The Gospel of Thomas Prologue: These are the words of the Secret ... revealed by the Living Yeshua.

Mar 21, 1923 – Feb 23, 2011
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi was
Christian by birth, Hindu by
marriage, and Paraclete by duty.
"The Paraclete represents direct,
intimate divine intervention,
supporting and teaching
believers and challenging the
world, as Jesus did." (D. Stevick
Jesus and His Own, 2011, 290)

"Actually, thank God they have found out now the book written by Thomas who has described Gnostic way of life, where gnya means 'to know.' In Sanskrit language, gnya means 'to know'. Gnya!

So he has described very nicely the gnostic life. This was the Gnostic Bible, or whatever we call it, saying about a personal experience of achieving God-realization, Self-realization. It talks about Sahaja Yoga out and out."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Christmas Puja, Pune, India
25 December 1987


"Early Christians also were called Gnostics because they knew. It means to know on your central nervous system, not mentally. That's why as soon as Paul took over Christ's disciples ran away.

And when Thomas came to India he hid all the knowledge about Reality in a jar in Egypt. This was because he would have been persecuted by people who were interested in organizing religion, in making money out of it...

Now, it is for you people to bring back the glory of Christ, to bring back the dharma of Christ, to reflect the great image of Christ. When people say that you have no ideals, I’m amazed. Who could be a better ideal than Jesus Christ? Can’t think of anybody better, but nobody tries to follow Him, only try to use Him for wrong purposes.

So for us the ideal is Christ. Of course, I don’t expect you to crucify yourself. But always be able to sacrifice, coping with all the discomforts and problems and not talking about yourself, not worrying about yourself, not discussing others and judging others, but giving assurances that now we are at this level, we’ll be at a higher level and all the world has to come up to that level. Very positive talking, very positive thinking and very positive doing is the way you can really follow Christ. Whatever He had to do, He did it with such great sense and beauty. That is what it is.

So we have to be born like Christ today. We are all born like Christ because we are born without a father, by the Holy Ghost, just like Christ was born. But look at Him and look at yourself, born the same way as He was born. So you must respect yourself as He respected Himself and the way He worked out His resurrection. In the same way, you all have to work out your resurrection, and that is very important."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
New Delhi, India—March 21, 1992
St.Thomas the Apostle of India
Thomas was one of the twelve disciples of Lord Jesus Christ. Thomas in Hebrew means 'The Twin'. So he was also known as 'Didymus' which meant 'The Twin' in Greek. The Malankara Orthodox Syriac Church is one of the oldest Churches in Christendom and the most ancient in India was established by St.Thomas, one of the Apostles of our Lord God Jesus Christ, in 52.A.D. Christanity came to India much before it went to Rome or Western Europe.The syrian Christians of Kerala constitute the most ancient Christian community of India. Their form of Christianity is apostolic and derived directly from Apostle St.Thomas." Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kerala, India (Web March 5, 2012)

PROLOGUE
These are the words of the Secret.
They were revealed by the Living Yeshua.
Didymus Judas Thomas wrote them down.

(CF. JER 36:1, 37:4; BARUCH 1; 1 COR 24:44; REV 4:9, 10:6)

"Some would translate 'apocryphal words' in the literal sense of the Greek word apokruphos, which simply means 'hidden.' But this prologue implies much more than that: Yeshua has come to reveal to us the Words of the Secret, of the Human and of the Divine: God in Human and Human in God ... the secret of Being and of Love. In the Gospel of Matthew he invites us to 'pray to the Father who is there, in secret,' and not to be rigid in our justice, like the Pharisees and hypocrites. The God of Love who dwells in the depths of human beingness is a secret, and it is from these hidden depths that we can act, think, and speak in true freedom.

Yeshua, the Living, the Awakened One, reveals through his words, his life, and his acts the secret that all human beings can realize and manifest. He fully incarnates life and love, which is why he is given the name the Living One, the revealer of that which we can attain if we allow ourselves to be and live in the Presence of God.

Didymus Judas Thomas, the 'twin' (didymos, in Greek), is Jesus' intimate friend who has compiled these words. They were written down by Thomas, which could mean the apostle himself during the time of Yeshua or perhaps another author who represented the lineage of Thomas. (According to later tradition, Thomas died in Madras, India, and his tomb is still venerated today.) But what is important for us is to read these scriptures so as to come closer to the Word: to hear the voice and secret of the Living One within us."

Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Thomas
Inner Traditions (2005) p. 60

Prologue
These are the hidden sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Judas Thomas the Twin recorded.

"These are the hidden sayings that the living Jesus spoke: The incipit, or opening of the document, provides what is most likely the earlier version of the title. A second, later title is given at the end of the document: 'The Gospel According to Thomas.' A similar incipit opens another document from the Nag Hammadi Library, Book of Thomas 138, 1-4: 'The hidden sayings that the savior spoke to Judas Thomas, which I, Mathaias, in turn recorded. I was walking, listening to them speak with each other.'

'hidden sayings': or, 'secret sayings,' 'obscure sayings' (so Bentley Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures, p. 380). The Nag Hamaddi Secret Book of James 2,7-16 has James describe how such hidden sayings were recorded: 'Now the twelve followers [were] all sitting together, recalling what the savior had said to each of them, whether in a hidden or an open manner, and organizing it in books [And I] was writing what is in my [book].'
'the living Jesus': probably not the resurrected Christ as commonly understood, but rather Jesus who lives through his sayings."

Marvin Meyer, The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus
HarperCollins Publishers (1992) p. 77

Incipit: These are the hidden sayings that the living Jesus spoke and that Didymus Judas Thomas wrote down. 1

"1. The 'hidden-ness' of the sayings has to do with their enigmatic character. The meaning of these sayings is hidden within them as, for example, leaven is hidden in dough (saying 96) or a treasure might be hidden in a field (saying 109). The Gospel of Thomas is optimistic that what is hidden will be revealed (sayings 5, 6, 108). These are not sayings that were supposed to be kept secret from other people, though, for roughly half of them are found in Matthew's and Mark's and Luke's Gospels, so it's likely that they were all commonly known and widely circulated."

Stevan Davies, The Gospel of Thomas
Shambhala Library (July 2004), pp. 2-3

These are the hidden logia
which the living Jesus spoke
and Didymos Judas Thomas recorded

"Note 1. There is no English word adequate for the Greek word that is presented here as logia. Literally, ‘sayings’ might be used, but that fails to convey the attitude changing quality.

Note 2. The Coptic word here for ‘hidden’ is the same as in logion 109 for the hidden treasure within the field. In the turbulent time of the Master’s place and time, it was normal practice to hide treasures thus; and hence they were likely to be found by anyone searching thoroughly.
It would be a great mistake to think of these words to be secret, or esoteric, or for some cult, or only for the initiated. Their inner meanings are treasures, to be manifested to anyone who has the urge to seek them."

Hugh McGregor Ross, The Gospel of Thomas
Watkins Publishing (2006) p. 90

Incipit: These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymus Judas Thomas recorded.

"This prologue provides the reader with the first entrance into the world of the text: the voice of a narrator speaks directly to the readers in suggestive language about 'secrets' spoken by a 'living' speaker introducing them to these mysterious characters and orienting them to what follows. This world evoked by presences and secret sayings, of recorders and living speakers, come to the readers in a text; the text conjures these textual realities and makes them speak in the mind of the readers. The world it constructs captivates the readers, and reveals to them the world recorded by Didymos Judas Thomas.

What voices emerge from the textual world? The brief initial statement introduces a narrator who mediates among the reader, Jesus and the recorder of the sayings: the text evidences a number of different and simultaneous perspectives on the material presented. The narrator's voice provides the primary discourse from narrator to reader: that narrative voice conveys the apparent direct address of Jesus to the reader. Even though that narrative voice recedes to an almost inaudible and simple declarative 'Jesus says,' it nonetheless dominates the discourse by intruding at almost every turn to position itself between Jesus' speech and the reader. The continual repetition by the narrator that 'Jesus says' seem to defer to Jesus' voice, while actually underscoring the dominance of the narrator's control of the saying given. The narrator mediates and provides the context for the transmission of the sayings of Jesus, subtly, sometimes imperceptibly, sometimes by omission, but always by direct interjection. The narrator's voice dominates.

