Christmas: From an Esoteric Interfaith Perspective - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

In this Classic Teaching recorded in 2014, Shunyamurti unpacks deep layers of meaning contained in the Christmas scenario. He links the universal and archetypal levels of the Christ as symbol with the actual life of the enlightened Israelite sage who is remembered by that title. The dimension of the Christ as Self is distinguished from other religious, ideological, and mythological depictions. We also learn how the teachings of Christ have analogs in all religions, and how the holy day of Christ’s symbolic birth takes place at the end of the year, which heralds the revelation of God at the end of every cycle of time, heralding a new beginning. Facing the Apocalypse is the final exam in this wisdom school that is the world, and only the attainment of Christ-consciousness will avail at the moment of Truth. May the Christ (who is also Krishna, Buddha, and the Dao, among other names) be born in you this season.
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[To All Who Listen to Shunyamurti’s Teachings: Thank you all for your serious consideration of these ideas, which are intended to help you live a more coherent, peaceful, creative, compassionate, and productive life, and to be of service to the welfare of our world. We understand that our approach to existential concerns is not for everyone. We honor your right to disagree with these ideas and to stop listening if you do not like them. We gladly post comments with disagreements, if they are stated in a positive and mature manner, that allows civilized discourse about your own contrary ideas, and which may spark further useful and profound thought about the important issues that the teachings raise. If there are sincere questions about the teachings, or misunderstandings that can be clarified, Shunyamurti is always ready and willing to respond with helpful elaborations and even to cite texts and other authors whose writings may be of assistance to serious seekers. But comments that are simply angry and insulting, immature and unreasonable, will be removed because they undermine the educational and inspirational purpose of this project. Those who have questions that are more personal should write us in a private email and one of the teachers in our wisdom school will respond in the same way, or if the question is a very subtle or difficult one and requires a response from Shunyamurti, we will forward it to him on your behalf, and when he can, he will respond personally. By the way, we want to clarify that these teachings are new, they are not simply a repetition of old traditional teachings, but integrate current thought in the sciences, psychology, cultural studies, and philosophy. Shunyamurti speaks from his own realizations and deep clinical experience as a healer.]
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[@eternalCatherine]

Thank you, Shunyamurti, for bringing so many, including this nonexistent one, out of delusion. You are truly a blessing to us All. 💚

[@Servant_of_1111]

🙏🥰🙏

[@massawakening1072]

“Let thine eye be single and thy body will be filled with light” what a beautiful quote

[@epiphanyx3705]

yep its outta the bible.

[@mvp5514]

Matthew 6:22-23, KJV

[@Aum_shantishantishanti111]

Thank you shunyamurti. I felt this in my being emanating from my center . Lift thine eyes up to thee oh lord . Above all else I wish to see .

[@sacredmetaphics]

I been a church going Christian on and off my entire life. I have attended many branches including the protestant, catholic, Baptist, and Pentecostal churches. I left church life because of the hypocrisy and the preaching of suffering and prosperity. Shanumarti has given my soul the verification of what I knew Christ experience and consciousness is all about Namaste

[@tgrace333]

words can't describe how grateful I am to discover the supreme yogi Shunyamurti this year 2022. the institute and Shunya have been my light throughout my darkest days this year. As I turn 27 the day after Christmas and I celebrate another year I'll also reflect on how Shunya's wisdom has impacted me. Thank you for keeping me afloat Sat Yoga Institute.

[@satyogainstitute]

Dear TJ Grace, Thanks for the beautiful message, it is great to know how the teachings are helping you. We send you many blessings for your bliss-day. Om Shanti!

[@tgrace333]

@@satyogainstitute thank you 🙏🏿

[@paulasmith3540]

Happy Birthday🙏

[@jacquelinenewcombe3865]

I remember when I used to go church as a teenager getting really frustrated that the priest never preached the truth of Christ's words or how empowering they are! I no longer go to church as I understood that it has nothing to do with Christ

[@idahoterritorymotorsportsv9374]

The church is mostly anti-christ as far as I can tell. For example, Christ taught meditation and third eye and the church says meditation is evil. The third eye demonic... They are literally in opposition to Christ. They can't see it for whatever reason and will fervently declare themselves Christian but if they ever met an actual follower of Christ they would call that person a heretic or a damned sinner. They worship the church, celebrities and images not Jesus. I think the church might be the actual Anti-Christ mentioned in the Book of Revelations.

[@myfreespirit67]

Much Gratitude For this knowledge

[@yanalalaqabaniempoweredsel7830]

Thank you! Sending love to everyone everywhere 🌸

[@mazenmouallem2844]

Thank you dear Shunyamurti for the gift of unity. You are a living example for all of us to become ❤️🌈🌎🌈❤️🙏😍

[@vitormanuelfreitas2461]

💜🙏💜 shunYamurti bROthER You are a bLEssINg 🙏💎🙏

[@cassandrasiraganda2940]

Beautiful - Your talk is truly inspiring and enlightening! I feel deeply connected!

