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Shri Mataji:
"You
have to enter into the Kingdom of God here, as I say, in the
Seventh Chakra.“
From: jagbir singh <www.adishakti.org@gmail.com>
Date: Tue May 25, 2004 7:55 pm
Subject: The core teachings of Jesus' Kingdom within
have been lost to the modern Christian.
"Tolstoy argues, very persuasively, that the core teachings of
Jesus have been lost to the modern Christian. Man is too
comfortable with the way things are to really adopt Jesus
approach to life.
Most of what passes for Christianity today is nothing of
the sort. A great deal of it is self-serving. Jesus said
salvation is personal—you don't need a "church" to be
saved. As Tolstoy explains, church's are largely the invention
of men, who crave a hierarchy and order.
This book is a revelation, and can make Christians feel
rebuked by Tolstoy's words."
Wikipedia
Article: The Kingdom of God is within You
http://www.knowledgerush.com/
Christianity
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Just as the Buddha sought to build
upon and expand the great Vedic wisdom of his day, so Jesus
of Nazareth built upon the wisdom and compassion teachings
of the Jewish masters of his day, such as Rabbi Hillel, a
contemporary with whom he may have studied. Jesus aimed,
however, to shift the focus of spirituality away from the
Temple and the intercessory role of the priests to the heart
of each individual, emphasizing a personal relationship with
the Divine through the intercession of the Holy Spirit. His
radical teaching of love for all one's fellows regardless of
race, gender, or station in life attracted a loyal following
and the wrath of both religious and civil authorities and
led to his crucifixion. The teachings of Jesus became
codified into the Christian church, which within a few
centuries went from being persecuted to being the principal
religion of the Western world. In the 16th century, the
Protestant Reformation sought to return to the core
teachings of Jesus, and Christianity was soon divided into
Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Eastern Orthodox sects.
The emergence of fundamentalism and "born-again"
Christianity have made a distinctive mark on 20th century
culture.
Peter Ochiogrosso, The Joy of Sects
http://www.joyofsects.com/religions.shtml
According to the renowned historian Elaine H. Pagels the
Gospel of
Thomas "does not tell the story about the life and death
of Jesus,
but offers the reader his 'secret teachings' about the
kingdom of God.
This book opens with the lines, "These are the secret
words which the
living Jesus spoke, and the twin, Didymos Judas Thomas
wrote them
down." Then there follows a list of the sayings of
Jesus. ... Some of
these sayings are familiar. We know them from Matthew
and Luke —
Jesus said, "I have come to cast fire on the earth." Or
"Behold, a
sower went out to sow," and so forth.... Others are as
strange and
compelling as Zen koans. My favorite of these is saying
number 70,
which says, "If you bring forth what is within you, what
you bring
forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is
within you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you." The
gospel opens as
Jesus invites people to see....
The Gospel of Thomas also suggests that Jesus is aware
of, and
criticizing the views of the Kingdom of God as a time or
a place that
appear in the other gospels. Here Jesus says, "If those
who lead you
say to you, "look, the Kingdom is in the sky," then the
birds will
get there first. If they say "it's in the ocean," then
the fish will
get there first. But the Kingdom of God is within you
and outside of
you. Once you come to know yourselves, you will become
known. And you will know that it is you who are the
children of the living father."
In this gospel, and this is also the case in the Gospel
of Luke, the
Kingdom of God is not an event that's going to be
catastrophically
shattering the world as we know it and ushering in a new
millennium.
Here, as in Luke 17:20, the Kingdom of God is said to be
an interior
state; "It's within you," Luke says. And here it says,
"It's inside
you but it's also outside of you." It's like a state of
consciousness. It's hard to describe. But the Kingdom of God
here is something that you can enter when you attain gnosis,
which means knowledge. But it doesn't mean intellectual
knowledge. The Greeks had two words for knowledge. One is
intellectual knowledge, like the knowledge of physics or
something like that. But this gnosis is personal, like "I
know that person, or do you know so and so." So this gnosis
is self-knowledge; you could call it insight. It's a
question of knowing who you really are, not at the ordinary
level of your name and your social class or your position.
But knowing yourself at a deep level. The secret of gnosis
is that when you know yourself at that level you will also
come to know God, because you will discover that the divine
is within you."
Elaine H. Pagels, PBS and WGBH/FRONTLINE, 1998
According to the Catholic Church the "divine plan of
Revelation is
realized simultaneously "by deeds and words which are
intrinsically
bound up with each other" and shed light on each other.
It involves a
specific divine pedagogy: God communicates himself to
man gradually.
He prepares him to welcome by stages the supernatural
Revelation that
is to culminate in the person and mission of the
incarnate Word,
Jesus Christ."
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Interdicasterial
Commission), Catechism
of the Catholic Church
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Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi
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"You
have to take a stand in your family, in your surroundings,
with your friends, and you have to tell them, "You better all
get realized." The reason for that is that the Christ who
crucified Himself is going to come back with his Eleven Forces
of Destruction. And when He starts He is not going to ask you
to take any Realization. No one is going to be bothered
whether you are going to hell. He will just sort out. But
those who have got Realization will enter into the Kingdom of
God. You have to enter into the Kingdom of God here, as I say,
in the Seventh Chakra.“
Shri
Madhumati Devi
The New Age Has Started, Houston, USA — Oct. 6, 1981
From:
"jagbir singh" <www.adishakti.org@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:04 pm
Subject: Re: Shri Mataji: "You have to enter
into the Kingdom of God here, as I say, in the Seventh
Chakra.”
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—- In
shriadishakti@yahoogroups.com,
jagbir singh
<adishakti_org@y...> wrote:
>
> Shri Mataji: "You have to enter into the Kingdom of
God here,
> as I say, in the Seventh Chakra."
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Dear Family,
This aim of this forum and related websites is to
discard the
priestly external rituals and join the mystics who give
evidence of
the Kingdom of God in the Seventh Chakra. All religious
regimes will
crumble in this century because both Shri Mataji and
Jesus have
strived "to shift the focus of spirituality away from
the Temple and
the intercessory role of the priests to the heart of
each individual, emphasizing a personal relationship
with the Divine through the intercession of the Holy
Spirit."
i regard this post about the Sahasrara one of the most
enlightening
because of what Shri Mataji teach humans: "You have to
enter into
the Kingdom of God here, as I say, in the Seventh
Chakra."
It is very important to protect and uphold this Truth at
all times
because it empowers even the lowest of humans to free
themselves
from religious regimes and attain self-salvation. i hope
that those
who have begun to accept and spread the Divine Message
to understand its profound importance and the
responsibilities they have to shoulder in future. The
Kingdom of God within that the Savior
repeatedly spoke two millennia ago must be spread to all
nations so
that the long reign of religious regimes will end this
century.
Jai Shri Mataji,
jagbir
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