The narrator not only provides the medium for Jesus' sayings, but also displaces the voice of Judas Didymos Thomas who, presented in the third person, becomes simply a discursive authority, a designated repository for the sayings of the living Jesus which the narrator presents. The displacement of Judas Didymos Thomas, as a kind of mentioned locus of authority, at once provides a place for that tradition, while rejecting its definitive status. In order of priority, the narrator's voice takes precedence over Jesus' and over the authority of Judas Didymos Thomas, because it is the narrator who tells the reader who speaks and who records. The text's primary voice remains the narrator's, Jesus' voice provides the message refracted by the narrative, and Judas Didymos Thomas' voice provides the authority counterpoised to that of Jesus.

The discursive voices also construct a reader of, or listener to, the sayings as a primary character in the text. Both the narrator and Jesus address the readers directly, the narrator by direct intervention (so as to mean 'Reader, this is what the living Jesus says'), and Jesus by direct address to the 'you' of the sayings audience (one example among many, 'As for you [be as sly] as [snakes ...]'). This constructed readership has important implications: the instruction and challenge of these sayings have their direct reference to readers, who do not passively mouth, but receive the material which the narrator conveys as from Jesus' own mouth, but who function as active agents in the development of their own understanding and way of life. That is, the imperative of the text lies with the readers who really have been constructed as seekers after the secret sayings of the living Jesus. The message, delivered directly to the reader whether by Jesus or the narrator, emphasizes the central role of reader to the text...

This invisible narrator mirrors the secrecy of the sayings: 'These are the secret sayings....' The narrator informs the readers that these sayings have a restricted audience: the narrator grants the readers entrance into a select group of those selected by the narrator to hear the secret sayings. The secrecy has two fields of meaning: the Greek word apokryphos implies that the sayings are obscure and difficult to interpret; the Coptic word hep implies that few can read them because they are not readily available. These sayings present the readers, as the narrator points out, with difficult and puzzling sayings that will challenge them.

The sayings comes from the 'living Jesus' (Kaestli 1979: 389). They are secret and troubling sayings that come from one present in the community. The fact that Jesus is 'living' draws attention to itself. It implies that for others, there are sayings from a 'dead' Jesus, that is, their Jesus is not really present to them in speaking the sayings. But for this community, the one to which the narrator extends the invitation, their Jesus lives, speaks, and continues to challenge. The narrative world includes a Jesus fully present, speaking, and capable of being recorded and transmitted to others...

The readers, then, have entered into a different and new world at the invitation of one who knows both the living words of Jesus and the authoritative traditions of Judas, also called Thomas. That narrative world presents difficult material from the mouth of a present and speaking Jesus, and it is the struggle with that challenging material that brings the reward, as the next saying relates.

Saying 1
And he said, 'Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.' "

Richard Valantasis, The Gospel of Jesus
Routledge; 1 edition (June 29, 1997) pp. 50-54

Coptic Prologue: "The sayings speak not of dead knowledge, nor of ancient knowledge, not even of eternal knowledge, but a present knowledge."

P. Oxy 654.1-3a [Coptic Prologue]

These are the [secret] sayings [that] the living Jesus spoke, [and Judas, who is] also Thomas [recorded].

The brief Prologue orients the reader to what follows. It is a kind of “title page,” a marketing device for letting readers know what is to follow. The title page, or Prologue, relates that the reader may expect sayings. Collections of sayings were common in antiquity (Kloppenborg 1987: 263-316): these collections provided a means for training people in specific kinds of education (as in scribal schools), or in philosophical traditions, or in mystical knowledge. Sayings, or aphorisms, were a common educational device.

The fact that these are secret sayings adds some specificity. Their secrecy at once explains the audience and the mode of expression. The audience, the proposed readership, the buyers, are not common people, or just anyone. These sayings have been collected for a particular, and entitled readership—one capable of entering into this conversation (Koester 1990a: 124-28). They are esoteric because they are not written as discursive descriptions or as a philosophical tractate, but as sayings. Sayings demand that the audience puzzle over their meaning, and, therefore, only the capable will understand them. Secrecy also defines the mode of expression: these sayings are difficult and challenging elements to puzzle about. The sayings do not speak plainly or directly, but in a hidden way, a mysterious way about things that are at once obvious and riddling. These secret sayings of the living Jesus, then, present difficult and perplexing material to a select group of people (Kaestli 1979: 389).

