Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

This must have been one of the rarest moments in the history of humanconsciousness: the Master was to be initiated by the disciple.BUT JOHN FORBAD HIM, SAYING, I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED OFTHEE, AND COMEST THOU TO ME?A few things before we can understand it.Up to now Jesus had lived a very ordinary life. He was just the son of thecarpenter Joseph -- helping his father in the workshop, doing ordinary thingswhich were needed. Nobody knew anything about him, not even his family wasaware of what he was. A shroud surrounded him, a cloud which had to bebroken.He was waiting for the right moment. When John's work was ready, the groundprepared, he could go to him. Then he would break down the shroud, and thecloud would disappear. He needed to be related to John because that was theonly way to be related to John's disciples; otherwise there would be no link.John recognized immediately that "This is the man for whom I have beenwaiting, this is the man for whom I have been working. He has come."JOHN FORBAD HIM, SAYING, I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED OF THEE,AND COMEST THOU TO ME? -- AND YOU HAVE COME TO BE BAPTIZEDBY ME; THAT SEEMS ABSURD.Jesus is on a higher plane, the plane of fire; John is on a lower plane, the plane ofwater. John is not yet an absolutely realized soul. He has attained his first satori,otherwise he would not have been able to work for Jesus; he has attained the firstglimpse, otherwise he would not have been able to recognize Jesus -- but he hasnot attained to absolute Buddhahood, he is not yet a Christ.I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED OF THEE, AND COMEST THOU TO ME? No,he forbad it: don't ask for this.AND JESUS ANSWERING SAID UNTO HIM, SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW: FORTHUS IT BECOMETH US TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. THEN HESUFFERED HIM.Jesus said, "Let it be so, because it is written in the scriptures that it will be so."Jesus lived a Jew and died a Jew -- he was never a Christian -- and he tried hardto become part of the Jewish milieu. These were the ways he tried:It was written in the old scriptures that the messiah who is to come will bebaptized by a man named John who will be baptizing people near the RiverJordan. It was a long-standing prophecy. Jesus said: "Let it be so -- as it is writtenin the scriptures." He tried in every way to become part of the tradition so thatCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho