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MARRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.

Lord Christ

It was a revealing to all of us when Pujya Gurudev Sri Sai Narayan Baba took us

to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Egypt & gave us pictorial account of Lord Christ since

His Birth till Crucification & compared well with that of Sri Sai Baba of

Shirdi. We all felt that we have been taken to Christian arena and were made to

witness what was happening to Lord Christ. I am still lingering with those

thoughts & wanted to share with you all.

 

The Bible contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the

doom of sinners & the happiness of believers.

The teachings of Jesus Christ can be summarized in just one word “LOVE”.

Love includes under its subheads

 

FORGIVENESS, COMPASSION, MERCY, CHARITY & HUMILITY.

 

“Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy mind and all thy soul

and love your neighbour as yourself”

“Father, forgive them for they know not what

they do”

 

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his Righteousness and all these things

shall be added unto you; what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world

but loses his own soul.”

And what shall he give in exchange of his

soul.

 

“If you want to be my disciple, take up the cross, give

up the self and follow me.”

 

"God is all perfect Supreme Spiritual, the Creator of all things, visible &

invisible. God does know everything, Past, Present & Future; our most hidden

thoughts, desires, words, actions & omissions. Rejoice & be exceedingly glad

for the Kingdom of God is within you. HE is nearer to you than even your hands

& feet. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of needle, than for a

rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.

 

Be aware that your life has changed. You are another being. You have been

touched by Divine Light, directly by the Christ Consciousness, directly by the

Cosmic Mother, so your experience of life can be only truer and deeper--deeper

connection with you own divinity

 

Lord Jesus said, "Everyone who asks will receive, everyone who searches will

find, & the door will be opened for everyone who knocks."

 

I learned that I could have a personal relationship with God, through His Son,

Jesus Christ. He would love me & never leave me. I invited Him into my life and

I have been walking beside Him ever since.

 

What about you? Are you plagued by the memories of your past? Are you looking

for love? You can have peace and security through a personal relationship with

Jesus Christ. Just ask Him:

 

Lord Jesus, I want to know you personally. Thank you for dying on the cross for

our sins. I open the door of my life to you and ask you to come in as my Savior

and Lord take Control of my life. Thank you for forgiving my sins and giving me

eternal life. Make me the kind of woman you want me to be.

 

If you invite Jesus Christ into your life, thank God often that He is in your

life, that He will never leave you and that you have eternal life. As you learn

more about your relationship with God, and how much He loves you, you'll

experience life to the fullest

 

A GIST OF CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS

God men appear on earth when the forces governing life take a course counter to

the law of the integrity of the universe and the supremacy of the Divine

Spirit. The power of the unity of life exerted by these noble souls influences

the course of the lives of those around them. Jesus Christ’s incarnation is one

such lofty instance of the descent of Divine Power for the overcoming of error

on earth and the establishment of the law of Truth. The doctrine of Christ is

the system of the Supreme Consciousness & it implies the relative laws of forms

of righteousness. Christ came to bear witness to this righteousness underlying

the law of the Truth. The whole of Christ’s teachings abounds in this twofold

revelation of the meaning of life.

 

Suffering and Tolerance:-“What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole

world, and lose his own soul?” It is the teaching of Christ that man shall not

live by bread alone, but by the Spirit within. “Blessed are they which are

persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.”

“Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all

manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.” Suffering cannot be avoided

by man & is always accompanied with great tolerance; even positive evil should

not evoke out propensity to retaliation. “Resist not evil” is a shining gem

adorning the garland of the teachings of Christ. ‘Love your enemies, bless

them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which

despitefully use you and persecute you;” “for if ye love them which love you

what reward have ye? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which art in

heaven is perfect.”

 

Love, Service and Dependence on God:-It is not only tolerance and

non-retaliation that are required of us but positive love towards all. This

love is expressed both in mind and body. A feeling of love for all, based on

the omnipresence and supremacy of God. Service should be done not to win the

gratitude of the person served or to enjoy the goodwill and praise of the

public but to purify the inner nature and fulfill the law of God. Hence Christ

says: “Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them - when

thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth - and thy

Father which seeth in secret, Himself shall reward thee openly.”

 

We do charity not to glorify self but to glorify God. Christ warns man not to

trust the things of sense and not to bestow thought even on one’s creature

comforts. A wise person always put his trust in God and is a silent

participator in the fulfillment of the Law. “Therefore I say unto you, take no

thought for your life. Is not life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Your

heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye

first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be

added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall

take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil

thereof.” “Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor dress in your purses, nor

scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves, for

the workman is worthy of his meat.”

 

Seek the Eternal:- The power, the inner strength that is required to overcome

the temptation to yield the urge to seek pleasure in external things is to be

acquired from the Eternal Foot of God. One has only to seek it sincerely and

one shall have it. The fault lies in man who does not sincerely seek it, for he

seems to be satisfied with the constricted vision and the painful life to which

he is tethered by ignorance of higher truths and values. “Seek,Aspire,Ask, and

it shall be given to you; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

 

The Strait Gate:-Christ calls the path of God ‘the strait gate.’ Fear, disgust,

doubt and despair debar the aspirants from entering ‘the strait gate.’ The way

to God is mysterious, hard to understand and untraceable like the path of birds

in the air, or of aquatic animals in water. They call it ‘the pathless path,’

because it is not a path but a state of consciousness; it is not accurate in

space, which is the accepted meaning of path, but an internal transfiguration

of one’s entire being.

