Clarification on Jesus statement that He is the path etc
Meaning of 'Second coming of Jesus'
Question:
After the exit of Jesus, His disciples propagated about Him, like 'Jesus is the only path to Father' etc. Will such propagation effective since Jesus was not alive that time? (same situation would be there for any other past human incarnation, like Krishna, Rama, Mohammad etc).
Shri Swami replied: Jesus told “I am the path”. Jesus did not tell “Jesus is the path”. There is difference between these two statements. If Jesus told that Jesus alone is the path, it means that the specific human incarnation called as Jesus alone is the path. But, He did not tell like that. When Jesus told that He is the only path, it means that the human incarnation that alone guides you in a right direction is the real path. This alone provides you the opportunity of direct worship. Even the energetic incarnations do not provide you the facility to worship directly. The inert statues and photos are out of the scope of direct worship when even the alive energetic incarnations do not provide such facility.
All the three divine preachers (Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva) told that God is awareness and mind that they did not tell that awareness is God. This means that God incarnates only through alive medium having awareness. Such association of God with awareness is the meaning of this statement. ‘God is awareness’ means that God is always associated with awareness in human incarnation to give correct spiritual knowledge of the right direction to the entire humanity. Associating item can be called as associated item. The seller of apples can be called as apples as we see “Oh apples! Come here”. You cannot grasp the concept of a scholar if you cannot understand the scholastic language.
Jesus also said that He will come again. When He comes again, will Jesus come in the same form? If it is so, Jesus should have told clearly “This Jesus will come again”. If you say that the form of Jesus is the only path, what happened to all those millions of unfortunate human generations, which have passed out before Jesus? If you say that Jehovah was alternative form of Jesus before the arrival of Jesus, it means that you have accepted the alternative for Jesus. Jehovah might have been formless, but, you cannot deny His alternative status for Jesus. Moreover, the earlier generations faced by the partiality of God by having formless guide as Jehovah whereas, the latter generations were blessed with the partiality of God in having the form of God as Jesus.
Even the latter generations are sub-divided into two groups: 1) devotees having the direct vision of alive Jesus and 2) devotees having the inert statues and photos of Jesus only for worship and this shows different grades also in partiality. To avoid all these types of partialities in the case of God, who is the Divine Father of all the humanity in the entire world, the best way is to accept the contemporary human incarnations spread all over the world appearing before all the human generations in all the times. This concept will not show any partiality to God. In the same time of the existence of Jesus in one part of the world, some disconnected parts of the world did not have this lucky opportunity of facing Jesus directly, which again shows partiality of God in the same time. You cannot also justify that the part of the world facing Jesus was most sacred and deserves the association with Jesus since the people of the same part crucified Jesus. If you say that the particular part alone contains highest sinners, who alone required Jesus, this is also not acceptable because both sinners and pious devotees of equal status exist in every part of the world in all the times and thus, the partiality cannot be ruled out. When I preached this concept, one conservative devotee said “Let God be partial. The specific form I believe alone is God”. I just fell on his feet with folded hands and turned back stating that even God appearing in that specific form preaches this concept, he will not accept this concept. We can convince anybody, who has open mind following the path of logical analysis and accepts its outcome, whatever it may be.
Only scientists can do this because they always are with open mind to accept any outcome at the end of proper scientific analysis. Science is also correct in keeping silent about the God since God is beyond the imagination and you should not find fault with science in this point since this point is exactly expressed in the scripture regarding the Absolute unimaginable God (Yato vacho— Veda). The pseudo-scientific atheists and the conservative blind devotees of religion are not at all the true scientists and hence will not believe anything other than what already was believed by them!
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