I’ve often felt that this lifetime—perhaps even every lifetime I’ve walked—has been a dance between East and West, science and spirituality, self and Self. But nothing brings that feeling into such radiant clarity as the story of the meeting between Jesus of Nazareth and Mahavatar Babaji in the Himalayas.
I recently watched a profoundly resonant video that explores the “missing years” of Jesus—the eighteen years unaccounted for in the canonical Bible—and the idea that during that time he traveled to India and Tibet, and was initiated into the sacred science of Kriya Yoga by none other than Mahavatar Babaji. (You can watch it here).
To many, this is just a tantalizing mystery or a speculative legend. But to me, it feels like a memory—not of this life, but of my deeper soul journey.
When I hear the story of Jesus kneeling in deep meditation before Babaji, receiving not just teachings but vibrations, I feel the truth humming in my bones. Paramahansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, confirms that Jesus was initiated into Kriya Yoga, that this ancient path—rooted in pranayama, inner stillness, and soul attunement—was part of Jesus’ preparation for his sacred mission in the West.
As Yogananda wrote, “The true teachings of Jesus have never been lost. They are hidden in the inner teachings of yoga.”
My own journey echoes this fusion. I was raised with the loving image of Christ as healer and savior. But it wasn’t until I encountered the teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramana Maharshi, and Adi Shankara that I began to understand what Jesus embodied—not just compassion, but unity. Not just kindness, but the direct realization that “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30)—a truth identical to Shankara’s Advaitic vision: “Brahman alone is real; the world is illusion; the individual self is not different from Brahman.”
When I meditate on this, something within me begins to reassemble—like a code being decrypted. As the video says: “The inheritance of light is not written in ink but in frequency.” That’s it. I’m not reading about this. I’m remembering it.
One of the most beautiful gifts I’ve received from my guru-lineage is the understanding that sacred truth isn’t confined to any one religion or practice. As Babaji restored the sacred science of Kriya Yoga to Lahiri Mahasaya, and as Yogananda brought it to the West, so too are we being called—not to worship, but to realize.
Jesus’ own words, when understood through the lens of yogic science, blaze with new life:
“When you pray, go into your inner room, close the door and pray to your Father who is unseen…”
— Matthew 6:6
This is dhyana. This is inner communion. As Ramana Maharshi would say, “Go to the root of the ‘I’. Inquire into it. That is all you need.”
And again:
“If your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light.”
— Matthew 6:22
This is no longer a metaphor when you’ve felt the awakening of the ajna chakra. It is literal spiritual physiology—prana rising through the sushumna, flooding the body with light. Jesus spoke in parables because the people of his time weren't ready to hear the science behind the mysticism. But we are.
The video ends with a beautiful invocation: “If you are reading this, the seed is activated.” I felt tears when I heard those words. Because they echo a core belief I hold: we are all part of the divine experiment. We are each carrying a strand of spiritual DNA encoded by great beings—by Jesus, Babaji, Yogananda, and so many others—waiting for the right conditions to bloom.
This is not mythology. This is memory.
“You are the light of the world. Do not place it under a table.”
— Jesus, Matthew 5:14
“Awareness alone is the Self.”
— Ramana Maharshi
“Love others as yourself.”
— Jesus
“Know the Self, and you shall know all.”
— Adi Shankara
These teachings are not in conflict. They are fingers pointing to the same moon—the same eternal light that Babaji and Jesus recognized in each other.
So now I ask you, dear reader—not to merely believe this, or debate it, or even to agree with me. But to feel into it. Sit quietly. Breathe deeply. Close your outer eyes and open your inner one.
Do you feel a warmth in your chest when you hear these names? Jesus. Babaji. Yogananda. Do you feel as if you’ve always somehow known that East and West were never meant to be separate?
If so, this is your call.
✨ Meditate today—not as a practice, but
as a remembrance.
✨ Read scripture—East or West—with the third eye open.
✨ Speak of love—not as an idea, but as a vibration.
✨ And most of all, live like you are
the light.
Because you are.
🙏 Namaste,
and Jai Guru.
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comment. Which teaching or insight touched your soul most deeply? Let’s
continue the work that began in those Himalayan heights—together.