 

“Enter ye in at the strait gate; for, wide is the gate and broad is the way that

leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is

the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that

find it.” While the earth is cut from under the feet, and the heavens have not

yet lent enough support, the seeker finds himself in a peculiar predicament

where consciousness of the pain of one’s separation from objects of individual

satisfaction supervenes. Christ says: “The foxes have holes, and the birds of

the air have nests; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.” When

God’s grace descends on man, he is first stripped of all his possessions and

cut off from the centers of his enjoyment, Christ demonstrates this to mankind

in his life of ‘symbolic suffering.’

 

Self-Surrender:-The grandest peak of his teaching is the gospel of

self-surrender. “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take

up his cross, and follow me; for whosoever will save his life shall lose it;

and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” The cross of

relative suffering and pain everyone has to take up, for the sake of the

supreme peace that passeth all understanding. Love of life is the strong iron

chain binding the soul to bodily life and misery, by which it loses the real

life which is of the Higher Spirit. Surrender is the fruit of faith. Faith can

work wonders. “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto

this mountain ‘Remove hence to yonder place,’ and it shall remove, and nothing

shall be impossible unto you.” Christ declares nothing can happen without the

will of God & even the so-called sell-effort should form part of the Will of

God. “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall

on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all

numbered. Fear ye not, therefore ye are of more value than many sparrows.”

Christ gives the assurance “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy

laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I

am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke

is easy, and my burden is light.”

 

Lord Krishna has already given the same promise: “Abandoning all other duties,

come to Me alone as refuge. I shall liberate thee from all sins; grieve not.”

 

Relation to God and Man:-“Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart,

& with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as

thyself.” To sum up the spiritual and the social ethics for man. God is one and

since all are in the Being of God, each bears to the other a relation of

brotherhood and an intimate kinship of the nature of identity. “The spirit

indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.” But “I am with you always, even unto

the end of the world.” The temptations shall be overcome by the power of the

eternal presence of Christ with us. He and his Father are one. And we are his.

He is our way and the light and the life and the love, and by abnegating

ourselves, we shall offer ourselves to him. When he is pleased, God is pleased,

and when God is pleased we get installed in the Kingdom of Heaven which is

within us. This is immortal life. The teachings of Jesus offer solutions to all

problems of life. Metaphysical, ethical, social and individual relations,

commonweal, national good, and all the values of life, are finally centered in

the nature of God-consciousness. “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” For, in

the manner in which we behave towards things shall they, and shall God’s Law

behave with us. “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do

you even so to them; for this is the law of the prophets.”

 

All those who have these virtues are truly Christians, sons of God, the beloved

of the Son of Man. They shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, who are united with

Him in spirit, and “Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter

into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in

heaven.” He does the Will of the One Father who loves all as his own self, who

serves all as variegated manifestations of the One, who hates none, wants

nothing, gives whatever he has, and loses himself in contemplation of the

Eternal—for this he knows is his supreme duty here. All is his who has God with

him, who is in God, and no thought need enter his mind. His is the blessed life,

the Divine Life, and he has come to raise humanity to this state of Divinity,

through his thoughts, words and actions.

Amen Amen Amen!!!

The Sermon on the Mount

Jesus : 'Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.'

Sai

: 'The pure heart becomes inspired; it sees beyond intellect and reason.

Jesus : 'Search not for the mote in

your neighbour's eye but look for the beam in your own.'

Sai : 'Instead of seeing faults in others, search for those

in yourself.'

Jesus : 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.'

Sai : 'Do not judge others, for when another is judged you are

yourself condemned.' Jesus :

'Cast not pearls before swine.'

Sai : 'Do not discuss devotion with those who have none; it will lessen

your own.' Jesus : 'Love your

enemies.'

Sai

: 'Carry on even if you are hated.'

Jesus

: 'Not everyone who sayeth 'Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven; but he

that doeth the will of the Father.'

Sai : 'The secret of

liberation lies not in mystic formulas and rosaries, but in stepping out into

action.' (Love and Service)

Jesus : 'For as much as you do injury to one of

these, you do it to me.'

Sai : 'Do not slander or injure anyone, for you are slandering

Me who is in him.' Jesus : 'For

Thine is the power and the glory.'

Sai : ' No man

can claim achievement, for all are but instruments in the hands of the Lord..'

Jesus : 'Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy

laden and I will give you rest.' Sai

: 'Bring Me the depths of your minds, no matter how grotesque, no matter how

ravaged by doubts or disappointments. I will not

reject you. I am your Mother.'

May we imbibe an iota of what has been communicated to us time and again by

changing our attitude towards our fellow beings in expressing our thoughts,

actions & deeds in Love & Affectionate manner to reach out to the level of the

recipient till we cherish our goal of Life? Let us have one Vision & we all

must say that we belong to ONE GOD, by whatever name you may address Him. He

alone will stand by you in all your deeds & actions provided those are

expressed with Love & Love only.

A narrow Vision is divisive.

A broad Vision is expansive.

The Supreme Vision is all

inclusive.

Pick up fast & do not look back & Act with smiling face; the

World is yours.

 

nimano fakir-Dubai- 23rd Dec: 2005.

 

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