Naciketa, Death and Jesus
The
Unity of Religion
Introduction
I
believe God is one but has manifested in many forms, spoken through many
prophets, but the content of direct and indirect Words
of God is one – it is the knowledge of life and death, guidelines to live
the fullness of life and the secret of conquering death to perpetuate life. To a
great extent I feel we have never been able to comprehend His direct Words
nor His indirect one and everybody moved towards death. Thus, there appears
a need to conquer death such that His creations are perpetuated. Death thus is a
point of great discussion in all the ancient philosophies equally and more
important than life. For in the secret of death lies the secret of life and its
existence.
I
see the world is fighting itself to destruction primarily on religious force and
the material forces that are in human command. I see Christians claiming their
religion as superior; I see Hindus claiming their religion is superior and
Muslims trying to establish theirs. In the middle, all these religions they are
crucifying their God to the Cross. The Lord we must understand never spoke of
religion, He spoke only about Love, Truth, Justice and principles guiding life
and its existence, but human mind failed to grasp the truth as it created vortex
of religion and material force leading it self to death. I believe truth existed
and exist for ever, what deteriorates is our perception of truth.
Our
mind is a great barrier to understand Truth and thus gets lost in the dual world
of religion and matter. Religion in time becomes routine rituals and thus looses
its significance, then comes a period of growth of material force. The men in
the spiritual field say their field is the ultimate and argues that the fullness
of life is obtained by subduing our senses and the one in the material field
argue that fullness is obtained by the gratification of the senses. This is the
dual world in which humanity lives. But the truth is that neither of this will
lead us to the fullness of life. Fullness of life exists in the middle – the
knowledge of the co existence of the spiritual and material world, the knowledge
of the light and darkness.
The
question is that how does one obtain this knowledge. How can one obtain the
secret of east by going to the west and vice-versa? One of the answers given in
the ancient knowledge systems is to meditate. Meditation is a process that leads
to self-realization. The self-realization is a process of knowing one’s
relationship with the world. Self-realization calls for detachment and
observation. Any mind that is attached to any one path or is wavering between
two paths cannot find self-realization. Here the mind that is attached to one
path has less chance of self-realization. The one that is wavering has more
chance of self-realization. The
knowledge of the relationship between the spiritual and material world is
self-realization and is the fullness of life. However true self-realization is beyond human capacity and
thus God intervenes to save His creations. [Why so, is explained briefly later in
the article]. His field of existence is Justice and Truth, He intervenes every
time when this Justice and Truth is endangered. He is the balancer and the
balance is the secret of nature. [ See the Truth
That Liberates]
History
pictures Lords manifestation in the middle of the war, siding one who stands for
Truth and Justice. We have Lord Rama. Lord Krishna and Lord Jesus manifesting in
critical points of evolution. They signify human evolution in the path of
darkness. The first signify clear differentiation of darkness and light,
[Devotes and Rashes]. In second stage this clear bifurcation is lost the war
here becomes a matter fight with in the family. In the third this bifurcation is
completely Lost, the war now becomes a war between humanity and God, the Creator and
the Created, light and darkness. It is apparent that when all the cells of the
body goes against the consciousness[ heart] and the intelligence[ mind], then the life can no
longer exist there, it has to accept death. Where
will life go without a body, when it leaves the body? The answer is simple; it
has to create a new body out of the old. This means masculine and the ruling [intelligence] should
enter the womb to get conceived. This means it has to express Love. Anything
that is conceived should be delivered. Light
conceived and delivered is Calvary and Second Coming. – Light existed and
exists forever. He is the conqueror of death; He is
Naciketa that Upanishad Describes so beautifully, He is Jesus the Bible
describes. [ The science of this statement is
briefly explored in the end and it is dealt elaborately in the site]
I see masters in Bible clutching Bible to their Bosom, jumping at any to reference to Vedas and Koran, thus spilling the beans of hatred, I have got filthy words coming to me form so called New Born Christians when I communicated my site to them hoping they would understand. Many of these are people who hold Bible so close to their senses that it blinds them from seeing and feeling the real light that exist inside and outside them from which the Word came. These are people who are holding the mirror image of the Bible and fail to read the original copy that exist within them and in the outside world in every human beings irrespective of the caste, religion, status ---. These are people who recognize people who are walking with Bible in hand and fail to recognize people walking in Lord Jesus's Path. A New-Birth is a necessity for all individuals. Jesus the Lord taught us, how to take New Birth. We are making an idol of Him and the Bible and forgetting the path and act He showed. We are not looking at the teacher we are looking at the teachings. How can world find order if everybody preaches and none practices. A true Christian focuses on the path and act, nothing more. He takes birth in His Love and initializes in the field of Justice and Truth.
