What in practical language is this ancient term ‘original sin’?
Bible refers to it as expulsion from the Garden of Eden: the sin incurred by Adam and Eve after they disobeyed God. But, while making great reading, these beautiful verses and stories are heavily coded compilations — by Heightened scholars of their day – thus some practical interpretations, regards taking personal action, is needed.
The Bhagavad-Gita refers to original sin – but not in such terms — as: the three gunas of nature, which are: Rajas, Tamas and Sattva. These three gunas, being the three governing laws of nature — creation, maintenance and dissolution – represent the influence under which we’re each born.
Both Bible and Bhagavad-Gita — in their different wording presentations — are expounding Truth: a reality each human must overcome at some point in time: in other words, come to terms with practically within, beyond mere belief systems and dogma.
So, let us simplify the term ‘original sin’.
‘Original’ refers to ‘existent from beginning’, primordial or archetype, and ‘sin’ specifically is referring to ‘missing the spiritual mark’ automatically.
Many refer to ‘original sin’ as the subconscious mind, which view — as we shall see — gets us much closer, from the practical perspective, to the intuitively sought solution.
Some ancient original sin terms
demystified.
The River Jordan
Joshua 3:4-5; 5:10-12.
In Bible terms, the River Jordan represents the downward flow — from birth — of our thought processes, which downward flow must be reversed to upward flow: flow divinely, spiritually, thus the term born again, second birth or inner spiritual awakening, to name a few.
River Jordan is symbolism of sub-consciousness – absence of awakened spiritual nature. Crossing the Jordan within thus is for purification, when realignment of these lower ‘world of sin’ thought processes become apparent experientially.
Crossing the Jordan thus represents inner activity leading the soul to coming upon the milk and honey of the other side or, entering the Promised Land.
In practical terms, ‘other side [of the Jordan]’ the ‘promised land’, means Transcendence of human consciousness — expanded awareness or total brain function.
So, when scripture says, Jesus was baptised in the River Jordan, it means that our innate higher awareness expands, transcends, thereby comes into direct conscious contact with our own Christ within. Transcendence thus represents experiential awareness of the ‘other side’ — or risen Consciousness — means of hearing, seeing, touching through the Higher Spiritual Hearth.
This new state of consciousness represents total opposite of ‘original sin’ and its addictive behavioural patterns.
It’s also our individual means of abolishing disease-attracting consciousness such Coronavirus and such issues. The Antidote is already present within each person, we just first have to understand what ‘original sin’ is, as we shall see.
Some other biblical terms alluding to this ‘must shed’ ignorance condition.
John 14–30
‘The prince of this world called and had nothing in Me’.
Here the term ‘this world’ is referring specifically to the ‘world of sin’ not the planet Earth.
‘Prince’, thus is referring to ‘ruler of the world of sin’, Satan, or ‘the subconscious’; the driving force behind the lower thought standard, behind creating and maintenance of spiritual ignorance — the influencer of all one’s decision making. Satan represents non-soul-serving mind-sets or anti-spiritual life thought patterns, often referred to as lower-ego.
So, ‘ruler of the world’ refers to a dynamic of the deeper mind, a dynamic referred to as the sleeping mind — living life unconsciously through automatically recurring programming, through non-awareness of our spiritual Transcendent standard.
“Had nothing in Me”
Biblical Jesus (higher inner awareness) when saying: ‘the prince had nothing in Me’ is highlighting that, the sub-conscious dynamic, causal of involuntary sin, has no authority over Me, Me referring to the Transcendent Christ standard latent within each of us.
That, no associative sin nature can exist within Pure Consciousness.
That, Transcendent Consciousness, God or Christ within reigns Supreme eternally.
That, it’s through our own Christ — Pure Consciousness – the dynamic of ‘original sin’ is to be integrated, when ‘the prince’ becomes toppled, neutralized — rendered mutual.
This understanding is what lies behind the earlier Bhagavad-Gita verse ch2 vs 45: “Be without the three gunas, O Arjuna”: rise above the laws of nature, causal and maintainer of original sin. In other words, meditate and transcend.
