THE YOGA OF THE CROSS

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From the New Testament:

Jesus proclaimed aloud: 'Whoever believes

in me is actually believing not in me but in Him

who sent me. And whoever sees me is seeing

Him who sent me. As Light have I come

into the world so that no one who believes in me

need remain in darkness.

If anyone hears my words, and does not

keep them, I am not the one to condemn him;

for I did not come to condemn the world

but to save it. Whoever rejects me and

does not accept my words already

has his judge, namely, the word

that I have spoken - that is what will

condemn him on the last day, because

it was not on my own that I spoke.

No, the Father who sent me has Himself

commanded me what to say and

how to speak, and I know that his

commandment is Eternal Life.

So when I speak, I speak

just as the Father told me.'

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John (12:44-50)

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As far as Jesus Christ is concerned,

the right preparation consists in dying

to one's self will, and in denying oneself,

so that one could obey the will of God.

His yoga consists of this; and of this

the cross is the supreme symbol.

Whether or not it corresponds to any

actual method of killing Jesus, the enormous

psychological and spiritual significance

of the cross cannot be exaggerated.

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Every moment, whenever a man is present

to it, he is at a crossing;

at this point of crossing he chooses whether

to remain in the horizontal plane of the world

or to be yoked to the way of the Christ

and follow the vertical axis of being.

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From CHRIST THE YOGI - A Hindu Reflection

on The Gospel of John, by Ravi Ravindra

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