Cracking The Jesus Code - Part 3

There is much that has been either been forgotten or misunderstood about the fateful last supper with Jesus. What is the secret teaching contained within this timeless story? Travel back in time to the night of the last supper with Jesus and discover for yourself the profound teaching hidden in the story. Join Kosi for her continued exploration into the secret teaching of Jesus seen through the lens of Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi— a deep dive into the divine presence alive in your own heart!

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["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] Hello everyone,

This is Kushi Radio Voice and and this is a live broadcast for discovering the teaching of Jesus through the lens of Ramana Maharishi.

So discovering the teaching of Jesus,

Or seeing the teaching of Jesus through the lens of Ramana Maharishi.

And what does that actually mean?

So this is the third in a series of discussions about,

Or thought songs about the teaching of Jesus through the living presence of Ramana.

It's not really what Ramana taught,

But his realization was so deep and profound he cracks the secret code that's hidden within all scripture,

Right?

He cracks the code just by his presence and the nature of his teaching,

Which is the eternal natural way,

Which is comprised of the law,

The essence,

And the nature.

The law,

The essence,

And the nature.

And the same is true of Jesus,

And certainly Jesus is perhaps one of the most misunderstood teachers from the beginning of time.

And one of the things that we've been looking at,

And it's important to understand that with all scripture the teaching is timeless.

It's transcendent of time and space.

It's transcendent of time and space.

So what that means is scripture,

Which is pointing to the absolute truth,

Is always in the present moment.

It is always here and now.

So when we think of the Bible,

We think of,

Or we think of Jesus,

We think of perhaps the stigma of Jesus and all the negativity that has swirled around him for centuries,

Or maybe our own negative personal experience of going to church or being disappointed by church,

Being disappointed by religion,

Or maybe you have deep faith in Jesus and have identified as a Christian for a long time.

But scripture,

Especially biblical scripture,

Is timeless.

It transcends space and time.

So that means it's always in the present tense.

And to really understand the Bible,

You have to understand that I am is the name of God.

I am is the name of God,

As it was told to Moses on Mount Sinai.

So you have the Old Testament and the New Testament.

The old is the prophecy.

The new is the fulfillment of that prophecy through Jesus,

Through the miracles of Jesus,

Through the crucifixion of Jesus,

And the resurrection of Christ.

So today we're going to be looking at the Last Supper,

Which is the secret rendezvous before Christ is arrested,

Scourged,

He was tried,

Then he was whipped,

Beaten practically to death,

Then he carries his cross to Golgotha,

The skull,

To be crucified.

It was an execution ground.

Thousands of people were executed in that manner.

And so we started this series by beginning where it ended,

With the conversation between Pilate and Jesus.

It's a fateful conversation and Jesus reveals in that conversation that he was born to bear witness to the truth,

To bear witness to the eternal truth.

So there's relative truth,

Which is relative to you and your experience,

And then there's the absolute truth.

And then the absolute truth is true for everyone,

Regardless of who you are,

What your life experiences are,

What your beliefs are,

What your beliefs are,

It's true for everyone.

And so Jesus was talking about the absolute.

He was there to bear witness to the absolute.

And when Pilate asked him,

Well what do you mean,

What's the truth?

And Jesus was silent and looked him deep in the eyes.

And this transmission of consciousness meeting consciousness in the vast silence is the living truth.

So he did respond to Pilate with the absolute silence,

Which is the nature of Ramana's teaching.

The essence of his teaching is silence.

And it's through the silence that you can have a direct connection with the world,

That you can have a direct experience of your eternal nature.

And it's important to understand that this series of conversations about Jesus and his teaching through the lens of Ramana is not about religion.

It's not about religion.

It might be the seed of religion,

A religious perspective.

It's not a dogmatic perspective.

It's more how does this story relate to you right now?

What is the teaching that Jesus offered?

What is this silence,

This absolute truth he came to bear witness to?

What is that?

And remember Ramana,

He was not seeing his teaching as a new religion.

And he was really adamant about this,

That he wasn't creating a new religion.

It wasn't Hindu.

And it's often seen as Hindu in the world.

But really his teaching is also transcendent of time and space.

And really Ramana would say,

Know who you are,

Know your eternal essence,

And then your faith,

Whatever that might be,

Whether you're Muslim or Jewish or Christian,

Your faith will deepen through that understanding.

You will actually understand your religion on a much,

Much more intimate and deep level.

So Koshi Radio Voice is not just about Jesus.

It's about all scripture,

Like the scripture of the Buddha,

The scripture of the Quran,

Muhammad,

What's in the Quran?

What is the teaching of the Quran through the lens of Ramana Maharshi?

And we're starting with Jesus because so many of us in the West grew up as Christians.

Now we might have left the church.

We might see ourselves as agnostic or even atheist at this point in life.

And maybe even rejected Christianity because some of the dogma has led to abusive behavior,

Judgmental and mean kind of behavior,

Fundamentalist perspectives that reject people who don't strictly adhere to a particular interpretation of that perspective of Christianity.

And today we have so many different perspectives of the teaching of Jesus,

Right?

You have so many different churches.

You have the Baptist Church,

Which focuses on baptism.

You have the Pentecostal Church,

Which focuses on the Pentecost,

Right?

When the Holy Spirit comes into the disciples.

And then you have the Lutheran Church and the Episcopalian Church and the Catholic Church.

And Catholic actually means universal church.

But because of Martin Luther,

We have all these different perspectives of the teaching of Jesus.

And this perspective is really,

What is the essence of Jesus and what did he come to reveal?

And to really understand it,

You do have to have some basic understanding of the Old Testament because the Old Testament and the New Testament are connected.

The Old is the prophecy,

As I mentioned,

The New Testament is the fulfillment of the prophecy.

So you really need to understand some of the ancient stories and the teachings contained within that to really understand the teaching or begin to understand the teaching of Jesus.

It's a profound and eternal,

Lasting teaching that transforms your life.

It is a transformative teaching.

It is the alchemy of understanding,

Just like Ramana is the alchemy of understanding that opens your heart.

So Jesus is no different.

He's opening your heart to the eternal.

And your heart breaks with the story of Jesus when you transcend time and space,

And you're actually standing at the foot of the cross.

And you are not reading about it as if it was something that happened over a thousand years ago,

2,

000 years ago,

Right?

But you're there.

You're part of it.

You're standing there as a witness to these events.

It's inclusive.

So to understand the Bible,

I AM is the name of God.

And when Jesus is teaching,

When he's talking to Peter,

He's actually talking to you directly.

And Jesus knew this when he was teaching.

He knew it was transcendent of time.

And he knew that when he was speaking to Peter,

He was speaking to future generations that had not even been born yet.

He was aware of that.

