who was on the UFO. The Government, of course, deny it, but they are not here to cause any harm; they are here to communicate with people, to tell them, “Do not destroy our planet with the destruction of your planet.” That is the message they are trying to bring, and when you can reach a profound state of meditation, you can be in any part of the Universe and have a conversation with any being, but you have got to have that sincerity and innocence. You can have a rough exterior, but your Heart can be pure gold. I know people here in this audience that are like that. If you take my friend Charles as an example, he has a rough exterior, he will joke and this and that, and someone might feel a bit hurt about it or something, but it means nothing; it is his way, a rough diamond outside but inside a heart of gold. He is the kind of person who will give his life to a good friend, a true friend.
There is only one consciousness, and I speak to you, as I have mentioned before, not a word from book knowledge but only from my personal experiences, and every one of you has the ability; it is there already, just to be uncovered. You have that pure consciousness in you, and you just need to recognise it. And if you study the basics of all religions, you will find that the basic teachings are the same. Not a single person would teach you to do wrong things. They always teach you to do good things. Not a single religion would teach you to think bad things. Every religion teaches you to think good things. So, there is no difference between anyone.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang IR 1984 – 06
