Passage 9

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In plain words

Jesus went on proclaiming, with a broad vision, that all are embodiments of Satya, embodiments of purity, children of God

The very first doubt: Jesus is said to have declared, ‘I alone am the Truth; I alone am the one who shows the right way; there are no other men in this world!’ A person brought this out in some discussions within this great assembly. ‘Is this true or not?’ he asked me. Whether this is Satya or Asatya, inquire into it yourself, and you yourself will know. Jesus never said, “I alone am the Truth, I alone am the protector, I alone am the one who saves you from all suffering.” He had no Ahaṅkāra at any time. These writers who write have kept inventing such things. Many people went on writing the Bible. There are five hundred kinds of Bibles. First of all Luke (Jews) wrote the Bible. Then Peter wrote, Thomas wrote. Peter would sit among the fishermen and write down all that Jesus said. It was he who wrote first. When did he write it, at what moment? At the time He was speaking with the fishermen: I will look after you. I Myself will look after you. He did not say in Ahaṅkāra, ‘I am the one who has come to look after you.’ It was to give them some enthusiasm and courage that He said, ‘I will look after you; go.’ Taking that small sentence as their basis, many scholars say that Jesus said, ‘I Myself will look after you; I alone will protect everyone from every danger.’ Besides this, they write in the Bible that He said ‘I am the messenger of God’; second, that He said ‘I am the son of God’; third, that He said ‘I and My Father are one’. But Jesus never said so. He did not say, ‘I am a messenger.’ He did not say, ‘I am the son of God.’ Nor did He say, ‘I and My Father are one.’ Who said this? At the time of that birth three Arabian kings came. They were travelling somewhere, saw the star and came. One of them looked at the child. ‘This one appears to me as the messenger of God,’ he said. The second said, ‘not messenger, son of God.’