Läs också nedan Not the Master in Your Own Home Town,
ett utdrag från Gitens bok on Jesus Kristus
Hej Giten,
Läste det du nu skrev på FB, om GANGA HOFFMANs förtal. Jag vet att du tidigare skrivit att de förtalar dig, och jag begriper inte varför. Enligt det jag begriper så bottnar det mesta av människans destruktivitet ur rädslor.
Det enda du gör är att du är en ”andlig lärare”, inte en ”andlig ledare”. Kan det vara så simpelt att Ganga ser Dig Giten som en konkurrent? Någon som drar potentiella kunder från dem själva? Eller tycker de att du har ”fel sanning” som strider eller konkurrerar med deras sanning? Varför skulle Ganga och sannyasorganisationen vara rädda för dig?
Obegripligt!
Jag själv känner inombords att andlighet & medialitet inte är något som skall blanda in girighet i. Naturligvis behöver de som gör extraordinära insattser få kompensation, med det är inte girighet. Olika andliga lärare förmedlar oftast samma budskap/sanning med olika förklaringar, olika aspekter. Men kärnan de vill förmedla är dessamma. Det är ju som fingret som pekar på månen, budskapet är månen, inte fingret som pekar på månen. Vi väljer alla intuativt vilket finger som får oss att se på månen. Många fingrar försöker få oss att se på månen, men en majoriteten väljer att enbart se på fingret, och gärna diskutera det. Om nu Ganga är en av fingrarna, varför försöker hon då slå bort andra fingrar?
Jag lyssnar ofta på dina satsanger från youtube. Tack Giten! Tack att du är så generös och gör dessa åtkomlig för så många. Jag känner igen så mycket av det du berättar, det främst från en bok som jag läst flertal gånger, som berört mig mest: ”Den sanna revolutionen : en berättelse om ett uppvaknande” av Nukunu Larsen. Han är idag också en andlig lärare, en av mina närmaste vänner var flitig på hans (svin-)dyra kurser. Inget för mig.
Jag ska någon dag boka tid med dig, vet inte när, men jag kommer återkomma då det fungerar för mig.
Tills dess… ha en så underbar sommar
Ilkka Masko
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Not the Master
in Your Own Home Town
An excerpt from the book “Jesus Christ: The Way, The Truth and the Life
The book is a compilation of lectures during Satsang with Giten on Jesus Christ
Matthew 13
AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY, HE TAUGHT THEM IN THEIR SYNAGOGUE, INSOMUCH THAT THEY WERE ASTONISHED AND SAID, WHENCE HATH THIS MAN THIS WISDOM AND THESE MIGHTY WORKS?
IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER’S SON? IS NOT HIS MOTHER CALLED MARY? AND HIS BRETHREN, AND HIS SISTERS, ARE THEY NOT ALL WITH US? WHENCE THEN HATH THIS MAN ALL THESE THINGS? AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM.
People were not so offended with Buddha or Lao Tzu as people were offended with Jesus.
With Buddha, he is so far away that you either do not understand him, or people could understand that he was the essence of the Upanishads.
With Jesus, people were offended, because he was just like them. They could not understand him. The said: “We know him! Isn’t he the carpenter’s son!”.
Buddha was also the son of a king, while Jesus was a carpenter’s son.
People could not understand. From where comes his wisdom?
They were offended, their ego was offended.
BUT JESUS SAID TO THEM, A PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT HONOUR,
SAVE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND IN HIS OWN HOUSE.
It has happened so many times that the people who are closest will always misunderstand.
We could expect the contrary, that the people of Jesu’s village would understand him first. The pepople of Jesu’s house, his family, his relatives, would understand him first.
But that does not happen.
A deep insight into the human ego is needed to understand it.
With those that are closest to you, it is very difficult to believe that they had gone beyond and above you.
If somebody else, who is not close to you, goes beyond you. the competetive ego does not arise.
But if your brother goes. and you are left behind, your ego is hurt.
You feel defeated, a failure. Then the easiest way is to deny that he has gone beyond.
Jesus offended his own village, family and relatives.
They knew Jesus’ birth date, they knew his father, his mother, his brothers and sisters.
So Jesus can not be forgive.
Jesus is a quality of love, but to be able to see this quality, you have to drop your ego.
The presence, the quality of Jesus offends, because you will feel that you have failed.
His very being, his presence, offends you.
With Jesus there are tow qualities: either you follow him or you deny him, you become an enemy.
When Jesus was crucified, many felt a relief.
Very rare people could follow Jesus, because they were ready to drop their egos.
And even those that followed Jesus, hesitated and had doubts before they could say yes, before they can trust.
Jesus is a total yes to life, a total trust in life.
– Swami Dhyan Giten
The Giten Blog 