Jesus: The Missing Years 1

In the New Testament, the curtain of silence comes down again on the life of Jesus after his twelfth year, not to rise once more until eighteen years later, at which time he receives baptism from John and begins preaching to the multitude. We are told only:

      And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man (Luke 2:52).

For the contemporaries of such an extraordinary figure to find nothing noteworthy to record from his childhood to his thirtieth year is in and of itself extraordinary.

Remarkable accounts, however, do exist, not in the land of Jesus' birth but farther east where he spent most of the unaccounted-for years. Hidden away in a Tibetan monastery lie priceless records.

They speak of a Saint Issa from Israel "in whom was manifest the soul of the universe"; who from the age of fourteen to twenty-eight was in India and regions of the Himalayas among the saints, monks, and pundits;* who preached his message throughout that area and then returned to teach in his native land, where he was treated vilely, condemned, and put to death.

Except as chronicled in these ancient manuscripts, no other history of the unknown years of jesus' life has ever been published.

Providentially, these ancient records were discovered and copied by a Russian traveler, Nicholas Notovitch. During his travels in India in 18987, Notovitch basked in the wonders of the soul-stirring stark contrasts of her ancient civilization. It was amidst the natural grandeur of Kashmir that he heard stories about a Saint Issa, the details of which left no doubt in him that Issa and Jesus Christ were one and the same person.

He learned that copies of ancient manuscripts preserved in some Tibetan monasteries contained a record of Issa's years of sojourn in India, Nepal, and Tibet. Undeterred by hazards and obstacles, he journeyed northward, finally arriving at the Himis monastery outside of Leh, the capital city of Ladakh, which he was told possessed a copy of the sacred books about Issa.

Though he was received graciously, he did not gain access to the manuscripts. A disappointed Notovitch turned back toward India; but in a near-fatal mishap on the treacherous mountain pass, his leg was broken in a fall. Seizing this as an opportunity for a second attempt to see the sacred books, he asked to be carried back to Himis to receive the necessary care.

This time, after repeated requests, the books were brought to him. Perhaps the lamas now felt obliged to treat as hospitably as possible their stricken guest--a time-honored tradition in the East. With the help of an interpreter, he meticulously copied the contents of the pages pertinent to Jesus as they were read to him by the head lama.

Returning to Europe, Notovitch found that his enthusiasm for the discovery was not shared by the Western Christian orthodoxy, which was loath to support such a radical revelation. So he published his notes himself in 1894 under the title The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ.

In his publication, he urged that a qualified research team be dispatched to view and judge for itself the value of these previously secreted documents. Though Notovitch's claims were challenged by critics in America and Europe, the accuracy of his account was attested to by at least two other reputable persons who journeyed to Tibet to seek out and ascertain the authenticity of these manuscripts.

MORE ON CONFIRMING JESUS WENT TO INDIA...

TO BE CONTINUED...

(The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You: A revelatory commentary on the original teachings of Jesus, Paramahansa Yogananda, Volume I)

*The term originates from the Sanskrit term pandit (paṇḍitá), meaning "knowledge owner ". It refers to someone who is erudite in various subjects and who conducts religious ceremonies and offers counsel to the king and usually referred to a person from the Hindu Brahmin caste but may also refer to the Siddhas, Siddhars, Naths, Ascetics, Sadhus, orYogis.

Genesis (Bonus Features)

While the Genesis story in the Bible focuses on the fall of original man,
the Hindu scriptures extol the first beings on earth as divine individuals
who could assume corporeal forms and similarly create offspring
by divine command of their will.

In one such account, in the hoary Purana, Srimad Bhagavata,
the first man and woman in physical form,
the Hindu 'Adam and Eve,'
were called Svayambhuva Manu
('man born of the Creator')
and his wife Shatarupa
('having a hundred images or forms')
whose children intermarried with Prajapatis,
perfect celestial beings who took physical forms to become
the progenitors of mankind.

Thus, entering the original unique human forms created by God
were souls that had either passed through the upward
evolutionary stages of creation as Prakriti prepared the earth
for the advent of man,
or were pristine souls that had descended to earth specifically
to begin the world's human population.

In either case, original man was uniquely endowed to express
soul perfection.

Those 'Adams and Eves' and their offspring
who maintained their divine consciousness in
the 'Eden' of the spiritual eye
returned to Spirit or the heavenly realms
after a blissful sojourn on earth.

The 'fallen' human beings
and their 'fallen' offspring
were caught in the reincarnational cycles
that are the fate of desire-filled,
sense-identified mortals.

(God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita, commentary on XV:I)

Breath, Heart, Circulation (The Second Coming 2)

Patanjali, "India's greatest exponent of yoga,"
describes PREFRONTAL as Ishvara, the Cosmic Lord or Ruler.

Prefrontal's symbol is Pranava,
the "holy word or sound",
Aum, or Amen.

By prayerful, repeated chanting of "Aum"
and meditation on its meaning,
obstacles are said to disappear,
as the consciousness turns inward,
away from external sensory identification.*

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The common condition of human beings
is that their consciousness is hidebound by the body.

Yoga teaches that the aspirant must retrace
the various states of "higher vibrations"
in order to lift the consciousness
from the captive vibrations of breath, heart,
and circulation -- to the more subtly vibrating sound
emanating from the bodily atoms and "life force."

By the specific technique of meditation on "Aum,"
the devotee becomes aware of consciousness
as limited by the constrictions of the flesh,
evidenced by the sounds of breath, heart, and circulation.

And then...

...by a deepening of meditation,
she hears the voice of the great Aum, or Amen,
the cosmic sound emanating from all atoms
and sparks of cosmic energy.

By listening to his sound,
merging in its stream,
the body-caged consciousness
gradually spreads itself
from the limitations of the body
into omnipresence.

The mental faculties renounce their boundaries.
Prefrontal reunites with intuition.

The gurus call it Cosmic mind,
the intelligence immanent in the
"all-pervasive Cosmic Vibration."

You can call it w/e you want.
It's just a feeling you have.
A great feeling,
but just a feeling the same.

The distant goal of Prefrontal Consciousness
inhabiting your consciousness at all times.

*Pantanjali is most known for his Yoga Sutras.

The Second Coming 1

If you imagine a book release of "the Good Parts of the Bible," as I do, you should clearly see, at the end perhaps, after Revelation, a new book of the bible or several.

This is the first new chapter from that new book, but it's a work in progress, so it's title is a working title: The Second Coming of Christ.

For the sake of simplicity, we could say this book of the bible will be written by Paramahansa Yogananda, as our version will be the Good Parts of his version to a large extent.

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The Second Coming

Chapter 1

Before the advent of Jesus, Sage Vyasa (writer of the Bhagavad Gita), was a son of the Prefrontal, one with the only begotten reflection of Prefrontal, the Kutastha Chaitanya or Christ Consciousness.

So also, others having Christ Consciousness became thereby sons of Prefrontal.

India's priceless contribution to the world, discovered anciently by her rishis, is the science of religion -- yoga, "divine union" -- by which Prefrontal can be known, not as a theological concept but as an actual personal experience.

Of all scientific knowledge, the yoga science of Prefrontal-Realization is the highest value to man, for it strikes at the root-cause of all human maladies: ignorance, the beclouding envelopment of delusion.

When one becomes firmly established in God-realization, delusion is transcended & the subordinate mortal consciousness is elevated to Christlike status.

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