And so when you read scripture in this context of the presence,

And in this case,

The teaching of Jesus,

When he's speaking to Peter,

He's talking directly to you,

It transforms the Bible into what it is meant to be,

Which is a living story that reveals your eternal nature,

A living story that reveals your eternal nature.

This is the nature of all scripture,

But Jesus in particular,

It is a living truth that is alive in your own heart.

It's a living truth alive in your own heart.

So today we're going to be looking at the Last Supper.

And there's so much teaching in this particular story.

There's a heartbreak of huge proportions in the Last Supper,

Right?

Because Jesus as an avatar,

As divine,

As the divine son of God,

There is no separation for him.

So Jesus is God on earth,

And you are also God on earth.

And this is what Jesus reveals in John 14 6 when he says,

I am the way,

I am the truth,

And I am the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me.

Right?

And so of course everybody thinks,

Well,

He's talking about himself.

The way to salvation is through Jesus.

But that's because most people don't get that I am as God.

I am is the name of God.

So God is the way.

God is the truth.

And God is the life.

Well,

Where is the life in you?

Well,

This feeling of me.

And where do you feel this to me?

Just to the right of your physical heart.

Just to the right of your physical heart as Ramana so beautifully points out.

The center of your body,

Your spiritual center is to the right of the heart.

And there's a bundle of nerves there,

Nadis,

Meridians.

It's part of your electrical system that's connected to your heart and your brain in that center.

So the way to salvation is through the me.

Right?

It's the discovery of your eternal nature and the presence of Christ reveals that.

And the Last Supper is revealing that and always reveals that.

So if we allow ourselves to be at the Last Supper,

So it's not even like watching a movie.

We're actually there.

We are at the dinner,

The final dinner with Jesus and the disciples and Mary and Mary Magdalene in a secret rendezvous.

They had to keep it secret because Judas,

Who is one of the disciples,

Was going to betray Jesus.

He had already made the decision.

He was going to betray Jesus to the Jewish High Council in an attempt to get things moving the direction he thought they should move,

Which is Jesus as the Messiah was going to destroy the Romans who had occupied Jerusalem at that time.

So the thinking of Judas was limited to the earthly realm and how he thought the Messiah should act and what he was going to act and what the Messiah should do.

So he plans on betraying Jesus and is given 50 pieces of silver.

Right?

He's given money to betray Christ,

To betray his beloved master,

His teacher.

But Judas is not the only one that is going to betray Jesus.

Right?

Ultimately,

All of them betray him with the exception of Mary,

His mother,

Mary Magdalene,

And John who all had the courage to be present and allow their heart to break when Jesus was crucified.

So if we're at the dinner,

This fateful last dinner with Jesus,

We're sitting at a low table because in that time period the tables weren't like they are now.

You'd be sitting on a cushion on the floor and the lamb would have been slaughtered already.

Right?

So this is a passover dinner.

This last supper is a passover dinner,

A Seder dinner.

And it's meant to bring into remembrance and honor and praise and be thankful for the Exodus.

The Exodus from slavery,

From the Exodus from slavery,

From the Pharaoh.

Right?

So this is ancient Egypt.

And the Jewish people were enslaved by the Pharaoh.

And they were really doing a lot of hard labor,

Building the temples and the pyramids back in ancient Egypt.

And Moses,

After hearing from God,

Frees them from this slavery.

Right?

So it's important to understand how Moses plays a role in the last supper because it's also timeless,

Free of space and time.

What happened to Moses is the Exodus from slavery.

So Jesus appears to,

As a new Exodus,

Right?

The Exodus from a different kind of slavery.

The slavery of the body,

The slavery of the mind,

The slavery of the ego.

Sound familiar for those of you who know Ramana?

To see through the mind,

To see through the illusion of the physical body,

To see the living truth directly for yourself.

So because Judas was going to betray Jesus,

Jesus had arranged for them to have their Passover dinner in the upper room of a series of,

It was like an apartment building basically,

But they were on the top floor with furniture,

Low table cushions.

And he was going to be in the kitchen with the furniture,

With the furniture,

With the furniture,

And he sent Peter and John to prepare the Passover,

Which at that time was a huge thing.

You know,

If we're going to have a dinner here in the United States or anywhere around the world,

We go to the store,

We buy the materials and we make dinner,

Or we go to a restaurant and dinner to fast food and we get fast food instantly,

Right?

But back then in ancient times,

This was a sacred meal,

Just like tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the United States,

Which is a celebration of the harvest and gratitude in prayer,

Thanking God for the abundance in life regardless of what your religious belief is.

So Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude,

A time of family connecting,

And many people right now can't connect because of the pandemic.

It spreads so easily,

It's so contagious that many people are not able to get together for this Thanksgiving.

So to prepare for the Passover,

You actually have to sacrifice a lamb.

This is in honor of Moses who freed the Jewish people from slavery,

And part of that story is that you put blood,

The blood of a sacrificed lamb around your door and that would protect you from the angel of death.

And the angel of death was there to kill the son of the Pharaoh and every firstborn son.

So the only people that were protected from death are people that sacrificed the lamb,

The Jewish people sacrificed the lamb and put the blood on the left side of the door,

The top of the door,

And the right of the door,

And that let the angel of death know that they were of God.

They were of God.

So the angel of death would pass them by.

So it's really important to understand that.

And then the connection is that Peter and John were asked to prepare the Passover meal,

Which includes bread,

Unleavened bread,

Fruit,

Wine,

And the lamb.

But the lamb is sacred.

So at that time,

The reason Jesus had to go to Jerusalem is because he was Jewish.

Jesus was Jewish.

And this was the Passover,

One of the most sacred days,

Right?

To honor the life and teaching and the exodus,

The miracles of Moses,

The manna,

The bread that came from heaven that saved them when they were out in the desert,

Right?

And the only place at that time that you could sacrifice the lamb is in Jerusalem at the temple of Solomon,

The sacred temple of Solomon.

And there was millions of people,

Close to 2 million people would descend on Jerusalem in that time period to stack up sacrifice a lamb to honor the exodus from slavery,

Right?

So John and Peter would have had to get a lamb.

They would have had to purchase a lamb if they didn't already have one.

It had to be blemishless.

It had to be perfect and a year old.

And then they would have to go to the temple with long lines of people.

So one person couldn't sacrifice a lamb by themselves.

It was like a minimum of 10 people.

It was a minimum of 10.

And so usually it was a large family of about 20 people with one lamb for the Passover dinner.

And 200,

And there's historical references to this,

250,

000 lambs were the average amount of lambs that were sacrificed in the temple.

And when you really take that in and you walk with John and Peter with their lamb,

And maybe the rest of the disciples were with them,

That's not in the Bible,

But they would have gone to the temple to sacrifice the lamb in the temple.

So when you think of this huge temple and that many people with animals and you're going through this process,

There was an altar.

So this was a sacred,

Sacred ceremony,

The highest ceremony of the Jewish faith.

And still is to this day.

