Gospel of One; Letters of Aul

Hi Everyone, namaste:

We are beginning chapter 4, paragraph 1 in the first letter to the Orinthians from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul." (p 74)

"If you put the leaders of this movement up on a pedestal, you'd be making a mistake.  We are servants, not your masters.  We help show the way for now, but you may forge ahead of us someday.  We don't try to hold you back.  To be a good guide, you must know the way and be reliable and honest.  Popularity based on showmanship is misleading.  I don't care where I rank on the popularity poll.  I'm just being the best guide I can be.  If you are helped by what I write, I rejoice in the Lord.  God knows who is truly being served and who is truly serving."

Commentary:  Any leader who is looking to boost his or her own ego, or looking for power and influence, is not really fit to be a leader.  Humility and a spirit of service to others combined with good leadership skills makes good leaders.

Gospel of One; Letters of Aul

Hi Everyone; namaste:

Today we are covering paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 in the first letter to the Orinthians in the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."

"You realize, I'm sure that you are the "temples of God" and God himself is present in you.  No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, of that you can be certain.  God's temples are sacred, and we, please remember always, are the temples of God.
   
Don't fool yourself.  Don't think that you can be wise by gaining lots of worldly wisdom.  Search out the true wisdom of God.  Worldly wisdom about how to get along in a world where the idea of separation prevails, will not bring you to God. Worldly wisdom is the chicanery of the chic, the smoke screen of the manipulators, the veil of the cheaters.

I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else.  Everything is already yours as a gift of God.  We are all part of God, and no one is superior or inferior to anyone or anything else.  All glory to God."

Commentary: God created us out of his own consciousness, therefore we cannot be separate. However, as spirit-souls with earthly bodies, we have forgotten our true nature. We think we are separate beings in a hostile world, and that we must learn how to survive by getting the best of others, whether by individual or group, or national efforts..But if we all recognized our oneness, we could all thrive with cooperation.

Gospel of One; Letters of Aul

Hi Everyone, namaste:

We are now on paragraph 3 in chapter 3 in the first letter to the Orinthians from the book "Gospel of One: Letters of Aul:"


To use another metaphor, you are God's house.  You have a blueprint, a vision of perfection.  You have a solid foundation in God.  That is your starting point.  Take particular care in choosing your building materials and build with loving care.  Eventually there is going to be an inspection.  If you used inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous.  You won't get by with the slightest mistake.  If your work passes inspection, rejoice!  However, if it doesn't, your errors will be pointed out to you, and you can then correct them.  If your building is really shoddy, it may be torn down and you will have to start over, so think it over.  It's your life we are talking about here."

Commentary: Some people think there is never going to be an inspection of their lives, and that they can get by with a lot of inferior thoughts and actions.  But at the end of our lives on earth, we get a life review wherein everything is seen and evaluated by one's higher Self and God.  We won't be moving on much higher, or maybe go lower, if we don't make the effort to create loving and compassionate lives.  We all make mistakes and fall short, but we have the chance to learn from every mistake. In our next incarnations, we will get a chance to transcend ourselves once more, or we can go for our ascension in this lifetime. Let's do that.

Gospel of One; Letters of Aul

Hi Everyone; namaste:

We are now on paragraph 2 in Chapter 3 of the first letter to the Orinthians from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."  (page 72):

"Who do you think Jesus is anyway? Or Buddha? Or Krishna?  Servant leaders, all of them.  All great spiritual leaders are actually your servants who wait on you until you gradually become Self-realized.  The seed of Self-realization is already within you, but they help you to nurture it and grow it into the beautiful flower and fruit of your real Self.  The God-Self within you is your real self.  The watering and care-taking from the outside are just menial tasks at minimum wage, but what makes them worth doing is the God we are serving.  You happen to be God's field in which we are working."

Commentary:  The great spiritual leaders that we know of have come to teach us about the meaning of life and how we need to live our lives in order to maximize our experiences on earth. They have come not to exalt themselves, but to serve other people out of their great love for God in everyone. Some of the followers of the great teachers may argue about which one is the greatest or truest, but the teachers themselves did not come for personal glory, and they don't want to be idols that get in the way of true God perception.  They can best be described as humble servants who want people to experience the bliss of God for themselves.

Gospel of One; Letters of Aul

Hi Everyone; namaste:

We are now on the first paragraph of chapter 3 in the first letter to the Orinthians in the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul." (page 72)
                                                                                    
"Right now I would like to address those of you who are backsliding into the illusions of life.  I am sad and shocked by the way you treat each other sometimes.  You're acting like ignorant kids in relation to this great truth of the oneness of all life.  You grab for the goodies of life and step on the toes of others as you go for it.  You're content when you have what you want, but when it is taken away, you cry about it.  Very attached you are.  And then when you take sides and declare you are on the "Catholics" side, or the "Sunni's " side, or the "Shaivite's" side, or you say, "I'm for the Brazilians, or British, or Chinese, or Greeks," or whatever side you take with the idea that you are separate from the rest of life, aren't you being foolish?"

Commentary:  We have put up a lot of artificial barriers between people in just about every area of life. We have divided ourselves according to religion, nationality, tribe, political group, schools, race,  and many more categories. And we seem to take these divisions so seriously. If a person is born as a brown-skinned Hindu in Madras, India he will have all the perceptions of life that come with that situation.  But if he moves beyond all those limiting, artificial conditions he may realize his universal identity in the oneness of God

Gospel of One; Letters of Aul

Hi Everyone, namaste:

We are now on paragraph 5, chapter 2 in the first letter to the Orinthians from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul." (page 71)

"Your soul, not content to flit around the surface of life, dives into the depths of God and brings out the pearls of wisdom.  Who knows what you are thinking and planning except yourself?  It's the same with God--except that his thoughts and plans are what defines the universe.  God offers to share his blissful life with everyone at any time.  We don't have to rely on the world's guesses and opinions about religion.  We don't necessarily have to read books or go to a school.  We can learn directly from God through our I Am Presence.  The word of God comes to us everyday as our highest and best thoughts and feelings of love, compassion, peace, helpfulness, sharing, improvement, and enthusiasm.  These words of God are not locked up in any book, including this one, but come to everyone, every day, every moment.  We are just passing on what we have realized, hoping to inspire some of you who need a jump start"

Commentary:  Anyone who dives deep into contemplation of his or her own connection with the God of all creation will find many inspirations about life.

Gospel of One; Letters of Aul

Hi Everyone; namaste:

We are now on paragraph 4, chapter 2 in the first letter to the Orinthians in the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."  (page 71)

"The worldly experts of our day don't seem to understand the love and freedom God has given us.  And they don't understand that we are all one.  If they understood, they wouldn't be putting others down or mistreating others, because there is no "other."  There is only "us."  But you know and celebrate the oneness of life because you have come to realize it."

Commentary: There is a simple test to see if our so-called leaders and experts really understand life. Any leader who calls for war or vengeance on others or seeks to gain any advantage for himself to the detriment of others, doesn't understand that life is like a mirror. We are all one in God, any leader who doesn't know that, isn't fit to lead--in any area of life--politics, society, religion, business.