Come meditate with us in our beautiful temple of light on this holy day of resurrection. All are welcome.
Yogananda tells us:
“The resurrection of Jesus was not performed to glorify the little material residence of flesh, but to show man what can be done by tuning in with Christ Intelligence. Any man who can receive Christ in his consciousness through expanding it in meditation can become a Son of God and can perceive the universe as his body.
The omnipresent Christ Intelligence is caged in the little physical body of every man. Everyone should try to release this vast consciousness from imprisonment behind the walls of material possessions and body consciousness, and let it realize its own vast omniscience.
Just as sound may be caged in the mouth but when uttered travels all over the universe, ever expanding spherically in all directions, so the soul, caged in the body, when resurrected into the ether by right meditation, forgets the confinement of the little body and expands with the Cosmic Vibration into the Eternal Omnipresence.
The celebration of the resurrection of Jesus on the first Easter morn should not end only in gifts of colored eggs to the children, feasting, and new spring hats. Man must learn to resurrect his soul from its long sleep and from its sense attachments.
Just as a rich prince, if brought up in the slums, would forget the wealth and vastness of his kingdom, so also, the omnipresent soul (made after the image of omnipresent Spirit) forgets its omnipresence and omniscience through being held in a consciousness limited by the imperfect body. However, if the prince were made to realize his own position, and were brought back to his kingdom, he would feel himself rich and unlimited. In the same way, the soul, made to realize its superconscious state, can know again its vastness and omnipresence.
Therefore, pass this Easter, at least a few hours of it, in lifting your consciousness from the domain of matter into the vast-ness of the Silence within your own temple and commune with the risen Christ there. Rise above the body consciousness. Resurrect yourself from the tomb of ignorance. Sit on the throne of Christ Consciousness and say in Realization: ‘I and my Father are One.’”
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