Now they don't sacrifice in the temple because the temple is ultimately destroyed,

But they still have the Passover meal in celebration and thankfulness and gratitude for the Passover.

And so all the priests would have been there,

The high council,

The Jewish priests would be there singing the Hallel,

Which is the Psalms,

Psalm 113 to 118.

So the priests would have been singing this ancient song in Hebrew as these lambs were being sacrificed and the blood was poured out on the altar and there was a drain in the altar and all the blood and the waters,

They washed it away with water,

Would go down the drain.

And on the side of the temple,

There was a big spout where all of that would come out.

So when you're looking at the temple from a distance,

What you would see is water and blood pouring out of the side of the temple into this little river that was there,

Right?

And this was a sacred act because the blood symbolizes life.

Life was in the blood.

So they were draining away the life.

They were giving the life to God and then part of the process was to eat the Passover meal.

You were to take the lamb and roast it.

So it was no small thing that Jesus was asking of Peter and John to prepare the Last Supper.

So if we go into the room and we're sitting there and the meal has been prepared,

The lamb has been roasted by Peter and John,

The room is set up,

There's fruit,

There's wine,

There's unleavened bread,

There's a beautiful feast,

Right,

For all of us.

So as we sit at this table with Jesus and his disciples,

He is there to bring in the new covenant.

So in this moment,

Jesus is going through an alchemy and he is showing his teaching through this alchemy.

He is demonstrating his teaching through the alchemy of the Last Supper.

So this is very familiar to all of the disciples because they were all Jewish.

They were all raised as Jewish people and so this was very familiar to have a Passover dinner but this was a very,

Very different dinner because part of what Jesus has come to tell them is that he has prepared this meal for them to honor and praise God.

But also to let them know that he was going to be arrested and that one of the 12 who was sitting there,

Judas was sitting in the room,

Is sitting in the room right now.

You might even be sitting next to Judas,

Right,

Sitting next to the man who is about to betray Jesus.

So Peter is there,

Everybody's there and Jesus takes off his shirt and wraps it around his waist and he gets up and he picks up a bowl and he puts water in it.

And one of the things you have to remember about this night is that a lot of things have already happened with Jesus and the disciples.

His teaching lasted for three years so all of these people had witnessed him walking on water with the exception of Mary Magdalene was not there when that happened but they witnessed miracle after miracle.

They saw blind people be healed of blindness,

Lame people that couldn't walk or paralyzed people could suddenly walk.

So they had witnessed miracle after miracle.

They were all there on the Sermon of the Mount when he took five loaves of bread and fed 5,

000 people with it.

And it wasn't just sharing because in many Protestant perspectives it was considered sharing.

No,

It was an absolute miracle of the bread,

The multiplication of bread and there is significance in that.

So they would have witnessed Jesus transforming a small basket of bread into enough to feed 5,

000 people.

This is a lot of people,

Right?

It's a lot of people.

This is a lot of people,

Right?

It's a lot of people to feed.

They would have seen Lazarus being risen from the dead.

So this man had power,

Spiritual power and they were the witnesses to that power.

And they loved Jesus.

Jesus was their teacher.

Jesus was their master,

Is their master,

The eternal master.

So it's important to have that context.

So here we are at the dinner.

Suddenly Jesus takes off his shirt.

He wraps it around him and he puts some water in a bowl and he goes up to Peter and he kneels down in front of Peter and he's going to wash Peter's feet,

Right?

And put yourself in Peter's place.

I mean you're sitting there and Jesus comes up to you with a bowl of water and he kneels down in front of you in an act of complete humility and he's about to wash your feet.

And in that time period that was the thing that slaves did.

Not a teacher,

Not an exalted master or rabbi would never do such a thing.

So Peter was uncomfortable.

Imagine how you would feel.

Jesus kneeling down is going to wash your feet.

So Peter's kind of inching back and saying,

Well wait,

Wait,

Wait,

No,

No,

You won't wash my feet.

And then Jesus stops and he basically says,

You don't understand what's happening here,

Right?

But if you don't let me wash your feet,

Then you are not my student.

You are not my disciple and I'll invite you to leave.

And then Peter realizes that he's definitely going to wash his feet no matter what.

So he says,

Well wash my head and my hands too because he loved Jesus.

And certainly he didn't want to be rejected.

He was a student.

He loved Jesus.

He was always trying to understand it and always failing.

And we can relate to Peter because Peter is the epitome of humanity,

Right?

Making mistakes,

Not understanding,

Not really getting it.

He was always kind of the last to get it,

Right?

So he washes all of the disciples feet.

And then he says,

A servant is not greater than the master who has sent him,

Right?

So this is a teaching in humility,

Right?

It's a teaching in surrender,

Certainly for Peter to surrender and let his master wash his feet.

And then he said,

You need to do this to each other,

Right?

And how people are going to know who you are,

Know that you are my disciples is that you will love one another.

So he didn't just wash Peter's feet as like a mechanical act.

He was washing his feet from his heart with tenderness and love and surrender and humility.

And when you really take that in and you allow Jesus right now to wash your feet from his heart,

Which is the radiant presence of God washing over you as he gently washes away the dirt,

Right,

From your feet in love,

In peace,

In humility.

And a servant is not greater than his master.

So he was revealing that he is a servant to God and he is a servant to God in you.

He was a servant to God in Peter.

He was a servant to God to everyone as that living,

Eternal love presence.

So the energy of love in this moment of the Last Supper that was secret,

Held in secret because it was dangerous.

The Jews were very,

The Jewish elders were very freaked out about Jesus and especially after he rose Lazarus from the dead.

They saw him as a threat to the temple,

To their sacred right,

Their sacred power.

They saw him as a charlatan because he didn't fit the image that they had of who the Messiah would be.

The Messiah would be not like him.

This guy was more irregular,

More down to earth,

Had kind of longish hair and just simple clothes,

Right?

He just didn't fit the regal image that they had of the Messiah that they have been praying for and waiting for for centuries.

And so he was a threat to the status quo because of his power,

Because of his presence,

Because of his teaching,

Right?

Which was love of God,

But pure bhakti,

Pure love.

So he does this for all the disciples and he's really saying,

If you're one of my students,

Then people will know you.

They will recognize you because you love each other as I love you.

Not as humans love each other,

Which is conditional.

I love you if you buy me a new car or I'll love you if you watch the dishes and take out the trash.

We have conditional love.

So he's talking about divine love,

Which is unconditional.

It's compassion,

Pure compassion,

Not as a thought of compassion,

But the living compassion that comes from the presence of God,

Right?

So he had tremendous compassion for Peter and he had tremendous compassion for Judas.

So Judas is there and then Jesus sits down,

He puts his shirt back on,

Right?

And then he picks up and this is where the Passover dinner transforms into something totally different.

This is the moment that changed the world forever.