[@musicloverforever8475]

To See The One Eye That Sees All Thank You Muchly Shunyamurti I'm sure you had a Blessed Christ Mass. Truly Inspiring Namaste One Consciousness

[@Brittle_buddha]

Thank you, as always, for your integrity ♥️

[@seamuscharles9028]

An Incredible Devine Teaching Welcome to the Birth of Christ Within You !

[@ElenaAvSpirit]

Yes, Christ is born in us...a new energy of life🥰

[@seanleech8214]

Thank you for this deep and thoughtful message.

[@quantum_man]

A Masterful Teaching by Shunyamurti. This is the Highest Wisdom on the Planet ❤️🌍🎉🙏👑 Merry "Christ"-mas one and all.

[@wonderousearth8225]

So Very Humbling Had to re watch. Blessed Christ Mass to you all ❤ 🙏

[@wonderousearth8225]

Wow Beloved Shunyamurti, So Eliquently Spoken, Such beautiful words ❤ May We All Find Our Christ, True Self. Sending Much Love, Light and Blessings to You All. Beautiful comments ❤ also. Thank you Shunyamurti Love You Muchly One Consciousness 🙏❤💛

[@CaptainSanchez]

Such an absolutely powerful message among messages - not just in this very video but every other video on this channel as well. Thank you so much for this Divine knowledge and wisdom. Blessings be to Shunyamurti and his team and ashram 🙏🏽

[@satyogainstitute]

Thanks for the beautiful message, many blessings to you. Om Shanti

[@claudiatruze670]

So beautiful. Merci Shunyamurti.

[@AloeAntinousAquila55]

such a feast … Namaste 🙏🏾💜✨🪐

[@euclidofalexandria3786]

I love you guys please be well, and I wish you light and most of all joy for the coming year... a palace devoid of laughter is more impoverished that a small house filled with laughter. Be well.

[@camelotrock9362]

Absolute truth - much love ❤

[@johneleven25]

I love to be here. I and the Father are One. How real!

[@songbirdiiswe]

Wonderfully stated. AUM MANE PADME HUNG🙏🧘‍♂️🕯Love IS You/All. 🕊🎶💖☯️🌈

[@professorgraves2926]

And so your words crash through my ego with the realization that it has only been a character (or even a caricature) in some movie that I did not write, produce or even direct. Time to leave the darkened cinema and enter the eternal light of the divine day.

[@timlerew3755]

Beautiful, so much deep pure wisdom. Merry Christ mass

[@lindanico1]

The distinction between christ and Jesus YES i fully understand and i am so happy for it and your deeply felt urgenty

[@paulasmith3540]

A beautiful teaching, thank you for the insight. 🙏

[@mariesmith1591]

Thank you so much, blessings to you Shunyamurti for your teachings 🙏

[@CrownRoyal144]

Love your messages 'Wisdom from Father god 'Thankyou So much🥰

[@sonatan-sonofsanatan2741]

Namaste Master 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Shat Shat Naman 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

[@mokshajetley9244]

Pranaam Swami ji. Merry Christmas 🎄

[@beepassionate]

Thank you, This was so timely for me. Peace.

[@Gitte585]

🙏

[@Mary-xc2gu]

Merry Christmas of the Heart ❤️ May Love and Devotion for the Being be felt by all Hearts of humanity. Thank you so much for these beautiful teachings 🙏

[@wonderousearth8225]

Beautifully written Mary ❤ Thank You

[@michaelferguson2344]

Yogi of knowledge, thank you for clarity.

[@chadm6340]

Thank you shunyamurti

[@trinitytwo14992]

Amazing talk much ❤

[@dafunkystar]

Thank you for shining your wisdom

[@Dalt1]

Thank You 🙏

[@davidscalais]

I’ve come to most if not all of these conclusions.. good to hear them all layed out so well. I however believe that the “end of the world” is personal

[@christophermaguire5511]

Thank You... 🙏😌🎄💜

[@mango1325]

❤lovely teachings

[@sagebay2803]

WOW. This was powerful. Thank you very much.

[@claudiatruze670]

Beautiful !!!

[@electronpictures]

blessings

[@Integritycannabisconsultants]

"The victory over the belief that matter trumps spirit." The history of idolatry and the human experience in a sentence. There is a Hindu paradigm that all matter is evil. Extreme but maybe a necessary perspective to see how enslaved we are to materialism and matter.

[@seanbowerman1822]

Thank you for taking the time💖

[@galga637]

Thank you so so much Shunya, this brings me, and i hope for others too, much deeper insights about the Real meaning of Christmas. Let the Light of Truth shine 🌟💖🙏🌈

[@treeperson2947]

Beautiful.God bless

[@AndersonDotPro]

So grateful...thank you!

