I and my father are one - Jesus

In the gospel of John chapter 10 verse no 30 Jesus says "I and my father are one". I consider this as one of the most revolutionary statement of the bible. Once realized, this statement has power to bring the revolution of super consciousness. If not realized, it just remains like another sentences. However, this statement is wrongly understood even by catholics. Yesterday, I was chatting with a catholic saintly person from Texas about this statement. We differ in our understanding of this statement. This is not a simple statement. It looks simple but, actually it's not. The whole of the crux is hidden in this statement. However Jesus said that in slightly diplomatic manner. And mind you, this statement is complete. Means you don't need to read few more verses before and after this verse. It's a complete statement - I and my father are one. One thing is clear - he is definitely not talking about Joseph. He is talking about God. That he and his father who is God himself are one, means Jesus is God. Even catholics say this. But catholics think that this statement is only applicable to Jesus. That is, it's not entirely true for you. It's fully true only for Jesus. I differ with them on this. According to me it's true for whole of the humanity. Not only for Jesus. If it is not true for us that means God doesn't love us. What they say is - we can never become God but we can become god-like. There is a difference between God and God-like. Huge difference. According to Hinduism we can become exactly equal to God. Brihadaaranyak Upanishad says - "Aham Brahmasmi" perhaps the most straight forward declaration ever made so far. It's not a mantra, it's a declaration. Means you don't have to chant "Aham Brahmasmi". It's a one time declaration, that's it. The sage who realized it wrote it. He didn't realize Brahman by chanting Aham Brahmasmi. No way. He somehow realized the Brahman, but how? - that's different topic. And then he wrote "Aham Brahamsmi". It's a post effect of realization. So, it's a declaration. It's not a mantra. Gayatri mantra is a mantra.

So, basically I noticed catholics and Hinduism differ in philosophy greatly.

Judaism Vs Hinduism

In my post "My Education - Part 2", I discussed about Judaism. So, here I am continuing...

Judaism is a practical religion. Hinduism is a great religion. Practicality belongs to this world. The greatness I am taking is transcendental. In the core, these religion has same philosophy. Judaism's GOD concept is very similar to the our concept of BRAHMAN. Concept is same. But implementation is slightly different in Judaism. Hinduism was furhter degraded when 33 crores GODs were incorporated. Judaism stick to single GOD. Hinduism made temples. Jews didn't make temple. For them everything is temple. We separated home and temple. That was the biggest downfall of Hinduism. Which we have not yet recovered yet. Slowly and slowly soul of India started drifting into temples. People consciousness got divided into temple and home. Any activity in the temple became more divine as compared with home. This divided the soul. This bifurcated the Indian consciousness between temple and home. This was the greatest insult of BRAHMAN caused. BRAHMAN knows no boundaries. It's everywhere. All temples are part of BRAHMAN. Not that BRAHMAN manifest into a stone. Never. Stone has popped out of BRAHMAN. I consider this as Indian's biggest downfall of which no compensation is possible. In spite of this, Hinduism has done greatest declarations. None of the religion has dared so much. Hinduism directly put you to the level of GOD withing a fraction of second. That way I consider Hinduism as the fastest religion. Zen also. I will talk about Zen later. Judaism is all about practicality. They don't worry about enlightenment. That's the one reason, Judaism has not produced a single enlightened being. Judaism cannot produce Buddha. No possibility. But Judaism will produce Einstein. There are many fundamental similarity between Einstein and Budddha. To me both are same. Different attributes of existence. Buddha sees the divinity everywhere. Einstein sees energy. E=mc2. Only approach is different. Result is same. I would not do deep quantitative comparison between Einstein and Buddha. To the society Einstein can be more important. Because Buddha simply transcend the society. He left society. So, society wont be able to understand what Buddha is saying. But society will understand Einstein. Because Einstein obeyed society.

Jews incorporated holiness in their every activity. For them every work is holy. They are united They believe in WE. India is all about I. I for India. Lol. However, this is ok when observed from core. People have misunderstood this I-ness. This I-ness is about totality. It's not your ego. Ego is extremely subtle. Many people says I am not at all egoistic. But they don't know that saying I am not egoistic is also a part of ego. Ego is extremely subtle. To become ego less mind has to transcend. Otherwise it's impossible to give up ego. I have seen many polite, humble and consistent people. If you talk to them it will appear that they have no ego at all. He will appear as if a perfect human being. But when you observe him little bit closely. You will start seeing ego. A subtler ego of politeness, humbleness and consistency. Grosser ego has disappeared but a new ego has started forming. And sometimes, this subtler ego is even more bigger than grosser ego. Somehow, I find ego of politeness and humbleness are far greater than so called normal ego. Usually, it's said polite and humble people are ego less. But on the contrary I find them most egoistic - ego of politeness.