Cracking The Jesus Code - Part 2

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Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi is the code breaker of all scripture. Kosi Radio Voice is a program that gives voice to the ancient secrets of scripture. Cracking the Jesus Code (Part 2) is the sublime teaching of Jesus—unveiling the hidden message he was born to “bear witness to” —a living truth that sets you free from eons of suffering. A truth that defies death! What is the new and mysterious covenant he brought into the global consciousness? Does it really have anything to do with religion?

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Ran a a Welcome everyone to KOSHI radio voice. This is KOSHI and we're going to be continuing our deep look at the teaching of Jesus through the lens of Ramana Maharshi. And what does that mean exactly through the lens of Ramana Maharshi, Right? What did Ramana have to do with Jesus? And what did his teaching reveal about Jesus? And really to understand Ramana as the code breaker, You have to realize that it's not what he said about Jesus that reveals the profound teaching of Jesus. It's not what Ramana did in his life that breaks the code of all scripture, But his silent realization of a realm that is beyond this world, Beyond what we can see with our eyes and feel with our body and hear and smell and taste. It's an invisible realm and his realization of this vast indescribable presence. It's that presence itself that cracks the code of all scripture, Not just the words of Jesus, Not just the teaching of Jesus, But the teaching of Buddha comes to life with the lens of Ramana Maharshi. And how does that come about? How does that actually happen for you so that you can see scripture in a different light? And the secret is your own direct experience. So all scripture is a holographic language. It's a language of the heart, Which is transcendent of the physical realm in which we live our lives. It's transcendent. It's holographic. There are secrets contained within the teaching presented as scripture. So scripture, All scripture, Whether it came from the Buddha or Jesus or Muhammad or Moses, Contains secrets. There is this other dimension. So when I say it's holographic language, There is another dimension that this scripture is revealing to you, Especially when you become aware that scripture is holographic, Meaning it's multidimensional. It's not just about the literal interpretation of the words. So you can get lost in the words or you can remain at the surface with words. But scripture is holographic. It reveals this invisible realm and the vast power that it represents. And so Jesus is probably the most misunderstood teacher ever and the most famous teacher ever. He's the most famous person in the history of the human race because he sacrificed his life to bring in a new covenant, A new covenant sealed in his blood. So he sacrificed his life to reveal this to the world. And then we all know he rose again on the third day. So it didn't end with the death of the body. And last time we started where it ended. And I kind of want to revisit that a little bit because it's so important to understand when you're reading scripture, Especially scripture with Jesus, When you're reading the gospels, It's important to understand that scripture, Because it's holographic, Is a transcendent of time. It's transcendent of space. So it's transcendent of time and space. So that means the scripture was intended to be read in the present tense. So that's one great secret to the gospels of the New Testament, Which contains most of what happened with Jesus, The miracles of Jesus, And the teaching of Jesus is contained within the four gospels. And I'm talking about the standard Bible. And there's another dimension that's presented in the Gnostic gospels, Which were found in the 1950s and have over time been translated. So there's the gospel of Thomas and the gospel of Mary Magdalene, Even the gospel of Judas. And through those gospels, Which were hidden or lost through the centuries, Give another perspective. So really, For the purposes of this conversation, We're focused on just the standard Bible, Because the seeds of truth, Which are eternal, Which are a living truth, Are contained within the standard Bible. You don't need the Gnostic gospels to appreciate the beautiful, Powerful teaching of Jesus. The beautiful, Powerful teaching of Jesus is in the standard Bible. But when you look at this through the lens of Ramana Maharshi, It takes on a new life. You start to see that it is this living truth, Which is transcendent of what we call Christianity. Certainly Christianity is meant to relay the gospel, Which is good news. That's what gospel actually means. The good news that who you are is not limited to your physical body, That within you is eternal life. This is the good news of the Bible, And it is the good news of Ramana Maharshi. And Ramana is the code breaker because he points directly to your heart, Directly to direct experience. So once you have the direct experience of the vast, Intelligent presence that is alive in your heart, Once you have that direct experience, That direct experience is what unlocks the secret teaching of Jesus Christ. It unlocks it. It unlocks the sutras of Buddha. It unlocks the experience and teaching of Moses. It unlocks the teaching and experience of Muhammad and his realization that turned into the Quran that came from the archangel Gabriel. This is Islam. This is the Muslim faith. And the Quran means to carry you to the abode of peace, Which of course, When we look at the world and what's been happening, It doesn't look like a peaceful religion, Right? Because it was hijacked and narrowed down to a very small narrow perspective of the Quran. And when the mind does that, Anything that is actually meant to be beautiful can be turned into a very limited point of view. And then it can be used in a way that it was never intended to be used. So Ramana is the code breaker in that direct experience. He is a catalyst for your own direct experience. And when you're looking at the scripture in the Bible, You have to realize that it's transcendent of time. So it's really in the present tense. And the name of God is I Am That I Am. And this was revealed actually in the Old Testament to Moses. And Ramana did say that the perfect name for God is I Am That I Am. Ramana himself said, I Am That I Am is the perfect name of God. And Moses heard this on Mount Sinai. So the other aspect of the Bible that you have to realize, Because there's been so many documentaries and so many people trying to disprove that any of it happened, Is that there has to be a complete and total acceptance that it did happen. Now it might not be perfect. The translation might not be perfect. Things might have been lost over time. But it's so much more than just a mere story. We tend to think, Oh, Well, The miracles of Jesus, They have to be just a story. And really, The miracles of Christ are revealing another dimension beyond the human mind's ability to comprehend, Beyond our ability to comprehend. This is what the miracles of Jesus are meant to reveal. So it's so much more than just a story. This is one aspect. It transcends time and space. I Am That I Am is the name of God. This is so important to understand that Ramana himself recognized that that is the perfect name for God. The other aspect of the Bible that in our modern culture is not understood is that the Old Testament are not necessarily understood, Is that the Old Testament is the prophecy, And the New Testament is the fulfillment of that prophecy. So this is why the Old Testament is part of the Bible. And the experience of Moses on Mount Sinai is essential for understanding the teaching of Jesus, Because Moses went up on Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments. This is the famous story of Moses. And then God, Which he originally saw as a burning bush and a big booming voice that said take the sandals off your feet because you are standing on holy ground. And so this voice was asking him to free the Jewish people who were enslaved in ancient Egypt. They were forced into hard labor to build the temples of that time. And so Moses asks the voice, Because he really didn't feel like he was qualified to go free the Jewish people. And he said, Well, If I go to see Pharaoh, Who are you? What is your name? And the voice said, I am that I am. Tell the Pharaoh, I am sent you. So this is critical to understand, To the understanding of the teaching of Jesus, Because I am is the name of God. And many of the statements that still confuse people to this day, The teaching of Jesus is contained in the I am statements