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by Kiara Windrider
What is the difference
between an enlightened person and a
Christ? What gives a person the ability
to lie in the extraordinary state of
compassion that Buddha exhibited? How
could Jesus heal with a glance or a
touch? How did St. Francis develop his
remarkable kinship with wild animals?
What allowed Ramana Maharishi to hold
such a profound state of silence that
people were transformed by simply
entering into his presence? What gave
St. Germaine the ability to wield such a
powerful political influence in 17th
century Europe and America? How did
Ramalinga Swami, Babaji, and the siddha
masters learn to transform their
physical bodies into bodies of light?
An enlightened person is no longer
controlled by his or her ego. There is
a difference, however, between the state
of non-attached emptiness that an
enlightened person experiences, and the
fullness of presence that a God-realized
person radiates. The deepest
experiences of God-realization cannot
happen unless one is first enlightened,
but becoming enlightened does not
automatically lead to God-realization.
The difference relates to what Sri
Bhagavan is now referring to as
induction, or the descent of divine
beings into the body. Some traditions
refer to this process as being
overshadowed (or overlighted) by the
Masters. Some speak of it as
initiation. Others refer to it as a
baptism of fire, or the baptism of
the Holy Spirit. Others simply refer
to it as a divine walk-in. What is
this phenomenon?
It begins with an understanding of the
self. Before enlightenment, most of
us identify ourselves as a self, as an
entity fixed in time and space, with a
history, personality, and individual
memories distinct from any other. Upon
enlightenment, we begin to discover that
this sense of a fixed or permanent self
is an illusion, that we are simply a
witness to a series of personalities
that come and go.
Induction takes this one step further.
There are memory tracks and emotional
states connected with each of our human
personalities. As divine personalities
start descending, we begin to dissolve
many of these human personalities that
govern our existence. We become more
and more identified with these divine
personalities that take over our lives
and destinies.
Who or what are these divine
personalities? There are certain
primordial energies, or aspects of God,
that have pre-existed since the
beginning of creation. In different
traditions these primordial energies are
identified as Christ, Shekinah, Maitreya,
Shiva, Mehdi Imam, or Kalki. Many
masters and avatars through the ages of
human history, have been overlighted or
merged with these primordial energies in
varying degrees. Following his baptism
with John the Baptist, Jesus the man
became Jesus the Christ, and eventually
became indistinguishable from this
primordial energy as Jesus Christ. I
and the Father are One, was his daily
experience of Self. It was no longer a
human named Jesus who had somehow merged
with the divine, but the divine spirit
as Christ embodied through Jesus.
Bhagavans latest project is to initiate
this descent of the divine spirit for
people through a process known as
induction. For most people this is a
relatively gradual process as the human
personalities give way and the divine
personalities take over. As the divine
personalities merge with the antaryamin,
or the indwelling God-presence, a state
of permanent God-realization results
with all the splendour, grace, power,
and brilliance that goes with it!
This is very different from the
phenomenon of possession. Induction
occurs only by permission, and only when
there is a sacred intent on the part of
the human self to be used as a vehicle
for divine consciousness on Earth. It
is a potential that exists for each of
us now. We can each become a Christ,
Maitreya, Mehdi, or Kalki. It is when
there are 60,000 such divine beings
walking the Earth that the phenomenon of
mass enlightenment will take place.
This will be the second coming of
Christ, the return of Quetzacoatl, or
the descent of Kalki consciousness!
This is when the Golden Age will begin!
Many traditions speak of gods who walked
on Earth in previous golden ages. As we
begin our transition into the next
Golden Age, the same possibility is
opening up once again. The human being
is a transitional species. A new
species is now being birthed in our
midst. The induction process is
preparing the way for what Sri Aurobindo
referred to the divine human. Through
the generations, and as we fully enter
into the Golden Age, this will give rise
to a supramental species as far beyond
the current state of humanity as we are
now beyond the cosmic soup of amino
acids we first emerged from!
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