I see many of the newborn Christian’s, harboring divisive principles,
and defensive principles, national and political spirit, that holds no Justice
and Truth. I see this tendency in so called hardcore Hindus and Muslims; they
are all ignorant of the Light and God that is ruling the world.
Very Clearly, all the scriptures write that light and God cannot be seen,
by penance, rituals study of scriptures and such practices done under religious
guidelines. He can only be seen by action, an action
without a seed as Arjuna did in Kurukshetra. Yes
He will not turn down any one who turns to Him with a seed. He will
take them into His conscious field. But His mind field that exists above the
conscious field is not approachable with a seed.
It is impossible for Human to approach
without a seed. Thus He shows the Grace to humanity so they can
return to His consciousness field and be with Him. His Conscious field is abode
for everybody, but the Grace of His Light field, the controlling one, is limited
to people of His choice. Only to one of them He reveals Himself.
He turns out be the warrior for Truth and Justice- Arjuna,
not the heads of any religious institutions, or to any sanyasi or sanyasin, who
rejects this World and exists closing their eyes to injustice and untruth. This
world is a Reality – the One and the Only Reality that exists. The site
discovers Jesus as reincarnation of Lord Krishna in evolution. We must know that
Jesus chooses ordinary people to be His disciples; one of them is given the Key
to the Kingdom of Heaven. [See for more details - Truth]
Naciketa
the Warrior Who conquered Death
Naciketa
and His conquering of death forms central Theme of Katha Upanishad. It embodies a mysticism and is considered a revolting one
from the Conventional religious practice. Rohit Mehta in his book “Call of
Upanishads” rightly notes from History, that when religion deteriorates into
lifeless patterns of behavior, there appears
from time to time a new expression of Mysticism, which brings human
individuals back to fundamentals of Spiritual Life. Mysticism is born as revolt
against traditional religion. Jesus was a revolt
against the lifeless religion, science was a revolt against the life less
Christianity, and this site is too is a revolt against the baseless science and
the organized religious sects that lacks life.
Secret
of death is some thing that is eluding Humanity in spite of the fact that it
exists next to His skin. Today man is trying to conquer Mars and move into
space. He is fighting battle to prolong earthly existence and death. He is
fighting a loosing battle for peace and order. Can death be conquered by these
means, how long can we prolong our miserable existence on this earth in constant
fear of enemy? Who is enemy to Whom? It is apparent from all the developments that we must conquer
death some time to return to life as Christ did it in Calvary, as Naciketa did
it by His intelligence in the Court of Death.
To do so we must understand the mysticism of Christ and Naciketa. Katha
Upanishad is written in the form of dialogue between a student and teacher,
invoking the spirit that Guides everything. It starts with
“
May Brahman [spirit] Protect us Both, May Brahman bestow upon us both the fruit
of Knowledge, may we both acquire the energy to acquire the Knowledge, May the
study of us both reveal the Truth, may we Cherish no ill-feeling towards each
other”
Every
word of the above sentence has unfathomable meaning. Here we see the conqueror
of death on one side and the Lord of Death on the other side. We are seeing
light and darkness face to face. The light pierces the darkness in the end comes
out unscratched. The light remains so too the darkness but the darkness is left
behind in the path of the light as its shadow.
It
depicts perfect communication between teacher and student, [ death and life]
neither trying to conquer the other but trying to learn from Truth that lies in
the middle. Here Naciketa is the Student and Lord Yama [King of Death] is the
teacher. Naciketa as per His Fathers wish, willingly goes in search of Death. He
enters the Kingdom of Death and waits three nights to meet the King of death.
Upanishad tells us the Kingdom of Death was surprised, for no one comes
there on their wish, everybody is brought there. Naturally the one who came
there willingly and waited for death to come is unique.
