2008 is also a watershed for understanding Lord Jesus, the Comforter promised by Him, and Her message of the Last Judgment and Resurrection into the Kingdom of God

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> 2008 is also a watershed for understanding Lord Jesus, the Comforter

> promised by Him, and Her message of the Last Judgment and

> Resurrection into the Kingdom of God. In short, this year has been

> extraordinarily enriching in enlightenment. With so much at stake,

> and so few of us to deliver the Good News, we should not throw

> pearls before swine like Anil, Alan Wherry, Edward Saugstad, Viktor

> Bodhar, John Noyce, Kuntal Sood, Raj ........... to name just a few

> of the SYSSR SYs. It is best we tell them in no uncertain terms to

> leave us alone, though they are most welcome to join and help

> spread Shri Mataji's message of the promised Blossom Time in all

> its entirety i.e., the eschatology of the promised General

> Resurrection to evolve from physical beings into eternal spirits,

> which Jesus gave evidence two millennia ago and promised the

> Comforter to explain it at the appointed Hour!

>

 

It is this alone that gives reality to our lives and a meaning to

human existence

 

" This mystical community experience also penetrates into the physical

world. It is the whole creation that, as we saw, has been restored to

unity with God through Christ, and our whole person, including the

physical body, is not discarded but is rather transfigured. That the

body itself is holy is a fundamental aspect of Christian experience.

St Paul speaks of the body as the " temple of the Holy Spirit " and

declares that " the body was not made for immorality but for the

Lord. " [38] This is deeply significant. It means that sexuality is

itself holy. It is a divine energy within us. It can be used for

immorality but it can also be consecrated to God, whether in marriage

or in virginity. In both cases it is the same energy which is being

used, either externally in a physical relationship or internally in a

spiritual relationship. The ultimate aim of life is, in fact, to

convert this physical energy into a spiritual energy, so that the

body itself becomes what St Paul calls a " spiritual body " , that is, a

body which has been wholly penetrated by the divine Spirit. (P.226)

This is the meaning of resurrection. Every human body is created

for the resurrection, which means for the gradual transformation of

the physical energy of the body into a spiritual energy which is no

longer subject to the ordinary laws of matter. Matter, as we know it,

is conditioned by space and time, but the body in the resurrection is

beyond space and time. This was revealed in the body of Christ at the

resurrection. He appeared to his disciples in a " subtle " body, a body

which is already not determined by ordinary space and time, but could

appear and disappear at will. Then at the ascension he passed beyond

space and time altogether and entered into the eternal order of being,

transcending this world.

 

We have to keep constantly before our minds that this is the ultimate

goal of humanity. This is the " new heaven " and the " new earth " ,

prophesied in the Old Testament and revealed in the Apocalypse of St

John. [39] This world of space and time and the human mode of

consciousness which goes with it is destined to pass away. In fact,

as the Buddha saw so clearly and as modern physics recognises, it is

always passing away at every moment. The time-space world is an

appearance, determined by a particular mode of consciousness, of

the one infinite and eternal reality, which manifests itself under

these conditions. We have constantly to learn to see beyond the

passing forms of this world to the eternal reality which is always

there. It means passing from our present mode of consciousness, which

is conditioned by time and space, into the deeper level of

consciousness which transcends the dualities external and internal,

subject and object, conscious and unconscious, and becomes one with

the non-dual Reality, the Brahman, the Atman, the Tao, the Void, the

Word, the Truth, whatever name we give to that which cannot be named.

It is this alone that gives reality to our lives and a meaning to

human existence. "

 

A New Vision of Reality (Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and

Christian Faith)

Chapter 10, Pg.225-226

Bede Griffiths

Templegate Publishers - Springfield, Illinois

ISBN 0-87243-180-0

 

 

Notes:

 

[38] 1 Corinthians 6:19; 6:13

 

[39] Isaiah 65:17; Revelation 21:1

 

 

Primary function of the Comforter is to make men holy

 

" Jesus solemnly assures the disciples that they will, in the future,

perform even greater miracles than He. By this He means to say that

through the power of the Holy Spirit, they will bring about the

greatest miracle of all – the salvation of lost souls. He promises

them that whatever they ask for, in connection with their ministry of

bringing the miracle of salvation to lost men, will be granted them.

 

The theme of this section is reassurance and encouragement. Jesus

gives the disciples three basic reasons they should cease being

troubled in their spirits. First, He tells them that, although He is

going away, He will return for them so that they may ultimately join

Him where He is going (vv. 1-3). Second, He tells them that, though

He is going away, He will be the only means by which men may come to

God and go to Heaven (vv. 4-11). Third, He tells them that, though He

is going away, their ministries are not finished. In fact, the best

is still ahead. They are going, by the Holy Spirit’s power, to be

part of the greatest miracle of all, bringing men to salvation (vv.

12-14). " ...

 

25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

26. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will

send in my name, shall teach you all things, and bring all things to

your remembrance, whatsoever I have told unto you.

 

Jesus now summarizes all that He has been saying in this section.

Referring to the many things which He has taught them while He has

been present with them in the flesh, He tell the disciples that the

Comforter not only is going to remind them of these things, but also

will go to teach them all things necessary to their understanding and

happiness. The Comforter will recall to their minds Jesus' teachings,

will enable them to understand truly and completely, and will develop

and expand them into new and wonderful truths.

 

Jesus has referred to the coming Comforter as the Spirit of Truth (v.

17)...[whose] primary function is the work of making men holy. This

is the work we call sanctification.

 

In v. 16 Jesus has said that the Comforter is going to be provided to

the disciples by the Father on the basis of His (Jesus') prayer that

He should do so. Now He says that the Father is going to send the

Comforter in His (Christ's) name. These statements are essentially

identical and imply a joint action involving both Father and Son. "

 

Jack Wilson Stallings and Robert E. Picirilli,

The Randall House Bible Commentary: The Gospel of John,

Randall House Publications, 1989, page 205

ISBN 9780892659524

 

Advocate, (Gr. parakletos), one who pleads another's cause, who helps

another by defending or comforting him. It is a name given by Christ

three times to the Holy Ghost (John 14:16; 15:26; 16:7, where the

Greek word is rendered " Comforter, " q.v.).

Comforter, the designation of the Holy Ghost (John 14:16, 26; 15:26;

16:7; R.V. marg., " or Advocate, or Helper; Gr. paracletos " ). The same

Greek word thus rendered is translated " Advocate " in 1 John 2:1 as

applicable to the Comforter to be sent by Christ. It means

properly " one who is summoned to the side of another " to help him in

a court of justice by defending him, " one who is summoned to plead a

cause. "