that he makes in the Bible. I am the door. Anyone who enters through me will find themselves lying in green pastures. I am the vine and you are the branches. So God is the vine and you are the branches. This is complete and total oneness, Right? Advaita Vedanta. Oneness with the ever present, Vast intelligence, The invisible presence of God. I am. And that I am is the gateway in you to your own direct realization of the I am. This vast, Invisible, Indescribable presence, The living truth that is alive in your heart. So I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. No one comes to the Father except through me, Right? We talked about this last time. The me is the gateway. Me is this ego, This sense that you are your physical body. This is completely aligned with the teaching of Ramana Maharshi, Sri, Sri, Sri, Bhagavan, Ramana Maharshi, Right? The code breaker that enables you to see Jesus and his incredible teaching in a whole new way. So John 14 6 is the cornerstone of all Christianity. This is the famous statement. I am the way, The truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. And that is seen in Christianity as the Christ, The physical form of Christ as the avatar, The Son of God, Right, The most holy Son of God is the only way to God is how it is seen because of this fundamental misconception of the I am statements that Jesus made before Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I am. Now here's a 30 year old man saying before Abraham, Before Jacob, Before Isaac, I am. So the crowd, Mostly Jewish people were very upset by this statement. This is heresy. This is insanity. You're only 30 years old. What are you talking about? You didn't exist before Abraham or Isaac or Jacob, Right? So they wanted to kill him, But he slips through the crowd and he disappears, Right? He escaped certain death because they were going to stone him. And that time if you were a heretic, Everyone would just, A mob would gather around you and that would be it. You would be stoned to death. So Jesus came for a very specific purpose and the Old Testament and the New Testament are connected by prophecy and the fulfillment of the prophecy. It's in the present tense, Meaning that when you really examine scripture, The scripture of the Bible and allow yourself to traverse time and be with Jesus. So you are Peter. You are Thomas. You are Matthew. You are Luke. And when you recognize that you are the disciple that he is talking to, That Jesus is talking to, The whole Bible comes to life. It's this living, Alive, Breathing document. And this is why it's still in existence. If it was just a story, Even though it's a fantastic, Miraculous story, We wouldn't even know about it, Right? Anything that happened 2000 years ago. Many miraculous events occurred 2000 years ago that are not documented, That we don't remember, We don't know anything about, But we know about Jesus. And it's way more than just the miracles of Jesus. This living truth is alive in the Bible. Once you have this basic context, So context is essential. Direct experience gives you the context for understanding the Bible. So when you inquire into your own heart, This is the teaching of Ramana Maharshi. When you actually question this me that you think you are, Which is the nature of self inquiry, Is to recognize that the me is reflective consciousness. This is one of the most important aspects of Ramana's teaching, To recognize that the me is reflective consciousness and it is reflecting your five senses. So when you're in the waking state, When you wake up in the morning, The reflective consciousness of ego is reflecting everything you see, Everything you think, Everything you remember, Everything you imagine, Everything you've learned and most of it is unconscious, Right? So we're not fully present even though we're awake. But the very second that you inquire, The very second you see through the mirage of this me and you fall through the me into your heart, Which is just to the right of your physical heart, Then and only then do you have a direct experience of the vast intelligence we call God. I am that I am. This is the essence of Ramana's teaching. I am the way, The way, The me is the way. I am the truth, Right? The I am through the me is the truth. I am the life. The life that is beating your heart is the pure consciousness, The pure awareness. Do you see how these two teachings are aligned perfectly because they are revealing the absolute? This is not a relative truth. Relative truth is what happened in your day, Whatever happened since this morning, That's the relative truth or what happened last week or what you remember from last year or 10 years ago. That's a relative truth based on your experience, But the absolute truth is true for everyone. Relative truth is true for you. You remember what you were doing last year. Maybe you don't remember, But your memory is a relative truth. The absolute truth is this living eternal presence that's alive in your heart. This is what the gift of Ramana. This is what makes him the code breaker. Then when you look at Christ and you recognize that I am is the name of God, Then God is the way. God is the truth. God is the life. This is the consciousness alive within your heart. We tend to think of consciousness as being our mind. I think and I feel thoughts in my head. But if you pay very close attention and very, Very close attention and you are quiet, You can see that your thoughts do not come from the brain. They do not come from your head. They come from the consciousness alive in your heart. When you follow them out into the world, This is the nature of suffering. When you turn your attention inward, Seeing through the me, Then the me transforms from suffering into the way, The truth, And the life. Do you see how profound this shift is when you recognize that God is the way, God is the truth, God is the life, And then God is alive in your heart? It's through the heart that you access this living truth for yourself. It's through God that you access this. Now the other aspect of Jesus is surrender and total complete surrender and obedience to this omniscience. He had total trust in God, Which is unseen. It's the unseen realm. Moses is important because he heard the name of God. The role of Moses was the exodus. He went to the Pharaoh who was his brother. They were raised together as brothers. It came out when he was a young man that Moses was not the Pharaoh. He was not who they thought he was. He was a Jewish baby that was saved from the Nile, This famous story. Moses was a baby. To protect this baby from being murdered by the king, Because all the babies were being killed at that time, Anyone that was Jewish, The firstborn son. They put him in the basket to save him. The Pharaoh's sister found the basket with the baby and took Moses to be her own son. This is so important to understand that Moses and the Pharaoh were raised together as brothers. Moses was actually the favored son by Ramses, The father. There was a sibling rivalry going on between Moses and Ramses II who became the Pharaoh. Moses is sent to end slavery. Jesus is also ending slavery, The new covenant. He is the lamb of God. He is the sacrifice to reveal eternal life. This is the new covenant. I am the bread of life. Eat this bread and remember me. I am the blood of life. Drink this blood and remember me. When people heard this, This was a total sacrilege for a Jewish person to hear this. Eat his body. Drink his blood. Blood in that ancient time was considered life. The sacrifice of the lambs in the temple was to honor the Passover. This is all about Moses and the Exodus and the Passover. And the Passover was putting, You sacrifice the lamb and you put the blood of life around your door. You paint the door with the blood of life to protect you from the angel of death. This is how the Jewish people were saved from the final plague that was sent against Pharaoh, Which was the firstborn son would die through the angel of death that went through the whole city. It was like this mist that went through the entire city because Pharaoh wouldn't listen. There were several miracles. He turned the Nile to blood, The water turned to blood. And that's also significant because remember the Old Testament is the prophecy. The New Testament is the fulfillment of the prophecy. So think about the very first miracle of Jesus. The very first miracle of Jesus is turning water to wine. Moses turned the water of the river Nile into blood. There's the connection between the two. So the water turned to wine is a foreshadowing of the Eucharist. The Eucharist is, This is my body. I am the bread of life. This is my body. Eat and remember me. This is the most