How was Jesus related to his Father? Is God compassionate?|| Acharya Prashant, on Jesus Christ(2018)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Why do you unnecessarily want to attribute qualities to him?

00:24 God is not compassionate.

00:27 He is very, very absent, very neutral.

00:47 And that is another reason in continuation of this dialogue, why the teacher has been

00:53 extolled even more than God.

00:58 Because God will never have compassion.

01:05 The teacher may have compassion.

01:07 God will teach you, but without any concern for how you feel.

01:18 God is life and life also teaches, but life teaches in the most merciless and ruthless

01:24 way.

01:25 No, he is not even a sadist.

01:31 Why must you attribute something to him?

01:34 The fact is he does not bother for you.

01:40 Neither does he bother to protect you and you are so inconsequential for him that he

01:47 does not bother even to punish you.

01:52 Towards you he just has the existence and its rules.

02:04 For you he only has the law of Karmphal.

02:10 Neither is he being compassionate nor is he being a sadist.

02:22 He just doesn't bother.

02:31 When Jesus was on the cross, for once he looked towards the heavens and said, "Father, what

02:36 are you getting done to me?" and then he realized, "Oh no, he anyway won't listen."

02:44 He said, "Fine."

02:54 It's a very interesting phase in the Bible.

02:57 Jesus looks at God and he says, "What are you getting done to me?

03:02 I was your messenger.

03:04 I was bringing the truth to them and it's hurting, it's hurting badly."

03:20 And after that he doesn't complain.

03:29 In fact he just says, "Is it possible for you to give these people a waiver from the

03:46 law of Karma?"

03:49 "Father, don't punish them.

03:52 Father, forgive them for they know not what they are doing."

03:57 He very well knows that father is neither positive nor negative.

04:03 You do bad, you suffer.

04:08 Father doesn't make you suffer.

04:11 You do good, you gain freedom.

04:15 Father doesn't give you freedom.

04:19 And seeing that the people were hell bent on sinning, he just prayed, "Can they be

04:28 given some kind of an exemption?

04:31 Because for certain, according to the laws set by you, these people are now going to

04:36 suffer badly."

04:37 Even the exemption didn't come.

04:43 Those who crucified Jesus actually suffered very badly.

04:47 One of them committed suicide.

04:56 That city remained in dark for very very long.

05:06 And entire Christianity is still repenting for its sin.

05:18 There is just one exemption that he makes and even he does not really make.

05:28 It looks like an exemption.

05:29 I'll explain why.

05:31 The exemption that he makes is in the form of a friend who can help you where you are.

05:39 Otherwise he is totally neutral, you could say indifferent.

05:45 In the language of spirituality, you call that as supreme witnessing.

05:52 Let things happen, I don't bother.

05:55 He is the supreme witness of all creation and the witness does not participate.

06:05 The exemption that he makes is in the form of, as we said, a friend who can be useful

06:11 to you.

06:12 But even that is not really an exemption.

06:15 Because friends are anyway available.

06:23 It depends on you to be receptive to them.

06:31 Those friends are called as friends, sometimes lovers.

06:36 Another name for such a friend is the teacher, the guru.

06:43 You could say guru is the grace of God but even saying that won't be exactly right.

06:52 Because if he is graceful, then his grace is anyway in abundance and everywhere, that

06:58 which you call as grace.

07:05 You have to be prepared to receive that grace.

07:08 So who then is the guru?

07:11 Guru is your receptivity to grace.

07:18 The form in which you want to receive grace is called the guru.

07:30 And the form can vary.

07:37 Because you are variable.

08:01 There are no two versions of the crucifixion event and even if there are versions, they

08:26 are not greatly at odds with each other.

08:28 What are you talking about?

08:33 Obviously, if you look at the utterances of Jesus, he is repeatedly trying to take you

09:02 beyond the body.

09:06 At times you will wonder whether it is Christ or Krishna.

09:18 Man does not live by bread alone.

09:21 What is he pointing at?

09:25 What is he pointing at?

09:29 And there are dozens of such utterances there.

09:37 In fact, very powerful, very unsettling, really explosive statements.

09:56 It will be very very easy for you to draw a direct correspondence between Upanishads

10:15 and the words of Jesus.

10:18 In fact, if you are missing it, that would be a wonder.

10:46 Yes, yes, yes.

10:50 Nobody goes to the father but through me.

10:57 I am the truth, the light and the way.

10:59 Nobody goes to the father but through me.

11:01 Yes, that's what Jesus is saying.

11:07 Who is Jesus?

11:11 When Jesus says that you have to go to the father through me, who is Jesus?

11:16 Jesus is your helper on the earth.

11:24 You cannot go to him except through a helper on earth.

11:30 Obviously, Jesus does not mean the body of Jesus.

11:36 The body of Jesus is nowhere to be found.

11:39 So who is Jesus then?

11:40 When Jesus says you can go to him only through me, who is Jesus?

11:46 Whosoever is there helping you out is Jesus.

11:53 Jesus is saying exactly what Kabir Sahab has said.

12:01 Of course.

12:02 Except that there are too many doors now.

12:32 I was in Lucknow.

12:38 So to Gansu to the Imam Bala, come.

12:47 See the Bhool Bhulaiya.

12:52 So from the ground level there is one direct way to the top and then there is a labyrinth,

12:58 the Bhool Bhulaiya.

13:01 And in that there are hundreds of doors.

13:05 But most of the doors take you to a dead end and also waste your time and energy.

13:29 If you can take the direct route, even the Guru is not needed, the earthly friend.

13:37 But if you have entered the maze, the labyrinth, then you do require a guide to take you through.

13:53 Don't want to call him a guide, call him a helper or a friend or just a well-wisher,

14:08 whatever.

14:14 Even today I carry lots of books with me.

14:20 Don't really get the time to read.

14:23 But even if I am able to throw a glance at one of the random pages, it is good and auspicious.

14:39 Yesterday itself I bought a lot of books.

14:43 Won't be able to really read them.

14:50 But it's nevertheless always good to have a well-wisher with you.

15:01 Because the presence is auspicious.

15:29 [music]

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