Good (?) Friday

Good (?) Friday

I have always felt Jesus’s Passion deeply in my own body, an indescribable pain and bewilderment.

Relief came to me during my travels in India, where I spent many Easter seasons. There I was blessed with wonderful experiences, in a way that could hardly happen in this part of the world, where a society that professes to be Christian actually, for the most part, succumbs—more or less consciously—to dark forces, or is simply indifferent. Those same dark forces that dared to martyr and kill the Lord himself continue to perpetrate the horror we witness live every day, along with that hidden horror that creeps into the heart and mind to steal the soul, perhaps while leaving an outward appearance of respectability seemingly untouched. How can this happen?

Hidden deep within every human being is the awareness of existence itself: we are pure Essence-Consciousness-Bliss which, being unable to suffer or die, incarnates innumerable times in this apparently dual and real world in order to experience, even in the most intense and raw ways, the full range of feelings, emotions, and death. If human beings truly had no awareness that they are living in an illusory reality, even if buried beneath heaps of habitual terror, they would not be able to commit the same atrocities millennium after millennium.

This is what Christ comes to show, to remind humankind that whatever impiety may occur, its effects are limited to each person’s degree of awareness, but nothing can wound the Divine Essence, which always exists beyond everything. This frightens the dark forces more than anything else: they can do nothing against a being who is awakened and aware. And there is no need to be or become Christian, nor to belong to any other religion, in order to follow Christ’s teaching. It is enough to become inwardly still and listen to the depths of one’s being in order to renew Divine Consciousness, with a light heart and the innocence of a child: then that subtle Spirit reveals itself, just as when a window is opened in a dark room, light floods the space and no trace of darkness remains. Kalavati

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