Hello Everyone; Namaste:
We are continuing with Chapter 10, paragraph 3 in the letter to the Omans from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"If we trust in God with our body, mind, and soul like this, we will be satisfied. This holds true for everyone, no matter what a person's religious background may be. The same wonderful God looks after each one of us. She is incredibly generous and understanding to everyone who calls out for help in realizing our oneness with all life."
Commentary: Different religions have different conceptions of God, but any sincere believer in the supreme God of the universe is making a connection that will eventually lead them to realizing oneness with the supreme God. The important thing is to keep moving up in realizing the glorious wonderment of your own divinity in the oneness of all life. God in the form of Divine Mother cares so compassionately for each one of us, yet must let us live in freedom and make our own mistakes and learn from them. Though we make mistakes and suffer from them, Divine Mother God will comfort us.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Gospel of One; Letters of Aul
Hello Everyone, namaste:
We are continuing with chapter 10, paragraph 2 of the Letter to the Omans in the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"However, this is all foundational work for us and everyone. Most people have been sincere about their religious beliefs, and now they may be ready to take the next step and realize who they are, and who God is. It is the words of faith in our oneness with God that actually welcomes the presence of God in our lives and begins to set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming words to God, "Thou and I are one." Embrace your God-Self in body, mind, and soul. You don't have to do anything. Just be. Be the highest and best being you can conceive and imagine and trust God to fulfill your beingness. That is salvation. God is the only doer. With your whole being you embrace God, and then you can say right out loud, "God is making everything just right."
Commentary: Christianity asks you to confess your faith in God and in Jesus as His only begotten son and savior of the world. But if you don't believe that Jesus is God's only son, and a lot of people don't, what are you going to do? Jesus is real and he can help you, but it is up to each one of us to realize our oneness with God. We can do that by accepting the idea of oneness and then living it everyday, gradually or quickly dropping the ego and regaining our soul identity. We control our own pace of realizing our oneness with God. If you believe this and are ready for this realizaton, you are in the homestretch.
We are continuing with chapter 10, paragraph 2 of the Letter to the Omans in the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"However, this is all foundational work for us and everyone. Most people have been sincere about their religious beliefs, and now they may be ready to take the next step and realize who they are, and who God is. It is the words of faith in our oneness with God that actually welcomes the presence of God in our lives and begins to set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming words to God, "Thou and I are one." Embrace your God-Self in body, mind, and soul. You don't have to do anything. Just be. Be the highest and best being you can conceive and imagine and trust God to fulfill your beingness. That is salvation. God is the only doer. With your whole being you embrace God, and then you can say right out loud, "God is making everything just right."
Commentary: Christianity asks you to confess your faith in God and in Jesus as His only begotten son and savior of the world. But if you don't believe that Jesus is God's only son, and a lot of people don't, what are you going to do? Jesus is real and he can help you, but it is up to each one of us to realize our oneness with God. We can do that by accepting the idea of oneness and then living it everyday, gradually or quickly dropping the ego and regaining our soul identity. We control our own pace of realizing our oneness with God. If you believe this and are ready for this realizaton, you are in the homestretch.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Gospel of One; Letters of Aul
Hello Everyone; namaste;
We are beginning chapter ten, paragraph 1 in the letter to the Omans from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
Let me make it clear, my friends. All I want is for everyone is what is the highest and best, nothing less. I want it with all my heart and soul and pray to God for it all the time. I certainly admit that many religionists are creative in their religiousity, but they can't seem to grasp the realization that God is every one of us. They think we are separate from God and have to be adopted into God's family. They have set up their religions almost as businesses, and now have vested interests in the status quo. If they admitted that each one of us is a sovereign being, where would their power and control be? Instead, they keep us paying for our salvation and do quite a good business. People willingly submit to the authorities of their religions and refuse to see themselves as the God-free beings that they are. But after all these years what do the religions have to show for it? --Buildings, power, money, control. And the people remain as ignorant as ever of their own God-Self.
Commentary: All the main religions have a vested interest in their own survival. Their main focus could be on helping everyone realize their oneness with God, but that goal often gets lost in the business of religion and most people go along with whatever the status quo is.
We are beginning chapter ten, paragraph 1 in the letter to the Omans from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
Let me make it clear, my friends. All I want is for everyone is what is the highest and best, nothing less. I want it with all my heart and soul and pray to God for it all the time. I certainly admit that many religionists are creative in their religiousity, but they can't seem to grasp the realization that God is every one of us. They think we are separate from God and have to be adopted into God's family. They have set up their religions almost as businesses, and now have vested interests in the status quo. If they admitted that each one of us is a sovereign being, where would their power and control be? Instead, they keep us paying for our salvation and do quite a good business. People willingly submit to the authorities of their religions and refuse to see themselves as the God-free beings that they are. But after all these years what do the religions have to show for it? --Buildings, power, money, control. And the people remain as ignorant as ever of their own God-Self.