sacred moment with the disciples just before the crucifixion. So last time we looked at the actual crucifixion of Christ and the role that Pontius Pilate played in that he didn't really want to execute Jesus. He really didn't want to be put in that situation. His wife had had a dream and she was frantically upset and crying and saying, You can't kill this man. He is innocent. It's a really, Really bad thing to do. This man is divine. He is sent here from God. So his wife, Pontius Pilate's wife, Has this dream and is begging him not to kill Jesus. Then he meets Jesus and he realizes pretty obviously that this man is innocent of what he's been accused of. So he looks for all these different ways of getting out of the situation, Even having the people decide between Barbarus, Which was a terrorist, A known thief and criminal, Had killed Roman soldiers, And then Jesus who had been scourged and was wearing a crown of thorns. Really Pontius Pilate was certain this would get him off the hook, But then the crowd went for Barbarus and then Pilate was forced to execute Jesus. But there was a point, There was a pivotal point when he goes to talk to Jesus like the third or fourth time and he's trying to talk to him. This is after he was scourged, But Jesus just will not respond. And then Pilate gets really frustrated and he says, Don't you realize who I am? I'm the governor of this province. I can free you or I can execute you. I have that kind of power. I have the power of life and death over you. And then Jesus looks him in the eye and says, You have no power over me unless it is granted by my father. I am in this world, But I am not of this world. This is the teaching of Jesus with Pilate. So there's so much to this story. It's so rich. It's such a rich context for understanding Jesus, But also understanding the eternal truth that he is eternally pointing to. That he is eternally pointing to. And during that conversation with Pilate, Jesus says, He says what his purpose is. My purpose is to bear witness to the truth. And then Pilate says, What is the truth? And Jesus stares him in the eyes and is silent. This is the living truth. The silence of the unseen presence of God. And then Pilate is just, Whoa, Shocked. The energy coming off of Jesus. He knows he's innocent. He knows the Jewish elders are up to something. But they keep saying that Jesus says he's a king. And even that reveals this dimension, This other dimension to Jesus because Pilate said, Well, They say that you are a king. Is this true? Are you a king? And Jesus once again looks him in the eyes and says, You say that I am a king, But I am not of this world. My kingdom is somewhere else, Right? So what kingdom is he referring to? This is this mysterious interchange between Pilate and Jesus. This profound, Timeless moment. So when you allow yourself to realize that it was never meant to be a story from ancient times, That it's always in the present because this is the nature of that eternal invisible realm. It is always here, Always now, Always alive, Always fresh, Always present. So when you're standing there as a witness to these events, It totally transforms everything because you see this exchange with Pilate and Jesus. And Pilate kind of really wanting to know who is this guy? Why has he got everybody so riled up? He didn't understand the Jewish faith and he certainly didn't understand Jesus, Why Jesus would basically allow himself to be crucified. He recognized that there was something very unusual about Jesus, That there was this radiant presence pouring out of him. Pilate would have felt that and many of the Jewish elders were very uncomfortable with Caiaphas, Who was the head elder that wanted Jesus to be killed as a heretic. So just examining that one moment in time, This conversation between Pilate and Jesus, There's this other dimension to that conversation that is often overlooked. It's overlooked. So we're starting where it ended, But it's like this continuum. It's like the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. So the end is actually the beginning of the gospel of Jesus. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus begins the day of the crucifixion. And we looked at the power and the grace of the Virgin Mary and John and Mary Magdalene because they were the only ones with the courage to stand there until it was over, To stand there and be a witness to the execution, The brutal execution of Jesus, Who they loved with all of their hearts, All of their mind, All of their soul. And Mary, As the mother of Jesus, Her heart broke open, Devastating, Helpless to see her biological son killed in such a manner. The heartbreak of that, When you really are standing there with Mary and John and Mary Magdalene and you see the tears coming down her face because her heart is broken. Her son is being killed right in front of her eyes and she can't do anything about it. So the heartbreak, The pain of that is unimaginable. And of course this is never what she envisioned for Jesus, Who is the divine one, The divine baby that she gave birth to, That these ancient kings came to honor in the manger, Right? The birth of Christ was heralded by an archangel. These events happened. It is not a story. It is so important to understand that the archangel appeared to Mary. It actually happened. There are beings in another realm called angels that have supernatural powers. And the birth of Jesus was heralded by an archangel, The archangel Gabriel, The same archangel that gave the Quran, Which is now the Muslim faith, To Muhammad. So when you understand this inner connectivity and that these events actually happened and forget about the mind, Looking for proof, Looking for proof, Looking and looking and looking for historical information, Forget that because the realm of God does not operate the way things operate on the physical plane. The realm of God is the quantum realm. And if you study quantum mechanics and you can start to appreciate the power of the invisible, The vast indescribable intelligence that's alive in your own heart, Right? So looking at this conversation between Pilate and Jesus and the inner connectivity even to Moses, That Jesus is the new Moses, But instead of sacrificing a lamb to put the blood of the lamb around your door, You ingest the blood. You drink the blood. You eat the bread, The bread of life. This is total surrender to God. You are merging with God. This is the sanctity of the Eucharist. When you receive the bread and the body, Which is the body, The bread of life itself and the blood, The blood is life. It is what brings the prana, The air through your entire body. Without breath, Without blood, You die. So when you ingest the bread and you drink the wine, You are merging with this eternal presence alive in your heart. That is really the new covenant. And it's the end of sacrificing the lambs. In ancient times, In the temple of Solomon, The temple of David in Jerusalem, 250, 000 lambs were sacrificed in the temple. So just imagine the magnitude of the sacrifice, The Passover. And the temple was designed in a way so that the altar, When you sacrifice the lamb, The blood and the water would mingle together and there was a drain and it would come out the side of the temple. So if you were standing in the distance, Looking at the temple in ancient times, During the Passover, What would you see coming out of the side of the temple is blood and water. And when Christ is crucified, He dies relatively quickly. It's like six hours or so. Usually it can go on for days. Crucifixion is a horrendous and slow death. But the soldier takes a spear and stabs Jesus in the side. So what comes out is blood and water. So the body of Christ represents the temple, Right? Which is built on the rock of Abraham, Right? So the rock of Abraham, So the story of Abraham is also essential to understand that Abraham so trusted the voice of God, This eternal, Intelligent presence, That he was willing to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, Right? So then you see this connection between Moses and Abraham. And here's Jesus as the sacrifice, The lamb of God. And he's offering his body to show you eternal life. And then once you really receive this teaching in your heart, Then the angel of death can never touch you. Never. Because who you are is eternal life, Is the way, Is the truth. And then you can start to really feel the power of this transmission, Because the conversation between Pilate and Jesus is a transmission of the eternal truth that is timeless in time. And when you're standing there, Seeing this unfold and feeling what Pilate must have felt, Like he was also set up, Jesus was framed and then so was Pilate. He was