Merry Christmas

 

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Merry Christmas

It is Christmas – perhaps it is time to bring the spirit of Jesus back into our hearts, as it appears that we have lost the essence of the incredible humanity that Jesus embodied. Let’s overlook the fact that Jesus lived more than 2000 years ago and contemplate on the possibility of Jesus or his spirit (soul) being present within every individual. Jesus was nothing but pure love and compassion and thus it is essential that every individual allow that aspect of Jesus to flower within them, because today in the name of religion, people are destroying each other. In our aspiration for the divine, we are losing our humanity.

Humanity is the only religion of human beings and the fights taking place or which are likely to take place are power struggles over whose method of worship is better – mine or yours. These are all egoistic battles between the power of the church, Islam and other religions coming to the fore. All these religions have forgotten that they are only methods of worship which led their followers to merge with the One – the journey from soul to super soul.

The most significant aspect of Jesus’s teaching was about living without prejudice, without seeing who is yours and who is not yours. Only then would one know the kingdom of God. He clearly said, “The Kingdom of God is not somewhere up there, it is within you.” Only in the initial “marketing phase” did Jesus talk about taking you to the Kingdom of God. Once enough people had gathered around him, he turned around and said, “The Kingdom of God is within you.” That is the crux of his teaching.

Jesus taught love and devotion, his was the path of bhakti or devotion. He lived in times which were very difficult for him, and the moment the people in power saw that he was beginning to influence people he was publicly crucified. The image of Jesus is thus pure love in spite of the suffering that he endured on behalf of his followers. But today, all that is forgotten and apparently in the west fewer and fewer people are going to church. Somewhere the link has broken, and that link needs to be repaired.

Unfortunately, 99.9% of the global population is missing something so fantastic within themselves. If it was somewhere far away, one may not wish to make the journey. But when it is right here and we miss it, isn’t that a tragedy? If the Kingdom of God is within us, we must explore it within; it is as simple as that. The journey to inner peace – the journey to your inner abode where one finds eternal peace has to start now if one has not embarked on it yet.

Merry Christmas to all and pray that we find the Kingdom of God within us.