THE VISION OF JESUS CHRIST
 
 What did Jesus see? Lets not go into what the church says. Let’s 
analyse the vision of Jesus Christ as per Indian Rishis’ vision. 
 
 Lets first of all see what the Rishis saw. All Rishis have unanimously 
spoken about a core state of existence available to any one who seeks it
 the right way. To Sree Narayan Guru, an enlightened saint of Kerala it 
was like the light of countless suns rising in the mind ! 
 
 This
 is really interesting. Normal people do not get this experience. The 
Guru had no attachments in mind. And he meditated for years in a cave 
all alone. This much we know. Similar experiences are narrated by Rishis
 who did somewhat similar procedures (meditating continuously all alone 
with no attachments or thoughts in mind). They have clarified the path 
to reach this state of existence as well. 
 That is to sit in 
isolation with an erect spine and meditate. All may not be able to do it
 in the beginning. The reason is their own attachments and desires in 
mind pulling and binding them to the world and individuals. The thoughts
 will slowly get reduced all by itself, without consciously trying to 
chase away thoughts but by actually removing the cause of thoughts in 
mind. Now focus the attention on the gap between thoughts. Don’t fight 
with the thoughts. Let them float by. But do look into the gap between 
thoughts. Peacefully. When the mind is free from the attachments and 
thoughts generated thereby, the mind will feel like a clear pond without
 waves. Then the bottom of the pond can be seen. With the waves 
(thoughts) and muddiness (feelings in mind) this bottom was earlier not 
visible. 
 
 Continue the meditation. Now there is no thoughts, no
 waves, no mind, no pond ! The body is forgotten. The mind is no more to
 be found. What remains is the consciousness. Pure consciousness. That 
is our true identity. The core state of existence of all living beings. 
Rishis said ‘Tat tvam asi’ meaning  ‘You are that’ consciousness. Also 
‘Aham Brahmasmi’ (I am this consciousness). Or ‘An al haq’ as said by a 
Sufi meaning ‘I am that truth’ ! 
 
 The Sufi who declared that he
 is the truth, was stoned to death by the fanatics who believed no human
 can say like that and it amounted to blasphemy ! Even prophet Mohammed 
described himself only as ‘a messenger of God’. How dare some one claim 
he himself is the truth (God)?! Compared to that Jesus suffered far 
less. But that Sufi will never be hailed as an enlightened one, thanks 
to the fanatics, who believe such experiences are false claims ! History
 has many such tragic incidents. Socrates was made to drink poison for 
telling something the male chauvinists could not digest. That is another
 story.
 
 When started, the seeker , as everyone else, believed 
that they are the body. Now after reaching the pure consciousness at the
 bottom of the mind, he realises I am not the body or even the mind. I 
am this formless but the always existing consciousness. 
 
 The 
consciousness is also described as ‘Sat Chit Aaananda’. Sat means Truth,
 because it only remains for ever, not the body or mind or the visible 
universe experienced through the body, senses and mind. Everything else 
is called ‘Asat’  or not ‘sat’ meaning ‘not true’ indicating not ever 
lasting or which may or may not exist unlike the Sat, which is always 
there. Asat is also called Maya, which by definition ‘can neither be 
said is not there or can be confirmed as is there’ ! Whatever that are 
seen and experienced are Maya. The truth is the consciousness which 
witnessed all the experiences. 
 
 Chit means knowledge. The truth
 knows everything. The intelligence is like a ray from the knowledge. 
Like the sunlight of the sun. The ray seeks information. Once the 
information is received, the ray withdraws and becomes knowledge. Then 
it does not have to seek again. Once all queries are answered by the 
intellect, the mind settles at the knowledge. End of search. Then it is 
rest and peace, and silence. 
 Aananda means pure happiness, or bliss
 or ecstasy. It is a nature of the pure consciousness. Indescribable 
happiness. We experience it as ‘Sukham’ or comfort, smile and  laughter 
while living. When we smile it is actually the soul getting exposed. 
Just check it next time. We feel happy because of the presence of the 
soul revealed when the mind was pure.  Sexual orgasm is the closest we 
can feel this bliss. Orgasm is a flash of the soul in mind when the mind
 loses its orientation in time and space. For a fleeting moment. Ecstasy
 is the same experience as orgasm, but this time it lasts for ever, 
unlike orgasm. Unlimited orgasm is ecstasy ! 
 Now judge these Rishis
 who even did not marry but simply meditated in isolation and reached a 
far better orgasm than the rest ! They were really wise. We got stuck 
with relations and challenges and had an occasional bliss ! The Rishis 
have it 24x7 ! Feel like respecting them? Please do ! 
 