put in an impossible situation because he knew if he didn't do what the elders wanted, Caiaphas and the high priests of the temple, Then he would have a rebellion on his hands. He would look bad. It was a career ender for Pilate. So when you really see the humanity in this situation. Now why did the Jewish elders want to kill Jesus, Right? He was a threat. He was a threat to their authority, To their power. They were very powerful men because they were the ones responsible for the sacrifice, The sacrament of Moses honoring the Exodus. This was extremely important to the Jewish people, Especially at that time. And it's still true to this day, Right? So understanding all of this gives you a deeper context for really embracing the true teachings of Jesus, Which is transcendent of dogma, The dogma of religion, Which is man's attempt to define or contain something that is not something you can contain, Right? So part of Kōji Radio Voice is to free Jesus from the box of religion because we can more readily accept the teachings of Buddha or maybe even Muhammad. But Jesus, There is a stigma associated with Jesus because of certainly the Catholic faith and the corruption of the Catholic faith. And then all the different scandals that we've heard about since the beginning of time around Jesus, The wars that were fought in the name of Jesus, All of this can leave you feeling a little uneasy with this man known as Jesus. So he's been put in a kind of the box of religion. And once you release him from the box of religion, Then he is a living presence. He is the risen Christ, Right? The messenger, Right? He is the messenger, The witness, The eternal witness. That was what he was born for, To bear witness to the living truth that's alive in your heart. And what makes him unusual is he is an avatar beyond all ideas of an avatar. That is someone who is born with a divine purpose and does not go through the normal human suffering. He was born completely and totally enlightened, Completely and totally pure and divine in every way. In every way. Social union, The Toria Tita state that Ramana spoke of. Jesus was an embodiment of Toria Tita, Which is beyond the experiencer. I am in this world, But I am not of this world. This is the teaching of Jesus, Transcendent of space and time. The last time we looked at this conversation with Jesus and Pilate and the exodus of Moses and the Pharaoh, Who was his brother. So of course he wasn't going to listen to Moses, But Moses had the stick, Right? The walking stick, Which was infused with the grace and power of God. And this is how he was able to send the different plagues against the Pharaoh to free the Jewish people and Jesus came to free us all, Regardless of religious beliefs, To free everyone from the bondage of mind, Ego and body. This is the purpose of Jesus Christ, To reveal to you your eternal nature. But over the centuries, The dogmatic perspective slowly but surely kind of imprisoned Christ. So to set him free is to recognize that it is timeless in time. That he is speaking directly to you when he's talking to Peter, He's speaking directly to you. And that when you allow the words of Christ to be received in that way, Then it changes everything. And when he spoke, He knew that. He already knew that because an avatar is an oracle. An avatar is not limited by time and space, Right? He knew what was going to happen. He told the disciples, I'm going to be crucified, Right? That's what's going to happen. I am going to be crucified. But the disciples could not receive that at the time that it would confuse them. They didn't know what he was talking about until it happened, Right? And then Peter, Who was the rock, Denies he even knows Jesus. And the reason Jesus told him that you will deny me three times is because Peter loved Jesus and said, I will lay down my life for you. But Jesus knew they would all betray him. All of them would betray him. They would all run away. He already knew that. So he tells Peter, Before the cock crows three times, You'll deny me. You'll deny you even know me. And that, Of course, Peter becomes terrified when Jesus is arrested. So there's another teaching in the Garden of Gethsemane, Which is such a powerful and potent teaching. This is the night before Jesus is arrested, Right? So the Garden of Gethsemane is a famous garden in Jerusalem where Jesus spent a lot of time with the apostles teaching them. They had satsang in the Garden of Gethsemane. And so the final night, That's where they were. They had already had the Last Supper. He had already told them he was going to be crucified. He sang the song, The ancient song of the Psalms, Right? He sang that at the Last Supper. So when you really take this in and you imagine Jesus singing these ancient prayers, Right? Because of the living truth, Which is part of the Jewish faith. And he was a rabbi, Right? He was a teacher. He was a Jewish teacher. So naturally he would have sung. And he revealed this new covenant that he was the bread of life. And to remember him, The Eucharist is about remembering who you are. The Eucharist is remembering your eternal nature that you are not this limited body that will one day die, Right? This is the nature of the Eucharist, To receive in yourself eternal life. And the alchemy of the Eucharist is to recognize that you are that eternal life. This is the new covenant that is often misunderstood, Right? The Eucharist is revealing the truth of your eternal nature. But in the garden, So they have the Last Supper, They're in the garden. Jesus knows he's about to be arrested. And the disciples at this point are still with him. So he says to them, I'm very distraught. He was terrified in the Garden of Gethsemane. This is the humanity of Jesus. So Jesus was well aware of his divine purpose. He was well aware that he had to sacrifice his body, Be whipped and crucified in this torturous death. And that night, The night before he's arrested, He is terrified. So he tells the disciples, I need to pray. So stay here, Stay watch, Stay awake while I go pray. So he goes off to pray and he kneels down in anguish, In total terror about what is about to happen to him. He is completely and totally terrified. Sweat is rolling down his face, His entire body. He is so terrified, He sweats blood as he's kneeling there. And he is begging God, Begging the unseen intelligence to remove this cup from me. Please let somebody else bear witness to the truth. I don't want to die this horrible death. I don't want to experience this. Can you please God, Take this from me? I can't do it. I'm too afraid. I'm terrified. And then in that moment, There's a shift in consciousness. There is a massive shift in consciousness within Jesus. And he realizes he has to surrender. So in that moment of blood, Sweat, So afraid, He's sweating blood. And they've proven this now scientifically. If you are terrified, You can actually sweat blood. So he's that terrified. And then suddenly he says, Not my will, But yours be done. And it's in that moment that Jesus has the courage to go through with his divine purpose, Which is to be the lamb of God, The sacrifice that reveals eternal life to everyone, To everyone. So he says this intense, Intense prayer. And he goes back to talk to the disciples. And what's happened to them is they've all passed out. They were waiting for him. They got sleepy. And they're all sound asleep. It's in his hour of need. And the disciples are already starting to abandon him. And he's like, Wake up. Can't you stay awake in this hour when I need you the most? And then he goes back and he prays some more. And Peter, They all woke up. They felt a little guilty, And they're not really sure what's going on. And then Judas appears with the Roman soldiers to arrest Jesus. And even though they have been warned that this was going to happen, They were all shocked. And Peter reacted the most violently in that moment. To protect Jesus, He chops off the ear of one of the messengers, A Jewish messenger. He cuts off his ear. And Jesus immediately steps in and stops it and says, No, Whoever lives by the sword will die by the sword. That's not what I'm here for. I am not here to fight. And he grabs this man's ear and he puts it back on his head and literally puts his hand on this man's head. And the ear is completely restored as if nothing had happened. This happens in front of everybody. And everybody, Including the soldiers, The Jewish people that were there to arrest him, The disciples were all just like, Whoa, And terrified as well. Because crucifixion was a horrendous death. So of course the disciples were terrified of what was happening about Jesus being arrested, But also terrified of Jesus himself, That