The “living” Jesus presents these sayings. The sayings speak not of dead knowledge, nor of ancient knowledge, not even of eternal knowledge, but a present knowledge. Jesus lives within the loosely confederated group in which these sayings operate; whoever puzzles through these difficult sayings encounters a living voice, a real person, speaking to them. This evokes presences, immediacy, life in a context in which the study of the sayings evokes the living presence of the speaker of the sayings.

The title page also mentions the recorder of the sayings, Judas, who is also known as Thomas. This identification of the recorder provides the lens through which the sayings of the living Jesus are viewed. Jesus does not speak directly, but through the recordings of Thomas. Thomas defines what the readers will know; Thomas determines what voice Jesus has by presenting some sayings, and, presumably, not recording or transmitting others. The readers hear Jesus, but that Jesus has been carefully defined (or edited) by Judas/Thomas. That particular lens constructs a pattern of authority in a very subtle way. Jesus speaks as a living presence, that living presence depends upon Thomas’ recording, the readers’ understanding depends upon Thomas. The readers of these secret sayings become followers of Thomas’ understanding of the secret sayings of Jesus. The readers have been constituted as a “community” of people following the understanding of Jesus recorded by Judas/Thomas.

Richard Valantasis, The Gospel of Jesus
Routledge; 1 edition (June 29, 1997) pp. 31-2

Would Thomas Believers be accepted by most Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, or Hindus today?

"Jesus knew that what he was teaching was not simply a rehash of the standard fare of organized religion at his time. It’s not only that his teachings did not articulate typical Judaism in the first century. Those teachings would be equally foreign to typical Christianity or typical Buddhism or typical Islam today. For Jesus was teaching a mystical awareness that, while undergirding all the great traditions, eludes their exoteric identity, that is, the external face of religion dealing only with surface realities.

Would Thomas Believers be accepted by most Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, or Hindus today? I think not. Too much has been invested in the forms and formulas of current religion. Too much is at stake for those who wield religion to gain political control over other people or even over whole countries. Too much would be risked for those who see the purpose of religion as keeping people at a level of spiritual infantilism, providing them with a nursery world filled with nostalgia and childhood comfort foods.

55 Jesus said: He who does not hate his father and
mother cannot be a disciple of mine. He who
doesn’t hate his brothers and sisters and bear his
cross as I do will not be worthy of me.

Since this text can also be found in the canonical gospels, we find countless commentaries reminding us of the outlandish hyperbole so common in Middle Eastern discourse. Jesus is talking about priorities, not about literally hating others, especially the very parents we are enjoined to honor by one of the Ten Commandments. And yet, I think we must be cautious in declawing this teaching.

Families are sometimes hazardous to our health. They can function like the 'old wineskins' in the last saying. They often represent change-resistant habits. 'This is how we’ve always done it.' "

Ron Miller, The Gospel of Thomas
Skylight Paths Publishing (2004) pp. 13-14

As Upadhyay has stated, "The negative plate of Jesus, developed in a solution of Hinduism, brings out hitherto unknown features of the portrait."