[@Oneness11.11]

Love you baba 💚

[@moraesajay4801]

Beautiful 🎉🎉Merry Christmas

[@petramartinovic9866]

Christ was teaching oneness...all togetherness...

[@ineslb2011]

thank you....

[@heidibrechbuhl8298]

Thank you Shunyamurti 🙏💞 Beautiful 🤗

[@danielstrom8880]

Very beautiful and heartwarming lecture today, Thank you ❤️

[@jlpoag2]

Shabbat Shalom Christmas Peace Jai Meher Baba Thank You for a wonderful All Faith message!

[@Beingnessing]

winter soulstice 💜🕊️✨

[@ryansickles5822]

Speechless. With my hand over heart thank you.

[@Beingnessing]

@@ryansickles5822 weAREherenow

[@yogachittammclauchlan6806]

Thank God for what I trust is going to be very broad perspective

[@asakock7959]

Thank you ❤️🕊🌈

[@sakshiananda5114]

A wonderful Christmas teaching, thank you. May Christ arise again in the hearts of humanity 🙏 I thought I'd share this quote which while it is off the topic of Christmas, it is apropos to the situation we find ourselves in and the need for spiritual Realization. Rudolf Steiner 1917 In times when there were no electrical currents, when the air was not swarming with electrical influences, it was easier to be human… For this reason, in order to be human at all today, it is necessary to expend much stronger spiritual capacities than was necessary a century ago. But it does not occur to me to be reactionary and say something like: Well then, we must banish all these modern achievements! That’s not the objective. Modern human beings need the access to the spirit that spiritual science provides, so that through this strong experience of the spirit they can also become stronger in relation to the forces that accompany modern culture, the forces that harden our physical body and take it away from us.

[@stewartthomas4193]

Leonardo da Vinci said " The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions " Plato shared with us wisdom he learnt from Egypt, wisdom that was a death sentence in Greece, Rome (Christianity) ..Pythagoras, Socrates and later Hypatia of Alexandria. Plato in his dialogue "The Republic " tells the parable of " The Cave " Plato starts by telling us of prisoners being held in a underground den, let us examine this den via the geometry of Bernhard Riemann and Felix Klein..Klein bottle..3rd and 4th dimensions. Plato tells us that the prisoners are bound up unable to move their heads, let us examine this bondage via the psychology of Erich Fromm..socialisation of consciousness.. aware-unaware. Plato tells us that the prisoners mistake shadows for substance, let us examine this mistake via the philosophy of Thales, Hume and Kant..synthetic a priori judgement..not thing in itself. Plato tells us that one of the prisoners is released, let us examine this release via the wisdom of T Lobsang Rampa..stilling the mind and conscious astral travel..leaving the cave/body. Plato tells us that the prisoners will reject this release, let us examine this rejection via the psychology of Stockholm Syndrome..Plato quotes Homer..forgive them for they know not what they say. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Mathew 23 13 31.

[@oneconsc3333]

May be good to do a talk on Apollonius of Tyana...many say that the story of a Jesus was taken from this.🙏🏻🇨🇦💜

[@The-I-That-I-Am]

Thank you. Yon.

[@kaped23]

wow

[@awakenwithaadi8378]

Ammmazing.. thank youuuu

[@MrEyegee]

Beautiful 💛

[@j.r.g.g.6258]

Yeshua gave us the hidden name of the Father. I AM. Go forth and multiply. I A M See the family tree. I is always capitalized. I is the only one that comes before AM.

[@yogachittammclauchlan6806]

2 mins in and already is resonatingly astound6

[@arigoldberger1755]

Nice Tallit Shunya! Would you ever come to the holy land, Israel to give a class?

[@Johananda]

Namaste 🙏

[@dabrupro]

This man seems like an Alan Watts for these times. (Maybe less smoking and drinking?) Anyway, much appreciated.

[@kcjones6034]

Christ 🙏"

[@chansingh6403]

💗🙌🙏🌹😇

[@euclidofalexandria3786]

Energy space and consciousness can exist independently of each other, thats how you get individuated consciousness in a volume the size of nothing, or a whole kosmos in the size of a pinhead.

[@robinhood6954]

That's like saying one wing of a bird exists independently from the other wing, but both wings joined to the same bird are needed for it to be able to fly. That makes each wing both independent AND dependent at the same time.

[@practicalphilosophy9031]

🙏💙🙏

[@Unoriginal3]

To the third eye and true seeing

[@ezra420420]

Exactly people have been talking about armegedon for 2000 years

[@krobbins8395]

I feel that people started worshiping the cross either crossed at the heart chakra or inverted and crossed at the root Chaka. He showed me the tree a very large one with souls all over the ground bound by dark matter but light within. That's the tree people use for the holiday covered in chakra colors with a star or angel on top. Peace be with you all.