he had this kind of power, That he could put his hand on this man's head and immediately heal his ear right in front of everybody. It wasn't a sci-fi movie. He put his hand on this man's head and his ear was completely restored. There was no blood. Everything was back to the way it was. Like he just transversed time and healed him in front of everyone. And then Judah steps forward because the Roman soldiers say, Well, Which one is Jesus? Because they didn't know who Jesus was. And so Judah steps forward and kisses Jesus on the cheek. And Jesus looks at Judas and says, You betray the son of man with a kiss? And then they throw a hood over him and take him off to the prison. This is happening the night before in the early dawn hours. He's arrested, Right? And taken to be crucified. But the miracle of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane is not that he healed the man's ear. That is a city. That is a spiritual power that he had. He had many spiritual powers. He could heal the lame and cure the sick and rose Lazarus from the dead. So he had cities, Spiritual powers. And this is known to exist. Spiritual powers do exist. But it has nothing to do with the essence of this story. Everyone's fascinated by the miracles of Christ. But they overlook, When you focus on the miracle or the city, The spiritual power, You overlook the deeper meaning. And the deepest meaning of the Garden of Gethsemane is surrender. And when you totally surrender to the omniscience, Even though it might seem strange, Even though it might be terrifying, Even though it just doesn't make sense in the context of the two dimensional world in which we live, When you totally surrender to that, It serves a much, Much higher purpose. And then this tremendous courage comes with Christ in the garden, Sweating blood. And the disciples are sleepy and fall asleep. They abandoned him in his hour of need. But God hasn't. God is eternal. God was there. God was the light. God was the eternal presence alive in Jesus. And Jesus surrendered to that. That is the essence of the Garden of Gethsemane. And then this movement to fight, Peter, Is the egoic impulse to fight, To protect. Peter was trying to protect Jesus. But this is the ego. And the nature of the biochemistry of suffering is to fight, To be right, To fight to protect, To fight to run away. And Jesus says, No, No, No, No, No, Stop. That's not what I'm here for. I'm not here to fight. I must allow the will of the Father, Which means I have to be arrested. I have to surrender. And you do too. Right? So he stops Peter. But what happens then, Once he's arrested, They scatter. The disciples run. Because in that moment, When Jesus is taken, Their fear, It went from shock, Which is a natural human reaction, To terror. Oh my God, We're in trouble. We could be crucified too, Just for knowing him. And then Peter wants to know what's happening. So he runs to the temple. But he's still trying to hide. But he wants to know. So Judas and the Roman soldiers take Jesus to the high council, Where Caiaphas is the leader. Right? They take Jesus to be basically tried in the middle of the night for heresy, So that they can crucify him. Because they are terrified that Jesus is going to cause major problems during the Passover, Which was their very, Very most sacred day of the entire year. So they felt like they had to get rid of him. He was too much of a threat. And he couldn't possibly be the Messiah that they'd been praying for for centuries. He just didn't match what they imagined the Messiah, Which his messenger would be like. Here's Jesus fulfilling the prophecy down to very detailed fulfillment of the prophecy of Moses that was well documented as part of the Jewish faith. But Jesus didn't look the part. Here's this guy with kind of long hair, Kind of radical, Saying outrageous things in the temple before Abraham, Jacob, And Isaac, I am. How could this be? He can't be the Messiah. He is a charlatan. He is a heretic. So they bring him to Caiaphas, But Peter is outside terrified. But he's kind of there trying to ascertain what is going on. This isn't how it's supposed to happen. Jesus is supposed to be. He's the son of God. He's supposed to free us. It's not supposed to happen like this. So he's in shock. He's terrified, But he's outside kind of waiting to see what is the counsel of these elders going to say. And meanwhile, Jesus is brought into basically a kangaroo court. And a kangaroo court is basically being set up. He's being set up and framed so they can get rid of what they perceive to be a problem to their position of power. It's a threat to their position of power. This is ego. Ego is always threatened by power, Especially if it's sacred power. There's a threat. So they're terrified of Jesus, Especially because he rose Lazarus from the dead. And thousands of people were following Jesus. Over 5, 000 were present for the Sermon on the Mount, Where he transformed a small little bundle of bread and a few fish into enough food to feed 5, 000 people. That's the second miracle of Christ. The first was turning water to wine, And then the second was feeding 5, 000 people with a small amount of bread and a few fish. And 5, 000 people were there. But the power of Christ is his complete and total surrender and trust in God, Complete and total surrender. So when he revealed the new covenant, Which was sealed in his body and blood, When he revealed the Eucharist, I am the bread of life, Eat this and remember me. This is not a metaphor. In many Christian churches, This is seen as a metaphor, But it's not a metaphor. It is the living bread. The Eucharist is the living bread of Christ. And the wine is the living blood of Christ. It's so important to understand it is not a metaphor. A true Eucharist service, You are completely merging with the body, Mind, Soul, Spirit, The unseen intelligence of God. That is what the Eucharist represents. So he reveals that. He's in a boat the first time he brings this up, Right after the Sermon of the Mount. Five thousand people, People are bringing all their sick people. It's just all these people are hearing about the miracles of Jesus and they're all surrounding. They heard about the bread and the fish. So there's even more people, Probably more than five thousand people. So he reveals this new covenant and they all leave. They all walk away, Shaking their heads. This guy's nuts. This is sacrilege. He's a heretic or he's completely mad. He's insane. Jesus doesn't stop them. He wasn't a marketeer. He wasn't marketing God, Right? He had a divine purpose and he was well aware that not everyone was going to understand. Even the disciples didn't understand and they were the closest to him. So he lets them all walk away in a big dust cloud. Five thousand people. You can just imagine the exodus of the Jewish people in that moment. This big cloud of dust as they walk away, Shaking their heads. We thought he was the Messiah, But he turned out to be a crazy guy. So they all left. Jesus looks around at the disciples and says, Are you going to leave too? He asked them, Are you going to leave? He doesn't say, Wait a minute. It's just a metaphor. No, He came for that divine purpose. That was his mission. To die as the sacrificial lamb that reveals eternal life as a demonstration of that. So that you could have your own direct experience of that in the Eucharist, In receiving the body and blood of the risen Christ, The risen Christ. This is your eternal nature, Revealing the truth of who you are. This is the covenant, The new covenant, But everybody left. And then he said, Well, Are you going to leave too? And he knew they were going to leave. They all betrayed him. Peter was the worst and he was the rock. He was Sifas, The rock, The one who recognized that Christ was the son of God. This is why Jesus looked at, He asked the disciples, Who am I to you? I know what all these people are saying and murmuring about me, But what do you say? Who do you say that I am? And Peter said, You are the son of God. And Jesus stopped and said, You didn't say that, But God revealed this in this moment. You are the rock upon which my church will be built. So Peter was the rock, The revelation of God. So it was the revelation of God that Peter received in that moment when Jesus said, Who do you say that I am? Peter looked at him and said, You are the son of God. So this is the revelation. It's not Peter, The man that is the rock. It's the revelation of God, Which is eternal and unseen and invisible. This is what was revealed in his revelation. This is the rock upon which Jesus was destined to build his church, The revelation of God as eternal life alive in you. And when you build your house upon that