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Judas’s Final Liberation
Excerpts from Revelations of Christ: Proclaimed by Paramhansa Yogananda, Presented by Swami Kriyananda.
I once had an interesting talk with my Guru [Paramhansa Yogananda] on the subject of Judas. He told me, “Of course, Judas was a prophet.”
“Was he!” I exclaimed in astonishment.
“Oh yes,” he replied. “He would have had to be, to be one of the twelve.” He paused a moment, then added, “I knew him in this lifetime. After two thousand years of suffering, Jesus appeared on his behalf to a great master in India, and asked him to give Judas, in this incarnation, final liberation.”
“What was Judas like?” I inquired, naturally eager for more information.
“Always very quiet and by himself,” my Guru responded. “He still had some attachment to money. The other disciples began to make fun of him for it one day, but the guru said to them, ‘Don’t. Leave him alone.’”
That money attachment showed up in this incarnation in a giving way, not as the delusion of avarice, for that disciple took it upon himself to raise money to support the guru’s wife after his death.
So, although Judas acted under the influence of Satan (in John 13:27 Jesus is quoted as saying to him, “That thou doest, do quickly.”), the story of Judas must be strictly understood as not indicating a permanent state of alienation from God. As great as was Judas’s betrayal—owing, my Guru said, to “a little bad karma”—its fruits were only temporary. Judas was, inherently, a great and true disciple. His problem was merely that there were in him still a few deep-seated faults that remained to be worked out.
For ourselves, we must understand that no matter how many times, or how far, we fall, God will ever wait for us with outstretched arms until we return to Him. Even those, moreover, who fail spiritually are leagues ahead of the most successful materialists of this world.
Never fear, therefore, but give to God as much of yourself as you are capable of giving. He will ever do the rest.
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