Jesus the Christ
Nayaswami Ananta: The Life of Christ, the vibration of Christ, the consciousness of Christ, is the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE. He said that already, but it’s there for us. We get in our modern (times) and always the Disciples of Christ, churches, ministers, preachers, and spiritual teachers that present to us their understanding of the life of Christ and the meaning of Christ’s teachings… But the filter of individual egos: churches, traditions, and politics and all that – is a filter to the pure Light of Christ Consciousness.
So, we can use as much of what we are offered through churches and preachers and teachers to our advantage, but we have to filter it through our hearts and through our experience – and through our inner reaction and understanding – our intuitive understanding of, Is this of Christ? Is this of the Divine?
Kriyananda used to say often that the saints are the true custodians of religion because they have the experience of the Christ Consciousness – so they’re going to share with us some aspects of the Christ Consciousness. Different saints come at different times in the needs of man, just as different avatars do. The Buddha came at a time when India needed the Buddha’s teachings, and Christian saints come at different times. Some of them tell people they’ve got to shape up, do more penance, and this and that.
So we can tune into Christ by opening our hearts to Christ and to the vibration of Christ by learning to meditate on the Christ Consciousness… and to attune ourselves to that light and to the vibration of that light and to the expansive nature of that light and that peace and to deepen that experience. And then when we take in teachings or interpretations of scriptures or songs about Christ or stories about Christ or analyses of Christ – to take that into our hearts and feel: Does this resonate with my greatest understanding of that Light and of the expansive nature of Christ? It is a test that we should perform so that we can draw from really all experiences that the Christ Consciousness pervades the creation as Aum and as the perfect reflection of the Father. We tune into that by deepening our attunement by seeing it through the eyes of saints.
Yogananda says that it is a wonderful practice to everyday to read about a new saint who lived in times gone by and the different aspects that they might give us, because eventually we expand our awareness of the Christ to the point where we realize that the Christ Consciousness pervades the universe. Christ is omnipresent, all powerful. I am with you even to the ends of the earth, is the way Jesus put it.
What Is the Spiritual Eye or Christ Center?
Nayaswami Ananta: The spiritual eye is the sixth chakra. It’s located at the point between the eyebrows. It’s the Christ Center, Kutasha Chaitanya, and the Krishna Center. I’m not a Buddhist scholar but [in Buddhist literature] I’ve never come across it that much. But it remains The Center, the seat of the soul. It’s from that center that our awareness and consciousness come into our awareness, our knowledge of the outside world.
The positive pole of the Christ Center is the point between the eyebrows. The negative pole of the medulla is the negative pole of that same center. So it’s an astral center within the center of the body in the realm of light. The Christ Center is where superconscious thoughts flow into our minds. It’s where inspiration comes… It’s where intuition comes into the body.
Master said intuition is never wrong. So whenever we’re wrong, [laughing] that’s not intuition. So we haven’t totally tuned into the clarity of that center and that’s why our hunches weren’t right. Our intuition wasn’t right. The Masters – of course, their intuition is crystal clear. They are always clear in everything and the duality never interferes with the Christ Consciousness. So, the Christ Center is that center. It’s why we meditate there.
Just for fun, Yogananda didn’t have us meditate on the sahasrara at the top of the skull. He said that when the energy enters the Christ Center, a passageway – a mystic passageway opens in the brain and connects the Christ Center with the sahasrara. And that’s where the liberated beings leave.
We don’t concentrate on the top of the sahasrara, the top of the skull. We concentrate at the Christ Center; the perfect reflection of God’s consciousness within the creation. Our true nature is at the Christ Center. Master said, when he was testing recipes he tasted everything at the Christ Center. He said the fastest way to progress spiritually is to live at the Christ Center day to day. This is a really good practice.
You can chant Aum or chant Aum Guru, or just hold your consciousness there. If you can put a bindi there [laughing] if you don’t mind doing it if you’re not in India, but for Ananda – India and America and the whole world is our home and the human race our family, so we were all for it. But to keep our consciousness there when we meditate; to focus there because the star is seen there and whatever light we see in meditation when we concentrate there.
Master said just concentrate on the center of whatever the light is. You don’t even have to make the light something else or make it the star. The star will eventually reveal itself as our rajas (restlessness) dissipates and dissolves. The star will emerge, but concentrate on the star. Whenever you meditate, just relax and concentrate there as deeply as you can and yet without any tension – but with will and focus and devotion and divine attraction to that consciousness. When you feel that, you actually feel that consciousness coming in through that center and filling you, and sometimes it sort of feels like it’s pushing from the center… It’s like it’s pushing out limited consciousness, or smallness, or worldly thoughts, worldly memories of limited thoughts, limited habit patterns, even spiritually limited thinking. It’s like it’s pushed out from that center.
That’s what Master is trying to get us to do – to draw in the superconsciousness, Christ consciousness, Krishna consciousness, Guru consciousness, super consciousness, Buddha consciousness, through the light in the center of that center. So even if there’s a light, the center of the light focused – more focused in the center of the star – that becomes increasingly the reality.
It changes… it accelerates our spiritual growth because it changes our point of initial perspective. When we start on the spiritual path, when we are living a worldly life, we’re thinking of I – ‘What do I want?’ and [not] what is the Divine Will? As our consciousness goes from the ego at the medulla to the point between the eyebrows, the I of What do I want? is only what the star is offering. It’s only what the light is offering. It’s only harmony. It’s only insight. It’s only beauty. There isn’t, ‘Well, What I want is…’ [laughing] I don’t want anything.
Swami Kriyananda got to the end of his life and said, “It’s hard to tell where Kriyananda ends and Yogananda begins.” It all got mushed over there. As you develop on the spiritual path, you don’t really remember what it was that you wanted because the harmony is what you want. Divine Love, forgiveness, infinite beauty, and limitless expansion are what you want.
There are no places that are the border of your desires. The borders are gone. The desires are gone. It gives you the divine perspective. It’s from that point – If thine eye be single, thy body will be full of light. If thine eye be single, the whole world is full of light. That’s the world that the Masters see through. They see through the single eye, the spiritual eye. That’s how Master, Krishna, Buddha, and all the masters of all time, see the world. They’re aware of the darkness. They’re aware of the suffering. They are aware of the war in Ukraine. They’re aware of the brutality here and these situations. They’re also aware that that is a film in front of the light of the spiritual eye.
The reality is the Light. The reality is perfection. It’s only a question of the veil being removed from the spiritual eye of humanity. That gives us divine love, world brotherhood, and universal kindness. That gives us Krishna consciousness that gives us Buddha consciousness. That gives us the perspective that the masters have. They understand the nature of the veil. They understand why we don’t see the light. They understand why the world behaves like it behaves.
They also understand that behind that is the light of the Christ Consciousness, the light of the spiritual eye and that, eventually and more quickly if we cooperate with it, [that] it is the duty of the true seeker to expose that light. Live in that light, share that light, and realize we are made of that Light.
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