Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-16
BABA BHARATl TELLS
OF MIRACLES PERFORMED
GIVES HIS EXPLANATION OF THE
cRUcIFIxIoN
Had an Object to Accomplish In This
World, Giving the Love of God
to Man-When Trouble Came He
Was Forsaken

Baba Bharati delivered sermon last
night in the temple of the Krishna
nome before a full audience. His sub
ject was Christ and His Miracles" He
said in part.
And they say Christ was crucified,
and his blood saved the word, he gave
his blood to save the world.
''In a sense, it is right, but unfortun-
ately they do not give the true ex-
PLANTATION of 1t. This Christ that lived
his soul life, the life of soul-conscious-
ness, and gave his life for it, wanted to
give 1t to the world.
ut is ever the one Joy of the soul
conscious one to give It to all, for he
lives In the realm of bliss. the realm
whose essence is the perpetual action
of love.
Yes. bliss is the perpetual action Of
love; and this perpetual action of love
Christ lived i'm and he wanted to give
1t to man-which man, deluded, had
not
THE deluded man lived the super
ficial life that he called real And
when they wouldn't have It. drugged
by the enioyments of this material life,
they would kill him. Even his greatest
adherents, most seemingly faithful ad-
herents, left him.
Soul-Conscious
lHele lie SlOOu, lne SOul-CO1SClOuS
Jesus Christ, who was one with his
Father. This was the oneness with his
Father, his Father was his soul-that
| part of the Fathers radiance called the
divine essence that pervaded him, that
pervades also and forms our soul. He
was conscious of that soul
"The film was all gone from his mind,
and continually the sun of the soul
the radiance of his Father-was shin
ing through that mind and through
that clear glass of the mind.
"And so when he wanted to give it
to everybody and to anybody, they
were ranged against him.
Even some of those that loved him
best forsook or betrayed him-which
| Christ knew would be the case, as he
declared to one of them. You will deny
me-you will deny me. Before the cock
crows thrice thou shalt deny me-
"And not only that one denied, but
all denied him.
Came With Love
There he stood-the man-even if we
call him mantle Goldman, the in
carnaton that Jesus Christ was. He
came with that infinite love for human
ity. He so loved man that he gave him
self away for all sinful mankind.
THAT is the act of the God-lover al
ways. He could have performed that
| little mracle-eScap1ng from prison
! The man, the miracle-worker that
raised the dead, that healed the sick
by his touch or by the name of God
| the miracle worker that had performed
miracles which the whole western
world had not heard of, could have
performed that little miracle of escap-
! ing from prison.
mo! He would not. So every ques-
ton that was asked Jesus, he said moth
| ing.
Ibid you say you were king of the
Jews|
"'Thou sayest So was the onl!
answer, if he spoke at all.
Had an Object
"He had an object to accomplish il
this world. for which he came-the OBJ
ject of giving the love of God to man
The luxury he enjoyed, the pleasure OF
all pleasures rooted within him, ht
wanted to give to man out of his COM
passion, out of his sympathy born OF
the soul. God-love.
"He would not flee. He performed
the mira ces only to call the people tc
him that he might cure their souls
HE would cure their bodies so that
he might have an opportunity to cure
their souls. But when their bodies
were cured, those to whom the bodies
belonged went away. And when trouble
came he was all alone-forsaken."