UnSaid

If it is found to be true, We cannot even being to imagine what the discovery (needs registration) will mean to the Christian world.

The 2nd century text, denounced as heresy 1,700 years ago by orthodox Christian clergy, describes conversations between Jesus and Judas Iscariot during the week before the Jewish holiday of Passover in which Jesus tells Judas “secrets no other person has ever seen.”

I couldn’t help but compare …

The other apostles pray to a lesser God, Jesus says, and reveals to Judas the “mysteries of the kingdom” of the true God. He asks Judas to help him return to the kingdom, but to do so, Judas must help him abandon his mortal flesh: “You will sacrifice the man that clothes me,” Jesus tells Judas, and acknowledges that Judas “will be cursed by the other generations.”

with this from the Hindu epic of Bhagvat Gita

Lord Krishna : Just as a man giving up old worn out clothes accepts other new apparel, in the same way the embodied soul giving up old bodies accepts new bodies

Happy and pious Navratre to all

Wishing you all a very Happy Holi!

May the colours of Holi fill your lives with colours too.

Images from Rediff.com

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and a Happy Hanukkah

My Kingdom is not of this world
- Jesus Christ

Something I liked:

Jesus Christ pointed out, “The kingdom of God is within you” (The Bible: Luke – 17, 21). In a similar vein, an ancient Tamil saint admonishes in these words – “O! Those unwise persons, who seek light from the heavens above, see this within yourselves”.

A little off topic but nevertheless relevant:

As in the case of the injured who is finally enabled to walk normally through the medium of physiotherapy, exercises and medicines, the spiritual aspirant also has to involve himself through proven techniques of obtaining spiritual strength. Exercises in right living, lifestyle and spiritual evolution through various physical and mental exercises (sadhana) have been prescribed by various schools.

Bhagawad Gita refers to this as a process of discarding passion, desire and anger (II 56 and V, 28). Such exercises for the body, mind and the spirit enable one to discover light and divinity within. This is the state, described by Gita as that state of “joy within, comfort within and light within” — antasukah, antararamah, antarjyoti (V, 24)

Updated : To add Hanukkah celebrations

A very Happy Guru Nanak Jayanti to everyone.

A true prayer needs no reward; it is a reward in itself.

He who is the Highest is the Lowest.
Highest in the Lowest is the Real Highest.

- Baba Narinder Singh Ji , A Sikh Guru

Guru Nanak Ji in words of Osho

God is the creator. But realize that he does not stand apart from his creation. He is absorbed and one with all that he has created. This is why Nanak never separated the sannyasin from the householder. If the creator was separate from his creation, then you would drop all worldly activities in order to seek Him, abandoning the shop, the office, the marketplace. Nanak did not give up his worldly duties till the very end. As soon as he returned from his travels he would go to work in the fields. All his life he ploughed the fields. He named the village in which he settled, Kartarpur, which means the village of the creator.

Ek Omkar Satnam

Eid Mubarak to all.

Let this day remind all what Islam was meant to be, rather than what some people have started interpreting it as.

The Prophet once saw a funeral procession passing by a street in Madina. The Prophet was seated at that time. On seeing the funeral, the Prophet stood up in respect. At this one of his companions said: ‘O Prophet, it was the funeral of a Jew (not a Muslim).’ The Prophet replied: ‘Was he not a human being?’

Happy Diwali and a Happy and Prosperous New Year

After all the bloodshed and the terrible accident, the Diwali spirit manages to overcome everything. This Diwali will not be the same, but then no Diwali has ever been the same.

Wanted to start this blog site earlier, but the accident and the terrorist attacks on innocent civilians last sunday really spoiled the mood. But the Diwali spirit won again.