 So the 
Rishis reached a higher, more real level of existence by simply 
modifying their mind. At that level, the worldly identity (Mr so and so)
 will appear only as a temporary identity related to the body. The true 
identity now shifts to the pure consciousness. And there is no further 
identities. This is Indian vision, scientific and verifiable by any, 
anywhere in the world. 
 
 The topic is what did Jesus see.  To know it the above foundation was required. 
 
 Jesus definitely had some experience that was not common. There is no 
doubt about it. Normal people cannot say “Love the neighbour as we love 
ourselves” or “ Those who have not sinned may throw stones” or “I am the
 God’s son” etc. These statements are beyond time and location. Anywhere
 anytime these will reverberate. Statements directly from the soul has 
the same characteristics of the soul. They will not be affected by time 
or space. If in doubt, analyse any such statements from true masters. 
Their words are not affected by time or location. 
 
 So how did 
Jesus say like that? These are revelations in his mind. That is all we 
can say about it. When the mind is detached, pure and focussed, the rays
 of the soul reflects in the mind. Mind you ! These are not well thought
 out statements by the intellect. These are direct revelations of the 
soul. 
 
 However such revelations are possible for any one who 
cares to meditate. The church may not like this. But that is the fact. 
And countless Rishis have reached the same (and even a higher and the 
ultimate) state of existence that Jesus reached. Not just a few, but 
countless Rishis, who just laughed and passed away without even 
bothering to record their names in the history. Who wants the temporary 
identification of the body to be recorded in something that does not 
really exist?!. 
 
 How does these visions happen to some people 
only? Why not for the majority? The only plausible reason is the state 
of mind. Clear, free, open, brave and fearless minds get such special 
visions. It is more true to say that in that exotic state, even the mind
 drops off. No body, no mind. Just pure consciousness. Unlimited and 
over whelming. Dissolving.  Blissful silence of divine existence.
 To
 reach that state, one needs solitude and meditation. Those minds which 
are connected to the worldly things cannot get detached or be devoid of 
desires. 
 Lets see what happens to the ripe mind reaching that core state. 
 
 We believe that we are the body. No doubts whatsoever !  We are not 
body alone at all. It is more correct to say that we are in a state of 
body consciousness. This body consciousness is not a crime either. It is
 a most common natural state of existence. Let it be like that. Don’t 
fight it or try to prolong it more than usual. From this body 
consciousness one can proceed to mind consciousness and finally 
 
reach and settle at the pure consciousness. This all enlightened ones 
have said unanimously. This journey is life. Most end up in body 
consciousness only. Some reach mind level. Very very few dedicated ones 
reach the destination. Even after sighting the destination many have 
slipped off into body consciousness back again ! However there is no two
 opinion about the destination and path. 
 
 Lets see where Jesus 
reached, in light of this Indian vision. There is no other way to look 
into it. In deep meditation (or in a trance) Jesus saw a father figure 
in heaven. This is what Bible says. Lets take this at face value. Not 
going into the debate of how Bible was written after Jesus was no more. 
 
 As per the Indian vision, well documented and endorsed unanimously by 
all Rishis, there is no such ‘heaven’ or ‘holy father’. Now lets focus 
on this aspect. Were the Rishis wrong? Was Jesus right? Did Rishis miss 
this heaven and holy father? Did Jesus see something further than the 
Rishis? 
 