[We
must note here that Bible tells us Christ is the Son of God and was sent to
earth in order to conquer death and He conquered death by self sacrifice to give
us New Life. Every Christian blindly utters this belief but the mystery of
Calvary remains unsolved. Clearly in the Jesus life and death we have the story
of Naciketa enacted. Upanishad goes to explain the very act of conquering death
in great detail in a sensible manner. This world spends in billions of on the
study of Bible, Vedas and Koran, but none wish to come out of the bondage to
explore from a point of freedom the truth that is contained in them and there is
non-who would promote it].
When
the King of kingdom of death comes, after three nights, He apologizes for
keeping Him waiting in the door without any hospitality. So He grants Naciketa
three Boons. Naciketa chooses these three Boons with highest possible
intelligence. These three boons in way can represent the secrets of Vedas.
The
three boons, which Naciketa asks, are
1]
“ O Lord of Death, may my Father’s anger be appeased and may He be happy and
free from anxiety, and may He remember Me and welcome Me after my leaving you.
This is my first Boon”
2]
“There is no fear in regions of heaven; old age and death are not there.
Having passed both they rejoice in heaven, beyond hunger, thirst and sorrow.
Those in heaven enjoy long continuity. You Know, O death that sacred fire which
leads to heaven. Explain it to me – be this my second boon”.
3]
“When a man dies, this doubt arises: some say there is a “being” and some
say there is “no-being”. Teach me the truth and let this be my third
boon”.
This
has been interpreted in many ways. The interpretation done here stems from the
revelation I obtained. It is not different from Veda or Upanishad.
The
reality is that, however far we are from the absolute Father and Mother we carry
the spark of them with us. We have
the sparks of the absolute consciousness and absolute intelligence; we are all
born from the absolute consciousness by the act of absolute intelligence. We
have the information of the whole. We are unable realize our relationship to one
Father and Mother. Mind is a force that directs. Our mind by pursuing its
“self” de-links from Father and Mother and in time moves away from them. But
the spark of the Father exist with us so is the consciousness of the Mother.
When we move to the critical point of death or end of time, the Universal
Consciousness and Universal Intelligence comes back into force to capture the
Wheel of Time and initialize it. The essential aspect of this initialization is
awakening of our consciousness and perceiving the Absolute Intelligence, Mind of
God and return to His Kingdom.
In
his first boon, being quite aware of the Central Reality, Naciketa is asking for
a boon to stop the Time and get it directed back to His Fathers abode. In a way,
possibly, He is asking for Grace to silence His mind to hear the call of the Father and
make communication with Him. This
is the first requirement to return to the Fathers abode. We call it Faith
However
no body enters His abode unless He passes through the fire of Consciousness.
Everything about the old has to be burned and reformed to find the continuity of
time. One must enter the fire that forgives. The Grace
to enter this fire of consciousness was the second boon Naciketa asked.
This is the basic call that goes out from all religions and ancient
knowledge systems to Humanity – be in the field of consciousness and work from
its field, knowing the light that exist beyond it and follow its guidelines.
The
third Grace He was asking was the
knowledge of Light that initializes Him in the kingdom of God. He was seeking
the knowledge of life and death. He was asking the key that opens the door to
Kingdom of heaven. Yama replies
“This
doubt arose in even in the Gods in times of the Old; for subtle and mysterious
is law of life and death. Ask for another boon and release me from this ”
Naciketa
was not willing to take any other boon than this one.
Naciketa denies accepting any other boon, So Yama tempts him
“Take
horses and gold and cattle and elephants, choose sons and grandsons, that shall
live a hundred years, have vast expanses of land, and live as many years as you
desire. Or choose another boon that is equal to this, and enjoy wealth and Long
life. Be a ruler of this vast earth. I will give you all you desire. Ask for any
wishes in the world of Mortals, however hard to obtain. To attend on you I will
give fair maidens with their Chariots and their melodious music. But O Naciketa
do not ask me about the secret of death”
Naciketa
replies
“
All these pleasures pass away, O end of All; they destroy the life-giving power.
