Deepak Chopra: We return to God remembering him, and as memory returns, each of us is restored to knowledge of the Divine

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> i have provided hundreds of pages of irrefutable evidence and

> knowledge of the Devi. i have also strongly cautioned against the

> avidya that the devotees of Her incarnation, Shri Mataji Nirmala

> Devi, are indulging in, and encouraging/enforcing others to do the

> same. Seeking such knowledge-while strictly avoiding/rejecting such

> avidya at all times-alone makes life worthwhile, and the attainment

> of knowledge completely fulfils the ultimate purpose of existence.

> Such knowledge is far more priceless than Silence, and precedes it.

> Without such knowledge you cannot comprehend, far less learn how to

> maintain, Silence on Self. The Devi insists that liberating

> knowledge can be attained here in this world. There is nothing to

> surrender to Her except our ignorance and arrogance. Thank you

> Akash and Preeti for your excellent enquiry that will help many.

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" This language of " race " appears frequently in the 'Gospel of Judas'.

Although the author often uses the plural " human races, " in essence

only two races exist: the mortal race (those who worship the false

Gods of the lower world and are destined to be destroyed at the end

of the age) and the immortal race (those who recognize their own

spiritual nature and turn to the true God above)... Death, it would

seem, is not inevitable, but a result of not learning how to

distinguish between the mortal world where people live now and the

eternal world above. Since humanity is created in the image of the

divine Adamas above - in that sense, people come from the

imperishable - they are capable of becoming imperishable. "

 

Reading Judas - The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity

Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King

 

 

The Gnostic Gospels

 

“I met a journalist from India recently who screwed up his face when

I told him that I was writing about Jesus. I asked him why. “I loved

being a Christian when I was a child back home,” he said. “But being

a Christian in America makes me queasy.” It turns out that his faith

was the product of missionaries, whose presence in India dates back

to Saint Thomas—the same doubting Thomas who was invited by the

resurrected Christ to touch his wounds—who reportedly sailed to the

southern tip of India in 52 AD and founded the first church there. In

one of the ancient churches in the state of Kerala, parishioners

still adhere to Aramaic and Syrian rituals.

 

When innocence is lost, mystery vanishes with it. Sceptics aren’t

alone in wondering if the miracles that Jesus performed—raising the

dead, turning water into wine, or walking on the Sea of Galilee—

aren’t exaggerations of real-life events. Conversion can be a tough

sell, and it helps if the story you are selling contains magic.

 

We aren’t the first people to rebel against established religion, nor

is this the first time church worship has fallen away in face of

doubt. Among the early Christians sects, some challenged the notion

that praying to Jesus was enough to reach God. They chafed at church

authority, believing it was up to each Christian to find God through

personal knowledge of him and thus attain enlightenment. They felt

that enlightenment, not salvation in Heaven, was Jesus’s mission.

Here is how one of their most lucid scriptures, known as the Gospel

of Truth, outs it:

 

Forgetfulness did not exist with the Father, although it existed

because of him. What exists in him is knowledge, which was revealed

so that forgetfulness might be destroyed and that they might know the

Father. Since forgetfulness existed because they did not know the

Father, if they then come to know the Father, from that moment on

forgetfulness will cease to exist.

 

Forgetfulness, not sin, is seen as the root cause of error, our loss

of contact with God. We return to God remembering him, and as memory

returns, each of us is restored to knowledge of the Divine. Because

knowledge was so crucial to these early sects, they became known as

Gnostics, from the Greek word gnosis, or “knowledge”.

 

You can immediately see the appeal of Gnosticism to the modern mind.

It sounds liberal, nonauthoritarian, and open-ended. The Gospel of

Truth accuses conventional Christians of missing the whole point of

Jesus, falling into blind worship instead of trying to seek

enlightenment:

 

Through [Jesus, God]enlightened those who were in darkness because of

forgetfulness. He enlightened them and gave them a path. And that

path is the truth which he taught them.

 

To our ears, this sounds like a doctrine of personal growth, and that

makes the Gospel of Truth extremely appealing. The Jesus it portrays

has knowledge of the All, an imperishable fullness that is the divine

gift to humanity, if only people will open their eyes.

 

[Jesus] became a guide, quiet and in leisure. In the middle of a

school he came and spoke the Word, as a teacher. Those who were wise

in their own estimation came to put him to the test. But he

discredited them as empty-headed people. They hated him because they

were really not wise men.

 

Here we glimpse the universal theme of Gnosticism: a war between

Sophia (“wisdom”) and the forces of darkness that has been waged

since the dawn of creation and exists inside each of us. This inner

conflict has left us blind to truth, but we can rediscover it because

in his fullness (Pleroma), the Father provides a path back to the

All, which can never be lost. Change a few terms here, and we can be

reading the Vedas as recounted by the ancient Indian seers.”

 

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

pgs. 30-32

Harmony Books, February 2008

ISBN:9780307338310