So he picks up a slice of,

You know,

Big piece of unleavened bread and he blesses it and breaks it,

Right?

He rips it apart and he says,

This is my body.

Take and eat.

I am the bread of life.

Do this in remembrance of me.

And he hands out the bread,

Right,

To everyone.

And then he pours wine into a cup and he holds it up and he said,

This wine is my blood.

Take,

Drink,

And remember me,

Right?

This divine love.

Take this wine and drink it.

Then he passes the cup around the Holy Grail,

Right?

We've heard the stories of the searching for the Holy Grail,

The blood of Christ,

The Word made flesh,

The living presence.

So in Protestant perspectives,

This is seen as a metaphor,

But in the Catholic faith it's not.

It's not a metaphor.

And I think that perspective is more accurate because the alchemy of Christ is becoming Christ by merging with his infinite heart,

The love of Christ,

Becoming divine.

So God became man so that man could become God,

That you could recognize your divinity,

That you could recognize your eternal nature,

Which is the nature of the teaching of Ramana,

To directly discover this eternal presence in your heart just to the right of your physical heart.

And then after he brings in the,

This is the blood of the new covenant,

Right?

When you drink this,

Remember me.

This is the blood that's going to be poured out for many.

And then he tells them,

I am going to be arrested tonight and crucified for the forgiveness of sin.

So in this moment,

Jesus himself is the Lamb of God,

Right?

He is the new sacrifice.

He is going to be sacrificed.

He is aware of what's going on.

And they meet in secret so that he could bring forth the new covenant sealed in his blood.

But the teaching in this is that the wine is transformed from wine to blood.

And remember,

The very first miracle of Jesus was transforming water into wine.

And now at the Last Supper,

He is transforming wine into blood,

His blood,

Not just any blood.

And what is his blood?

It is the Word,

The sacred presence of God.

The Word was made flesh,

Right?

So it's the life of Christ is in the wine,

Which he has through his grace and alchemy has transformed.

Alchemy has transformed into his blood.

And if you ingest this life of Jesus,

Right,

If you drink his blood,

Which sounds cannibalistic,

Right?

It sounds strange,

Unless you have this deeper understanding that you are drinking the eternal life of Jesus.

The power of Jesus is in the Word.

And the Word was made flesh.

And what makes the flesh alive is the blood,

Right?

And the bread is his body.

And he says,

I am the bread of life.

Anyone who eats of this bread will never die,

Right?

So he is opening the door through this new covenant to what?

Eternal life.

And where is that?

In your heart,

In the love of your heart,

The divine love of your heart,

Your eternal nature.

And then he says,

And one of you is going to betray me.

And then they're all kind of looking so you can imagine everybody's going,

Well,

It's not me.

I mean,

Who's going to betray him?

And they ask,

They're like,

Well,

You know,

Peter's like,

You know,

Getting kind of upset about this.

He's upset that Jesus is saying he's going to be crucified.

This was not part of Peter's plan,

Right?

He thought Peter was also going to save them from the Roman occupation.

So he's like,

What?

What do you mean you're going to be dying?

I mean,

This can't be right.

You have to have this wrong.

And he gets really upset.

He said,

Wait a minute,

Jesus,

You know,

I will,

I will lay down my life.

I'll be thrown in prison.

I'll do anything for you.

I love you so much.

And Jesus looks at him and says,

Peter,

Before the cock crows in the morning,

You will deny you even know me three times.

So Jesus already knew that Peter was also going to betray him.

And he reveals that in that moment.

So imagine if you're Peter and Jesus is saying,

Yeah,

I hear what you're saying,

But when it really,

When the rubber meets the road,

You're going to freak out and pretend you didn't even know me.

Didn't know my name.

We're not one of the 12,

Right?

So it's very embarrassing moment,

Intense moment,

Confusing moment for Peter and confusing for all of the disciples because,

You know,

He's,

He is saying something that for a Jew in the first century would think,

My God,

My God,

This,

What is this all about?

This,

This,

I'm going to be eating his body and drinking his blood.

What does this mean?

The bread of life,

What is eternal life?

So there was a lot of confusion and the energy was thick.

The love was thick,

But the intensity was thick.

They said,

Well,

Who's going to betray you?

And he said,

Well,

The one who dips this,

He takes a piece of the bread.

He said,

The one who dips with me is the one that will betray me.

And he dips his bread in and Judah and Judas dips his bread in and Jesus turns and looks at Judas and says,

Do what you came to do and do it quickly.

And so Judah,

Judas gets up and leaves.

And that's confusing for the disciples.

They don't really know what's going on,

Right?

Because this is a totally new perspective,

Right,

Of the lamb of God.

This is a totally new thing that he's bringing into the consciousness.

And really this is the new exodus,

The new Moses,

The new exodus.

He is the new Moses.

But instead of sacrificing a lamb,

An animal,

He is the sacrifice.

He is willing to give his life so that they all could be free of sin,

Which is the human condition,

Chasing after things that don't matter,

Right?

There were Jossach tendencies that Ramana talked about or the Tamausic tendencies,

This impulse to fight,

Which is deeply ingrained in the human body,

To fight.

And Peter was just really like the embodiment of that because he was like,

What are you talking about?

You can't be killed.

You're the Messiah.

You're the son of God.

I will lay down my life for you.

I love you.

And he's like,

No,

You will deny me three times before the sunrise,

Tonight.

So it was intense,

Very intense moment because they loved Jesus.

There was love in the air.

It was thick and it was intense.

It was heartbreaking.

They were being told that he was going to die.

He was going to be crucified.

He wasn't just going to die.

It was a horrendous death.

And then he said,

I'll be going away for a while,

But then I will return.

So he's foretelling of the crucifixion,

But also the resurrection that he's going to be rising again.

So during this meal,

The halal songs,

These ancient Hebrew songs would have been sung.

So here we are at this table.

There's a lot of confusion.

He's produced the,

You know,

He's demonstrated the bread and the blood of life,

Eternal life,

Life eternal,

His blood,

His body as the meal.

So he's the new lamb.

The new meal of Passover is him.

He is the alchemy of salvation.

He is the alchemy of the Exodus is a way of saying it.

The alchemy of the Exodus is the body and blood of Jesus.

And he's willing to give his life,

Not just for the disciples,

But so that everyone could be free from the suffering of the human condition,

The human body.

This is the alchemy of Jesus at the last supper.

And it's beautiful.

And there's so much love.

And so Judas has left to betray him.

And after the dinner,

They're going to go into the place that they usually would go as a group to the Mount of Olives to be with each other and try to kind of assimilate this,

Because this is a huge shift for these people.

This is a huge shift even for people today.

And it's a huge shift in this moment when you really start to take this in,

The love that is present,

The passion of Peter,

The sneakiness of Judas.

And Judas might have had good intentions.

He's trying to get things going in the right direction.

