The Need For A Saviour

It is sometimes asked why, if God is all-pervading, there is need of the special manifestation of a messenger such as Krishna, Buddha, or Jesus. The answer is given in the words of the Bhagavad-Gita where Shri Krishna says, 'When Dharma is hindered, then I am born.' This means that a manifestation, which the people recognize as a saviour or messenger, always comes when the necessity arises. ... In all ages and to all peoples the message of God has been sent. And that message has been kept by those who received it in the form of a scripture, and the name of the messenger and his honour have been held high by those who have followed that particular message. No matter at what time in the history of the world the message came, one thing is sure: that it has always penetrated the heart of man and left its impression and its influence, ever multiplying and spreading, proving it to be the message of God. ... Since it is the message of God, whenever it comes it is from the same source. When it came a thousand years ago it was His message; when it came a hundred years ago it was His message; and if it came today it would be also His message.

How ignorant man has been through all the ages! And he shows his ignorance even today, for whenever the message has come, man has fought and disputed and argued. Man has held fast to one prophet and ignored the others, because although he knew his religion he did not know the message. He has taken the book as his religion without recognizing the message. If that were not the general tendency, then how could Jesus Christ with His most spiritual message have been crucified? There had been prophecies, and besides prophecies the Master himself was the evidence of his message, as the saying has it: 'What you are speaks louder than what you say.' And how thickly veiled man's eyes must be by the religion, the faith, the belief he holds, for him to accept only one messenger and to reject the message given by other prophets, not knowing that the message is one and the same!

It is one thing to love and another thing to understand. The one who loves the messenger is a devotee; but the one who knows the messenger is his friend. There is a tendency in the human race which has appeared in all ages: it leads man to accept every expression of the message which has been given him, to be won by it, blessed by it, and yet to fail to recognize who the messenger is. The followers of each form of the message profess devotion to their Lord and Master, by whatever name he had in the past, but they do not necessarily know the Master. What they know is the name and the life of the Master that has come down to them in history or tradition; but beyond that they know very little about him. If the same one came in another form, in a garb adapted to another age, would they know him or accept him? No, they would not even recognize him, because it was not the message but the form that they accepted in the past; a certain name or character; a part but not the whole.

Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Just A Thought...

Nothing is ever what we think it is. But only Nothing.

We think there's a Problem with the World that needs to be Fixed.
And that's the Problem.
By trying to Fix Something that isn't Broken we... Break It.

The Problem is in the Thinking.

The Way Things Are

You are pure consciousness, already awake and liberated.
Stand up and walk out of your dream.
You can do this.

Adyashanti

Beauty Of Isness

“When you see that you are the Beloved, then all of the energy that you have been using to convince the external world of who you are will now be yours to use for the beauty of simply being yourself just as you are.”

Michael Beckwith

Gratitude

I notice that I'm grieving for someone I never met nor had any direct contact with, but for whom I sense a great kindred. We've met and talked and laughed in spirit many times, I sense. While her body decreased, her spirit grew and shone, shines still, and will ever shine.

Thank you, Betty, for enriching my life.

Panacea - One With Everything

We are all more or less ill till we find by Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

Look For Yourself by Douglas Harding

No-Thing Here But Love

What is the heart and substance of love? To put it at its most basic, to love is to disappear in someone’s favour. You vanish in favour of that person.

Interview with Douglas Harding – His Life and Philosophy DVD

The Christ Within All

The function of the soul is to indicate its desire, not impose it.
The function of the mind is to choose from its alternatives.
The function of the body is to act out that choice.
When body, mind, and soul create together, in harmony and in unity, God is made flesh.
Then does the soul know itself in its own experience.
Then do the heavens rejoice.

Neale Walsch

Enquire Within

It is natural to experience peace, but life in the world is not natural. Animals and birds all experience peace, but not mankind, for man is the robber of his own peace. We have made our life so artificial that we can never imagine how far removed we are from what may be called a normal, natural life. It is for this reason that we need the art of discovering peace within us; we shall not experience it by improving outside conditions. Man has always longed for peace and has always brought about wars. We all say we are seeking for peace, so where does war come from? It comes because the meaning of peace has not been fully understood. Man lives in a continual turmoil, in a restless condition, and in order to seek for peace he seeks war; we shall not have peace till everyone begins to seek peace within first. What is peace? It is the natural condition of the soul.

O peace-maker, before trying to make peace throughout the world, first make peace within yourself!

Hazrat Inayat Khan