Commentary: All the main religions have a vested interest in their own survival. Their main focus could be on helping everyone realize their oneness with God, but that goal often gets lost in the business of religion and most people go along with whatever the status quo is.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Gospel of One; Letters of Aul
Hello Everyone; namaste;
We are continuing with chapter 9, paragraphs 7 and 8 in the letter to the Omans from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"Some of your religious scriptures do hit the mark when they talk about the unconditional love of God for everyone. Yet then they turn around and say that God must be just also, and so he sends most people to hell because they deserve it. It's only a lucky few who will make it to heaven according to them. A person has to meet the requirements, usually just a matter of believing the right way.
Let me summarize this briefly. All those religionists who thought they knew God and the way to truth missed the target. How could they miss it? Because in insisting their way was best they set themselves up as superior. And they set up requirements and conditions for believers. They judged and condemned people who did not measure up. They thought that God needed something from them and went to great lengths to make sacrifices to God, whereas is truth God needs nothing from us. We are not slaves or employees of God. God may be pleased to see us create in love and beauty, but he does not require anything of us. We decide what to do and who to be and take responsibility for being and doing. Those people who are so absorbed in their religious projects don't see God right in front of them. They stumble over the plain truth and run to their scriptures to see what it was all about, but they don't look within and listen to God within themselves."
Commentary: I just read a book about Jehovah's Witnesses. They seem to be a good example of people who think they are superior because they believe the right way. Everybody outside their cult is doomed because they don't measure up to the requirements. They are just an obvious example, but many other cults and religions have the same kind of viewpoint that their religion is superior. Everybody else could be saved too if they would just get aboard their gospel train.
If you want to know who you are and your connection to God, you can do it without thinking that your way is the only way or the best way for everyone else. And if your holy scripture says there is only one way for everyone, check to see exactly what that means. Scriptures are not infallible. It's up to each one of us to realize our connection with God.
We are continuing with chapter 9, paragraphs 7 and 8 in the letter to the Omans from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"Some of your religious scriptures do hit the mark when they talk about the unconditional love of God for everyone. Yet then they turn around and say that God must be just also, and so he sends most people to hell because they deserve it. It's only a lucky few who will make it to heaven according to them. A person has to meet the requirements, usually just a matter of believing the right way.
Let me summarize this briefly. All those religionists who thought they knew God and the way to truth missed the target. How could they miss it? Because in insisting their way was best they set themselves up as superior. And they set up requirements and conditions for believers. They judged and condemned people who did not measure up. They thought that God needed something from them and went to great lengths to make sacrifices to God, whereas is truth God needs nothing from us. We are not slaves or employees of God. God may be pleased to see us create in love and beauty, but he does not require anything of us. We decide what to do and who to be and take responsibility for being and doing. Those people who are so absorbed in their religious projects don't see God right in front of them. They stumble over the plain truth and run to their scriptures to see what it was all about, but they don't look within and listen to God within themselves."
Commentary: I just read a book about Jehovah's Witnesses. They seem to be a good example of people who think they are superior because they believe the right way. Everybody outside their cult is doomed because they don't measure up to the requirements. They are just an obvious example, but many other cults and religions have the same kind of viewpoint that their religion is superior. Everybody else could be saved too if they would just get aboard their gospel train.
If you want to know who you are and your connection to God, you can do it without thinking that your way is the only way or the best way for everyone else. And if your holy scripture says there is only one way for everyone, check to see exactly what that means. Scriptures are not infallible. It's up to each one of us to realize our connection with God.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Gospel of One; Letters of Aul
Hello Everyone; namaste:
We are continuing with chapter 9, paragraph 6 of the letter to the Omans from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"Can any of us see the total wisdom of God? Can any of us call God into question abut his infinite identities? Do you know why a person is born blind? Do you know why one person is born into wealth and another into poverty? Do you know why one person dies young, while another lives into old age? Do you know why one person is born in the jungles of Borneo and another in Paris, France? Do you know why one person has beautiful features while another seems ugly? God is God no matter how, why, when, or where he shows up Love is what holds us all together. I don't care if you call yourself a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, Confucianist, atheist, agnostic or whatever, unless you know God as the one and only life and love of this universe and acknowledge that God accepts everyone, loves everyone, and indeed, is everyone, then I think your religious beliefs are incomplete, and this is the sadness I carry with me. These good people of all faiths and no faith are all already part of the eternal God, and they don't even know it."
Commentary: Ego-identities tend to get in the way and obscure the God within, that is why people of all faiths and no faith don't see God in each other. Once you see what the ego is doing, in yourself and in others, and you don't let it control you, then it becomes easier to see God in yourself and in others.