"In chapter 26, 'Indian Christian Spirituality,' J. Valiamangalam identifies different forms of Christian presence in India. According to Thomas Christians, the message of Christianity entered India in the first century of the Common Era through the preaching of St. Thomas, one of the apostles of Jesus. The various Christian denominations have been active in the Indian scene from early times. Valiamangalam points out that in course of time, the Christians have changed their attitude with regard to their missionary work in India. The works and writings of persons like Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, and Mahatma Gandhi have greatly helped the Christians to appreciate the spiritual wealth of Hindu and other religions of Indian origin. 'However, this change towards openness is yet to grow fully in depth and width in order to become the general character of Christian presence in India.' In order to do so, Christian spirituality needs to have serious and sincere encounters with Indian spiritual traditions. Valiamangalam points out that, except in Kerela, generally Christianity has been looked upon as a foreign religion. The reason is that the major portions of Thomas Christians in Kerela came from the high castes in the Hindu society. In addition, Thomas Christians retained the native customs in their daily life and actively interacted with the Hindu community in their social religious lives. This was, however, before the Synod of Diamper, which, as it were, transplanted a Syrian or European church to India and placed restrictions on religious interaction with the Hindus. There are, however, attempts in the present time to recover the Christian spirituality of the pre-Diamper period, and the 'Christian Ashram' movement reflects the Christian openness to Hindu spirituality. Christianity, in its turn, has greatly influenced Hinduism, particularly the modern Hindu religious movements like Brahmo Samaj, and also persons like Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, and Swami Vivekananda. Gandhi stands as one of the prime examples of enrichment through Hindu and Christian interaction. Gandhi's confession, 'It was the New Testament which really awakened me to the rightness and value of passive resistance. The Bhagavad Gita deepened the impression,' is to the point. Valiamangalam feels that it is this enrichment gained by deepest contact with Hindu spirituality that should mold the spirituality of Indian Christianity. As Upadhyay has stated, 'The negative plate of Jesus, developed in a solution of Hinduism, brings out hitherto unknown features of the portrait.' It is in the directions given by persons like Abhisiktananda, a Catholic priest, who reflect deeply the spirit of interactions between Christianity and Hinduism and their mutual enrichment, that the future of Indian Christianity seems to lie. The author concludes that a church without rigid institutional formalities is perhaps the best basis for a genuine Indian Christianity or even for a world religious culture."

K. R. Sundararajan, Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and Modern
Motilal Banarsidass, (Jan 30 2004) xxxiv-xxxv

Inner Religion

"One of the great ironies of religious history is that, although the religions that came out of the Near East--Judaism, Islam, Christianity--adamantly reject most of Hinduism's fundamental teachings, their mystical traditions--the Kaballah, Sufism, and Christian Gnosticism--reflect Hindu insights in almost every detail. Numerous students of comparative religion, from Muslim scholar Al Buruni in 1000 C.E. to the world famous writer Aldous Huxley nearer our own time, have expressed their amazement at the parallels between the major mystical traditions of the world and Hinduism...

Hinduism is by far the most complex religion in the world, shading under its enormous umbrella an incredibly diverse array of contrasting beliefs, practices, and denominations. Hinduism is by far the oldest major religion. It has had more than enough time to develop a diversity of opinions and approaches to spirituality unmatched in any other tradition. ...

Turning On Your Light

If karma and reincarnation form the spinning wheel of the cosmic process, the Inner Self is the unmoving axle around which the wheel turns.

'Know Thyself' was the advice chiselled over the portico at the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece. No religion has ever taken the quest for self-knowledge as seriously as Hinduism. At its core, Hinduism is not about believing what somebody else tells you about the nature of your soul, or accepting what others claim about God. Hinduism is about exploring the very depths of your own soul yourself. And about getting to know God personally…

Secrets Of The Subtle Bodies

Inner realities are legitimate realities to Hindus. They're not cavalierly dismissed as outdated superstitions like they are in the West. We Westerners for the most part only hear about miracles that happened in the Palestine 2,000 years ago. In India, however, every generation of Hindu has been exposed to living saints and yogis who demonstrate what seems like superhuman abilities to the uninitiated.

In India, science and religion have always worked hand in hand. There has been no burning at the stake of scientists in India! There the exploration of inner realities is considered just as valid as research into the outer world of nature. While Hinduism produced some of the greatest natural scientists in history, it also excelled in the science of spirit, pioneered by the inner researchers called yogis…

The Inner Self

Scientists in the West consider consciousness a by-product of the nervous system that ends in death. The sages of India don't buy this. During out-of-body travel they experience their consciousness moving independently of their body. The great masters have also reported remaining conscious and alert after their previous bodies died, and journeying through other inner worlds. To them the physical body is the by-product of consciousness, not the other way around! The Inner Self is called Atman in Sanskrit. The Atman is who you really are—not your physical and subtle bodies, all of which are perishable. The Atman exists beyond space and time. It is the undying reality, your fundamental inner being and truth…

The Inner Sun

The Tripura Rahasya compares the Inner Self to a splendid gem locked in a chest that's fallen in the sea and become covered with mud. You have to find the chest, clean off the mud, and break open the lock. Then you'll see for yourself the shining gem of incalculable value. All Hindu spiritual practices are designed with the ultimate goal of helping us find the 'pearl of great price' that lies buried in our minds and encrusted with the mud of our generally petty, run-of-the- mill thoughts. That gem is the pure, undying awareness that illuminates our lives."

