Passage 13

In English

When we are in the aspect of the or , then everything looks like . If we are immersed in the bodily aspect, everything looks like sorrow to us. For this I shall give you a small example which is appropriate to all three systems namely , , and . Not only can one give an answer to this from our own culture, but one can give a good example from the Bible as well. In the Bible, Jesus Christ said at one stage, “I am the messenger of God”; at a later stage he said “I am the son of God” and at a third stage he said “I and my Father are one” and in the final stage he said “Holy Ghost”. We must examine the basis on which he said that he was the messenger of God and then that he was the Son of God, and finally that he and the Father were one and the same.