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Krishna teaches Arjuna about the four [[yoga]]s, or paths of union with God, and says that all the yogas should be practiced. The four yogas are knowledge ([[jnana yoga]]), meditation ([[raja yoga]]), work ([[karma yoga]]) and love and devotion ([[bhakti yoga]]). By self-knowledge, by meditation on the God within, by working the works of God to balance [[karma]] and increase good karma and by giving loving devotion, we fulfill the four paths of the [[four lower bodies]]—the memory body, the mental body, the desire body and the physical body. | Krishna teaches Arjuna about the four [[yoga]]s, or paths of union with God, and says that all the yogas should be practiced. The four yogas are knowledge ([[jnana yoga]]), meditation ([[raja yoga]]), work ([[karma yoga]]) and love and devotion ([[bhakti yoga]]). By self-knowledge, by meditation on the God within, by working the works of God to balance [[karma]] and increase good karma and by giving loving devotion, we fulfill the four paths of the [[four lower bodies]]—the memory body, the mental body, the desire body and the physical body. | ||
== Krishna and Christ == | |||
In the Bhagavad-gita Arjuna says to Krishna, “If, O Lord, You think me able to behold it,... reveal to me your immutable Self.”<ref>Swami Nikhilanda, trans., ''The Bhagavad Gita'' (New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1944), p. 254.</ref> When Krishna reveals his Divine Being to Arjuna, Arjuna beholds the whole universe inside of Krishna. Based on this passage many have concluded that Krishna is the supreme God and the supreme Lord. And of course he is. But just as Lord [[Jesus]] never declared himself to be the exclusive Son of God, so Lord Krishna never declared himself to be the exclusive supreme God or supreme Lord. | |||
I believe that Lord Krishna unveiled himself to Arjuna as the incarnation of Vishnu, the Second Person of the Eastern and Western Trinity. Krishna revealed his Godhood so that all of us, as Arjunas, as disciples, could see the goal of our Divinity before us. Truly the one who has attained union with God is become that God. There is no separation. | |||
I see Arjuna as the archetypal soul of each of us and Krishna as the charioteer of our soul. Krishna is one with your Higher Self right now, your [[Holy Christ Self]]. Visualize Lord Krishna in his incarnation as Vishnu (the Cosmic Christ) as your Higher Self. See him occupying the position of your Holy Christ Self on the [[Chart of Your Divine Self]] as the Mediator between your soul and your [[I AM Presence]], your charioteer for life. He will drive that chariot with you there at his side all the way back to the [[Central Sun]]. Lord Krishna can be thought of as your “Holy Krishna Self,” if you will. He can place his presence over each person. | |||
The idea is God-identification. We have identified ourselves as humans. God descends into incarnation as an [[avatar]] and so we see what was our original blueprint, what were we intended to be, how far have we strayed from this incarnation of God. What do we see in ourselves that is no longer acceptable when we see ourselves in the mirror and look in that mirror and see Krishna, see Jesus Christ, see Gautama Buddha? We begin to see very quickly there are things we can simply do away with. | |||
Lord Krishna can place his Presence one with your Holy Christ Self, multiplying himself a billion times a billion. Yet there is only one Krishna, one Universal Krishna consciousness. This is something you come to understand as you move into the vibration of Krishna. He is Universal God consciousness as well as Universal Christ consciousness. Does that mean that Jesus is not? Of course not. Does that mean that Gautama is not? Of course not. | |||
This is the great mystery of the breaking of the bread at the Last Supper, that each crumb and each morsel is the equivalent of the whole loaf. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ embodies the Universal Christ consciousness. So does [[Lord Maitreya]], Lord Gautama, Lord [[Sanat Kumara]], the [[Dhyani Buddhas]]. Lord Krishna and Lord Jesus teach us the way of Godhood and Sonship respectively. And they—with untold numbers of the heavenly hosts who have realized Christ consciousness, Buddha consciousness and Krishna consciousness—are with us every hour to show us how we can become as they are: God-free beings fulfilling our respective roles as we are a part of the Mystical Body of God. | |||
The ascended masters and all hosts who make up the heavenly hierarchy are surely not in competition with each other for “who is greatest in the kingdom.” They know that one drop in the ocean is as good as the whole ocean. And they know that God has broken the bread of Life so that each one in his own time may become the whole loaf—but never exclusively. | |||
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