And indeed how short is life. So keep the horses and dancing and singing to your
self. Man cannot be satisfied with wealth. How can we even enjoy wealth with you
in sight? Can we live whilst you are in power? No I can only ask for the boon I
have asked. - Solve then this doubt
as to the meaning of the Great beyond. Grant me the gift that pierces the veil
of mystery. This is the only boon Naciketa can choose”
[We
must recall the temptation of the evil put forth to Jesus after the forty days
of Fasting prayer]
Yama
then yields to this Great Student. Then unfolds the Great Mystery to Naciketa.
Yama describes Him of two paths
“
The Good is one thing; the pleasant another. Both of them serving different ends
are linked to man. It goes well with him who of the two, takes the good, but he
who chooses the pleasant misses the end”
We
must recall here the words of Jesus; one who takes His cross and follows Him
will enter the Kingdom of God.
Yama
indicates that these two paths are not opposite. What are they then? Pleasure and pain constitute the opposite. The pain is
contained in the pleasure it cannot be separated from it. He who seeks pleasure
must be ready to receive the pain also. One who seeks pleasure gets entangled in
never ending play of the opposite.
The
“good” that Yama was speaking is not the opposite of Evil. If one talks good
as the opposite of Evil then hardly there is any difference between the Good and
the Evil. If they are opposite, then each is contained in the other. The Good he
was speaking is the Absolute Good.
The
“good” we speak is the minds opposites. The play of opposite is the minds
continuity. The two opposite are the frontiers of the land of Continuity.
Thought, which is the instrument of the mind, moves within these frontiers.
Thus the good that Yama was speaking has some thing beyond the frontiers
of the mind, which cannot be reached through the mind.
The
two path that Yama was speaking was the path of Wisdom and Unwisdom, that is
linked to human, one path leads to Kingdom of God [life] the other to the Kingdom
of death. Human is free to choose. The Wisdom, Upanishad tells us is not opposed
to ignorance. Wisdom has no opposite. It
arises when Ignorance and Knowledge is negated. [Our knowledge]
Yama
says
“Not
many are those who hear it, and of those not many reach It. Wonder full is he
who can teach about It and wise is he who can be taught. Wonderful is he who
knows It when taught by the wise”
Yama
says, “ The way to It is the Teacher- the sacred
knowledge is not obtained through reasoning”. It is teaching
that can indicate the path. The teacher is greater than teaching. While the
teacher contains in the teaching the teaching can never contain the teacher. The
teacher is always beyond teaching. Wisdom arises only when the teacher and
taught is in a state of communion. For communion to exist all barriers should be
broken. Vedas tell us very clearly that unless our mind is silenced we cannot
communicate with the reality and clearly states this is possible only when he is
approached without a seed. Reality exists beyond the
consciousness as its governor. Our mind has to be silenced first to enter
His basic field – the consciousness. It is from here we out to be searching
for the light that exists beyond it.
Upanishad
explains “Naciketa is like a house open for the Lord”. By rejecting the path
of pleasure and possession he has made the house vacant for the Lord to reside.
The mind of man cannot go to Truth
- it is truth that comes to the Human mind.
Veda and Upanishad tell us this emptiness means a mind at rest, in
silence.
Naciketa
now puts an important question to Yama
“
Tell me what you see beyond right and wrong, beyond what is done and not done,
beyond past and future”.
The answer Naciketa obtains from
Yama is
“
The approach which all Vedas declare, which all austerities indicate and which
men accept when they lead the life of continence, I will tell you briefly is
OM”
Thus
the whole exercise of exploring the truth at the empire of death leads to the
“Word”. Rohit Mehta in His book “call of Upanishad” beautifully calls
our attention to a famous sentence in the Bible. “
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and Word was God”.
In the begging was the word – but can the word be found going to the
beginning. To go to the beginning is explore the time process. Can the word be
found in the stream of Time? No. For it is said that “ the word was with
God” And so one must ask God to give us the meaning of the word which contains
the unraveling of the great mystery of the beyond, But how to get the word of
God. Will God tell us where he has placed that word that traveling tether we may
find it? But the above statement says the “ the word was god” – The word
and God were not different. Mehta concludes that - To say that word was God is
to speak of the co-existence of the manifest and the unmanifest, so one must
seek and go to the one who is manifest and unmanifest. We must underline here in
the beginning there were only Words the Words written by Light or Absolute
Intelligence – The Foundation of all religions exist
on this Light. But religion has no contact with Light and becomes the cause for
deterioration and disorder. So Light has to come to religion such that the world
gets initialized from time to time is the Truth of Word.