Linda Johnsen, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hinduism,
Alpha; 1st edition (October 11, 2001) pp. 76 - 109

The Paraclete Shri Mataji "This is the day for us to remember that Christ was born on this earth as a man. He came to this earth, and before him stood a task to enlighten the human consciousness so that people can understand that they are not this body, and Spirit; that we can see the actual implementation of this in people's minds.

The mission of Christ was His resurrection, that is, that you [] the Spirit, not the body. And He showed his resurrection, as He climbed into the realm of the Spirit, who He was because He was the Pranava. He was a Brahma, Mahavishnu He was, as I already told you, telling of His birth. And He came to this earth in bodily form like a man. He wanted to show one more thing: that the Spirit has nothing to do with money, has nothing to do with power. He is all-powerful, all-pervading."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
The Message of Christ
Caxton Hall, London, U.K.—December 10, 1979

"That which causes all the pranas to prostrate themselves before and get merged in the Paramatman, so as to attain identity with Him, is for that reason known as the Pranava." – Atharvashikha Upanishad 1:10a (S. Radhakrishnan, George; 1953)


"So, rejoice that here in Agnya Chakra, Christ is born anew within you. And He was there, and you know how can always ask for His help. We need to understand the main thing that you came this time to get everything that was promised in the sacred books, not only in the Bible, but in all the scriptures of the world. Today it's time that you should become a Christian and Brahmin, and pir only through the awakening of your Kundalini. No other way out...

So today, at this moment, when we celebrate the great event of Christ's life, let us recognize that Christ is born within us. And Bethlehem is within us. No need to go to Bethlehem - He is inside you. He is there and we must take care of him. He is still only a child and you should respect him. You must take care of him."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
The Message of Christ
Caxton Hall, London, U.K.—December 10, 1979


"He’s (Jesus Christ) sitting in a position of Agnya Chakra controlling pineal and pituitary. By that, He controls our conditioning. If we follow Him, then we cannot be conditioned by anything because He talked of Spirit only. Spirit cannot be conditioned, conditioned by anything. Whatever is good, that will be accepted; good, congenial to the Spirit."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Christ Conditioning and Ego
Ganapatipule, India—December 24, 1995

The Paraclete Shri Mataji "Before we start, the celebrations of the birth of Christ, we have to little bit review what we have done after His Birth, so that we understand where do we stand in relation to Him. For He was the Son of a Virgin so that even the slightest blot on His name should not be created. Because He was to do the greatest job, of creating for us Agnya awareness, which would help us to suck in all our sins, all our conditionings, and all our egos. And the great personality was created for such a great work within ourselves. But unfortunately, we have spoilt both these institutions within us to such an extent that it is the most difficult task to give realisation to Christians...

We have to be clean. We have to be resurrected. We are resurrected people. Christ has resurrected us. But you have to think how much he has to work for us. The more you try to be in unison with negativity, we harm Him more, we torture Him more, we trouble Him more. The one who was born in the manger in the most difficult circumstances, where everybody requires comfort, who from the very beginning went through hazardous life till His death. His birth itself, you can see, was in a cow-shed. None of you are born in a cow shed. And while the Christians are so particular about comforts, most surprising is, why Christ was born in a cow shed? In a very, very cold night Christ was born. Nothing much to cover; sparkling beauty it was.

Now we have to keep Him within ourselves comfortably. We are not going to give Him that manger in our Agnya Chakra. Manger of thoughts and a crown of thought-that we are not going to give Him. We are going to make Him comfortable by not accepting negativity as a sympathy. You have to be kind towards your auspiciousness and holiness so that Christ enjoys His stay there in your Agnya. That we do not torture Him by our useless ideas, uncomfortable behaviours, inauspicious appearances and unholy acceptance of wrong ideas. Try to respect Him; there He stands. Try to make Him very comfortable. I wish I could do that, but He resides in everybody's Agnya Chakra. If He was only in my Agnya, I would have given Him the greatest comforts, but He wants to be manifested in every body's Agnya.

So I have to request you as a Mother to look after Him, give Him a nice cradle, give Him a comfortable time, because He is born to give you your resurrection. He has taken up such a great responsibility to suck all your conditioning and to suck all your ego, but that does not mean that you put stones on top of it. It's like, sometimes I find the conditioning of some of the people in the West is so great, that a big mountain is failing on this little child. And sometimes I find a big a bad breath. Horrible breath of ego, it stinks, blowing like a big wind towards the Agnya, horrible stink coming out of this terrible type of a ego. Absolutely not the way to treat the King of Kings who is born within you. You are so respected that Christ is born within your Agnya But you must respect your Agnya Chakra.

Your attention should be in the Centre so that no wobbliness-imagine put a child-like they say, a child is to put on the wings. So this Agnya Chakra is to be kept very clean, healthy and holy. The attention should be holy. The attention outside is still not very holy, should be 'detached' attention. If you start seeing through your Agnya it should project a power of holiness, so that anybody who looks at your eyes should know that serenity is flowing from these eyes, and not lust and greed and aggression. All this we can achieve because we have got Christ within our Agnya. Accept Him there. He is born, yet to grow. I am sure Sahaja Yogis will understand the importance of the Agnya Chakra."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Christmas Eve Talk, Pune, India—December 24, 1982


"Whatever it is, we have to know also that the Bible is not completely representing Christ, as it has happened with every book. So, there are problems and, as in every religion, people have gone astray from their right path and are spoiling the name of the people who have been divine and who started those religions. Also, is happened in the Christian nations. Just the opposite of what Christ has said, they're doing.

For us, one has to realize that He came on this Earth to open our Agnya chakra, which is a very difficult thing. Sahasrara is not difficult as Agnya. Agnya chakra is a very constricted chakra on which He resides. And He has said, 'You have to forgive yourself and forgive others.' This is the mantra of the Agnya chakra."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Christmas Puja, Ganapatipule, India—December 27, 1994

The Paraclete Shri Mataji

"In his life time which was so very short, whatever he has said, every word is great. But as I told you that this Paul tried to completely change, re-edit the Bible and he's put lots of things in there. Whatever weaknesses he has, he has put them nicely.

Now recently I've got a book which was hidden in a jar in Egypt for about, till fifty years they discovered it, and this book is called as the Library of Hammadi. The place was called Hammadi were it was discovered, and what Christ has said, what Thomas has written. When Thomas was coming to India he put all these things there, is very interesting."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Christmas Puja, Ganapatipule, India Tour, December 25 1992


"Paul never even met Christ, and just made up lies. And we know what he saw was supra-conscious. Actually, he was a bureaucrat who killed one of Christ's disciples, Stephen, and saw Christianity as a good platform to jump on for his forum. He fought with everyone. Thomas disappeared and his treatises were found 50 years ago in Egypt. It's all sahaja."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Talk with Spanish Sahaja Yogis—October 12, 1994


"This living process is very clearly described in Indian scriptures since ancient times. There are 108 Upanishadas in the Sanskrit language which have exposed the knowledge about Kundalini awakening and the spiritual ascent. Also it is indicated in other scriptures of other countries. In the Bible it is called the tree of life and it is quoted that, 'I will appear before you like tongues of flames.' When the Kundalini rises, She passes through various centres which look like tongues of flames when enlightened.

The cool breeze of the Holy Ghost of Pentecost is this power that you can feel in Sahaja Yoga. In the Gospel of St. Thomas, very clearly describes the Sahaja experience as the ultimate of our religious life. Also it says we must look after our centres. This Kundalini has to ascend and pierce through six subtle centres which are placed in the spinal cord and in the brain. The last breakthrough is the actualisation of the baptism as one feels the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost emitting out of one's fontanel bone area."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
First English Book


"The enlightened people were called as Gnostics. This comes from the Sanskrit word Gna which means knowledge. But knowledge does not mean what one knows through the brain, because brain or intelligence takes one to rationality, which has no wisdom behind it. Rationality can take one anywhere, can justify anything, as it is not absolute. So one has to go beyond rationality, develop higher senses of Divinity by which one can understand the real problems, and the actual solutions of all these problems."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Sahaja Yoga (1990), pp. 21-22


"They faced such problems, these Gnostics, that the people started calling them heretics, and also said, 'This is blasphemy'. ... You can imagine what was the situation, that time, to talk about knowledge, or about reality. But today it’s not so; we can openly talk about it. Nobody can arrest us for that, and nobody can say that we are blasphemy, or doing blasphemy, or heretics. They may say, but they cannot charge us with that. We cannot be arrested, because the Church is not that strong now, thank God."

