It was really one of the first times I personally got in my gut the emotional connection. I mean this was like 2000, it was really early on, the emotional connection, the depth of that love between Jesus and Swami, as Swami said he was, they’re soul mates. And he put that cross for a long time, and he was in the midst of making the Jesus Temple actually, it was just being created. And it stood for a while near Jesus on the Jesus altar, but for the longest time, for the majority of the years he had that cross sitting next to his chair in his living room. And when he first got that cross he held it and he almost embraced it like a baby to his chest and he said, he looked very fiercely into my eyes and said, “You have to promise no matter what that when I take samadhi that this cross is on my chest, even if it’s in pieces, it doesn’t matter.”
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