Bible is seen to be full of terms about light ... the highest level of godly knowledge

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Tue May 4, 2004 10:23 am

 

shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> Today morning i was updating some files and decided to confirm yet

> again what has been cross-examined numerous times over the years.

> At about 7.30 am 10-year-old Lalita was asked about the Light:

>

> Question: What is above Shri Mataji's head?

>

> Lalita: The Light.

>

> Question: Can you look at it for a long time?

>

> Lalita: Yes, you can look at it.

>

> Question: Does it not blind you?

>

> Lalita: It doesn't blind me.

>

> Question: Is it different from the sun you see on Earth?

>

> Lalita: Yes.

>

> Question: Why?

>

> Lalita: It's smaller.

>

> Question: Anything else?

>

> Lalita: It doesn't blind you. What else ...... It's brighter. OK?

>

> myself: Thank you Lalita.

>

>

> This Light is always above the Great Divine Mother, and this Spirit

> of God Almighty resides within the Sahasraras of all humans. Unlike

> Her incarnation on Earth as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, now an aging

> octogenarian, She is eternally youthful and of unsurpassable

> beauty. Kash, Arwinder and Lalita have always maintained that they

> have never seen any woman as beautiful as Shri Maha-Devi who is

> truly the Great Primordial Goddess. (Shri Saraswati, Laxshmi and

> Kali are also extremely beautiful but none are comparable with the

> Maha-Devi.)

>

 

Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:59 pm

 

In shriadishakti , jagbir singh

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> A few months ago i asked my ten-year-old daughter Lalita what that

> immensely brilliant Light above the Adi Shakti in her Sahasrara

> is. She replied " God! "

>

> i remained silent for a long time to absorb the immensity of that

> single word answer.

>

 

Dear Jagbir,

 

Children are able to express the profound truth in innocence and

simplicity, and I begin to understand the teaching of Jesus that to

enter the Kingdom of Heaven we are to be as a child again. To

perceive the truth we have to leave aside all the clutter and

complications of our lives and simply be purely in the present

moment.

 

I quote from below: " The Bible is seen to be full of terms about

light. Lossky tells us that " for the mystical theology of the eastern

Church these are not metaphors, rhetorical figures but words

expressing a real aspect of godliness. " " The godly light does not

have an abstract and allegorical meaning. It is a data of the

mystical experience. " The author then referred to " Gnostics " , the

highest level of godly knowledge [that] is an experience (a living)

of the noncreated light, where the experience itself is the light: in

lumine tuo videbimus lumen (in Your Light we shall see light.) "

 

This quote and your daughter's experience have a lot of meaning for

me, because this is how I saw and felt the Divine Energy. I could

not understand and explain what I had experienced at the time as I

was Christian and did not know anything about the Energy. I saw and

felt it as a powerful vibrating light Energy of infinite source,

which I just could not make sense of. I was not able to explain what

I had seen and felt because of all the prelearning and

preconditioning about how things should be, and what is possible or

not.

 

Also from below: " It is the beginning of the revealing of the end of

times " Truly we are in the days of the Last Judgement and

Resurrection; the Second Coming; as is revealed by the presence of

the Holy Spirit among us. It is our duty to protect this Divine

Message, and to overcome all obstacles of doubt and fear, to spread

it among all humanity so that all may know. The message has been

revealed to us that we may share it with everyone.

 

Regards, Semira

 

 

Your eye is the lamp of your body;

When your eye is sound, your whole boy is full of light;

But when it is not sound, your body is full of darkness.

Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.

If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it

will be wholly bright,

As when a lamp with its rays gives you light.

 

Luke 11.34-36

 

 

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There is Light within a man of Light,

and it lights up the whole world.

If he does not shine, he is darkness. (4)

 

(4. Gospel of Thomas 38.4-10 in NHL 433.)

 

Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, 1989, p. 120.

