Guest guest Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 Madonna and Child appearing before the devotees of the Great Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi above the skies of Wamuran, Queensland, Australia in April, 1994."The Kingdom of GodThe kingdom of God is the very centerpiece of Jesus' teachings. Matthew speaks instead of the "kingdom of heaven." However, a number of passages in Matthew are virtually identical to those in Mark and Luke, except for the substitution of "kingdom of heaven" for "kingdom of God." Thus, the same reality is intended. The Gospel of John mentions the kingdom only twice but refers many times to the closely related concept of eternal life.For hundreds of years, the Jews had been expecting the decisive intervention of God to restore the glory of Israel and defeat its enemies. When John the Baptist and then Jesus proclaimed that the kingdom was at hand, it was certainly understood in terms of this expectation. (Marshall, p. 647)However, the kingdom initiated by Jesus is not the earthly kingdom that was widely inferred from the Old Testament prophesies. It is a spiritual kingdom that is now growing in the hearts of men and women, and it will find its fulfillment in the eventual sovereign rule of God and defeat of all evil. Those people who choose to belong to God's kingdom and serve Him, are those who are destined to inherit eternal life in God's presence.”twopaths.com"The whole point of yoga, which means "yoke," is harmony with the one source of all being. Meditation has this same focus — inner attunement and union with ultimate reality or God. Brahman, the pure, absolute being or one God behind all and through all in all, is defined (as in Christian mysticism) chiefly be negatives. In other words, Brahman is beyond any possible human descriptions. He is "the God beyond the word God." The many deities in the Hindu pantheon are all in varying degrees manifestations of the aspects of Brahman. Another way of putting it is to say that they symbolize or express the broad range of energies active in nature and the cosmos. Thus, while to westerners Hinduism seems like polytheism (and by inference, therefore, primitive and inferior), Hindus see themselves as truly monotheistic. There is but one Brahman, but there is a multiplicity of ways of approaching Him. . . . Since there are many avatars or incarnations of the Divine in Hindu thought, the orthodox Christian vies of Jesus or the saviours in other faiths makes perfect to a Hindu.”Tom Harpur, Life After Death Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi "This Paramchaitanya acts, shows My photographs, exposes Me in all kinds of unbelievable manner which has never happened. I am Myself amazed . . . I don't know how far this Paramchaitanya will be spontaneously acting like this, but this shows one thing for definite — that it wants you to be perfectly settled in your faith, which is not a blind faith.” Shri Satya-rupa DeviCabella, Italy — May 8, 1994 Satya-rupa (818th): She is Brahman Herself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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