The Tenth Station of the Cross: Jesus stripped of his clothes.


Jesus is stripped of his clothes, as a tree is stripped of its leaves
when the wind blows through it.
In the Surya Namashkar series this is in fact the third gesture, which
is again another form of bending down and touching the earth in the Surya
Namashkar cycle.

The Eleventh Station of the Cross: Jesus nailed to the Cross.

This Asana (yogic posture) is called "Halasana", meaning the posture
of the plough. Jesus in the act of being nailed to the cross becomes
the plough which will turn up the earth, ready for sowing

The Twelfth Station of the Cross. Jesus on the Cross.

The Tree is like a stump to which the sacrificial animal is bound. The
sun, which is like the eye of the heavens weeps for the dying Creator.
Jesus has his hands joined above his head, which is the ultimate form
of greeting--the Namashkar to the Creator. He reaches up to his
Father.

The Thirteenth Station of the Cross: Jesus is laid in the lap of his Mother.

In a sense this is like the Padmasana, or the "asana" (posture) of the
lotus (padma). Jesus, like Satyavan, is laid in the lap of the Mother, in the myth of Savithri. The lap, or seat of the Mother is compared to the lotus flower. The tree of the cross is like the weeping willow, whose branches reach down to the waters. As the psalmist says in the Bible: "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept".

The Fourteenth Station of the Cross: Jesus is buried.


Jesus is buried, and like the sleeping Asana (Nidre asana) he becomes one
with the earth. Beside him is the pot, which symbolizes the empty container of the body, from which the waters of life have been poured out. He is like the tree that is uprooted, falling onto the ground.

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The Fifteenth Station of the Passion: Jesus rises from the dead.

Jesus is seated in meditation. The snake is below him, its body in the
form of Infinity "Shesha: the endless one". He is in the leaf of the
Tree of Wisdom, or the Bodhi Tree, under which the Buddha sat and
gained enlightenment