He's thinking,

Certainly if I betray him to the high council,

Once they meet Jesus and they really get to know who he really is,

Maybe this is what will change everything.

So he might have had good intentions to betray Jesus.

But he just appears.

And so there's all this confusion.

They don't know why Judas has left.

And because he managed the money,

They're probably thinking he was going to go do something with the money or get something.

There was a lot of confusion at this particular moment,

Because this new message was coming to life.

The new exodus was coming to life in that moment,

In this moment,

In the eternal moment of now.

And when you think of ingesting the body of Jesus and drinking his blood,

Then you are literally becoming one with the Father,

Right?

You're becoming one with the Father.

You're becoming one with God,

One with omniscience,

One with the eternal.

And maybe on some level,

They understood that,

But there was a lot of confusion at that moment in time.

And Peter also loved him so much.

He was willing to give his life,

And he ultimately does give his life for Jesus.

He's crucified upside down as a martyr,

You know,

Many years in the future.

So you can really feel,

Smell the lamb,

The roasted lamb,

The bread,

The fruit,

The presence of Jesus,

Which is this intense love and intensity of the seriousness of what he's telling them,

That he's seeing into the future.

He knows he was the Lamb of God,

That he was the ultimate sacrifice to erase the original sin of Adam and Eve,

Right,

Eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

So this was the atonement,

The blood,

The life of Christ,

The life in the bread,

The eternal life is the atonement for the mistake of ego,

Eating from the tree of knowledge of good and ego.

Ego came into existence,

And then as soon as ego came into existence,

They were cast out of paradise,

Right?

So it goes all the way back to Adam and Eve,

And Moses and the Exodus,

You know,

The parting of the Red Sea,

The burning bush,

The Ark of the Covenant,

Right?

So Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai,

And it was housed in the Ark of the Covenant,

Right?

And the Ark of the Covenant was where?

In the temple.

And this is why they sacrificed the lambs in the temple.

So it's all interconnected.

And the whole story,

The prophecy and the fulfillment of the prophecy is meant to reveal eternal life.

But not,

What's beautiful about this is it was direct experience.

Like,

Raman is teaching the law of Raman is direct experience,

The law of Jesus is also direct experience.

He's not saying,

Think that you are the love in your heart.

He's saying,

No,

Eat the bread of life,

Drink the blood of life,

And know that you are that through direct experience.

So when you eat the divine,

Miraculous bread,

The mana of Christ,

Christ becomes the new mana,

The new miracle bread,

The bread of God,

And the life of God.

And when you eat that,

It is the physicalness of eating that that transforms your life.

It works on you from the inside.

And then Ramana points to the direct location,

Just to the right of your physical heart,

If you go in there with your conscious attention to discover what lives beyond the me,

The feeling me.

No one comes to the Father except through me,

Right?

The me.

So if you go through the me in your own body,

You land in the spiritual center,

The realm of God.

So the act of eating is the physical act of union,

Total union.

Union's not even really the right word.

It's you are that.

It's the realization of that.

So the Eucharist,

The life in the bread,

The life and the blood is the alchemy that starts transforming you from the inside out.

It starts removing.

It is the sacred fire that burns through all of the veils of being human,

Fear,

Anxiety,

Stress,

Anger,

Rage.

It burns.

It burns it.

And so they would have been singing these Hallel songs,

These ancient songs,

And Jesus would have been singing that night.

So imagine for a moment that we're still there.

We're all kind of shocked because he just said this bread was his body.

So it's like the whole room is starting to spin with the energy of this moment.

And he's saying this is the gateway of eternal life to eat my body and drink my blood.

So it would have been like a shocking experience to kind of be there and feel the energy of this.

And then he would have sung this Hallel song,

Which is ancient.

It was part of the Passover dinner.

And it's a prayer of gratitude.

So if you have a moment,

I highly recommend reading the Psalms because you can see Jesus in these Psalms.

Right?

In 118,

It's talking about he is the cornerstone that is rejected.

And some translations say he's the chief cornerstone,

Which means the top of a pyramid.

He is the eye of providence is what it represents.

So it's in these songs.

And I want to play a version of Psalm 118 for you,

Because it is so absolutely beautiful.

And this is a woman.

I'm going to play the traditional Hallel.

These are a group of Jewish men singing the Hallel.

So this is what it would have sounded like at the temple.

And for every Passover meal,

The rabbi or the father of the family would sing these Psalms.

So the Psalms are songs.

They were always known to be songs,

And they're still sung to this day.

So listen to this.

This is a group of men singing the traditional Hallel that would have been sung in the temple of Solomon during the Last Supper.

Right?

This would have been sung that day when Peter and John went to sacrifice the lamb.

And this is a song of prayer.

Blessed are you,

Lord our God.

So you can imagine the temple.

You can imagine the temple with all of these priests singing this ancient song as 250,

000 lambs are literally slaughtered,

Sacrificed,

And the blood is pouring out of the side of the temple.

This is really significant.

These songs are still sung in the temple of Solomon.

These songs are still sung to this day.

And it's all about thanksgiving and prayer and praise of God,

The eternal one,

And trusting in that.

So that's your traditional Hallel song,

And it's Psalms 113 through 118.

And this is still sung for every Passover meal in the Jewish faith to this day.

And here is a rendition of,

And I'm going to,

It's translated,

You can see this on YouTube,

It's Hallel in the Hebrew,

And it's sung by a woman by the name of Julie Geller,

And it's also in the traditional Hebrew.

Imagine Jesus singing this song of praise and gratitude to God,

And to his beloved students who he loved with his whole heart,

Divine love.

I give thanks because you answered me and you have been my salvation.

I give thanks because you answered me and you have been my salvation.

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

All of this is from the divine,

And it is wondrous in our eyes.

All of this is from the divine,

And it is wondrous in our eyes.

This is the day the divine has made.

Let us rejoice and be happy with him.

This is the day that the divine has made.

Let us rejoice and be happy with him.

Divine,

Please save us now.

Divine,

Please save us now.

Divine,

Please make us successful now.

Divine,

Please make us successful now.

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the divine.

We bless you from the house of the divine.

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the divine.

We bless you from the house of the divine.

The divine lights us up.

Bind the offering to the horn of the altar.

The divine lights us up.

Bind the offering to the horn of the altar.

The divine lights us up.

You are my divine,

And I am so grateful.

Divine,

I will exalt you.

You are my divine,

And I will thank you.

Divine,

I will exalt you.

Give thanks to the divine because all is good.

The love of the divine endures forever.

Give thanks to the divine because all is good.

The love of the divine endures forever.

Give thanks to the divine because all is good.

The love of the divine endures forever.

Give thanks to the divine because all is good.

The love of the divine endures forever.

The love of the divine endures forever.

Give thanks to the divine because all is good.

The love of the divine endures forever.

The love of the divine endures forever.

The love of the divine endures forever.

The love of the divine endures forever.