rock, It can rain and storm and you can have problems in your life. But if you have built your house on the rock, The invisible presence of God, The revelation of God of eternal life, Then you have no fear. You welcome what is. You have surrendered to that and are at peace and content and very, Very alive and here and now. So this is the rock that was Peter, Not the man that freaked out. And anybody would get scared in that time period. He could have easily been crucified easily. His master just got arrested and was taken to the high council. So of course he was terrified. The human being was terrified. The ego was terrified. The mind was terrified. So Peter runs to the temple to see what's going on, What's the council going to say. And he's probably hoping that it's just a big misunderstanding and the high council will release him. But while he's standing there, He's warming himself by a fire. And you could put yourself in Peter's place. If you were with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane and you love Jesus, He is your teacher, He is your master, He is your everything, He has revealed these sublime seeds of truth and planted them in your heart and your mind and you love Him, There's this fire of love, There's this grace of love. And then these soldiers show up and you're Peter? What are you going to do? Of course you're going to attack. In that time frame, Even now, A man would definitely protect, Stop, Cut off his ear, Stop this man, Stop this from happening. This is not what I want to be happening. This is ego, Right? So this is not the rock of Peter. This is the mind and ego of Peter, Which is naturally afraid. So he's standing there warming himself by the fire. And you can just imagine, He probably is even shaking, Not from the cold, But he's shaking because he's just in shock and he's like, What is going on? I love this man and they're going to kill him. Something bad is happening. You get this feeling when something bad is going down, You feel it. You know in your bones, Something is going down and it's not good. And that's how he felt. And then people started to recognize him. And they said, Hey, Aren't you Peter? Weren't you a disciple of Jesus, The guy they just arrested? And Peter's like, No, No, It's not me. And then somebody else says, No, I recognize you. I remember you were there on the sermon of the bow when he was turned the loaves and to the five, To feed the 5, 000. You were there. I saw you. I remember you. No, No, No, That's not me. I don't know this man. I don't know Jesus. And then somebody else says the same thing and looks at him and says, I do recognize you. You are definitely with hanging out with the disciples. And he does not nice him one more time. He's like, No, I don't know Jesus. I am just here. Just like everybody else. I'm here for the Passover. I don't know Jesus. And then the cock goes, Right? The crow, The cock, Which is a rooster crows, Which is exactly what Jesus said would happen. So I mean the shock of that, Right? In that moment for Peter was heartbreaking. He had betrayed the man who was his master teacher. He loved him with all his heart, All his mind, All his soul. He had changed his life. He had transformed his life in so many ways, In ways that can never be spoken. So here's Peter denying he even knows him. And Jesus told him this would happen. So when the cock crows, He kind of just crawls away into an alley and cries, Sobs. He betrayed just like Judas. He was no different than Judas, The heartbreak of that. Meanwhile Jesus is inside with the council, Right, And Caiaphas, Really Nicodemus. And there were some Jewish elders that really felt like, First of all, They shouldn't be having this kind of kangaroo court because it was happening in the middle of the night, Which was highly unusual. Usually if there was an issue of this nature where somebody was being accused of heresy, The council would debate it and talk about it for several days, If not weeks, Before coming to some kind of a conclusion. So it was highly unusual. And Nicodemus certainly and other elders were very uncomfortable with the situation. And they were actually trying to defend Jesus, Right, Because they had witnessed some of the miracles. They had been there when the blind man was healed. Nicodemus was there when Jesus looked at the coin. They were trying to entrap him by saying, Do you pay taxes? Should people not pay taxes to Caesar? It was a moment of trying to entrap him. And they also tried to entrap him with the woman that was going to be stoned to death for adultery. And Nicodemus especially was just amazed by the radiant presence of Jesus, But not just his presence. It was his radiance was coming through his eyes. So you could actually see the light shining through his face, Shining through his eyes. So Nicodemus was mesmerized by that, But also by the wisdom of Jesus. So Jesus had profound wisdom. So with the woman that committed adultery, Right, This is the famous scene where they're all going to stone this woman because they actually caught her in bed with another man. And the punishment at that time and still in parts of the Middle East, If you're caught in that fashion as an adulteress, The woman is immediately stoned to death. So here they are all with their stones and they look at Jesus and say, Master, What would you do? We've caught this woman red handed. So again, They're trying to set him up. They're trying to find a reason to arrest Jesus. And Jesus doesn't even look up. He's drawing on the ground a fish, The shape of a fish on the ground. And then he just is quiet and everyone gets very quiet and he's drawing in the sand. And then he looks up and he picks up a stone as if he's going to throw it at this woman. And he says, He looks at all of these men standing around ready to stone her and said, He who is without sin can cast the first stone. He who is without sin. They all knew they were guilty of sin, Right? Which is being at the effect of your mind and ego. That's the nature of sin. That is what sin is being at the effect of mind and ego. So they knew that they were all guilty of sin. Who isn't guilty of making mistakes, Of thinking the world is real and more important than God, Right? So they all dropped their stone. So Nicodemus was there for that. He was there with the coin when Jesus turns and says, Whose picture is on this coin? And he says, Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. So he had this unbelievable wisdom. Even when he was 12 years old, He had wisdom. He wasn't just smart. He wasn't just intelligent. He had the wisdom of God. He had the wisdom of God. Because he was God. He was in the Teria Tita state, Beyond the fourth state. This is Ramana's teaching. He was way beyond the physical realm that we perceive with our eyes, Right? Our ears, Our nose, Our mouth, Our feeling nature. He was way beyond that. So Caiaphas is determined to do Jesus in. So even though Nicodemus and some of them are trying to convince him that there's something very special about Jesus, He's not your typical fraud. There was a lot of people pretending to be the Messiah at that time. So they were all in their own way trying to defend. Several of them were trying to defend Jesus. But Caiaphas was having none of this and turned to Jesus and said, Are you the son of God? And Jesus looks at him and says, Yes, I am the son of God. And this is so upsetting to Caiaphas as the head elder. He literally, In a very dramatic fashion, Grabs his cloak. And he rips his shirt open. And he said, This is heresy. Are you saying that you are a king? That you are the king of David? The king of Solomon? The king of the Jews? This is heresy. And the punishment for heresy at that time was death. But it's a setup. First of all, Caiaphas was genuine. He believed that this guy is a heretic to make such a claim. To stand there and say, Yes, I am the son of God. I am the son of man. This was a big shock to the count. Even Nicodemus was like, Whoa, I'm trying to help you out here, Jesus, But this is way over the top. This is too much. I can't defend you now. You are doomed. And it was in that moment that they took him to see Pilate. But by this point, Jesus had been betrayed by the people closest to him. His disciples, His students had betrayed him. They all ran. With the exception of Mary, The Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, And John, Who had the courage to bear witness to the end of Jesus and the power of that moment, And to recognize that the Virgin Mary would have known that something huge was happening, Something beyond. The heartbreak, Yes, Her biological son was being murdered right in front of her, And the heartbreak of that. But there was this