The Paraclete Shri Mataji
India Tour, Alibag, India—December 29, 1991

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THE APOCALYPSE OF THE SPIRIT-PARACLETE
The fulfillment of the promise of eschatological divine instruction

 
 









 

"The teaching of the Paraclete, as the continuation of Jesus’ teaching, must also be understood as the fulfillment of the promise of eschatological divine instruction" Stephen E. Witmer, Divine instruction in Early Christianity

"Jesus therefore predicts that God will later send a human being to Earth to take up the role defined by John .i.e. to be a prophet who hears God’s words and repeats his message to man."
M. Bucaille, The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science

"And when Jesus foreannounced another Comforter, He must have intended a Person as distinct and helpful as He had been."
F. B. Meyer, Love to the Utmost

"The Paraclete has a twofold function: to communicate Christ to believers and, to put the world on trial"
Robert Kysar, John The Meverick Gospel

"But She—the Spirit, the Paraclete...—will teach you everything."
Danny Mahar, Aramaic Made EZ)

"Grammatical nonsense but evidence of the theological desire to defeminize the Divine."
Lucy Reid, She Changes Everything

"The functions of the Paraclete spelled out in verses 13-15... are all acts of open and bold speaking in the highest degree."
David Fleer, Preaching John's Gospel: The World It Imagines

"The reaction of the world to the Paraclete will be much the same as the world’s reaction was to Jesus."
Berard L. Marthaler, The Creed: The Apostolic Faith in Contemporary Theology

Bultmann calls the "coming of the Redeemer an 'eschatological event,' 'the turning-point of the ages."
G. Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament

"The Paraclete equated with the Holy Spirit, is the only mediator of the word of the exalted Christ."
(M.E. Boring) Benny Thettayil, In Spirit and Truth

"The divine Paraclete, and no lessor agency, must show the world how wrong it was about him who was in the right."
Daniel B. Stevick , Jesus and His Own: A Commentary on John 13-17

Stephen Smalley asserts that "the Spirit-Paraclete ... in John’s Gospel is understood as personal, indeed, as a person."
Marianne Meye Thompson, The God of the Gospel of John

"The Messiah will come and the great age of salvation will dawn (for the pious)"
Eric Eve, The Jewish context of Jesus' Miracles

"The remembrance is to relive and re-enact the Christ event, to bring about new eschatological decision in time and space."
Daniel Rathnakara Sadananda, The Johannine Exegesis of God

"The Spirit acts in such an international situation as the revealer of 'judgment' on the powers that rule the world."
Michael Welker, God the Spirit

The Paraclete's "appearance means that sin, righteousness, and judgment will be revealed."
Georg Strecker, Theology of the New Testament

"While the Spirit-Paraclete is the true broker, the brokers they rely on are impostors."
T. G. Brown, Spirit in the writings of John

"The pneumatological activity ... of the Paraclete ... may most helpfully be considered in terms of the salvific working of the hidden Spirit."
Michael Welker, The work of the Spirit

"The pneuma is the peculiar power by which the word becomes the words of eternal life."
Robert Kysar, Voyages with John: Charting the Fourth Gospel

"The gift of peace, therefore, is intimately associated with the gift of the Spirit-Paraclete"
Francis J. Moloney, The Gospel of John

"This utopian hope, even when modestly expressed, links Jesus and the prophets to a much wider history of human longing."
Harvey Cox, The Future of Faith

"Because of the presence of the Paraclete in the life of the believer, the blessings of the end-times—the eschaton—are already present"
Robert Kysar, John

"They are going, by the Holy Spirit’s power, to be part of the greatest miracle of all, bringing men to salvation."
Robert E. Picirilli, The Randall House Bible Commentary

"The Kingdom of God stands as a comprehensive term for all that the messianic salvation included... is something to be sought here and now (Mt. 6:33) and to be received as children receive a gift (Mk. 10:15 = Lk. 18:16-17)."
George Eldon Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament

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