Jesus is love

This Christmas, go to the values that Jesus truly represents and live them. Then he is not of the past. He is here now. And he will be in the future also, forever and ever.

This Christmas, go to the values that Jesus truly represents and live them. Then he is not of the past. He is here now. And he will be in the future also, forever and ever.

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Jesus did all he could to help one cross the mind and get into the soul, the spirit, the source of life, the Self. Spirit is eternal and beyond birth, death, name and form. You find the most complete expression of love in Jesus.

Jesus and love are synonymous. If you say love, you need not say Jesus and when you say Jesus, it means love. Whatever glimpses you may get here and there indicates that fullness, the ultimate expression of the inexpressible that life is striving to express throughout time.

Love goes with courage and look at the courage of Jesus. He says, “The meek shall inherit the earth. The meek shall inherit heaven.” This is because love makes you meek.

This is because the mind dwells on proof. It cannot understand Jesus, only the heart can feel his presence. Those who crucified Jesus were not bad people. They were ignorant. The Bible said, “Judge not and ye shall not be judged”. Christ asks not to judge and leave the judgment only on God. Otherwise, in the name of Jesus, in the name of religion, people kill each other.

When you are truly in love with Jesus, you will see him everywhere. You will break through the limited concept of relating yourself with something, or somebody, or identities, and recognise the divinity within you.

(H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar writes this column exclusively for HT.)