Kingdom of heaven is within you
How can the heaven be within you? You are such a small frail personality, a little body, occupying one or two feet of width of the earth. How can the kingdom of heaven be contained inside you?
The statement of our blessed Lord is significant of something what the human mind has not been habituated to think or understand. Have you ever seen a kingdom being contained within the personality of a human being?
It is something like saying that the ocean is in a drop, which is unthinkable. All these inscrutable statements of the Christ appear to be inscrutable, because we cannot understand what the Spirit is, from the point of view of which he spoke always.
The Kingdom of heaven is not a country. It is not a physical empire. It is significance, a meaning, a connotation and a value. We call it the Spirit, and the Spirit can be contained everywhere. It does not require space to exist. Therefore, it can be wholly present even in the smallest of atoms. Thus, is the kingdom of heaven within you.
So, from this point of view of the capacity of the Spirit to be contained even within a cell of the body, what would it be to empty oneself and to be filled by It.
Give and it shall be given’ says the Lord
How can it be possible?
Have you ever seen somebody giving you merely because you give. He takes away everything you give and goes away. But, what the Christ says is that you will not merely be given back what you give, but overflowing, pressed and shaken will it be given back to you. If you give one, you will get back hundreds, thousands and millions, says the Christ. This, again, is a non-mathematical calculation. How can you get hundreds and thousands, if you give only one?
The Spirit says that by giving we gain. So, everywhere you find that the law of the Spirit is different from the law of matter. The law of the Christ is different from the law of Caesar. The law of God is different from the law of man.
Now, to empty oneself, therefore, would be the tendency to stand by the Spirit, and this tendency to stand by the Spirit is to recognize the character of the Spirit in the world of matter. We have lost consciousness of the Spirit itself. We are conscious only of matter. To be aware of the Spirit is to be aware of its characteristics simultaneously. You cannot think of fire without thinking of light and heat. The idea of fire is automatically associated with the idea of heat and light. Likewise, the idea of the Spirit is automatically associated with Omnipresence and a capacity to permeate and penetrate through everything.
It is because of this fact that the Christ was not understood by the people. How can matter understand the Spirit! And so He was crucified. We are crucifying God everyday in our life, in some form or the other.
But God is great, and everything shall be well in the realm of God whose Omniscient eyes see everything. The recognition of the Spirit is, therefore, the recognition of God’s omnipresent existence. And to be filled with God, is the same as to be filled with the Spirit., Christ-Consciousness or God-realization.
Dr Paulose is an ENT Consultant Plastic and Laser Surgeon with over 35 years of experience covering in Ear, Nose and Throat procedures, specializing in Laser Surgery and conventional medicine across India, U.K. and Middle East. He is currently engaged with the Jubilee Hospital, in Kerala, India.
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Hello there,
I was just going thru the medical tourism in India and happened to stumble upon your site. The Christ conscious somewhat sounds like SreeKrishna Consciousness which we have here in Texas. I had been a visitor to India until a fea years ago in my youth and had visited many Hndu spiritual centres as well. My parents were ardent devotees of “cross and churchianity” but failed to quench my thirst for higher wisdom nor could any of the vicars in my parish help me. They ultimately shut me out as, to them, I appeard like a ‘nuisance’ and or sort’of ‘brat’ with less faith in Bible or Gospels. I am a physicst by profession and never believed in dogmas or doctrine unless it asks you to try and taste. I could not find anything that is beyond a fairytale in any of the gospels, the say that God imposes upon you his dcitates..which is absurd. I think we have failed to understand the metaphysics where the simple living and highly englightened Hindu monks were masters. Alas..I wish if I were born in an Indiam family. I have red Bhagavad Gita – and find the book a real science proper on life, nature and man and the modes of nature. I have red some Upanishads as well. I could not find any wisdom in Bible or Gospel – just statements that the churchhood and preisthood want to impose on poor souls. However you are lucky at least you got the Yoga point (which the Lord Sreekrishna expounds on), than a Bible point.. so you are saved.
Brian
Brian
I think anyone knows the real truth-is a Brahmin, one who knows about the Brahman, the absolute truth.In that case you too are a Brahmin.The verses in bible are written as enigmatic_symbolical.All with hidden meanings, may be the Nasarene gnostic of the time tried to keep it all a secret.Even the word Naserene denotes the nasal- centre the Agneya chakra in between the eyes, the pineal gland above the optic chiasma”cross”like nerve running behind the eyes.To cross this “narrow path” is most difficult in yoga, once it is crossed, come to a stage of Samadhi-that is the stage one unite with the collective conciousness or christ conciousness.
I strongly believe in Christ Jesus and the mystery of my salvation, and keeping an open mind understand his teachings, may be the gift of Holy spirit helps me to understand the truth well.
Unless one ascend beyond the 6th chakra ‘the cross-Jesus’no one can “reach God”, Jesus says no one can reach my father,unless you come thru me”
Brian donot feel bad about being a christian,you must be proud that you are “marked” with the stamp of the Holy spirit on the forehead, over the 6th chakra, ie, if you are baptized in Holy spirit..After all whats in a “relegion”, as long as you know God. Just pray for the gift of Holy spirit, He will guide you, help you to understand everything.
May God bless you.
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