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MEDITATE AND MEET CHRIST INSIDE

Said Jesus Christ in John 4:24, “God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and

in truth.” And what is worshipping in spirit? It is to go within in meditation. As said in Psalm 46:10, "Be still,

and know that I am God".

A Centre for the World Religions

When holding peace forums at the United Nations, this is the kind of meditation which A Centre for the World

Religions (ACWR) has introduced to the UN community of delegates and NGO‟s, who come from every

conceivable religion. We tell delegates that meditating to know God does not require you to convert to

another religion or convert anyone to yours. You can remain in your religion and still practice the

meditation technique we share with you, in order to know God.

This reminds me of a question someone once asked the Mystic Soami Divyanand, founder of ACWR: “if God

is inside and the soul is inside, why do we need to search for God”? The saint answered, “God is inside and so

is the soul, the problem is they haven‟t met each other.” This is the purpose of meditation – to make this

introduction in a very practical sense.

What Makes one a True “Christian”?

Believe it or not, this Mystic meditation master, who we lovingly call “Soamiji,” is more “Christian” than the

average Protestant or Catholic or follower of the over 5,000 denominations of Christianity. Why? Because He

teaches and practices the teachings of Christ.

He teaches that a true Christian is not content with just talking about God, going to Church on Sunday or

praying and doing good works. This is not the essence of religion.

Neither is fasting or making pilgrimages to the holy land the essence of religion or Christianity; nor is piously

genuflecting, Pontificating or engaging in all manner of rites, rituals and ceremonies.

No – the essence of religion is to unite the soul back to God, while still living in this physical body. You do

this by meditating and meeting Christ inside. This is what the mission of the superhuman man called Jesus

revolved around. To understand this requires us to take a fresh look at exactly is meant by the words “religion”

and “Christ”.

That Old Time Religion

The word “religion” comes from joining the prefix “re”, which means „back‟, with the suffix „ligion‟ which

means „to bind‟ as in ligament. So religion is the process of binding the soul back to God. In the East this is

called “yoga” which means „union with God‟. This is a process which is inherent in every human being.

In this context, religion its essence is not an organized set of dogmas, doctrines, rites, rituals and ceremonies, as

found in conventional or organized faiths, that focus more on outer forms of worship, which vary according to

culture, geography, nationality, time and clime. However, this is not to say that you should forsake the

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organized religion you are practicing; Christianity, as with most such religions, does provide a shared society

and strong sense of fellowship, and teaches the moral principles that should guide every human being.

You should feel free to practice whatever outer religious form of worship you wish; but if you want to know

God, your priority, as Jesus Christ said – should be to worship God in spirit and in truth ---i.e., practice

the inner form of religion through meditation. Meet Christ inside and unite the soul back to God.

Who was Christ?

This leads us to the question, just who was or is Christ? The Bible says in John 1, “In the beginning was the

Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Immediately we see that the “Word” is so much more than scriptures written between the pages of a book. The

“Word” or Holy Spirit is the true identity of Jesus. As John 1:14 says, the Word was made flesh, and dwelt

among us.

Or, as John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever

believeth in him should not perish.”

So, it was not Jesus the physical man who was the only begotten son; it was the Christ within Him – the

Holy Spirit that was the son of God.

Mystics give a very beautiful metaphor to illustrate this. They say that God is the ocean who sends the river –

the Holy Spirit – to carry the drop – Man‟s spirit – back to God. It is meditation that puts you in touch with

your spirit, which is made in the image of God, and which is carried by Christ – the Holy Spirit – back to God.

There are many beautiful ceremonies that are only symbols of this divine journey – one which you can actually

experience through meditation. An example is the Holy Communion - a ritual growing out of the following

words of Jesus Christ:

In John 6:35, 54 and 55 Jesus said, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he

who believes in Me shall never thirst…He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I

will raise him up on the last day…For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.”

Clearly Jesus was not a cannibal. His “blood” is depicted in Communion as wine; His “flesh” is depicted as

“bread”. However, this ritual only symbolizes the real “food” that Jesus was trying to get his disciples to

imbibe. Mystics teach that the flesh and blood of Jesus actually represents the “Word” or Holy Spirit

manifesting as Divine Revelations which serve as nourishment for the soul, received by the human being

in advanced stages of meditation.

Jesus was an Enlightened Being who epitomized and embodied this Holy Spirit. In other words, Jesus was the

Word (or “Christ”) Made Flesh that dwelt among men.

It is not in an outer ritual like Communion but through meditation that you imbibe or „eat‟ and „drink‟

the flesh and blood (of Jesus) - the Holy-Spirit-Christ as was epitomized and embodied within Jesus.

