8/10/15

Yogananda, Jesus and Michael Jackson

One of our greatest spiritual teachers once stepped foot here in the United States.  I remember hearing about a yogi who visited the Chicago fair in 1933 who was brave enough to speak about his spiritual beliefs.  The yogi's name was Yogananda.  When I read his book Autobiography of a Yogi, I was convinced I wasn't actually going crazy.  Yogananda spoke about visiting with his teachers on the other side and about consciousness.  Yet when I thought about Yogananda coming here in 1933 and speaking out loud in front of an American public, I just couldn't fathom it.  Even on this blog, here in the year 2015, we still find people disbelieving in something that has been regarded as ancient truth for centuries.  I once even had a yoga friend ask me if I thought his story was true.  It is still too unfathomable to some, when they have not had the direct experience themselves.

It is for this reason that many of us criticize and falsely accuse the spiritual teachers that come to help us.  There seems always to be a tendency to color what ever the offering is with a dark projection. Even Yogananda had problems with the press proclaiming him to be using sex as a hidden agenda for his teachings.  Jesus apparently wanted to be the "real" king. Michael Jackson was actually molesting children, instead of helping sick children and the list goes on and on.  Once met with someone who portrays something different that speaks to love, the public seems to take great pride in ripping that very brave soul who only wanted to teach and help the public, to shreds.  Such is the life of suffering for all those that come to the earth to help us transform the planet.

Here however, we have the same message from all of these wonders, who are actually wonders now that they have passed.  A message of love, a spiritual part of our being and one that dares us all to raise the consciousness of humanity itself.

In the  movie "Awake: The Life of Yogananda", Yogananda speaks about being conscious in his mothers womb.  Some people liken consciousness to something that the brain does.  Consciousness is more like what directs the brain or enters into it to make things manifest.  For yogi's this is common place and belief.  It is something that has been woven into the fabric of Indian tradition for years and years. For us Americans, many of us still believe in our old religious upbringings, not realizing they all speak of ONE universal truth.

In all the worlds religions we see aspects of the same.  A golden halo depicted around the head of Christ, signifying God consciousness; the symbol of the cross signifying the resurrection of Jesus to a higher form of consciousness; the Hindu symbol of OM representing the sound of all consciousness being born into form. Even in the case of Michael Jackson we hear the lyrics for "Man in the Mirror" referring to the same principals Yogananda himself has spoken about: Self realization.

To truly transform our lives and the life of the planet, it always must start with ourselves.

Jesus said: "If those who lead you say to you: See, the kingdom is in heaven, then the birds of the heaven will go before you; if they say to you: It is in the sea, then the fish will go before you. But the kingdom is within you, and it is outside of you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the sons of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are poverty."   - Gospel of Thomas
Here is a clip from the movie "Awake: The Life of Yogananda":




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