Let there STILL be Silence for a week -- The most worthwhile life is spent discovering your spiritual core and building your existence on it.

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, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org wrote:

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> Dear devotees of the Comforter,

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> Namaste - i bow to the Holy Spirit who resides in you!

>

> i would request everyone to read and thoroughly comprehend:

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http://www.adishakti.org/_/deepak_chopra_has_done_far_more_to_uphold_and_promote\

_jesus.htm

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> This is because most of us, despite all the teachings and blessings

> of Shri Mataji, are still living a shallow, materialistic life. This

> is my firm belief and conclusion based on the expectations of Lord

> Jesus and the Great Mother whose deeply profound teachings and

> spiritual expectations and standards are far loftier than our daily

> best. The fact that many of us have little courage, time or desire

> to promote the Saviour and the Blossom Time of the Comforter sent

> by Him speaks volumes. Just honestly introspect yourself after

> reading this post and you will have to admit that most of us

> continue to " pay lip service to Jesus's words while guilt, pain,

> and suffering continue to go unhealed. "

>

> The only consolation is that, unlike SYs, many of us still continue

> reading pleas to be conscientious and conscious. Maybe, over time,

> more and more of us will understand the utmost significance of

> upholding and declaring the central role of Jesus Christ and His

> mystical Kingdom of God in human salvation .... and begin having the

> courage, time and desire to help Him.

>

> Perhaps a week of Silence may suffice to prick our conscience that

> people like Deepak Chopra have done far more to uphold and promote

> Jesus and His message of universal salvation. i will still continue

> month after month and year after year to prick your conscience, even

> if you begin to tire and hate my tenacity. Your inability or refusal

> to comprehend or act will only confirm your own ignorance of the

> spiritual marathon—the daily dedication and mental endurance

> required on Earth—to enter His eternal Kingdom of the Spirit!

>

> regards to all,

>

>

> jagbir

>

 

i just found this article that is so relevant to what i just said.

Posting it at a later date may not be that effective. It will be

titled " The most worthwhile life is spent discovering your spiritual

core and building your existence on it. "

 

But let there STILL be Silence for a week. We need to introspect and

be brutally honest with ourselves since, unlike Jesus, we take our

bearings with the compass of materialism ........ and overwhelmingly

take the path leading to money, possessions, and status. Few of us

can claim otherwise.

 

jagbir

 

 

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Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

The World as Illusion

 

" Not all spiritual teachers are opposed to materialism, but Jesus

was. He spoke out against worldliness in all its forms. The priests

were castigated for their hypocrisy and love of public importance.

The rich and powerful were scorned as unworthy of God. These

criticisms were reinforced by praising the lowliest people in

society, the poor and meek. There seems to be no escape clause here.

If we feel uncomfortable being so attached to our money, possessions,

and status, the Jesus we meet in the gospels wants us to be

uncomfortable.

 

But why? We assume that he had a moral aversion to money and power,

and certainly when he says, " Give to Caesar the things that are

Caesar's, and give to God the thing that are God's " (Matthew 22:21),

Jesus is divorcing himself from the world because it has nothing to

do with his spiritual mission. Yet he seems to be contradicting this

stance when he says, " For to those who have, more will be given, and

they will have an abundance. " (Matthew 13:12)

 

To solve such a contradiction, we need to look to Jesus's teachings

that the world itself is an illusion. If material things are a dream,

it makes sense to pay them no heed. When Jesus rails against " the

deceitfulness of riches, " the reason is that consciousness itself is

being deceived. The mind is pulled away from spiritual goals by

mistaking money, possessions, and status as real. That's why Jesus

calls possessions a " consolation. " Having missed the real prize, the

Kingdom of God, one must settle for the material world, the

consolation prize.

 

Separating illusion from reality doesn't happen all at once. What we

experience as reality changes in different stages of consciousness.

For those few who decide to renounce the world completely, it's

possible to leap directly toward the goal. But even then there is no

guarantee that perception has actually shifted. A person may enter a

monastery because the Church deems that a holy life. But if old

perceptions get dragged through the door, the monastery holds the

same traps as the material world: ego.

 

Jesus wanted his disciples to come into union with God. Any other

life was steeped in illusion. Ego keeps that illusion strong

because " I, me, and mine " is so rooted in world affairs. The most

worthwhile life is spent discovering your spiritual core and building

your existence on it. If you do that, you will be first in the eyes

of God even if you are last in the eyes of the world. "

 

Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore,

Harmony Book, 2008, pages 113-114

ISBN:9780307338310