wonderment, This knowing that something huge, Something that they could not have foreseen was unfolding right in front of their eyes. And Mary Magdalene and John, The three of them knew that something huge was happening, Was unfolding right in front of their eyes. Beautiful story, And more than a story in time, Transcendent of time. So when you put yourself in Peter's place and allow yourself to feel what it would have been like to be totally afraid, To deny, To pretend like you don't even know Jesus, And the shame of that and the guilt of that. And then when he rises again, The humility of that, Right? He had denied that he even knew Jesus, And then Jesus is standing there alive, And the shock of that, Because in that realm, In the realm of God, Anything is possible. This is not going to be proven by historical fact. It's just a fact. And in science, They're starting to recognize this on the quantum level, In the subatomic realm. Things behave much differently than they do in the physical realm. And this is the realm of God, The invisible realm, The quantum realm, The intelligence that's vast and indescribable, That is alive in your own heart. And this is what this story is all meant to reveal, That surrendering to that sets you free from the fear of the mind and ego, From the suffering of the body, From the suffering of the mind, From all of that suffering. It sets you free from that. And then when you really allow that to penetrate into your heart, Then you can receive the deep, Deep teaching that this was meant to transmit. It is a transmission of eternal truth. And this has nothing to do with religion. I know this story is so connected to Christianity. But if you let Jesus out of the box called Christian or the box called Catholic, The box called dogma, And you see him as this divine teacher with a sacred purpose to reveal your eternal nature, Then you can see him in the eternal light that he is and always will be the living eternal presence that's alive in your own heart, The presence of God that is always fresh, Always alive, Always here and now. So Peter has this opportunity. Jesus was after the crucifixion. Jesus appeared several times after the crucifixion. For 40 days, He was around on earth still. He appeared first to Mary Magdalene. And then one day when they were out fishing, Peter took some of the disciples out to fish. And they were out all night fishing, But they hadn't caught anything. And they came back to the shore with basically an empty boat, No fish. And back then that was a big deal because it meant you were probably going to go hungry. And they're coming up to the shore and there's a man on the shore. Well, The man on the shore is Jesus, But they don't recognize him at first because he was so transformed by the crucifixion. There was an alchemy that occurred with Jesus. So he was transfigured. He was Jesus and beyond that, This is the alchemy of the resurrected Jesus, Right? And so Jesus calls out to them and says, Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will catch some fish. So they throw the net in and suddenly this huge swarm of fish, It's so heavy, They could barely lift it into the boat. The whole boat practically tips over as they're pulling in this net full of fish. And then suddenly Peter looks at the man on the shore and he's looking at the net and he's looking at Jesus and he recognizes him. So what does he do? He dives off the boat and he's practically naked. He has no clothes on. He just has a little loincloth on. He dives in, He swims to the shore and he runs to Jesus. He runs to his master feeling guilt of denying him and he kneels down in front of Jesus and says, Please forgive me. And then Jesus was cooking some fish and had some bread and wine. He said, Sit down and eat with me. You know, He dusts them off and they're sitting there together by the fire. And Jesus looks Peter in the eyes and he's looking you in the eyes right now and says, Peter, Do you love me? And Peter shocked by this. And he said, Well, Of course, You know, I love you, Jesus. I do. I love you. And Jesus is quiet, Looks down at the ground, Looks back up deep into Peter's eyes and says, Peter, Do you love me? And Peter says, Yes, Lord. Yes, I love you. And he says, Tend my flock, Tend my flock, Guide my sheep. Then he looks down at the ground again and he looks up deep into Peter's eyes and says, Peter, Do you love me? And at this point, Peter starts crying and says, Yes, Lord, With all my heart, I love you. And Jesus says, Guide my flock, Lead my sheep. So he's commissioning Peter in that moment and forgiving him because it's three times he asks him, Peter, Do you love me? Peter, Do you love me? Peter, Do you love me? So there was this transmission of love in that moment, The eternal love, The unconditional love of God. And Peter received that with all of his heart and he was forgiven for denying him three times. It's a beautiful, Beautiful transmission and the love that Peter had because knowing he had denied him, Knowing that Jesus knew that he would deny him, He still dove into the water and runs to him. Now Judas felt so bad once he realized he was a pawn in the game of Caiaphas and these elders. He was so ashamed of what happened. He famously throws back the money he had received from the elders to betray Jesus. He throws the silver coins back at them. And then he goes out in despair, Kills himself. He just hangs himself from a tree because he's so wretched in that moment, So heartbroken, Devastated. He really thought that Jesus would fight and rise up and be the Messiah that he had envisioned him to be, The one that was going to create the new Jerusalem to end the rule of the Romans. He was totally disillusioned in that moment and heartbroken and felt guilty and killed himself. So he gave, He didn't allow for the forgiveness. Judas is always seen as the bad guy, But he is the human guy that really thought things should be going a different way. So this is the nature of mind. It shouldn't be like this. So if I work with the council and help them to meet Jesus, If Jesus meets with the council, I'm sure that they will recognize that he is the Messiah. So this is probably the thought process that Judas was in, But it's a mental process. It is egoic. It is trying to control the events that are unfolding. And we're all guilty of this. We're trying to change our lives so that things flow the way we want them to. We want to move our life. We want to fix the people in our life. We want to fix the circumstances in our life. And this is what Judas was trying to do. He was trying to fix it and he was trying to fix Jesus so that Jesus would match his mental idea of who the Messiah should be. And he thought that things would turn out differently with the council. And when he realized that the whole thing was a trick and he had been part of the framing of Jesus so that Jesus would be executed, He throws the money back because he realized he also had been betrayed. He was used by these elders, Right? But he didn't have the courage to meet Jesus and ask for forgiveness because it takes a tremendous amount of courage and humbling of mind, Humbling of ego to admit, Whoa, I really screwed up. Can you forgive me? I really made such a horrendous mistake. Can you forgive me? Instead, He took his own life. And in the context of Ramana's teaching, That virtually guarantees millions of incarnations. So there's an atonement for that, The egoic act of ending your life. It doesn't solve the suffering of mind, Right? So you have these two examples of Peter who was willing to be humbled and surrender at the feet of Jesus. And Jesus heals the whole thing by just saying, Well, Do you love me? Love. Love is the essence of God. God is love. And they loved each other. They were in love with love, As love. That's what Jesus is, Is love, As love, The omniscience of God as love. So this love forgives because love is always now. There is no past in love. There is no future in love. It's always alive and here and now. This is Ramana, Right, Again, Revealing the truth and the words of Jesus and the experience of Peter surrendering his mind at the feet of Jesus. So it's a beautiful, Beautiful story, A beautiful transmission of love and forgiveness. And that's what Jesus was teaching on the cross, Forgiveness, Letting go of the past. But Judas was so ashamed. There was so much shame. He couldn't do it. So he ended it, Trying to end the pain of that moment. And this is what suicide is about, Is trying to end the intense pain of ego and mind by killing off the body. So the body is seen as the problem, But the body is not the problem. It's the mind that must be overcome, The ego that must be overcome. And to overcome