Easter Blessings
Sunday, April 9, 2023
To all my divine friends, I offer heartfelt Easter greetings in celebration of eternal life and the healing power of Divine Love and Light!
In his writings, the great yoga master and my teacher Paramahansa Yogananda often illuminated the yogic understanding of Easter and the deeper meaning of Christ’s teachings about the resurrection that is commemorated on Easter Sunday:
Jesus was born in a human body; he was crucified; and he resurrected himself. He rebuilt his body, and his soul entered that resurrected form. But he did not re-create a body to remain confined in it. Though he appeared in physical form to his disciples many times after crucifixion, he dissolved that body again. To understand him only as incarnate in a body that was crucified and then resurrected is not appreciably to understand Christ as he is. Incarnate or after resurrection, Jesus was not only a physical personality, but a vessel of the infinite Christ Consciousness.
While he resurrected himself in the body, he resurrected his spirit from the confinement of form into omnipresent Spirit. In oneness with the Infinite Christ, he is resurrected in every newborn body, and in you and me, and in all people of the earth, and in everything that has life. He is resurrected in the winking stars, in the planets, and in the cosmic blue. He is resurrected in all things that grow from the earth—in the grass and in the tenderest rose. He feels his resurrection in every form that exists. He is risen in every atom and cell of the capacious cosmos. (Excerpt from The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, by Paramahansa Yogananda (Copyright © 2004, Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles)
The late American clairvoyant and trance channeler Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) gave an Easter reading on March 12, 1941 at his home in Virginia Beach. The profound and timeless wisdom that he transmitted in this reading is a divine message of hope:
In man's experience in the earth there comes those periods of doubt and fear, and of the loss of hope. Then to all such there should be the reminding of that Easter Morn; and as to what it has meant and does mean in the hearts and minds of those who have and do put their trust in Jesus, the Christ.
There should be the reminding that - though He bowed under the burden of the Cross, though His blood was shed, though He entered into the tomb - through that power, that ability, that love as manifested in Himself among His fellow men He broke the bonds of death; proclaiming in that act that THERE IS NO DEATH…
Thus in this hour of despair throughout the world, when those activities are such as to indicate hate, injustice, tyranny, desire to enslave or to impel others to submit to the dictates of this or that power, - let all take heart and know that this, too, as the hour upon Calvary, must pass away; and that as upon the wings of the morning there comes that new hope, that new desire, to the hearts and minds of all who seek to know His face. This must begin within thine own heart. (Edgar Cayce, Reading #5749-13)
Joyful Easter! 💞🐥
🙏Namaste Juliana