 The conclusive answer is the Guru himself. Sree 
Narayana Guru described the ultimate state as “as if countless sun rose 
in the mind’ . We have no reason to doubt this vision. And countless 
Rishis endorsed the same. So Jesus did not reach that ultimate state of 
self realisation. But he was close.
 
 Very close. 
 
 Question is how close. 
 
 Only Indian vision can explain this state. What Jesus reached itself is
 beyond the understanding of the Semitic religions. So they thought it 
was remarkable. And divine. Out of the world. Jesus saw ‘holy father in 
heaven’. Rishis saw a bright sun of knowledge and realised that that is 
their actual identity. (Tat tvam asi, Aham brahmaasmi). This bright sun 
is the pure consciousness which is always there. One would be surprised 
to know why he did not know this brighter than sun presence within. All 
covered up by Maya or worldly attachments. 
 So question is what did Jesus see?
 
 There is a simple answer to this. Easily understandable.  Even as we 
live or even transcend from body consciousness to mind consciousness, 
and finally to pure consciousness, to the world and people who knows the
 seeker will not drop the identity that they had impressioned about him.
 Even when the seeker is in meditation or in any activity, the world 
(people who knows the seeker) according to the reactions they got 
earlier, will not change their view about the seeker.  If a teacher 
joins IAS, the identity gets only a modification. The earlier identity 
still remains in people’s mind. After all we have been living in this 
world reacting to situations and people. That identity by the world will
 remain etched in the memory of people until they die. This worldly 
identity will remain in the seeker’s mind, even when he gets into higher
 (or deeper) conscious levels. The identity of the body and mind while 
living in the world. This identity follows the seeker, wherever he is, 
whatever he does, even if he  reaches the ultimate status and realise 
oneself as the Brahman itself.  To the seeker, the worldly identity of 
the body is just a joke now. A dream. A temporary marking in time like a
 line drawn in water.  But to the world, he still remains the person 
they knew so well earlier.  This is the body identity itself. 
 
 
This identity of the body is called ‘ego’ or ‘ahamkar’ or ‘Jeevaathma’. 
It is the living body’s identity. It is practically still there. But the
 seeker has reached a higher identity, which he only knows. The others 
may notice a calm and brightness around him. But they still interpolate 
that image with the one they earlier had. And will not let it go from 
their minds. The seeker started from that body identity, which most of 
us have and believe that they are the body all their lives. The seeker, 
however progressed from there and reached the mind level. The world of 
thoughts and dreams. In the physical world, if one loses the way, others
 can guide back to the right way. The world of mind is not that simple. 
The mind is an ocean, as big as the universe itself. It is easy to get 
into the wrong thoughts, fully believing that it is the most correct one
 ! Because in the mind level, you are your own boss. Decisions are to be
 made by you. It is easy to get carried away in thoughts. Countless 
ones. 
 And views of great people, their thoughts and activities will influence the seeker’s mind. 
 
 Some of these so called great people are actually as confused as the 
seeker himself. But the thoughts may appear appealing. Most die in the 
body level. The majority of the rest perish in the mind level. That is 
why people don’t think deeply. Thoughts may become scary and not leading
 to anywhere. Hence most come back to the body level and live that life 
even after a short stint in the mind level. Because to transcend mind, 
one has to beat it ! Get out of own mind ! Completely. A trace of 
attachment or desire will pack the seeker off his journey and sent back 
to the world. Only the truly qualifying ones will get access to the 
secrets of existence.  
 
 Poets, philosophers, scientists etc are
 those who live mostly in the mind level. Mind level is far more bright,
 higher and more satisfying than the body level experiences. A clear 
distinction is not possible. Because there is always a mixture of mind 
and body experiences for the humans. In the animal level, the 
experiences are purely in body level. Human is a special being. He can 
fall to the animal level (live in the body level of instincts) or rise 
to the ultimate level of pure brightness. The difference may be like 
between a stone and light.  The stone is a body level experiencer. The 
light is the extreme end, the dream level of the stone. 
 
