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This short but potent passage was one of the Easter messages that were sent by Paramahansa Yogananda to students of the SRF teachings. (This and other special messages from Paramahansaji for Easter and Christmas can be read in the Addenda section of his work The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You.)
As Christ resurrected his consciousness from the sepulchre of mortal limitations, so must you learn to resurrect your mind by meditation from the tomb of material desires and body confinement to the consciousness of omnipresence.
Resurrect your calmness from beneath the soil of restlessness; resurrect your wisdom from the enshrouding earthliness of ignorance; resurrect your love from beneath the sod of mundane human attachment — with its limited love for family, society, and country — to divine love for all.
As Jesus withdrew his mind from the body by ecstasy and united it with all-pervading Spirit, so through the consciousness of Christ developed within yourself by constant meditation unite your soul with omniscient Spirit, your life with Eternal Life.
Below you can practice resurrecting your consciousness by experiencing a guided meditation led by Brother Chidananda, president and spiritual head of SRF/YSS, during an online Easter service from 2020.
Paramahansa Yogananda started the tradition of holding in SRF a Sunrise Service on Easter morning. In this guided experience, Brother Chidananda is inviting us to participate in a “spiritual sunrise service” through visualizing and feeling the divine light at the point between the eyebrows, known as the spiritual eye or Christ Consciousness center in the body, and letting that light, life, and joy to flow into our minds and souls.