The love of the divine endures forever.

Jesus would have been singing the song,

I am laying down my life,

Because he already knew he was eternal life and that he would rise again.

And he would have sung the song of the sacrifice of the land.

The love of thanksgiving.

It is actually long.

The halal song,

All of it,

Song 113 to 118 is quite long.

They would have sung this repeatedly during the sacrifice of the land.

But the halal song is the song of the sacrifice of the land.

It is the alchemy that transforms us from the limited physical body to the divine,

Which is eternal.

It is the root of all suffering.

You will never die because the alchemy is direct experience.

I am the life.

I am the way.

I am the truth.

Is seen as bad and something you should get rid of because it's the root of all suffering,

But it's the gateway.

So you don't want to get rid of it.

You want to fall through it.

You want to fall through the gateway into eternal life.

And if you eat the bread of life and drink the blood of life,

Then this sacred alchemy,

The fire of grace,

Burns in your heart.

So as we sit there and this song is being sung by Jesus and the disciples are feeling the love and the intensity and the fear and the confusion of,

Oh my God,

I don't want to lose this man who I love.

He's my teacher.

What will we do?

I thought we were going to get rid of the Romans that were destroying us.

I thought we were going to change the world.

He can't die.

If he dies,

It's all over.

He's not the Messiah.

So this was a heartbreak,

A heartbreaking moment and a wondrous moment,

A confusing moment,

And a moment filled with love and intensity.

So it's like,

Whoa.

It's like you feel the heat in the room.

It would have been hot in that room anyway.

But the radiant presence of Jesus,

Washing your feet,

Breaking the bread,

Blessing the bread,

Singing this song,

Singing the halal,

Praise of God,

Knowing he was the sacrifice.

He was laying down his life.

So let me play that song one more time.

And I won't speak the words this time.

I just want you to really take this song in,

Because it's such a beautiful rendition.

["O Dechah K'Yani Tani Fatihi"] ["O Dechah K'Yani Tani Fatihi Lili Shua"] ["Even Ma'ah Suhabonim"] ["Even Ma'ah Suhabonim"] ["Meit Adonai Ha'itah Sot Hini Flat V'einu"] ["Meit Adonai Ha'itah Sot Hini Flat V'einu"] ["Zehayom Asa Adonai Na'kiilah V'nismech Avrom"] ["Zehayom Asa Adonai Na'kiilah V'nismech Avrom"] ["Anah Adonai O Shianah"] ["Anah Adonai O Shianah"] ["Anah Adonai Hatz'li Chana"] ["Anah Adonai Hatz'li Chana"] ["Baruch Haba B'shem Adonai"] ["Baruch Haba B'shem Adonai"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["Istruch Ad Baruch Imad Kar'nat Ha'Mizbei"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["Istruch Ad Baruch Imad Kar'nat Ha'Mizbei"] ["Istruch Ad Baruch Imad Kar'nat Ha'Mizbei"] ["Istruch Ad Baruch Imad Kar'nat Ha'Mizbei"] ["Istruch Ad Baruch Imad Kar'nat Ha'Mizbei"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] ["El Adonai V'ya Erlatu"] The love of God endures forever,

Right?

Such a beautiful,

Beautiful rendition of this ancient song in the traditional Hebrew.

And so after this dinner,

Which is a dinner of praise and thanksgiving and celebration of the exodus from slavery and the confusion of this new covenant,

But the love would have been so visceral,

Right?

You can feel it right now,

This love of your heart just expanding and expanding in the presence of the disciples,

In the presence of Jesus.

And then they leave the dinner as a group.

And they're probably talking amongst themselves and trying to kind of ascertain,

What is going on here?

Where did Judas go?

What's happening?

And they go to the Mount of Olives to the Garden of Gethsemane,

Which is the famous garden where Jesus surrenders the night of his,

The night before he's arrested and his ultimate crucifixion.

So they go there together as a group.

And Judas would have known that's where they would go after the Passover dinner.

So he was well aware of how to find the disciples,

How to find Jesus and ultimately how to betray him.

And so this is another teaching in the Garden of Gethsemane where he really,

He's really,

It's sinking into Jesus as a human being,

That he's about to go through the most horrendous death you can imagine.

And naturally he becomes terrified.

And he asks Peter especially to stay awake.

He says,

Peter,

I'm going to go pray.

I'm really upset.

I'm distraught.

And for Peter,

This is probably shocking.

I mean,

Here's the man that rose Lazarus and walked on water.

I mean,

Peter was the one that walked out on the water to meet Christ and started to sink because he didn't have enough faith.

Right.

He couldn't believe that he could walk on water.

So here's Peter again.

And he's saying,

Peter,

I'm really upset about what's about to happen.

Please stay awake while I go pray.

Stay watch.

So he goes off and he prays by himself.

And it was so intense,

The fear,

The terror that was arising because he was about to meet his own physical death as a human being.

Jesus' body was going to be beaten.

He was going to be hung up on a cross.

He was going to go through this torturous death.

There was going to be a crown of thorns on his head.

And he was terrified.

So he kneels down and he says,

Please,

Please,

God,

Can this cup pass from me?

Can this role you've given me of being the sacrificial lamb,

Can somebody else be sacrificed?

Does it have to be me?

Why me?

It's kind of a why me moment.

Like,

Really?

Do I really have to go through this?

This doesn't sound like this is going to be pleasant at all.

This sounds like it's going to be excruciatingly painful.

I can't do this.

Please,

God,

Take this cup from me.

And he's so freaked out in this moment.

He starts to sweat blood.

This is how terrified he was,

Kneeling there,

Shaking,

Sweating blood,

Asking for the cup,

The blood of the covenant to be taken from him.

Not me,

Maybe somebody else.

And then in that moment,

When he says,

Please take this cup,

The cup of blood of the new covenant,

Take it from me.

He surrenders.

And says,

Not mine,

Well,

But yours be done.

And this is the strength of Christ to meet the terror and then surrender to the infinite,

The wisdom of God.

Right.

So what he's revealing in this,

Not just surrender,

But the way of omniscience,

The way of God is not two dimensional.

It's not linear.

The way we think as human beings.

The gateway of salvation is in your own heart.

You don't go somewhere to get it.

It's here.

And the alchemy of the new covenant,

The blood of life and the bread of life is to discover that directly for yourself as a divine,

Miraculous alchemy.

It's the miraculous bread directly from God.

So it's not just a metaphor.

It's the actual literal truth.

The alchemy of Jesus is in the bread and wine as his body and blood,

Which is the nature of surrender to the eternal life.

So he's demonstrating courage.

He's demonstrating surrender.

He's demonstrating his humanity of being terrified at the prospect of being annihilated in such a horrendous manner to be tortured,

Whipped,

Beaten.

The crown of thorns really pushed under your head and the thorns digging into your head and being mocked and made fun of and spit on.

