Post 18: OLD TESTAMENT
Śhrī Mātājī's words on Old Testament
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You see, you have pain in the stomach, when you put hands towards Me, supposing, you get all right. Finished! Now what are you offering to Me? I am not going [as Marie starts laughing:] to get anything.
Is such a different thing altogether. You see, suffering and God are two different things! God is the One who balms your suffering. What is that twenty-third Psalm is? Does it say you suffer?
1978-0220 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, What Is the Surrender (Surrender, Will, Spirit, Attention, Mind), Āśhram, 234A Regent's Park Road, Finchley, London, UK
Like in India, you see, there are sweepers who clean all the bathrooms and things like that, they never get the bad smells, you know. It's like that.
We have lost that sensitivity of chastity within us. And that's how this attention is very much ruined.
So, only thing that we could have done: is to put this attention right.
It was done, say, [with] Judaism.
When Moses came in, He talked of our Ten Commandments. That was the time, I mean thousands of years back! He talked that, 'Let us first of all establish our attention.' That's what He said, 'That's what we have to do.'
Then Christ came. First the attention was to be fixed. I don't know how far He was successful. I've not seen any Jew who has got his attention properly fixed.
So Judaism failed completely. And the Scriptures who came out of the Old Testament to the New Testament are much worse. Because they started thinking that, 'Now, we are very physical. Christ came for us, we are the chosen ones. So, we'll just ask Christ to put attention for us, and we'll do what we like.'
Very nice ideas, you see? That you do not respect your attention at all, you spoil your attention, which was the basis. Which was established thousands of years back, in the Old Testament.
1980-1020 Public Program, The Way of Kuṇḍalinī, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
Light doesn't mean, Light doesn't mean what you see with your gross eyes. Light means from within: the Light of Love. That one should understand: Light of Love. And it's so soothing, is so sweet, it's so beautiful, it's so enamoring, it's so abounding that unless and until you can feel that Light within you -- that Light which is of pure love, of purity, pure relationships, pure understanding.
If you can develop that kind of a light within yourself, then [the] whole thing will be cleansed. "Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow."
1983-0114 Śhrī Saraswatī Pūjā (English + Marathi) (Makar Saṅkrānti Day), Śhrī Saraswatī's Blessings (The Basis of All Creativity of Saraswatī is Love, Permeating Spirit, The Purest Form of Nature Is within Us and Subudhi), Dhule, Maharashtra, India
Of course in the books, they have written something funny, that: 'Those who will die and will be buried, their bodies will come out and get Resurrection.' In the books like Bible, and a Qur'ān, also [the] Old Testament. It is absurd, after five hundred years, what part of the buh ... body is going to come out of the graves? Occupying all the lands with the dead bodies!
[In] Italy they make even houses for the dead bodies.
But according to Indian philosophy, many souls who are seeking will be born, and there will be enlargement of population. This one can understand, which is a fact also!
1994-0730 Public Program, Grand Hotel Krasnopolsky, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Also the shariar [sharia], which was brought in by Muhammad Sāhab, was given by Moses for the Jews. In the Bible in the Old Testament, in the Jeremiah, is described clearly. But Jews thought it was too much, so they didn't bother. But Muslims think they can do it. I, I am sure they can't.
So they believe they are Muslims but they are not! Christians believe they are Christians but they are not!
First you have to become a Saint! You have to become an enlightened personality, so that: automatically you become righteous, automatically.
1994-1015 Public Program, Prédio Principal e Prédio de Aulas I, School of Music, Rua do Passeio, 98 -- Centro, Cinelândia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The only way to get over this brutal image [of killing] is to become a Walī or a real Sufi. This is what Muslims need[:] the achievement of peaceful existence through Self-realization. The same is the case with Jews and Christians. They believe in the same Bible, Muslims believe in the Old Testament as well as the Jews, but they nevertheless kill each other. It is painful and extremely heart wrenching that when in the whole world people have been able to enter the Kingdom of God as promised, all these fundamentalists of different religions are killing each other. May God bless them with sanity and wisdom. They should get their Second Birth. "Know thyself" is the beginning of the ascent.
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 6: Religions
Genesis
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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