 This 
however does not mean that stone level is low and light level is high. 
These are just two levels. If the stone does not know how to reach the 
light level, then it misses a valuable lesson. A lesson, that could have
 lifted the stone from death to immortality. That is all. 
 
   
What lies beyond the ocean of mind is not understood by most. The reason
 being, they are not interested to know. They are more interested in the
 worldly experiences through the mind and body and senses. So their 
attention is focussed on the potential experiences that would make them 
more complete and satisfied. Even those who studied mind in depth, has 
only segregated it into conscious mind (that we normally have) 
subconscious mind (where desires, likes and experiences are stored as 
memory) and unconscious mind.  
 
 Conscious mind is like the 
beach. We see the waves coming one by one. And we can very well read, 
count and even  judge or predict the waves. Except in bad weather, the 
beach is a fun place to relax and enjoy.
 
 Subconscious mind is 
more deep. One needs to swim a little to understand them. With life 
jackets and boats, we can explore more of the subconscious mind part of 
the ocean. But still we are at the surface. We get ideas what may lie 
underneath, as evidenced by the happenings in the surface. We can also 
dive into it with oxygen cylinders and see what is inside. We can even 
use a submarine with modern facilities. But still we cant reach the 
deepest parts beyond the limitations of our capabilities. 
 
 
Unconscious mind is then like the deep sea itself ! Where we have no 
tool to investigate. Except may be some sensors. But a first hand 
information is not possible with tools. For that we need to dive to the 
depths. Learn to breathe inside deep waters ! Or how to survive there 
without breath ! Only the daredevils attempt that. Here we need the 
guidance of a great diver, who is brave as well as kind. And none else 
really knows what lies in the unconscious mind !  With good reason. To 
know something, we need the light of consciousness to analyse it. The 
light ends at the subconscious level. The further depths are pitch dark.
 One needs to develop ‘vision’ to see what lies there.  Normal eye sight
 will not work there. 
 
 We know what is there in the conscious 
mind. Visible waves in a beach.  In the subconscious mind, the remnant 
memories of experiences, desires, likes and dislikes will be stored.  
This is why those who work abroad feel nostalgia after some time. If 
they adapt to the new country, then this tendency to go back will not be
 there. Then that becomes the home. Nostalgic people try to relive the 
old experiences back home or with the beloved people. If the new country
 is good to live in, this tendency may slowly disappear. If not the 
dying nostalgia may strengthen again. 
 Even if the new country is good and adopted, still there may be some nostalgia to return home. 
 
 The same happens in the mind. While meditation, the consciousness 
shifts focus from the body to the mind. But the body may pull back this 
attention back to the body. Because it is used to that way. The new 
place, mind may not be liked by the consciousness and might return to 
the body. There has to be an interest to stay longer at the new place. 
Else the attention will return to the original place, once the visa 
expires (the interest gets over). Else get jailed in the new place (Get 
trapped in some unfamiliar thoughts). In both cases, life becomes 
miserable.
 
 We were talking about the  situation where the 
consciousness shifts focus from the body to the mind, the tendency is to
 get identified back with the body. This body consciousness is 
suspicious and fearful (about death or damage to the body) in nature and
 will hide even in the higher levels of consciousness. To awaken the 
pure consciousness, continuous uninterrupted meditation in solitude is 
required.  Imagine all goes well. The seeker is able to get out of the 
labyrinth of mind and enter the inner most core level of pure or supreme
 consciousness.  But the body consciousness (ego) will not leave. It 
will hide itself into a speck and wait there. Watching the developments 
in awe.  Hence it will be the Jeevatma or the Ego’ or ‘ahamkar’ the body
 consciousness, that would be seeing the rise of the pure consciousness 
with a brightness of countless suns within ourselves.  There will be no 
one else at that level. The body consciousness and the pure 
consciousness come face to face. 
 