it, You have to be like Peter, Right? Running to God, Running to the light, Saying, Please forgive me, For I know not what I am doing. I was terrified. Forgive me. Beautiful, Right? Just so, So beautiful, So precious. So this is just another aspect of the end of, Or what was seen as the end of the ministry of Jesus, Which was ultimately just the very beginning. And Koshi Radio Voice is a new program, And there's so much here. There is so much perfect alignment with the teaching of Ramana. It's really hard to get all of this out in a two-hour timeframe and then allow for any questions that you might have. It's a very potent transmission. Jesus is meant to be a potent transmission of the eternal presence of God. That is the mission of Jesus, To reveal your eternal nature, Which is love beyond all ideas of love, Peace beyond all ideas of peace, Freedom beyond all ideas of freedom. That is the nature of the teaching of Jesus. So if you've called in, I know there's many people listening on the radio, But if you've called in and you have a question about any of this, Certainly you can raise your hand and we can have a conversation about that. Or you can just allow this transmission, This perspective of Jesus to sink in and recognize that Peter is you, Judas is you too. It's not like you're the good guy and you're not the bad guy, Which is also mind and ego. I'm the good guy, Not the bad guy. I'm the guy that would lay my life down for Jesus and then deny that you even know him. That's Peter. And we can relate to Peter because Peter always screws up, Just like any human being. And Judas as well, He betrayed Jesus thinking something completely different would unfold, That it would wake up Jesus so that these elders would finally recognize that he was the Messiah and it completely blew up in his face. That was not the mission of Jesus. He was meant to be crucified. And then when you see that that was the parabdic karma of Christ, It was the parabdic karma of Peter. They were destined to fulfill this prophecy of the lamb of God. And you allow that to sink in, Transcendent of the religion. This really isn't about religion. It's almost like religion hijacked Jesus and with good intentions to reveal this. But then Ramana pops him out of that box and then you see him in a whole new light as this radiant presence that he was on the cross. So when he was being crucified, There was this radiant light shining. I mean, He was shining. His eyes were blazing with consciousness and love, Unconditional love for the soldiers and for his mom. And he's looking at them, Forgive them for they know not what they do. He's talking about the soldiers. And even the soldiers are recognizing, Oh my God, What have we done? We've killed the Messiah and the heartbreak of Mary, The humanity of it all. And he was radiant, Eternal presence that's alive in your own heart right here and right now. This is the message of Christ, The pure message free of the bondage of dogma, Free of the construct of religion. But with that context of I am is the name of God. With the context that that was the name that Moses heard on Mount Sinai and the 10 commandments were held in the Ark of the Covenant. And the womb of Mary was the new Ark, Right? The Ark of the Covenant of the Word. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word is God, Right? This is the Ark of the Covenant and the womb of Mary. Blessed is the fruit of your womb. Jesus, Right? He is the Word. He is the living, Breathing presence of God, An avatar beyond all ideas of avatar, Enlightened beyond all ideas of enlightened, Total oneness with the unseen intelligence that is God. This is Jesus. This is the light. This is the light he came to reveal in you. He said and says, You are the light of the world, Right? I am in the Father and the Father is in me and I am in you. So there's no separation. He is revealing your divinity and he is revealing a different realm, A realm that is unseen, The realm of heaven, Paradise, Right? Remember there's two thieves being crucified with Jesus and one recognizes that Jesus is profound. I mean he's radiant, Gorgeous, Beautiful, Bloody, Beaten, But radiant life shining. He says remember me when you come into your kingdom, Right? Remember me. Jesus stares at him. Can you imagine being that thief and you're just the fire coming out of Jesus's eyes, This radiant presence of God saying today you will be with me in paradise. Today you will be with me in paradise and the transmission of that. So there's just so much, So much to this ancient, Timeless, Present, Alive, Eternal transmission of God. Jesus is that and you are that as well. Eternal life, The radiant presence of God. Eternal love, Unconditional presence, Eternal life. And when you surrender to that infinite presence alive in your heart, When you say out loud and inside, Not my will, Not what I want, But what you want, God. What do you want? I surrender to your will, Not mine, Because your will is limited to the body, But the will of God is transcendent of everything. Not my will, Not my limited ridiculous perspective, But your will. I surrender to that as that vastness, Right? This is the grace of Ramana. So rendering to that as that vastness, That love that defies description. It's impossible to describe this love. It's beyond all ideas of love. So incredible, So pure, So here, So alive, So fresh. And now, And when you realize that you are that eternal life, This is the gift of Ramana. This is direct experience. And then your faith, Faith is trusting this unseen presence. And when you trust totally in the unseen presence of God, Your life transforms. There is an alchemy that's only possible with true surrender in the heart to the love as love. And then your faith in the unseen, Your faith in Jesus can blossom. And you can say, I love Jesus. I love him. He's revealed God is real. God is vast, That there is a heaven realm, That there is eternal life, That he rose again from the dead. He is not dead. He is alive. Jesus is alive right now, Right here. He never left. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, Right now, In your own heart, This is the gift. This is his eternal gift that he's giving to all of you in this moment. His transmission of love, His transmission of light, His transmission of the eternal truth that sets you free from the limited, Miserable point of view of mind and ego and all the suffering it entails, True freedom, Eternal salvation, Redemption, Forgiveness, Complete and total forgiveness for all the horrible, Rotten things you think you've done or even the things that you've thought. It's a complete washing away of all of that. The baptism of light, This is the gift and grace of Jesus. The baptism not of water. Remember John said this. John the Baptist said, I baptize you with water, But Jesus will baptize you with fire. The fire of love, This vast, Intelligent presence, Bhakti, And your faith can blossom with this revelation of God. And then there's no shame in loving Jesus. Almost like it's not cool to love Jesus. It's okay to talk about Buddha, But it's not okay to talk about Jesus because of all the junk that happened around him. But we're setting him free from that. So you can love Jesus. You can be like Peter, The one who denied him, But suddenly realize, Whoa, Whoa, He's alive. He's real. Jesus is real. God is real. This is the good news. This is the gospel. This should be shouted from every rooftop, Not as a Christian perspective, But as the living eternal truth. This is the living presence of God alive, A fire in your heart. This is the baptismal fire that Christ came to give. You're baptized in fire, The light, The eternal light of the self, The vast intelligence of God. It's that living truth that sets you free. You cannot set yourself free. And when you welcome the love that Jesus is into your own heart right now, And you feel this transmission, This burning transmission of love in your heart right now, And you surrender to the burning bush in the Mount Sinai of your own heart, You surrender that mind, Those fears, Those concerns, Those doubts to that fire, And you are baptized by the light of the most holy, Holy Lord, Beyond all ideas of holy Lord and God. I surrender this transmission to that eternal presence as a prayer that everyone awaken to the eternal light within your own heart, The light of Jesus, The light of Buddha, The light of Muhammad, Moses. You surrender to the light as the light is the salvation of God. Om shanti, Shanti, Shanti om. Asatoma, Sadgamaya, Tamasoma, Jyotirgamaya, Mrtyumam amritamgamaya. Om shanti, Shanti, Shanti. May peace be with you as you in this holy moment of now. Love without end. Amen. This is what we have coming to you.