“The other way to attain the natural state is through surrender to God. When one is obedient to Truth, what he says and does becomes what is true.’ (2.35-36) ‘in the presence of one that is grounded in non-violence, enmity is not possible. Otherwise, the witness is identified with the activities of mind and is just another thought-form itself.’ The witness then abides in its true nature. ‘Unity obtains when the activities of mind have ceased. Yoga Sutras – Patanjali (written around the time of Jesus give or take 200 years) Nirvana.’ ‘All Buddhas, past, present, and future, teach one Way.’ Heart Sutra (Buddhist) ‘The Bodhisattva abides in the Absolute, unfettered by mind. ‘Mystery and Creation arise from the same source. ‘When desire is absent, Mystery is obvious. ‘The source of heaven and earth is without form or substance. That which can be named is not the nameless One.’ Tao Te Ching: ‘That which can be perceived is not the timeless That. Holy Qur’an: “And hold fast all together by the rope which Allah (stretches out for you) and be not divided among yourselves, and remember with gratitude Allah’s favor on you for ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love so that by His grace ye became brethren and ye were on the brink of the pit of fire and He saved you from it. You will be instantly free and at peace’ 1.4 Let me illustrate this (All these teachings you can find in The Perennial Way – Expanded Version Bart Marshall)….Īshtavakra Gita: ‘Abide in Awareness with no illusion of person. We find inspiration, wisdom, love, freedom and peace. Yet – if we really take the time to look – we find resonance in all these scriptures with the universal truth of Christ. The Tao Te Ching or the Heart Sutra from the Buddhist scripture, to name just a few deeply sacred books. Really? Can that be true? This belief that the person or the physical man of Jesus is the only way to God and therefore Christianity the only true religion is surely to deny the truth of God resonating in the heart of other sacred scriptures like the Vedas, or the Ashtavakra Gita of Ancient India, the Yoga Sutras or the Holy Qur’an. Therefore if you do not ‘believe’ that Jesus is the only human being who is God then it seems to be understood that you are not included in the bliss, in heaven, in God’s loving embrace. This misunderstanding in my view is so misleading though because it appears to exclude all the rest of humanity who do not adhere to the Christian religion, from God’s family. Discovering this and being this is the only way to union with God and is the realisation of the light of Life! In other words consciousness, the divine presence, the formless spirit of God that Jesus embodied and that is also our own True nature is Life, is Truth. He knew his own true nature and he knew he was not separated from God in essence and neither are we as spirit. Only through this Universal Truth and spirit of God we find the True Way. Jesus meant, perhaps, the indivisible, non dual ‘I AM’, the God Self, IS ‘the way and the truth and the life’. Jesus message was perhaps not really grasped by a humanity who seems to have remained primarily believing in the dualistic understanding. Jesus always gave glory to God, the Father. In other words he did not mean the ‘ person’ (body/mind) of Jesus. Jesus made the statement in John 14:6 ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.’Īs Rupert Spira says here – and as I have said before here Could it be that Jesus meant ‘I AM’ IS ‘the way and the truth and the life’?
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