Happy Thursday everyone.
Welcome back to Thursdays Child.
As I mentioned last week earlier this year, after quite a few years of soul and spiritual searching, the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda starting showing up on Youtube when I was looking for something to listen to while I worked. I was immediately hooked. They're in many countries so they have many channels. Even now, after months and months of listening a few days a week, I can always find something I haven't heard. This week I listened to Ananda Sangha India. Since I knew I'd be talking about Jesus in India I decided to go back and refresh my memory on that. This time it was from a different teacher than I listened to before.
When we think about Jesus as a baby we're taught that He wasn't conceived in the typical human way. That the Holy Spirit placed the seed in Mary, He was born perfect, and lived a sinless life. We tend to read all that superficially though, like a history book. Like it's a nice marvelous story that doesn't affect us, and all that really doesn't affect us. But, if we think about that in a different perspective, let's think about that baby relying on his mother for milk, and food in general as he grew older, his parents for protection because there were death threats on his life. He had a brothers and at least 2 sisters that aren't mentioned in the Bible. What kind of things did they do? Were there sibling rivalries? Did He wonder why he was able to learn the Jewish laws and scripture so easily? We have to think, as a child, he didn't just realize at 5 years old "Hey I'm God!!" As a human with the Christ Consciousness, I would imagine that ego wouldn't have been an issue, so He probably wasn't a jerk to his family.
In the biblical account of His birth it wasn't the elite that got the word that he was born. It was the shepherds, the lower class of people. It was the Wise Men IN THE EAST that found out He was born. They said they followed the star in the east. That's important because according to Yogananda, when you think about it it makes sense, they were in the East. How did they go east when they were in the East? The fact that the wise men came to see him is important because it was a reminder that Jesus was born in the Orient and His teachings bore the influence of the Eastern Culture and customs. In fact the Wise Men were great sages. Like I mentioned in the post to lead up to this one, there are manuscripts that say Jesus went to India when He was 13 to stay with and learn from these sages til He was in His late 20's. This is where His own God-Realization reawakened and was reinforced in the company of these masters. During these years He traveled around India teaching what He was learning to ultimately fulfill His mission to return home and teach these things to the Jewish people. One of, if not the main focus of His teaching was "The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Within." When His people didn't see an earthly kingdom to deliver them from Roman rule most of them rejected Him, even to the point of accusing Him of blasphemy and handing Him over to be killed.
In the next few weeks we'll be discussing The Kingdom Of heaven Within, Reincarnation and the fact that Jesus actually taught Yoga.
The underlined parts in this post are taken from the book The Second Coming Of Christ, The Resurrection Of Christ Within You by Paramahansa Yogananda. I've included images of the paragraphs from the book where I took those quotes.
I hope you find this as interesting as I do and you continue to pursue it even more. You can count on finding more here and there are so many videos out there if you're also an audio learner.
Keep Searching,
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