
Secret
taught by living Jesus: "If you know yourself then you know
the Kingdom of God."
From: "jagbir singh" <www.adishakti.org@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jul 25, 2004 9:51 am
Subject: Secret taught by living Jesus: "If you know
yourself then you know the Kingdom of God." |
—- In
shriadishakti@yahoogroups.com, "jagbir singh"
<adishakti_org@y...> wrote:
>
> On December 9, 1996, at 5:45 a.m. Kash was again asked
about his
> previously mistaken 'out-of-body' belief. He still
insisted
> that it is impossible to believe that one is within the
body —
> even after being enlightened by the Great Adi Shakti that
> everything is within the Sahasrara!
>
> In other words, despite his misconception being corrected
by the
> Great Supreme Spirit, he still could not feel or remember
this fact
> whenever he entered his own Thousand-Petal Lotus. He still
thought
> he left his body and went out into the Universe to the
place humans
> call the Kingdom of God. According to Kash, it is
impossible for
> one to know that they are in their own Sahasraras. It is
impossible
> to feel the Kingdom of God within the human body.
>
> It is just impossible to comprehend, while being within
the
> Sahasrara, that this gross physical world exists outside!
In
> other words, on Earth it is impossible to comprehend the
subtle
> spiritual Sahasrara within. It is just as difficult within
the
> Sahasrara to comprehend that this gross physical Earth
exists
> without.
>
> On October 9, 1997, at 19.00 p.m. he was asked if the
Spiritual
> World was as real as this Earth, i.e., was it as tangible
as
> watching television, talking with his family and all the
normal
> activities that makes physical life so conscious and real.
He
> replied that not only is the Kingdom of God really real,
just as
> this physical world, but also "better, quieter and more
peaceful."
>
"One of these documents [found at Nag Hammadi] begins with
the
scribal note in the margin, "The Gospel According to
Thomas." And the
first sentence of that document says, "These are the secret
words
which the living Jesus taught and which Judas Thomas Didymos
wrote
down." And then they start a total of over 110 sayings, each
introduced by "Jesus said...." ...
Now what is typical about these sayings is that in each
instance,
these sayings want to say that if you want to understand
what Jesus
said, you have to recognize yourself. You have to know
yourself, know
who you are. It begins with a saying about the Kingdom of
God, "if
you seek the Kingdom of God in the sky then the birds will
precede
you. And if you seek it in the sea, then the fish will
precede you,
but the Kingdom is in you. And if you know yourself then you
know the
Kingdom of God." (The Kingdom of the Father, in fact, it
always says
in the gospel of Thomas. Normally the Kingdom of the Father,
not the
Kingdom of God.) "But if you don't know yourself, you live
in
poverty." And poverty is understood as the ignorance of a
life in its
physical existence. Knowledge is understood to be the
knowledge of
one's divine origin, of the fact that one has come from the
Kingdom.
That we are on this earth only in a sojourn....
What does it mean really to know oneself? To know oneself is
to have
insight into one's own ultimate divine identity. You can go
back to
understand this to Greek models, which certainly exist.
"Know
yourself" is a very old Greek maxim... that is, you have to
know that
your own soul is divine, and then you know that you are
immortal,
whereas the body is the mortal part of human existence. Now
this is
radicalized in the Gospel of Thomas into saying that
everything that
is experienced physically and through sense perception,
everything in
this world that you can perceive in this way is nothing. It
is, at
best, chaos and, at worst, it doesn't even exist in reality.
The only
thing that really exists is your divine spirit or your
divine soul,
which is identical in its quality with God himself. And
Jesus is the
one who teaches that....
When one truly knows oneself, one understands that one is
divine, but
also one understands that one is mortal. In such a way, you
recognize
that this mortality is really meaningless, as physical
existence is
meaningless. And therefore, death is no longer a problem,
but death
is a solution, because in death finally all this mortality
will fall
away, and the true self will be liberated to an independent
existence
that's no longer dependent on physical existence. And on
everything
that goes with physical existence, sickness and poverty and
so on.
And so physical existence is often described as poverty. But
when you
know yourself you are no longer in poverty."
Helmut Koester, PBS and WGBH/FRONTLINE, 1998
(Helmut Koester: John H. Morison Professor of New Testament
Studies
and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Harvard
Divinity School)
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Shri
Mataji Nirmala Devi
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"So
the fear of death is another nonsense people has. First time
when I started my work, everywhere they asked me what about
death? I said, just now you're living why are you asking what
about death?
So many people ask me question what about death, why do you
want to know? I'll tell you about today, just now.
So there's another mad idea that we should know about our
death what's going to happen and whatever happen. Once you are
dead you are finished, you don't have to do anything after
that. So what is the use of knowing when you will die, what
will happen to you? Whatever has to happen will happen. We
never ask when we sleep what will happen to me, do we? But
this is permanent sleep and we worry so much about it that we
should know what will happen after death. One has to die at
the time whenever one has to die. Because whatever is born has
to be dead. But you do know that you have got eternal life,
you can never die.
Death is not this body disappearing. Death is where you are
absolutely without any control of your soul life. Once you are
a realized soul you have all the control, all the powers, take
your soul wherever you feel like, to be born if you like, if
you don't like you will not be born. To be born with the
people in the families, in the communities wherever you like.
There are many great souls, I know, that have taken birth
daringly
into societies which are very much I should say are in danger
of getting destroyed because of stupidity they do.
So this happening that we are afraid of death is absolutely
absurd for Sahaja Yogis. What is there to think even about
your death. There
is nothing like death for you, because you have got eternal
life. It
is not that you continue with your same body; you may go on
changing
your dress. But you are living, you are aware and you know.
Even if
this body is not there, you will be there, all the time,
available for Sahaja Yoga for anything that is to be done in
the name of reality. So you must know your position as eternal
being, what is your work, what is your idea, what you have to
do.
So one has to get rid of this idea of death because death
doesn't
exist for you. It's finished. Moreover all such people who are
afraid
of their death go on having insurances, this, that, all
headaches you
see. And ultimately what happens, all these worldly things we
leave
here and depart. There is, I don't think, anybody could carry
even a
little dust with that soul which is departing.
But in your case, when you people are no more on this earth, so
called, then you don't carry all this material thing, because
you've
already given up. You have no interest in them. You're not
materialistic.
So your spirit is free and when you die is a
very
simple thing that you feel very liberated, absolutely. And
then you
feel your freedom, completely. And you can decide what you
want to
do. It's all under your own guidance, your own desire,
everything
works out. You don't feel that you have come out of your body,
and
this is what should tell you that there should be no fear of
death,
but on the contrary it should be welcomed. Because you will
feel much
more liberated, much more at ease. You don't have other
problems that you have to in any case carry on in this world,
so called, because of
your body.
Now see, I have to take some medicines, I have to
take
some vitamins, don't have to take anything. Don't need
anything. This
body finished is a very good idea.
So troublesome it is you see, all the time. Despite the fact
you may
say that I don't care for this body and all that but this
body won't
leave you. It's the most sticky thing we have is our body. So
to
forget about death should be the easiest thing for you!“
The Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi

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
(see
photo),
as I say, in the Seventh Chakra.“
Shri
Sahasrarambujarudha
Devi
The
New Age Has Started, Houston, USA — Oct. 6, 1981
(Sahasrarambujarudha
(106th): She ascends the Sahasrara-chakra. She dwells there
as saksi or chitkala in the liberated souls. This is Moksa)
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