3 Mars 2026

Publié par Hans Yoganand

The Unique Commandment

The Essence of Divine Law The text asserts that the unique fundamental commandment of God, the Tao, or The One is: “Be in Me”. This injunction invites a permanent mindfulness of Unity and bliss. Rather than a moral code, it is about immersing oneself in the virtues (intrinsic properties) of vital energy.

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The Unique Commandment

Summary: This text offers a spiritual reflection on the essence of divine laws, opposing the multiplicity of religious rules to the unity of inner experience. Here are the key points:

The Living Word against Dead Scripture Based on an excerpt from the Gospel of John by Edmond Székely, the text relates a teaching of Jesus:

Multiplication of laws: Moses supposedly gave numerous commandments because the people were not ripe for the unique law. The further one moves away from The One, the more numerous and burdensome the rules become.
Life as a book: The true law is not in the “dead” writings of men, but in the living word present in every living thing (nature, breath, blood, body).
The Inner Temple: To perceive this truth, one must purify their body and spirit, considered the temple of the Spirit.

The Practice of The Path The author draws a parallel between the three laws of the “angels” (awakened ones) mentioned by Jesus and the pillars of The Path:

Sitting meditation.
Service (meditation in action).
Satsang (sharing of experience).

In conclusion, staying in the Holy-Name (God's force in action) from sunrise to sunset allows one to reach the Inner-Kingdom and spiritual liberation.

Text

When you have read all of God's commandments according to the various religions, you lose your way : so many commandments and so little effect ! Thou shalt not kill, and yet we kill in the name of God and all these kinds of aberrations, of blindness.

The Path, its practice teaches us one essential thing : if God had been a person capable of speaking, the only commandment he would have given us would have been : “Be in Me”.

It is possible to be “in Him”, that is to say, conscious of Him. If the word “God” bothers you, I suggest the words “Tao”, “The Whole”, and “The One”. It is possible to be conscious of the Tao, by putting your attention, your consciousness in the right place and in the right way. This is the whole point of The Path, of the practice of its Original-Yoga.

When you do that, you come out of it full of its virtues. The word virtue, here, does not speak of moral values, but of the “properties” of The One, of the Tao. For example, the virtue of tea is to keep you awake, the virtue of water is to wet and hydrate you.

Words of Jesus

To be full of the virtues of The One (of God), is to be full of his energy, of his harmony, of His life. Here is an excerpt of words attributed to Jesus, speaking of the ten commandments that Moses supposedly received :

“Moses said to the Lord : ‘My heart is filled with sadness, for my people are running to their doom. In fact, they are people without discernment, incapable of understanding Your commandments. They are like little children who cannot understand the words of their father.’

Permit, Lord, that I give them other laws so that they do not perish. If they cannot be with You, Lord, make it so that they are not against You ; in this way, they will be able to maintain themselves until the time has come when they will be ripe for Your words and when Your laws can be revealed to them.’”

Then Moses broke the two stone tablets on which the ten commandments were engraved and he gave them, in their place, ten times ten commandments. Now, of these ten times ten, the scribes and the Pharisees made one hundred times ten and they loaded your shoulders with unbearable burdens, burdens that they are incapable of carrying themselves.

Jesus said : “I tell you, in truth, if your ancestors had been capable of following the ten commandments of God, Moses would not have needed to give these ten times ten commandments. In fact, the closer the commandments are to God and the less you need them to be numerous, but the further they are from God and the more numerous they become. That is why the laws of the Pharisees and scribes are innumerable : the laws of the Son of Man are seven in number, those of the angels are three and that of God is reduced to one.”

The others replied : “We all follow the laws of Moses, it is he who gave us the Law as it is recorded in our Holy Scriptures”. Jesus replied : “Do not seek the law in your Scriptures, for the law is life while the Scripture is dead. I tell you in Truth, Moses did not receive his laws from God through Scripture, but through the living word. The Law is a word of life, uttered by the God of life, transmitted to living prophets for living men.

In every living thing, the Law is written. You will find it on the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the mountain, in the birds of the sky, in the fish of the lakes and seas, but seek it especially in yourselves. For I tell you, in truth, all things that are endowed with life are closer to God than the writings that are deprived of life.

God has thus made life and all living things in such a way that they teach man the laws of the true God. God has not written his laws in pages of books, but in your breath, in your blood, in your bones, in your flesh, in your entrails, in your eyes, in your ears and in each of the most intimate parts of your body.

They are present in the air, in the water, in the earth, in the plants, in the rays of the sun, in the depths and in the heights. All these things speak to you so that you can understand the word and the will of the living God. Unfortunately, you have closed your eyes to see nothing and you have plugged your ears to hear nothing.

I tell you, in Truth, Scripture is the work of man, while life and all its guests are works of our God. Why do you not lend your ear to the words of God that are written in his works ? And, why do you study the Scriptures whose letter is dead, being the work of the hand of men ?”

The listeners then asked : “How could we read the laws of God anywhere else than in the Scriptures ? Where are they written then ? Read them for us where You see them, for we know no other Scriptures than those we have inherited from our ancestors. Teach us the laws of which you speak, so that after having heard them, we can be healed and justified”.

Jesus said : “You cannot understand the words of life, because you are in death. Darkness obscures your eyes and your ears are struck with deafness. However, I tell you, it is of no profit to you to have your eyes fixed on Scriptures whose letter is dead, if, by your actions, you give a denial to Him who gave you the Scriptures.

If you want the word of the living God and his power to reach you, do not defile either your body or your spirit. For the body is the temple of the Spirit, the temple of God. That is why you must purify the temple so that the Lord of the Temple can take up his abode there and occupy a place worthy of him.

I am sent by the Father in order to make the light of life shine before you. The light illuminates itself and dissipates the darkness, while the darkness knows only itself and ignores the light.” (Taken from “the Gospel of John”, by Edmond Székely)

I want to emphasize this sentence from this book : “That is why the laws of the Pharisees and scribes are innumerable : the laws of the Son of Man are seven in number, those of the angels are three and that of God is reduced to one”.

These three commandments, do they not ring a bell ? The whole of The Path is made of three practices (and the angas, the moral recommendations). These practices are sitting meditation, meditation in action (service) and the sharing of one's experience (satsang).

The word angel, in this text, designates the awakened ones, those human beings like any others, except that they have reached awakening, after having known a particularly deep meditation experience (nirvikalpa or nirbīja-samādhi).

Gautama Siddhartha, of the Sakyas clan, is the most well-known buddha (awakened one). His worshipers made him a god and the Hindus an avatar of Vishnu, as for Kṛṣṇa. But, that is another story. For us, Jesus was an awakened one. The unique law of God, what would it be, according to you ?

BE IN ME

This is what THE commandment, the law of God, is. It is the “Holy-Name” (Virtue of the Tao, śabda-brahman) which is a clumsy word to describe this force of God in action in the life of all living beings. His commandment is to remain in it in consciousness.

“Go to the Inner-Kingdom and stay forever in the most perfect bliss.” (Bhaktimārga, 101).

This Kingdom is that state of consciousness where he who surrenders to the full consciousness of Unity, the perfect consciousness of bliss (sat-cit-ānanda), arrives. The Path gives you the means, the technique to go in this direction.

Finally, a word attributed to Jesus : “Here is the first (commandment) : the Lord, our God, is the unique one. Here is the second : you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your thought, and with all your strength” (Mark, 12:29-31). Which means staying in the Holy-Name from waking until sleep.

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