Meditation and Divine Revelations

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The Mystic Soami Divyanand classifies five Divine Revelations: Light, Sound, Soma (bliss), the God-man, and

the Lord God Almighty. Jesus and all great redeemers in all the great religions – acting as the Word Made

Flesh - have taught their disciples how to go within in meditation and make contact with the Holy Spirit, in

order to provide nourishment to the soul and ride it back to God. According to Mystics, in the case of St. John,

the “food” he imbibed as locust and honey actually represented Divine Revelations of Sound (buzzing) and

Soma (Sweet nectar of bliss).

In meditation these Divine Revelations of Holy-Christ-Spirit, to which Jesus referred as the bread and water of

life, serve a very practical purpose: They purify (forgive) the seeker‟s soul of the karmic impressions or sins of

ego, anger, lust, greed and attachment that prevent the spirit from reuniting with God. Specifically:

The light cleanses impressions taken in through the eyes;

The sound cleanses impressions taken in by the ears;

The soma cleanses impressions coming in through the mind.

The goal of receiving Divine Revelations in meditation is freedom from old and new karmas, enabling one to

rise above body consciousness and unite back to God. Mystics call this process “Dying while living” or “Die

before death catches up to you.” They say that this is what St. Paul meant when he said in 1 Corinthians 15:31,

“I die daily”.

Meditate to be Born Again

Now we know what Jesus was talking about when He spoke of forgiveness of sin and being born again. In John

3:3-8 Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom.”

Being “Born Again,” or “Dying While Living,” means gradually making use of this human body – the crown of

creation – to reunite back to God. The way to do this is via meditation. You need go no further than your

own human body to be “born again” – to enter the gates of heaven, now, while living in this lifetime. As

Jesus said in John 14:2 “In my Father‟s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you: I go

to prepare a place for you.”

Nowhere does He say you have to wait until the passing of the physical body. On the contrary, He reminds you

in 1Corinthian 3:16 to, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in

you?”

So, for Jesus the real house of worship was not a building made of wood or stone. Worshipping in spirit refers

to going within in meditation. In Luke 17:21 it says, “Neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, There! for lo, the

kingdom of God is within you.”

YOUR HUMAN BODY IS YOUR REAL “CHURCH, MOSQUE, SYNAGOGUE OR TEMPLE”. The doors

of your personal church are open 24 hours per day – even when you sleep. Saint Soami Divyanand even speaks

of meditative sleep or “Turya” which is another way to gain the benefits of meditation.

Therefore, Heaven is here now (now-here). Mystics stress that meditation gets you there, whereas outer

rituals, rites, ceremonies and pilgrimages actually may impede your spiritual progress.

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To tread the Divine Path requires Divine Wisdom or Revelations which, says Mystic Soami Divyanand, are

different from intelligence as we know it. In every so-called mind-intelligence-dominated path, focusing on

dogma and polemics, you have different sets of rites, rituals or ceremonies, based on whatever culture gave

birth to these practices. On the other hand, the Divine Path transcends culture and outer rituals by taking you

inside, where you “pray without words” or you meditate.

The Secret to Meditating

The question thus becomes, what is the secret to meditation – to entering into the kingdom of heaven while still

in this physical body? In Matthew 7 it says, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and

it shall be opened unto you.”

The asking is “initiation” - to request the keys to the kingdom. The seeking is the quest for reuniting with God.

The knocking is following the instructions given. And the door that opens is the mystical Third Eye located

between and behind the eyebrows. In Matthew 6:22 it says, "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine

eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”

To open this “door” requires one to close down the other nine doors of the human body through which the soul

energy escapes - the two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, the mouth, and the two orifices below. Thereby you draw

upon the eternal “water of life” spoken of in the Bible in Revelations 22:17. It is the spiritual nectar that

quenches all thirst, in the form of “Divine Revelations of light, sound, and soma (spiritual bliss) received in

advanced stages of meditation.

Who Really was/is the “Only Begotten Son”?

What I am sharing with you is the mystical approach to religion. The mystics call it “the straight way to God”.

In John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by

me.”

But remember, the “me” Jesus refers to is not the physical man, but the Holy Spirit – the “only begotten son”,

embodied in Jesus Christ” - in His time, and in countless other living saints, sages and God-men and God-

women throughout the ages. As we mortal beings are living in the physical form, we require guidance from one

who is also incarnate – someone who “puts His pants on one leg at a time and answers the calls of living on this

plane, as we do”. How else could we believe that we, ordinary “sinners”, could actually realize our divinity?

As Jesus told His disciples in John 14:12, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me [that is

the Holy Spirit-Christ], the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do”

Earlier in John 9:5 Jesus said, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world”. However, in John

14:16 He promised, “I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with

you forever.”

Just as sure as we need a mother to feed us, change our diapers and ultimately wean us as we mature, we,

as spiritual babies need spiritual guidance as we embark upon the process of being born again. What

prevents us from doing this is the mind operating through the senses of perception.

