10 Jul 2016
Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami
Kindly give Your explanations to following verses/parables taken from New Testaments of Bible written by St. Mathew. Some of the verses are stand alone verses giving enough understanding still Your commentaries on those are requested for the benefit of all devotees.
[MATHEW 1. The Baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:13-17)
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.14 But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
15 Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
(Jesus being human form of God why underwent this ritual of baptism from John? What is meant by spirit of God or Holy spirit?)]
Swami Replied: All the people do not know that Jesus is God in human form. Today, we both are knowing that truth. Your question does not apply to the present time. It applies to that past time and to that past region when and where Jesus was crucified even on hearing that He was son of God and not to speak of God in human form! There are three stages. In the first stage Jesus is just a human being born miraculously to His mother before His father met her. Certainly, the basis and the process of generation of Jesus is a miracle, an unimaginable event, which is beyond logic. Even though the basis, reason and process are unimaginable, the product is imaginable only. We saw recently Shri Satya Sai Baba generating streams of ash by moving His hand. In this miracle, the background is unimaginable God and the process of generation is unimaginable miracle. But, the ash generated is imaginable material only, which, if analyzed, shows that it is just a compound of calcium like calcium oxide or calcium carbonate. Therefore, the result of the miracle is not unimaginable. If the result is also unimaginable, you cannot perceive anything and even the existence of the miracle is lost. In this first stage, the generated baby, Jesus, is imaginable human being like any other human being. Of course, Prophets and angels visited and prayed Him since they know the divine unimaginable background and also that He is going to become the human form of God due to the specific selection of God. Keeping the past and future in the view, all divine souls attended His birth. Here, the present is imaginable entity, which is called as Jesus, an ordinary human being only. This human being, Jesus, is called as son thereby meaning that He is the son of mother Mary. The second stage is the God, Who is unimaginable by nature, but, the unimaginable God is embedded in an energetic form and the resultant form is called as Father of heaven or God. There is no difference between between the original unimaginable God and the energetic form pervaded by the original unimaginable God called as divine Father or God. There is no difference in the identity of a person naked or dressed. The absence of difference between these two entities (unimaginable God and energetic incarnation containing unimaginable God) is justified because the unimaginable God always exists in God or Father of heaven. Hence, the second stage is the Father of heaven, Who is the energetic form pervaded by unimaginable God simply addressed as God. In the third stage, God and son get united since God merges with the son. This merge of the son with the God is referred as the wedding of son. It is the union of Creator with creation. Here, the Creator is energetic incarnation of unimaginable God and the creation is Jesus called as son. Both God and son have finite boundaries of the external media. In the case of God, the external energetic form is finite and in the case of Jesus the external human body is finite. In the case of God, the internal unimaginable God is beyond both the concepts of finite and infinite being unimaginable. In the case of Jesus, the internal soul pervading the human body is invisible, but, finite and imaginable, whereas the external human body is imaginable, visible and finite. After the merge of the Father of heaven with Jesus, the result is generation of son of God. This is the third stage. The son of God is the product of the union of two components, which are God and son as explained above. Since both God and son merged with each other homogeneously, we can call Jesus as God or God as Jesus. We can say that the son of God means only God in human form.
Baptizing Jesus is this process of transformation of son of Mary into son of God. Such transformation is not taking place in the case of every human being though baptized. But, baptizing is done for every human being so that even if the merge of God with human being does not take place, at least, the human being is expected to become near to God and become dear to Him. Without nearing, merge is impossible. This process of nearing God is called as 'Upanayanam' in Hinduism. The word 'Upa' means near. The word 'Nayanam' means to bring the child. The joint word 'Upanayanam' is bringing the child near to God. Same process exists in Islam also in the name 'Sunti'. The essence of this process in any religion is trying to bring the child near to God, which means the initiation of the subject of God into the mind of the soul even from childhood. If this is done essentially, all these external processes need not be done. Today, the external process is only done and the essence is missing. It is something like bringing the candidate before the selection committee for the interview. This is the process of interview by the selection committee. Finally, one candidate alone is selected like Jesus or Krishna or Mohammed by the selection committee called as God.
The word 'Holy spirit' contains two words. The first word is 'Holy', which means something related to God. The word 'spirit' means energy. Here energy means the inert energy as medium associated with awareness. Since awareness is a specific work form of inert energy only, the word 'energy' means the inert energy associated with awareness. You may get a doubt that in the absence of matter as specific nervous system, how the inert energy is transformed into specific work called as awareness? This scientific doubt is applicable to the systems of creation and not to a specific miracle related to unimaginable God. Hence, even in the absence of matter, the awareness exists in the medium of inert energy as a miracle. If you are so rigid in this concept, you can treat the inertia of the inert energy as matter from the concept of rest mass. Treating this inertia as matter, very subtle technology might have existed as nervous system in it. I will not say that such technology is unimaginable to hurt the scientist. I simply say that this subtle technology is beyond the research of present state. In future science may discover it. I am providing this alternative scientific way since the topic of inert energy and awareness is related to the items of imaginable creation only. Science is valid in the analysis of this imaginable creation and science may discover it since this whole topic is in the phase of creation only. Now, coming to the main topic, the word 'spirit' means a quantum of inert energy acting as medium (containing awareness) for the unimaginable God. In the case of God or Father of heaven, this external inert energy (medium) is in the shape of human form. In the case of Holy spirit, this inert energy is formless. We can derive this concept by analyzing the word 'evil spirit', which is a form of inert energy associated with awareness containing bad qualities, which is called as bad ghost. The word spirit is common in Holy spirit and evil spirit. This common word spirit means a quantum of inert energy associated with awareness. In the evil spirit an individual soul or Jiva or awareness with bad qualities exists. In the Holy spirit, awareness with good divine qualities exists.
