Jesus, the embodiment of love
Jesus and love are synonymous. If you say love, then you need not say Jesus if you say Jesus means love. Jesus said once: If you call God in my name, if you ask God in my name whatever that you ask shall be given, for God is love. Such a complete expression of love you can find in Jesus. Whatever little glimpses that you may get here and there indicate the fullness; The ultimate expression of the inexpressible. That life is striving to express throughout the time.
Love goes with courage and look at the courage of Jesus. He completely overthrows the common concept that the strong will inherit the earth. He turns it around the meek shall inherit the earth, the meek shall inherit the heaven for love makes you weak. However strong you are, when you are in love you are the weakest. Yet love is the strongest force on this universe and it makes you weak. Even a macho man will cry when he is in love; he will be like a mouse behind someone whom he loves very much. Love makes you weak but brings you the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus says love each other as much as I love you. It was impossible for someone not to recognize the love that Jesus was, since love makes you weak, it is also scary. Among thousands, few followed him. Many heard but just a few came
When Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is within you, they would not understand they said, Which side of God will we be sitting right or left. Once you go inside, there is no right or left, there is no front or back. They were not very intelligent people; they were more innocent and simple people. He had to tell parables in many ways and had to repeat it and make them understand a little more. That much of patience and compassion can only come out of love.
I have come to put man against man, father against son, daughter against mother, he has said these words very few have really understood what it means. Whom you think is your friend is really not your friend they make your faith in the matter strong and spirit less. I have come to put one against each other I have come to put fire and not to make peace. If he had to say this, he has seen the depth of slumber.
Do you know, when you talk something nice, peaceful, everybody will go to sleep. If there is something sensational, people wake up and hear. Newspapers are filled with such stories. This is the human mind and Jesus had made all efforts for one to cross the mind and get into the soul, the spirit, the source of life, the Self.
You break through the limited relations you yourself with something or somebody or identities and recognize the divinity within you that you are more than just human, you are part of the divine and you inherit the kingdom and that is right here, right within you.
An extract from Jesus the embodiment of love by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