As a popular song says, “You got to Serve Somebody”! In truth, the master that the average man or woman

serves is the mind, which itself makes a good servant, but a poor master. It is meditation that helps you to rise

above mind and experience the spiritual part of your being.

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The scriptures say in Matthew 6:23-25, “Ye cannot serve God and mammon…….No man can serve two

masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the

other.”

“Mammon”, in this context, represents the ego/mind acting under the influence of the Negative Power or Satan.

The alternative is to apprentice with the Holy Spirit or “Son of God”, which is latent in you but fully awakened

and embodied in living God-men or God-women - the enlightened saints and mystics who are sent by the Lord

to shepherd souls back to God.

Washing Away Karma or Sin

As long as the ego/mind is in charge, we amass karma that keeps the soul prisoner in the body and prevents it

from knowing God. By our thoughts, words and deeds we create our own karmic circumstances. As Galatians

6:7 says, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”.

Although we do have a measure of free will, we also have a measure of “pre-ordained” life events, according to

the karmic seeds we have sown. No amount of positive thinking, mind science and secret laws of attraction can

enable us to think away that which is ordained to happen as a result of our karma. This is what the Bible

quotation in Matthew 5. Means when it says, “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth”. It is not urging you

to seek retribution; it is informing you that you are subject to an iron clad law which in modern vernacular says,

“What goes around comes around.”

Many people make the mistake of seeing “preordination” as some arbitrary, unfair punishment meted out by a

cruel God. If you think about it deeply, it doesn‟t matter whether the conditions we face are present at birth or

visit us today. The enlightened saints teach that if there is any chance to mitigate or alleviate the impact of this

karma, which can sometimes seem insurmountable, it requires the mercy of the Lord, as bestowed through one

of God‟s divine messengers. Mystics teach you meditation in a way that enables you to receive Divine

Revelations that purify the soul of these karmic impressions.

Meditation – the Straight and Narrow Path

So, in summary, meditation enables the soul to achieve the main purpose for which we have incarnated in this

world – to realize self and God, and become a co-worker with the Divine. Mystics speak of 8.4 million species

which we have transcended to receive the gift of a human birth.

They teach that the path of meditation is the easy straight and narrow path to God – “El Camino Real” – „The

King‟s Highway‟ or the Divine Path. In Matthew 7:13-14 it says, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is

the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and

narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.”

While all mystics stress that we should attend to our worldly responsibilities, earn our own living and fulfill the

karmic lessons which we have earned, we need more than just the “Daily bread” of this material world to fulfill

life‟s higher purpose. Matthew 6:19-20 says, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and

rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal… but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,

where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal”. This is the

purpose of meditation – to build up your spiritual bank account in order to ultimately re-unite with God.

It is the Holy Spirit or “Word” manifesting through the mystic meditation masters which guides you in this form

of meditation. Their role is to awaken the Christ power in you. The immediate objective is Self Realization –

rising above body consciousness to experience yourself as pure soul. At this point one receives guidance from

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the spiritual form of the mystic inside. (Some meditators reared as Christians have reported seeing Jesus inside

in their meditations). The long term goal is continuing on to union with God to become a co-worker with

divine, while still alive and functioning in the physical body.

While the ultimate treasure of meditation in washing the soul of the karma resulting in salvation for the

soul, there are important short term, immediate benefits. The Divine Revelations received during

meditation result in the following:

Provides ongoing inspiration and control that better enables man to actually manifest the divine virtues

preached by all religions, and meet the day-to-day ups and downs and responsibilities of living, and

Serves as a medicament that precipitates psychical and physical healing –i.e.,

o Improved perception, memory, concentration and comprehension Increased creativity and

productivity

o Increased relaxation and stress reduction, and

o Decreased cholesterol or likelihood of heart attack or stroke

See for Yourself

In order to prove whether you, too, can experience these results in mediation you have to perform the great

experiment yourself. Religion is not a spectator sport. To know truth you must live it. The revealed

scriptures (written words) are only road maps that give you an idea of what to expect as you embark

upon your own journey; you cannot become realized merely by reading about some other being‟s

enlightenment. Because the true “Word” is not the dead letter script on the page; it is the Holy Spirit which

manifests as Divine Revelations. You have to meditate to get this Word.

Having said that, when it comes to writings in print, only an enlightened saint can most properly interpret the

words or revealed scriptures of another enlightened being. Invariably one has to also refer back to the original

languages from which words have often been mistranslated, misinterpreted, or misinterpolated (falsified).

The original languages of the Bible are Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. These ancient languages are similar in

profundity to Sanskrit. Therefore, often mystics teaching meditation will reference words stemming from these

root languages. A Word to the wise is sufficient. --- Namaste (I salute God within you)

Len Burg, International Coordination Liaison, A Centre for the World Religions