If you analyze carefully, there is no essential difference between God and Holy spirit. God divides Himself as Himself and Holy spirit. The Holy spirit is just a reflection of God. Same God becomes two Gods by this miraculous division because God remains as one God only even after such division. This concept is unimaginable event called as miracle. The Gita mentions this point that God is divided into various entities, but remains undivided simultaneously (Avibhaktam vibhakteshu… Gita). By this miracle, God remains in the heaven and at the same time, the same God merges with Jesus and Jesus becomes God in human form. Similarly, Narayana merged with the son of Vasudeva in the womb of His mother and Narayana also existed in the upper divine world called as Vaikuntha while Krishna existed on this earth.
Hence, Holy spirit means the energetic incarnation of God, which is God Himself. John did not come forward to baptize Jesus because he knows that Jesus was the candidate already selected by God to become God through the process of merge of Holy spirit. People do not understand this process of merge and feel that God is confined to His divine abode called as heaven and Jesus is confined to this earth. This dualism between God and the human being is true till the process of merge of Holy spirit with human being takes place. Since the unimaginable process of merge of Holy spirit with Jesus is not realized by ordinary people, Jesus remains as the messenger of God only, who is a selected servant for a specific program. The dualism continues forever and Jesus is treated as the messenger only. The jealousy of people can tolerate up to this level only, which is to tolerate Jesus as messenger of God only. This is like the test Glucose tolerance in the case of a sugar patient or general public. If it goes beyond this tolerance to say that the Holy spirit merged with Jesus so that Jesus became the son of God, it becomes intolerable and Jesus was crucified for this next stage itself. In fact, beyond this next stage (Son of God), there is also a final stage in which we can say that Jesus is God in human form. Even the second stage is not tolerated and not to speak of the final stage, which you are mentioning in your question. Except John nobody recognized the second and third stages. John was a realized soul of very high order. This is the reason why Prophet Mohammed allowed the first stage only since there could be one John only in this world in that time of Jesus. The Holy spirit is compared to a dove. The dove is always seen in the temples and hence represents holiness and also peace. John said that Jesus should baptize him. This means that Jesus, the human form of God, has to give salvation to John. This statement of John indicates Jesus as God because a saint like John need not tell like this to another human being. Jesus compelled John to baptize Him. The reason is that the majority is going to take Him as messenger only. Messenger means the human being carrying on the program of God by the order of God. Therefore Jesus projected His level as messenger only and never projected Himself as Son of God or God to the majority of humanity. He projected Himself as son of God to few people, who reached the higher level in the spiritual path. He projected Himself as God also to the people, who reached the highest level. The people of higher and heighest levels propagated these concepts to the people of first ground level, who could not tolerate the higher and highest concepts and crucified Him. Therefore, Mohammed thought that it is always good to stand in the lowest level and this was also expressed by Jesus that one will be multiplied to upper level by so many times as many times the person lowers down himself.
It will be safest if the human incarnation of God declares His stage as the lowest level of messenger. The higher and highest levels should not come from the mouth of the human incarnation, which may come from the mouths of devotees. The human incarnation should always negate the higher and highest levels expressed by devotees also to satisfy the psychology of general humanity, which is always the lowest level of messenger. Ofcourse, Jesus spoke about His higher and highest levels to the disciples deserving to those levels only. Krishna, a Human incarnation, also said to Arjuna only that He is God. Up to this point it is alright if the small cat goes through small hole and big cat goes through big hole. But, small cat also goes through big hole! The disciples of higher and highest levels communicate their concepts to the general humanity. Mohammed, also a human incarnation, observed this point and eliminated the higher and highest levels and remained in the level of messenger only. The mutual communication and the general psychology of humanity affected by ego and jealousy are the two practical problems here. Keeping this in view, Jesus always mentioned about His divine Father as the doer of miracles and this constantly indicated dualism with respect to general humanity only. Krishna also never said that He is God to anybody except very few deserving devotees. Ofcourse, communication of information took place in India also. But, crucifixion of Krishna did not take place here because in those times the emotion of human beings in India was generally at low level. People thought that those few people believing Krishna as God were mad and were fooled by Krishna. This point was neglected on the assumption that Krishna and those few devotees were the patients escaped from a mental hospital! But, people in other regions, in those times were highly emotional to react practically. In view of this reaction only, Prophet Mohammed controlled the true concepts like a physician controlling the drug on observing the reaction in the patient. Receiver and reaction are important in medical field as well as in spiritual field. Krishna declared Himself as God to Arjuna and ordered Him to keep this message as secret (Rahasyamhyetaduttam…). Only after the demise of Krishna, the Gita was propagated by the disciples of sage Vyasa, when nothing can be done since the speaker is absent! Moreover, people do not mind to accept the past human incarnation as God because the human psychology is to hate that which is before eyes and love that which is far (pratyaksha dvishah—Veda). Mohammed thought that even such order to keep the concept secret is given, people may not control themselves because of their excitement in seeing and talking with God. Such pure devotees want to share the concept with others also with a view that all should be benefited, but, unfortunately that view is misfired since the level of those few devotees is not the level of general public. The public will call those devotees along with their human incarnation as mad.
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