Meaning of second coming of Jesus

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dattaswami

Meaning of second coming of Jesus

The names like Rama, Krishna, Jesus etc., belong to the external human body, which has taken birth. Such names are generated only after the birth of these human bodies. Therefore, such names are certainly the names of the external human bodies only, which are like the shirts. When the human bodies perish, these names also must perish. But these names exist as eternal names even after the disappearance of these human bodies due to death. The reason is that these names were directed towards the inner Lord even during the time of existence these human bodies. A person is carrying vegetables for selling. You call him by the name " Vegetables". The person is not vegetable and the vegetables are not the person also. But the possessor of the vegetables is called by the name of the possessed material. Similarly, when the name " Krishna or Jesus" was called, this name was directed towards the internal Lord also. Therefore, even if the human body perished, since the Lord is eternal, Krishna or Jesus is also eternal. When Krishna said that He will come again and again, whenever necessary ( Yada Yada hi....Gita), it means the eternal Lord present in the human body will come again and again through different human forms. Similarly, when it is told that Jesus will come again, it means the Lord present in that human body will come again. Here the names Krishna and Jesus indicate the Lord and not the human body.

When some body says that He will come again after 20 years, it does not mean that he will come in the same shirt. Even in the case of the ordinary human beings the name indicates the inner eternal soul also. When people say that Subba Rao died, it means that the name indicates the external human body. People say that Subba Rao's last journey is today. It means that the name indicates only the external body, which is going to be cremated in the burial ground on that day. In these sayings the name indicates the external human body. But after one-year people say that today is the yearly ceremony of Subba Rao. When you have stated that Subba Rao finished his last journey one year back, how can you bring Subba Rao again after one year? Here the name indicates the inner soul. Therefore, even in the worldly terminology the name indicates both the external body and inner soul according to the context.

Therefore, when you say that Jesus was crucified and killed, the name indicates the external human body. When you say that Jesus will come again on final day of destruction of this world, the name indicates the inner Lord. Thus, the same name indicates the external or internal item according to the context. When you say that Krishna danced in Brundavanam, the name indicates the external human body. When you say that Krishna will come again and again whenever necessary, the name indicates the inner Lord. If you realise this discrimination, you have no quarrel with any religion. When you say that Jesus or Krishna will come again, it means that the inner Lord is going to come in different human bodies again. When you are drawing the picture of Jesus or Krishna, the picture represents the external human body only and not the inner Lord. You can never draw the picture of the inner Lord because He is beyond the realm of imagination. You cannot say about the existence of two unimaginable Lords. When the Lord is unimaginable, He can be only one. If you say that there are two entities, it means that both the entities are imaginable. Therefore, you have to accept that there is only one unimaginable Lord or God. The external human bodies are different and cannot be one. When I say that Krishna is Jesus, it means that the Lord in the body of Krishna and in the body of Jesus is one and the same. It does not mean that the two different bodies are one and the same.

At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony
www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace

CFTraveler

I like your thinking- the only thing I would change is the 'title' you have given- in other words, the title (or shirt, as you called it) isn't 'Jesus', it's 'Christ'- which is the title given to Jesus.
In other words, just a matter of semantics, but it will make a difference to some people.

BTW, didn't Yogananda write a book about this?

dattaswami

Quote from: CFTraveler on March 27, 2010, 13:10:00
I like your thinking- the only thing I would change is the 'title' you have given- in other words, the title (or shirt, as you called it) isn't 'Jesus', it's 'Christ'- which is the title given to Jesus.
In other words, just a matter of semantics, but it will make a difference to some people.

BTW, didn't Yogananda write a book about this?

All the human incarnations have the single common point which is the spiritual guidance given to the human beings since that is the most important program.  Other factors like the physical form, dress, language, culture and composition of the three qualities are not important and variation occurs as you can see Jesus, Rama and Krishna.  Therefore, God is represented by this common characteristic of true spiritual knowledge only (Satyam Jnanamanantam Brahma..., Prajnanam Brahma...Veda; Jnanitvatmaiva....Gita).

  Even the liberated soul should be in constant awareness of the Lord and even if the liberated soul is made to sit on the throne of God, it should remember that the Lord is the kingmaker.  The wheel (Sudarshana Chakra) is always revolving around the finger of the Lord.  The revolutions indicate constantly that Sudarshana is zero only.  The finger of the Lord indicates the number one.  All the zeros placed after one get values only due to the existence of the number one behind them.  This must be the constant memory of the liberated soul even if it becomes the human incarnation.  If ego enters, it will fall down and Sudarshana was born as Kartavirya with ego and was killed by the Lord Parashurama in the war.  But Parashurama was also the human incarnation of a liberated soul only.  Again he committed the same mistake and Rama who was the original human incarnation of the God removed his ego.