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.
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