Bible antidote for original sin:
John 1-29
‘Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world’.
‘Lamb’ here is referring to the Transcendent state within. ‘Behold’ meaning that we make this ‘Lamb of Healing and wholeness’ a conscious reality within our mental paradigms and daily life expression. We do this by transcending the laws of nature daily – encountering ‘the Lamb’ — thus overcoming the grip-attraction of the ‘prince of this world’ – the subconscious dynamic — thus awakening from the cyclical ignorance of the laws generating such state of low mind awareness.
Through our chosen meditative means, this verse is an invitation unto soul freedom from original sin. For, none other than Pure Transcendental Consciousness can neutralize the automated structures of subconscious mind set in perpetuity until personal transcendence.
John 14:29-31
‘Get up, let us go from here’
‘Get up’ meaning let us rise from the cause of suffering. Let us expand unto cosmic consciousness. Let us mature out of compulsory addiction and the many forms of needless mental torture, such as depression, fear and worry.
Once ‘get up’ has commenced intentionally — through the inward journey of mental silence meditation — then ‘suffering’ has served its initial purpose, that of heralding a new level of cosmic consciousness unto our awareness.
Smelling the roses of life for the first time through purified and heightened senses becomes apparent. Wisdom once ‘blind’ to begins emerging into our now resolute intellect. In other words, intuition not previously recognized begins surfacing and making perfect sense at ‘our comprehension’ level.
John: 5:1-18
“Arise, take up your bed and walk”.
This follows on from the last verse of raising our consciousness. Live higher cosmic awareness through the nervous system, through the physiology, away from corruptive ignorance and its associated mental patterns of decaying cellular life.
We also remember the biblical beggar sitting outside the Temple Gate: meaning he / she had not raised from their ‘original sin’ consciousness unto spiritual Abundance and Transcendental Consciousness.
Romans 7-15 puts it:
“I do not understand what I do; for I don’t do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate”.
This verse is describing perfectly the structures of ‘original sin’, the carry-over content operating independently of our seeming conscious aware mind – behavioural patterns carried out under law of spiritual ignorance.
Original sin thus represents a mode of consciousness through which the lower mind functions automatically — without our conscious input. Paradoxically, ‘original sin’ is also the gateway opportunity to higher states of consciousness, as we have been reading.
Original Sin as a Recurring Mental State
Research shows that if we don’t control our mind, then mind will control us. In this context, due to the absence of direct expanded awareness of Being – the motivational life force known as the Holy Spirit or Kundalini — the non-spiritually discerning mind thinks and creates its own standard of low conscience, low mental and physical health subconsciously; it does so by accessing the generationally established ‘original sin’ thought patterns. It does this unchallenged until the ignorance mental loop is interrupted consciously through silence meditation.
This is the underlying theme behind the ‘Adam and Eve’ story: they ate off the tree of knowledge, of good and evil. In other words: discernment through the lower me/mine ego, through the automatically recurring law of original sin and its associated mind-sets, associated world view of power, greed and material wealth at any cost.
Transcendence and Becoming Soul Free
Thus becoming soul free of original sin is all about expansion of consciousness, thereby attuning with our true higher cosmic consciousness or divine nature.
Bhagavad-Gita chapter 2 verse 45 serves the perfect means:
“Be without the three gunas, O Arjuna”
meaning, transcend the innumerable laws of nature in meditation – laws of mind — source and maintainer of ‘original sin’.
Which the Bible endorses in:
Matthew 5-48
“Be ye perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect”.
Similar to the Gita, Matthew is stating: transcend and live life in harmony with all the cosmic laws.
The term ‘perfect’ refers to becoming Whole, Complete [of consciousness].
Becoming Whole is neutralizing the original sin dynamic by daily transcendence. A spiritual imperative to claiming our divine inheritance, our means unto higher states of consciousness which, practically speaking, has nothing to do with pouring water over a baby’s head, respectfully. Blessings.