We are continuing with chapter 9, paragraph 6 of the letter to the Omans from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"Can any of us see the total wisdom of God? Can any of us call God into question abut his infinite identities? Do you know why a person is born blind? Do you know why one person is born into wealth and another into poverty? Do you know why one person dies young, while another lives into old age? Do you know why one person is born in the jungles of Borneo and another in Paris, France? Do you know why one person has beautiful features while another seems ugly? God is God no matter how, why, when, or where he shows up Love is what holds us all together. I don't care if you call yourself a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, Confucianist, atheist, agnostic or whatever, unless you know God as the one and only life and love of this universe and acknowledge that God accepts everyone, loves everyone, and indeed, is everyone, then I think your religious beliefs are incomplete, and this is the sadness I carry with me. These good people of all faiths and no faith are all already part of the eternal God, and they don't even know it."
Commentary: Ego-identities tend to get in the way and obscure the God within, that is why people of all faiths and no faith don't see God in each other. Once you see what the ego is doing, in yourself and in others, and you don't let it control you, then it becomes easier to see God in yourself and in others.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Gospel of One; Letters of Aul
Hello Everyone; namaste:
We are continuing with chapter 9, paragraph 5 in the letter to the Omans in the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"Hindus have many outstanding religious qualities. They are tolerant of other religions for the most part. They see God everywhere and honor God in all of his or her various manifestations. They follow Krishna, a true avatar of God who gave them the essence of Vedic knowledge in the Bhagavad Gita. And yet so many Hindus do not really know God. They have let their rituals and social organization interfere with their direct connection ot God. There are no untouchables. Let me say it again in another way. No one is untouchable. God is equally present in the lowest person in the lowest class as he is in the highest person in the highest class. What you see before you is one lifetime out of many. One link of a long chain. One leaf of a treee in one season. The glory of God is one person may be hidden for awhile from those who do not know God."
Commentary: It's all there in the Bhagavad Gita. If Hindus really followed Krishna's teachings, they would truly have a great society.
We are continuing with chapter 9, paragraph 5 in the letter to the Omans in the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"Hindus have many outstanding religious qualities. They are tolerant of other religions for the most part. They see God everywhere and honor God in all of his or her various manifestations. They follow Krishna, a true avatar of God who gave them the essence of Vedic knowledge in the Bhagavad Gita. And yet so many Hindus do not really know God. They have let their rituals and social organization interfere with their direct connection ot God. There are no untouchables. Let me say it again in another way. No one is untouchable. God is equally present in the lowest person in the lowest class as he is in the highest person in the highest class. What you see before you is one lifetime out of many. One link of a long chain. One leaf of a treee in one season. The glory of God is one person may be hidden for awhile from those who do not know God."
Commentary: It's all there in the Bhagavad Gita. If Hindus really followed Krishna's teachings, they would truly have a great society.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Gospel of One; Letters of Aul
Hello Everyone; namaste:
We are continuing with chapter 9, paragraphs 3 and 4 in the letter to the Omans from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"The Muslims also have many good things going for them. They have a strong morality, they fast and pray, they say that Allah is great and good, they excel in education and music, they believe in justice. And yet so many Muslims do not really know God. They think Mohammed was his last prophet, and that the Koran is the final word of God, and that God would send portions of himself to hell.
The Buddhists have many fine qualities and traditions. They are peaceful and are kind to animals as well as people. They follow the way of Buddha, a true avatar of God. Yet so many Buddhists do not really know God. Some even think that Buddha was an agnostic, and so they don't even try to have a personal relationship with God, who is their very Self."
Commentary: The words of God are always coming to us. Religionists get stuck in the past and do not move on with the River of Life. A true relationship with God is dynamic. Every day, every moment God is communicating with us. Let us be open to the constant love of God in every situation.
We are continuing with chapter 9, paragraphs 3 and 4 in the letter to the Omans from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"The Muslims also have many good things going for them. They have a strong morality, they fast and pray, they say that Allah is great and good, they excel in education and music, they believe in justice. And yet so many Muslims do not really know God. They think Mohammed was his last prophet, and that the Koran is the final word of God, and that God would send portions of himself to hell.
The Buddhists have many fine qualities and traditions. They are peaceful and are kind to animals as well as people. They follow the way of Buddha, a true avatar of God. Yet so many Buddhists do not really know God. Some even think that Buddha was an agnostic, and so they don't even try to have a personal relationship with God, who is their very Self."
Commentary: The words of God are always coming to us. Religionists get stuck in the past and do not move on with the River of Life. A true relationship with God is dynamic. Every day, every moment God is communicating with us. Let us be open to the constant love of God in every situation.
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