 Now, the Jeevaatma (the body 
consciousness or the ego) may visualise the pure consciousness as it is 
used to when in the body consciousness. That is to imagine something as 
it visualises. And not as it is. The ego or body consciousness will try 
to see the supreme consciousness as it likes to imagine. The mind comes 
back ready to fulfil the wish of the ego. Ego knows only how it used to 
see earlier. As shapes. Hence if the seeker is a buffalo, then he would 
be imagining the pure consciousness as a huge buffalo, the size of an 
elephant or so. This is the limitation of the ego and mind. It cannot 
function in another way. 
 
 Now lets rewind from the start. The 
seeker started from the body consciousness, graduated to mind 
consciousness, and from there with proper directions, transcended to the
 pure consciousness. Now even at the final level, the mind consciousness
 drags along, not fully rid of itself. Because one end of existence of 
the seeker is in the world. To be safe is a concern of the body 
consciousness. Further, the body consciousness (ego) is still not aware 
of a higher identity than what it always knew about itself. Then how can
 it modify itself? It will hang on until the last moment. The space and 
time limited body identity hanging on to the limitless true identity 
beyond the limitations of body and time. This is what happens in that 
last stage. This is the last frontier to cross. And what is the 
obstacle? Our own self inflicted body identity ! None else is 
responsible for this fiasco. 
 
 Jesus describes this state as 
“testing by the devil”. But there is no devil, whatsoever. It is a 
confusion created by or happening to the ego. Only a knowing Guru, who 
transcended this stage, can advise the seeker at this stage. Those who 
reached there all alone may find it irritatingly funny and may end up 
trapped at that stage ! Neither coming back to the body consciousness 
nor rising to the ultimate pure consciousness. Thanks to the ego. 
 
 And please note. Ego does not mean arrogance or one-upmanship. Ego 
refers only to the self identity that each of us have with respect to 
the body. 
 Thus the ego at this final stage may start seeing its own
 projections about what it experiences there.  The mind will start 
wearing shapes to act out what it sees or experiences. That is why self 
control and mind control are the first requirements to start of 
spiritual journeys. Without these, there is no guarantee where one might
 end up with.  
 
 Jesus, at this stage, ‘saw’ a holy father, sitting in heaven. 
 
 These are truly meaningful words.  Assuming these are own words by Jesus, lets see what he meant by that description. 
 
 ‘Holy’ refers to something above the earth, very clean and hygienic or divine.
  
 ‘Father’ refers to his idea of the pure consciousness. Jesus imagined 
himself as a young man (his ego or body consciousness). He could not 
imagine pure consciousness as a ‘friend’ or ‘son’. He could imagine it 
only as something from which he also was born. Or wiser than him. Or 
which gave him protection like a father. Hence a father figure. 
 
 ‘Heaven’ refers to a state of peace and happiness, but none that we see
 in the world. But simply beyond the world. Lasting peace. Unending 
happiness. Fearlessness. Youthfulness. Somewhere where there is no lack 
of anything whatsoever. We may have to club several qualities found on 
earth to even imagine such a state. Still it will be beyond. It was 
incomparable. Hence the word heaven. Where there is no need or misery as
 on earth. 
 
 This can happen to anyone. Not just Jesus. Those 
who meditate may please note. Once a certain stage is reached, the 
underlying ego (body consciousness0 will start playing its pranks 
depending on the status of mind and the reactions from the external 
world. In the final stage the mind may start again fantasising or 
hallucinating as desired by the ego. Then that becomes the reality. The 
mind may imagine as it feels like. Be careful.
 
 Thus in the 
final stage of realisation, the mind may start hallucinating. The 
remaining desires or even traces of them might start blossoming. That is
 why it is essential to confirm the state with meditation. But Jesus 
might not have known this trick which was essential to stay steady in 
the last stage. The Rishis knew this very well. The Ego (or Jeevatma) is
 to be let off like a pole-vaulter does with the pole once he crosses 
the bar. Else he would be left holding the pole and crashing to the 
ground. Then the Jeevatma does not exist. It never really existed. But 
only appeared to exist. What remains is that pure consciousness, which 
is the real identity of the Ego, or Jeevatma. Those who did not know how
 to identify oneself with that bright inner sun of knowledge, and 
realise the meaning of ‘Tat tvam asi’, I am that (brhman), or Aham 
Brahmasami, I am Brahman, Prajanam Brahma, An Al haq (I am the truth) 
etc the duality of the ego (body consciousness) and the Brahman, the 
real identity of all beings will remain.
 