Katha
Upanishad says
“
Syllable OM is indeed Brahman. The syllable is the Highest. Whomsoever knows
this syllable obtains all that he desires”. Yama says the “OM is the best
support and the Highest sustenance”
Hindu
philosophy gives immense importance to the OM [AUM]. Upanishad says that the
first and the last letter here is inarticulate sound and the central one is
articulate sound. It tells us that who meditates on the first letter is
illuminated but after death speedily returns to earth. This meditation is
compared to the innocence of a child - an innocence that exists out of
ignorance. There is purity to the sound but that purity belongs to the period
when temptations have not yet arisen [this is the first critical point of
quantum world discussed in the site]. One who meditates on the first two
letters is led to the region of moon. It symbolizes Bhakthi - the path of
devotion. Here the devote experiences heavenly joys and return to earth. He
feels that he has seen, heard and touched His Deity. Here the devotee sees the Saguna Brahman. [Spirit] -
the reality with attributes. The meditation here is associated with a seed [it
is the second critical point of quantum world – much of the new born
Christians belong here]. Upanishad tells us that he who meditates on three
letters comes to the region of sun and becomes one with light. This meditation
is without a seed. So he soars into inarticulate sound, the inarticulate sound
of the disciple at this stage has innocence - not born out of ignorance,
innocence that arises out of Knowledge - He holds a mind that is empty at His
feet. It is the state of Arjuna after the Lord
bestowed Him with senses to perceive Him and the warrior Arjuna Saw the Lord in
all His Glory. These three phases signify three phases of life, child hood,
imperfection of manhood to the perfection of super-man.
Upanishad
says that the great beyond is known when once own consciousness vibrates one
with him – the Brahman. Katha Upanishad introduces a term called “ Atman”.
Yama tells Naciketa that the great beyond is known by knowing the Atman.
“
This Atman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas nor by the intellect,
nor by much learning of sacred books. It is attained by Him alone whom It
chooses. To such one, Atman reveals Its own Nature – when Atman manifest it
self, man becomes free from jaws of death”
This
statement comes up repeatedly in Vedas, Bhagavad-Gita but the reference is made
to Brahman, the spirit and Absolute intelligence. Here in contrast the reference
is made to Atman. How is Atman different from Brahman or Spirit? Which is
superior?
I conclude from what nature revealed to me that Atman is Unity of Spirit and Consciousness. It is the real thing. It is the Father and Mother who are one. It is Ardha -Narishwara. One of them exist recessive to the other at any moment. It is the pair of Gene that hold the information, one dominant the other recessive in which Prana flows eternally to give us the pulsating life. [See - Pulse]. Fulfillment of life comes when a family comes into being. Nothing in this world can be created or destroyed everything goes in cycles. When we the children’s of this one Father and Mother go beyond limits to death, the Father and Mother enacts a new creation from the old. This enacting is Calvary and the birth of the child is Second Coming. This is Naciketa’s victory over death; This is Jesus Victory over death. His return to Fathers Kingdom signifies initialization of the World in Absolute Knowledge.
This
leaves a great question was Naciketa the student, a predetermined one? From the
premises of all arguments He should be. To have knowledge of the future
absolutely is beyond human. So definitely Naciketa should be superior to Human
and therefore should be God. Vedas and Upanishad tell us everything goes in
cycles, these ancient sagers were aware of the Great Wheel of Time and how it is
kept moving. They have clearly written that Creation begins with the
self-sacrifice of the Creator.
The
Calvary, simply is this great act at which the seed for the new world is
laid. Bible tells us with the birth of Jesus Light came to earth.
A New world was conceived when His spirit was released in Calvary. In His
self-sacrifice the Bible tells He conquered death and gave us new life. However
the truth of this new world and the joy of it are bound to come only when what
is conceived is delivered.
In
the site I have tried to express the relationship between the, unmanifest,
manifest and the humanity by way of a visualization of sphere, which in turn
holds unlimited small spheres. The sphere at the center is unique. Every other
sphere exists to the left or right of this central sphere. They could be
understood in relation to its pair, complementary pairs in space. But the sphere
at the center is relative to itself. It is simply the replica of the whole in
the middle. The sphere at to the center can perceive even a small disturbance
any where in the sphere directly. The sphere in the left and right exist in
time.