 

 

 

" The Bible is seen to be full of terms about light. Lossky tells

us that " for the mystical theology of the eastern Church these are

not metaphors, rhetorical figures but words expressing a real aspect

of godliness. " " The godly light does not have an abstract and

allegorical meaning. It is a data of the mystical experience. " The

author then referred to " Gnostics " , the highest level of godly

knowledge [that] is an experience (a living) of the noncreated

light, where the experience itself is the light: in lumine tuo

videbimus lumen (in Your Light we shall see light.) "

 

Eternal, endless, existing beyond time and space, it appeared in the

theophanies of the Old Testament as the Glory of God. The Glory

is " the Uncreated Light, His Eternal Kingdom. " Being bestowed to the

Christians by the Holy Spirit, the energies appear no longer as

external causes but as grace, as inner light. " Makarius the Egyptian

wrote: " It is ... the enlightenment of the holy souls, the

steadiness of the heavenly powers " (Spiritual Homilies V.8.)

 

" The godly light appears here, in this world, in time. It is

disclosed in the history but it is not of this world; it is eternal,

it means going out from the historical existence: `the secret of

the eight day', the secret of the true knowledge, the fulfillment

of the Gnosis . . . It is exactly the beginning of parousia in the

holy souls, the beginning of the revealing at the end of times, when

God will be disclosed to everyone in this distant Light. " "

 

Dan Costian, Bible Enlightened

 

 

The discoverer of the atman ... must also discover this inner light.

 

" We pass now from the texts that are centered on the mystery of light

to the inner light which is the main subject of this group of

Upanishadic texts but which we should not interpret in an

exaggeratedly acosmic way. The process of interiorization which goes

on in the Upanishads is not disconnected from the cosmological

setting. Inner light it certainly is, but the Sun is still its best

and living symbol. Even when all the cosmological lights are

transcended, as in the passages of the Brihadaranyaka and the Mundaka

Upanishads, explicit reference is made to all five cosmic sources of

light: sun, moon, stars, lightning, and earthly fire. This Light of

lights is none other than the Light that illumines all those other

lights: it is the source of all the lights in the universe. It is the

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad which, having said that God is " the Lord of

what was and what shall be, " adds that " Him the Gods revere as Light

of lights. "

 

Within the cosmological representations of the time, the five cosmic

lights present no underlying physical unity; Vedic Man does not

imagine that all these lights can be seen as the same physicochemical

process. But he imagines, in a similar way, that there is a supreme

light, transcendent and immanent, which is the source of all these

other lights. The discoverer of the atman, he who realizes the core

of all things and the ultimate dimension of everything, must also

discover this inner light. Even more, one could say that there is

here a criterion for the authenticity of spiritual realization. The

truly realized Man is a light to himself and is himself radiant for

others. God is Light, the atman is Light, and so the Man who has

realized the atman is self-luminous and radiant. In many traditions

we can readily find examples of the luminosity of the saints, of the

aura of the jivan-muktas. "

 

Prof. R. Panikkar, The Vedic Experience

 

 

" Innately, within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten

you, to give you Peace, the Bliss, the Joy of our being. This

beautiful Lamp of yours has been created with a purpose. It has to be

enlightened. Respect your Self . . .

 

We have to respect this Lamp which has the Light of the Spirit, and

it should be enlightened. And let us be that Lamp which shows the

glory too.

 

It is such a beautiful world God has created for us but we in our

ignorance, our so called freedom, have ruined so many things. It is

shocking to see where people are going - just towards hell directly.

For a Mother it is a thing of great concern. How to stop this Fall?

How to get them out of it? How to make them understand what is their

worth, their value?

 

You should not take human life for granted. It is a very precious

life which was created out of many processes. It was created with

great difficulty. Don't forget that you have to become the Spirit

without which your life is a waste. Nay, the whole Creation is just a

waste because you are the highest in the Creation. You are the

epitome of that Creation. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

God's Work And Negativity, Hampstead, U.K. - March 31, 1983