He knew what was going to unfold and he surrenders to the infinite,

Knowing that on the surface,

It looks like the worst possible situation.

But there is the grace of God that is revealing the divine.

The grace of God is revealing the divine and the humanity of Jesus.

The heartbreak of betrayal,

Right,

Of Peter and Judas.

So he goes back after this intense,

I mean,

He's sweating blood,

He's surrendering to God.

He goes back,

You know,

His hair is probably dripping with sweat and blood.

And he goes back and what's Peter doing?

He's snoozing.

He's like snoring over in the corner.

He's sound asleep without a care in the world.

And so Peter,

You know,

Fails,

Right?

He fails.

He didn't keep watch.

He didn't stay awake.

And Jesus shakes him and says,

You know,

The spirit is willing,

But the flesh is weak.

You know,

Can't you stay awake with me?

This is my hour.

My hour has come.

My hour of need.

I need you,

Peter,

To stay awake.

Right.

But none of them can stay awake.

They all fall asleep.

And then Judas comes with 12 Roman soldiers and some of the people from the high council.

And they wake up and and then they see Judas and they're like,

No,

Judas,

Peter especially,

Is like,

No,

Because he realizes Judas is going to betray his beloved master.

And Peter whips out his sword and he chops off the ear of one of the elders,

Right,

One of the Jewish high council that was there.

He chops off his ear and Jesus stops him and says,

No,

No,

No,

Stop.

And he grabs this man's ear and puts it back on his head and he holds his hand on this man's ear and.

The ear is completely healed right in front of everybody.

The ear is back exactly as it was and Jesus looks at Peter and is like,

No,

This is not the way.

He who lives by the sword will die by the sword.

So you can just imagine the intensity of this moment.

I mean,

You see this miracle,

This man's ears cut off,

Blood is going everywhere,

And then suddenly it's just back to the way it was.

And,

You know,

They,

You know,

When Jesus,

When they ask who is Jesus,

Who is your master?

Judas kisses him,

Kisses Jesus.

And Jesus looks at him and says,

You betray the son of man with a kiss?

So the betrayal,

Which is a heartbreak,

Is with a kiss.

Right?

The heartbreak of betrayal.

And when you're betrayed,

When you're tricked,

It's painful,

Right?

But Jesus was aware that this betrayal had to happen.

And when the soldiers called out and said,

Well,

Who is Jesus?

He didn't say,

I am Jesus.

He just said,

I am.

And they asked again,

And he said,

I am.

And this is really significant that he didn't say,

I am Jesus.

I am the one you're looking for.

He just said,

I am.

Which means that God was present as flesh.

The word was made flesh in Jesus.

The word is made flesh in you.

I'm in the Father and the Father is in me and I am in you.

There is one presence of God.

And he was revealing that in that moment through the heartbreak of betrayal,

The kiss,

The sting of betrayal,

God is present.

Because God works in this dimension that we don't understand as human beings.

It's intelligence beyond anything you can imagine is intelligence.

There's no way to comprehend the intelligence that is God.

God is the omniscience.

Look out at the universe at night.

And that's just a tiny glimpse of what we call God.

This vast power.

Incredible power embodied in Jesus.

God as man so that man can realize his own divinity.

As that divinity,

Not as ego.

Right?

So the ego must be annihilated.

It is the gateway that you slide through.

But once you slide through the ego itself burns away.

It evaporates.

It burns in the fire of bhakti,

Of love of God.

So he stops Peter from fighting.

He heals the man.

He reveals the presence of God.

I am.

God is present.

Now.

Take me.

And they arrest him.

And they take him off to the high council.

Right?

And we know that the rest of the story.

And then Peter runs.

They all scatter.

As soon as Jesus is arrested,

They just bolt like a bunch of horses.

Like young baby horses running through the woods.

Right?

To get away.

Because they don't want to be crucified.

They're terrified.

Their master has just been arrested by the Romans.

He's been betrayed by Judas who they thought was their friend.

And then Judas is starting to go,

What is going on?

And he thinks he's going to be part of the council meeting and they shut him out.

Then he realizes he's been betrayed.

So when he goes to be part of the council to try Jesus,

The Jewish elders,

The Jewish elders say,

You've done your job.

Get out of here.

And he throws the money back.

I think it's 30 pieces of silver.

It's not 50.

It's 30 pieces.

So he throws it back,

Which was a lot of money.

But he threw it back because he realized now he's been betrayed.

And he's heartbroken and ashamed and devastated because he also loved Jesus.

Things were not working out as he had planned.

Not at all.

And he's miserable.

And he goes off and he kills himself.

And right now,

Because of the pandemic,

There's so many people that want to kill themselves because of shame,

Because of not having enough money,

Being overwhelmed.

Just can't handle the insanity of life.

Right.

So there's this this impulse to kill the body thinking that will kill or end my suffering.

But the suffering continues beyond the body because you're not the body.

Judas was not the body.

And he didn't give the real sin or mistake of Judas was he didn't give Jesus the opportunity to forgive him.

He just immediately he was so ashamed and so crestfallen,

So heartbroken,

So devastated,

Really probably thinking at that point that Jesus couldn't possibly be the Messiah.

So there was that heartbreak on top of it.

And he hangs himself in a tree.

Right.

He takes his own life.

Meanwhile,

Peter goes also to the temple where they're going to hold this high council meeting because he wants to know what's going on.

What is going on?

And he remembered what Jesus had said to him.

Right.

Before the cross,

You're going to pretend like you don't even know him.

Know me.

Right.

So Peter standing there,

Warming his hands,

Kind of freaked out and nervous because he knows that he's you know,

People have seen him with Jesus.

He doesn't want to be crucified.

So he's warming his hands.

And this woman says,

Hey,

You know,

Aren't you one of the you you were I'm pretty sure you're that guy that was with Jesus.

And he's like,

No,

No,

No,

It's not me.

You know,

Not me.

I don't know that guy.

I don't know,

Jesus.

I know who he is.

But,

You know,

I'm not one of them.

And then another man says,

Hey,

You know,

You are him.

I recognize you.

You were definitely with the disciples.

And I don't know Jesus.

Really?

I'm not from here.

Right.

I'm from another town.

And then somebody else says,

I know you were you were with Jesus.

He says,

No,

No,

I wasn't.

You got you got me mixed up with somebody else.

And then right,

The cock crows.

And he is heartbroken.

Peter is devastated.

You know,

Here he was being so bold and he was going to lay down his life for for Jesus.

And he betrays and doesn't pretends like he doesn't even know.

How heartbreaking is that?

And he kind of soaks off into an alley and just sobs and sobs and sobs.

He's just completely heartbroken.

And imagine how you would feel if you betrayed Jesus,

The man who healed so many,

The man who gave the message of the divine love,

The alchemy of the Eucharist.

And here you are pretending you're so cowardly.