 Jesus thought that his
 own real identity is as simply another entity, a holy father like 
figure sitting in heaven. Thus he was still in duality and never got 
over it. When he was in the cross, he lamented “ Father, why did you 
leave me” which vindicates his failure to identify that holy father as 
none other than himself, his true identity. He believed that he was 
different from that true identity, which simply was his own self. Rishis
 did not have this confusion. They, with out even one exception realised
 that the pure consciousness rising at the mind when it is free and 
clear is none other than ones’ own dear self.
 
 Prophet Mohammed 
also saw like Jesus himself. In close parallel lines. Instead of the 
‘holy father in heaven’ as Jesus visualised the pure consciousness, 
Prophet Mohammed visaulaied the pure consciousness within him as ‘kind 
and majestic owner’. The reason is simple. Nabi had the body 
consciousness trying to understand and decipher the pure consciousness 
in a worldly manner, it is used to and comfortable with. The worldly 
identity plays spoilsport even at the ultimate level. Thus the true 
non-dual experience with the actual identity gets lost because of the 
ego. 
 
 Thus daitham, that the true identity is different from 
the bodily identity may happen to many. It cannot be said that daitham 
(duality) is not a vision at all. Or those who reached that stage do not
 experience the truth at all. They do. They realise the qualities of the
 pure consciousness by merging with it. But the ego refuses to die out 
even then. Thus when they after waking up from the trance of meditation,
 they may still describe it as dual, separate from them. This 
distinction is based on their worldly body consciousness, the ego.  . 
 
 The prejudgements and ego are what distracts the seeker from the 
ultimate self realisation that he is different and limited, but there is
 something unlimited and divine within. Thus the price for carrying such
 baggage of prejudgements and ego is ultimately for the seeker himself. 
 
 Any problem with that? At least these great men reached that state, no?
 Some may ask. What is the problem? The knowledge will not be complete. 
That itself is the problem. The seeker knows ‘almost’ everything. But 
beware. Only ‘almost’. Not ‘completely’. If the knowledge itself is not 
complete, the actions will reflect the small incompleteness. The seeker 
may do things in an incomplete way, leaving loop holes. Vested interests
 will enter through the backdoor and interpret what the ‘almost’ 
enlightened soul said in their own convenient ways, particularly once 
the great soul is no more. The seeker may fall from the great height to 
great canyons and may still think he is wiser than most ! All this is 
because the knowledge or experience was not complete. He might say 
something but intending something else. Whatever he said, also might get
 conveniently misinterpreted. His views might be questioned by others 
who might know better, or who do not agree with his views on certain 
issues. There are many such issues.
 
 The people are also quite 
clever. They may quote the  master out of context as convenient to them.
 They are so cunning that they might catch some one with a blurred 
vision as the one with the ultimate vision.  Because it might suit their
 life style. Or the lifestyles or the errors committed by such 
‘incomplete’ masters might be interesting to the followers, who 
basically want to enjoy life under some excuse. 
 People are 
partially blind. They can only see what is before their eyes. That is 
why we need those Gurus who had complete vision. Those with partial 
vision are claimed by clever opportunist followers. Because their faults
 can be hidden behind such incomplete Gurus. A complete Guru may not be 
as interesting to follow. That is why it is said the blind leads the 
blind. 
 
 The majority do not have any philosophical problems. 
They may not even think about it. Their problems are basically about how
 to spend time happily, how to amass wealth, how to maximise pleasures 
etc. By involving in this, they get disillusioned. At least most of 
them. They get stuck in relationships, competition, win and loss, guilt,
 sin, fear, jealousy, revenge etc. They may not be following the way to 
eternal life as prescribed by the enlightened ones. Their attraction and
 bondage to the world is far more than their inward pull to the eternal 
life. That is why.