The
life to the whole system invariably means all these sphere are moving and so too
the whole. There are two ways by which the enclosed sphere can move one by
winding to the center or move unwinding away form the center. They represent the
flow in and out from the heart. The apparent random movement of these spheres on
the left and right balances the whole system. The system however becomes
unstable when ¾ of the sphere gets directed to the central sphere. When all
spheres get directed to the center, the central sphere would collapse so too the
whole. Science tells us that this is rare possibility in the world of chance. It
is true. But science is built on partial knowledge of the material world. But if
we observe the human and take life as an integral part of nature and visualize
these sphere as living systems, the Picture becomes different. [The site takes
you to this point reinventing and rebuilding the foundation of science]. We
become the cells of the universal systems and nations become the organs. By our
conquering motive and corruption, by the ignorance of the interrelationship and
oneness we introduce time. In time every body thus becomes directed to the
center to conquer the whole. In other words every body takes the winding path to
death. The unwinding path becomes empty. The time tends to Zero. The whole is
bound to collapse unless the Central Sphere, which perceives everything, takes
the winding force and releases on the unwinding path. Which means it has to
sacrifice one of its faces – the Father goes recessive to the Mother to
conceive a New life. Individuals are given freedom to ender the Childs body or
stay in Mothers. Human being never perceives this New Life and change in
direction of the flow. Thus humanity and his conquering Motive takes the whole
to Another limit stressing the Father and Mother- Every body now enters the
Unwinding path and leaves the winding path open. A second collapse becomes
inevitable. Now the Father emerges from the Mother and Mother goes recessive to
the Father. Spirit or Absolute
Intelligence or Brahman is Conceived and Delivered. A New cycle of Light and darkness now begins. [For more
information go to – Truth
that Liberates]. The Calvary or Zero of the random world was the expression
of the Feminine nature of God and Second Coming is the expression of masculine
nature of God or the “1” of random world. This dual expression of His
singular nature was necessitated by humanity and his conquering motive and
corruption. No wonder Hindu philosophy Picture Lord Shiva as Ardha-Narishwara [
Half Woman and Half Man] The Vedas, Upanishad, Bible, Bhagavad-Gita and Koran
have to be rediscovered in the unity of one Father and Mother and their Kingdom
that perpetuates.
Very
clearly the light of all religious knowledge is a call to return to the root. It
is a call to know once own consciousness and base once mind in it. A lasting life is obtained when one bases positively
his mind in consciousness and works under the guidance of intelligence and
wisdom. Conscious is an open field
for two forces; it has two paths, one that takes it to the light, of Lord or
life and the other, which takes it to darkness and death.
Human mind is always associated with a seed and thus in spite of coming
to the conscious fields it falls down repeatedly. So it fails to perceive Wisdom and Truth. This failure makes
the Lord to intervene and conquer death. In the quantum vision of winding and
unwinding nature discussed in the site, we clearly note three critical steps of
evolution. The third one is vital where the wholes system collapses, to take new
order. This third critical point the site notes is the manifestation of Lord in
the name of Jesus. The Calvary fulfills the writings in the Vedas “ The
creation occurs with the self sacrifice of the creator. ” Katha Upanishad very
clearly elaborates this great act and its significance. The mind of the Lord
[the light] manifested as son walks in to the abode of death and conquers it. He
becomes the teacher, teaching the Truth and path of Truth- the way to return to
the kingdom of God. The Lord Knew in spite of showing the path everybody will
fail to perceive and walk in His path thus He said He would come again. He knew
that His spirit released on earth has to fight the darkness to restore the
kingdom to God. The Lord opened the door of universal consciousness gave freedom
for all to enter it and seek His spirit. Millions have entered His Conscious
field with a seed, they have stagnated in the joy of the consciousness.
But everybody has failed to perceive Him; no body is willing to fight for
His kingdom, the kingdom with Justice and Truth. But, just as he found one womb
to manifest on earth, He will find one mind to carry His arrow to the victory
and initialize His kingdom to the Father. The characteristic of this person will
be that of Arjuna the great warrior to whom He disclosed His true nature - four
handed and two-handed nature. [See truth]