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peaceful after listening to John's teachings and he desired to have John as his spiritual mentor. According to tradition, John took Jesus by his hand and immersed him in the water of the River Jordan. This baptism was the way of initiation into the teaching
After his initiation, Jesus sought the quiet of the wilderness and spent time there in meditation and prayer. He fasted on one occasion for forty days. A story is told in the gospels about all the temptations that Jesus had to conquer within himself. He overcame all. Jesus attained a great spiritual awakening and his inner spiritual eye was opened. In some traditions it is said that Jesus also practiced the meditation of the divine inner sound.
Jesus is reported to have said:
See the door to heaven has been opened. The first sound I have heard was of such a nature that it sounds like a trumpet talking to me. It said, “Come this way. I will show you things ahead”.
According the legend, Jesus further describes the inner experience:
I was in my soul (I left my body and came into the sound) and I heard the deep sound of the trumpet.
It would seem that at this point Jesus perhaps realized that the goal of his life was to teach the true path of liberation of the soul to the suffering people of his own country. He continued to go
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