Fwd: Except through me

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NonDualBibleVerses , " Jerry Katz " <jerry@n...>

wrote:

 

 

From the MillionPaths list:

 

Annamalai Swami - 'No man comes to the Father except through me.'

 

Q: There is another biblical statement that is very popular among

Christians: `No man comes to the Father except through me.' How does

Swami understand this statement of Jesus?

 

 

 

AS: When Jesus said `Except through me' he was speaking of the Self,

not the body, but people have misunderstood this.

 

On another occasion Jesus said, `The kingdom of heaven is within

you'. He did not mean that it is within the body. This `you' Jesus

spoke of is the Self, infinite consciousness.

 

Although a sage who has stabilised in the Self may use the

word `me', we should not make the mistake of thinking that he is the

body. Whenever the jnani, who has become one with the infinite, pure

consciousness, says `me', he is speaking not of the body, the form,

but of the one consciousness.

 

In the absolute, single, formless, immanent consciousness, where is

Jesus or any other jnani? All is one in consciousness. It is

impossible to differentiate between people there.

 

The one who realises this state beyond the mind expresses the truth

in his own way. Those who are seeking to understand this truth

always try to understand the message through the misleading medium

of words. They misinterpret with their minds and misunderstand what

the teacher is really trying to say.

 

Many Christians take that phrase `No man comes to the Father except

through me' to mean through the form of Jesus Christ alone. Because

of this interpretation they condemn all other concepts of God and

all other religions.

 

In essence all religions are one. Bhagavan once told me: `If the ego

is destroyed by proper self-enquiry and if the non-dual

consciousness is realised, that alone is the truth. Then, in that

non-dual consciousness, where are all the different religions? And

where are all the different religious masters? All is one in that

state.'

 

 

 

~ LIVING BY THE WORDS OF BHAGAVAN

 

edited by DAVID GODMAN

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