[@pinkifloyd7867]

🥰

[@JR-pn7xn]

The Gnostic Gospels are generally later than the canonized 4, with the possible notable exception of Thomas, or at least a version of it.

[@codyalan2400]

😍

[@Helios601]

Let the truth rest on me light fall on me as a tail feather dropped from a falcon in a cloudless sky

[@richardoliver2930]

The book of Thomas

[@richardoliver2930]

LOVE

[@susheelamariappan2295]

😃💕🙏

[@Christianity_and_Perennialism]

The Kabbalah is very nondual as well. The esoteric sides of every religion, including Judaism. are essentially the same; they all breach the subject/object relationship and reveal the ultimate nonexistence of the subject/object distinction.

[@Christianity_and_Perennialism]

Christ’s struggle wasn’t against Judaism but against the Pharisees who were hypocrites. On the contrary he was very pro-Judaism; he told the Jews to follow their religion.

[@annaepifanie9935]

❤️💛🧡💚💙💜

[@Elazar40]

Namaste: Without equivalence, Moses is the "greatest Jew" of all time. Indeed, if it weren't for Moses, there could have been neither Jewish nor Christian Messiah. Man, not God creates religion. Blessings and Kind Regards to Shunyamurti and all Sat Yoga Lamplighters, Elazar

[@sierrapenner4805]

Did you know Moshe is just shammash in Hebrew with the letters rearranged. Moses is the sun god which is why he couldn’t go to Jericho which is the city of the moon. The people needed to jump and shout as their lunar bodies fell to the ground to get to paradise or “the promised land”. Obviously the sun doesn’t need to worry about shedding the ego right? All allegorically of course..... namaste fellow truther.

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

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[@RyanZakMusic]

any books to recommend about he Essenes? would like to learn more

[@j.r.g.g.6258]

Dune uses Mahadi as well

[@judyclark2635]

Krishna almighty

[@TheKritter91]

There is NO attaining. Such things are part of the illusion. You simply are, that you are. I am that I am, God in the flesh. Don't be fooled by such teachings. Genesis 1:31 says: "God looked upon man(you) and said "very good(God)" You Are Very (much) God

[@epiphanyx3705]

So what will the lion live on if he cant eat the lamb? He cant live on nut loaf & lentils.

[@robinhood6954]

Well, my cat eats toast! 🐈🤣

[@Christianity_and_Perennialism]

Re: YHWH being ‘violent’: “Islam is often reproached with having propagated its faith by the sword; what is overlooked is, first, that persuasion played a much greater part than war in the expansion of Islam as a whole, and, secondly, that only polytheists and idolators could be compelled to embrace the new religion, thirdly, that the God of the Old Testament is no less a warrior than the God of the Quran, quite the opposite, and, fourthly, that Christianity also made use of the sword from the time of Constantine’s appearance on the scene. The question to be put here is simply the following: is it possible for force to be used with the aim of affirming and diffusing a vital truth? Beyond doubt the answer must be in the affirmative, for experience proves that we must at times do violence to irresponsible people in their own interest. Now, since this possibility exists it cannot fail to be manifested in appropriate conditions (Christ, in using violence against the money-changers in the temple, showed that this attitude could not be excluded), exactly as in the case of the opposite possibility of victory through the force inherent in truth itself; it is the inner or outer nature of things which determines the choice between two possibilities. On the one hand the end sanctifies the means, and on the other hand the means may profane the end, which signifies that the means must be found prefigured in the divine nature; thus the right of the stronger is prefigured in the ‘jungle’ to which beyond question we belong to a certain degree and when regarded as collectivities; but in that ‘jungle’ no example can be found of any right to perfidy and baseness and, even if such characteristics were to be found there, our human dignity would forbid us to participate in them. The harshness of biological laws must never be confused with that infamy of which man alone is capable through his perverted theomorphism. Frithjof Schuon, Understanding Islam

[@Christianity_and_Perennialism]

A little known fact is that when the Muslims invaded India, the imams demanded the Hindu scriptures to be brought to them, and upon examining them they concluded that Hindus too were People of the Book. Hence the Muslims permitted Hinduism to remain when they had the chance to destroy them as they did with the actual polytheists of the Arabian peninsula. Because, as the youth today say, ‘real recognize real’.

[@euclidofalexandria3786]

I heard there were about 300 cathars like the number of lohans, i heard they also practiced celibacy, turfullness (the true gussers), and forgiveness... its too bad about jack de molay.. and the pope and king of france. thank god its all water under the bridge.

[@cam3lr3cordz66]

I always knew the brother was Jewish lol... niice tallis