You can't even you can't even say that,

You know,

Heartbreak upon heartbreak.

And Judas kills himself.

The rest of the disciples have scattered.

And the only people with the courage to be with him till the very end are Mary Magdalene,

Mary.

The Virgin Mary,

The mother of God,

The new covenant,

The new ark of the Covenant,

The one that carried the word in her womb.

Right.

She's standing there and had the courage it must have taken to be there with her heart breaking as her son is so brutally murdered.

And then Jesus is teaching from the cross as this radiant presence.

And I think it's so important to understand that when Jesus was crucified,

When he you know,

The moment of crossover for Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Once he surrendered,

There was really no fear.

There was no fear at all.

He knew he was going to be sacrificed as the Lamb of God.

He knew the outcome before it even happened.

So he was there was no fear in him.

He did not cry out,

Even though in the movies they show him screaming and carrying on when he's brutally whipped,

Which is a ruthless torture.

And a lot of people die just from being whipped.

Right.

But he did not call out.

He was the radiant presence of God as they beat him.

There was no crying out.

He didn't experience pain in the way a human being experiences pain.

There was pain,

But he wasn't at the effect of the pain he had surrendered to the will of the Father,

The will of the omniscient presence,

The vast intelligence of the entire universe.

There was no fear in him at that point.

And they mocked him and made fun of him,

Put a crown of thorns on his head.

And he didn't fight back.

He was still radiant and radiating that love.

And when they nailed him to the cross,

He didn't scream out.

He was radiant.

He was glowing.

And he looked at the Roman soldiers with love.

These are the people that made fun of him.

They were nailing to the cross and the soldiers knew something major was going on because they've never seen anybody act like this.

He just put his hand out and let him nail him to the cross through the palm.

I know there's this big conversation that was through the wrist,

But that is not how it was.

It was right through the palm,

Just below the wrist,

Where it kind of been the fat part of the hand.

And then they tied him with ropes.

But once he was on the cross,

There was just this radiant,

Glowing presence.

I mean,

His eyes were like fire.

He was beautiful,

Radiant.

And dying this miserable death and teaching forgiveness,

Teaching that we all are love.

Right?

He calls out to his mother and says,

Woman.

And then he looks at John.

He said,

This is your son.

And John.

This woman is your mother.

Right?

So he's giving his mother,

The divine Virgin Mary,

To John to take care of.

Right?

But he's also revealing the love that binds us together.

So these people loved each other as love.

As this divine presence.

And they would have known it wasn't what they were expecting.

So they were shocked.

And then they were hurt.

And they were heartbroken and confused.

But they also were in awe because there was so much light pouring out of Jesus.

There was so much love present.

It was this palpable energy of love.

And he was teaching forgiveness.

And he was teaching about paradise.

He was talking to one of the people that were being crucified with him.

One of the men who said,

Take me with you when you go to your kingdom.

And he said,

Today you will be with me in paradise.

Because the paradise is this love,

Which is beyond anything you can imagine.

The love that is God is beyond anything that a human being can imagine.

It's your greatest love times a trillion.

Billion only scratches the surface.

It is the love of the entire universe.

And it's unconditional.

Unconditional.

It's for everyone.

So the essence of this secret rendezvous,

They had to meet in secret because he was bringing the new covenant.

You know,

They they wanted to arrest him.

He knew that Judas was going to betray him.

His own students,

Most of them betray him.

Peter definitely betrayed him.

Judas definitely betrayed him and the heartbreak of that.

But it was part of it.

The heartbreak was part of it,

Allowing your heart to break open to that moment.

Of shock,

That moment of the divine present.

I am.

This is the teaching of the Last Supper,

The alchemy of God.

Things looked really bad in that moment when Jesus was crucified.

But then three days later.

He was alive.

He rose from the dead and Mary was the first to see him.

Right.

And she was excited,

Wanted to hug him.

But he's like,

No,

No,

No,

I have not yet ascended to my father.

So he had gone through an alchemy.

He was still alive as a physical person.

But he had gone through a transformation during that three day period.

Right.

So Mary didn't even recognize him at first.

So he was around for 40 days after the resurrection.

Right.

And there's a lot of teaching in that.

As well.

But this moment of the new covenant is so beautiful,

So deep and rich in teaching,

Because it's really revealing this divine presence.

Not as a metaphor,

But as the eternal truth that is here now.

So the Last Supper is here and now.

And when you really can hear this and you realize that scripture is transcendent of time and space and that I am is the name of God.

So when Jesus says I am,

It is God,

The divine,

The eternal.

It transforms this story.

Right.

It's much more than just a story.

It's a teaching.

And then the humility of washing Peter's feet and all the disciples feet and saying that you should do that for each other.

And that people will know you're my students when you show that you love each other from the heart,

From this place of divine love,

Unconditional love,

Which is not easy.

Right.

Loving God with all your heart,

All your mind,

All your soul.

And loving your neighbor as yourself.

This is realizing that they are also love.

They are also divine,

Regardless of what the outer appearance is.

On the inside,

We are love.

Love divine.

Unconditional.

Pure compassion.

This is the exodus from the suffering of this world is the love in your heart.

And this is the new covenant.

Oh,

Jesus Christ.

So let's listen to that song one more time.

I love this song,

In case you didn't notice.

Oh,

There are any tiny fatty he leaves you.

Oh,

There are any tiny fatty he leaves you.

Heaven,

My soul,

How about you?

They're all seen.

Hi,

Tom.

Me.

Hi,

Tom.

I know.

Oh,

She.

Oh,

She.

I know.

She.

They're all seen.

I know.

Oh,

They're all seen.

Oh,

Oh,

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So beautiful.

So here we are in the middle of a pandemic and the heartbreak of so many people losing their lives and have lost their lives.

And I want to thank all the first responders out there that have been really on the front lines of just witnessing,

You know,

One death after another over the past several months this year has been a challenging year on so many levels.

And I want to thank all of the first responders out there that have been really on the front lines of just witnessing,

You know,

One death after another over the past several months this year has been a challenging year on so many levels.

It's not just a story and some old dusty book.

It's the living truth that is alive in you and alive in me alive and all of us,

The love that endures for ever.

I want to thank all of you for listening.

And really it's to this,

This teaching the power of this teaching is so strong that we originally think about having a conversation,

Asking questions or whatever and I really just want you to take this love in this eternal grace.

This bread of life.

This blood of life in.

Find that song the Hillel songs on YouTube,

You can listen.

And you can get it on iTunes.

And I want to thank you for bringing your precious precious life to this thought song with Jesus right side song through the lens of Ramana Maharishi,

The eternal grace of here,

And now.

Shanti Shanti Shanti.

Shanti Shanti Shanti.

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My soul feels like a sponge that just absorbed the peace and love of Jesus. The songs brought tears to my eyes they were so beautiful. Thank you for bringing this to me!