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“That supreme abode of Mine is not illuminated by the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity. Those who reach it never return to the material world.” 15.6 Bhagavad Gita The Yoga of the Supreme Person


Before I introduce our second passage today, I’d like to point out the chapter of the Gita from which the passage above was taken, “The Yoga of the Supreme Person”.


“In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14: 2-6

The first passage is spoken by the Father, the second by the Son.

Krishna outright defines himself in the very terms, in the Gita, by which Westerners have been asked (by God himself in the Old Testament) to define the Father in the West, “Supreme” (which he expands upon means all-loving and all-powerful).


The Supreme “person” however, in the West, whether or not one is of faith…is usually thought of as Jesus. Because we typically don’t regard the Father as a “person” but something beyond it.


But what makes the Father “supreme” in this world is the part that is not beyond. Love orders the cosmos…the things we can touch and influence… The Supreme Force within that is Love, and Love is definitely in the wheel house of “people”.


However, we typically don’t think that love Supreme is something that a person is capable of…because Love Supreme is miraculous, it shapes the cosmos clearly and deliberately…and we typically reserve that territory exclusively for “God” if we happen to believe.


And yet life demands that we be the many arms and hands of Vishnu…as “people” we are the agents of God/Love in this world. We’re forced to be even when we try to defer in reverence to the Father and the Son. We are forced to follow in the example of the Son, more than we are forced to hand our autonomy over to him.


Eternity is not for the after life…eternal life is the aim of every desire, every craving we’ve ever had. We are hardwired to try to reach God’s kingdom on Earth…to somehow find it within, Krishna’s “abode”.

(Hence uh why religions exist and are frequently incredibly popular to those who participate within them)


What is Krishna’s abode “illuminated” by? Transcendental wisdom. Jesus taught it in his life…because it’s simply the way of the Universe, not because he was around traditions that were primarily considered transcendental on the surface level. I realize now…it’s a little bit insulting to imply Western traditions aren’t transcendental traditions…


And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself” … the “Myself” is capitalized here because it implies Communion with the Father…while alive on Earth as an individual. This is why Jesus’ sacrament of the Eucharist…the offering of his body…is called “Communion”. The entirety of everything He did with his body was about communing you with the Father as he describes in John 14. John 14 encapsulates it, but Jesus’ life story encapsulates the difficulty of implementing it (sets a template even; every mortal death is a facet of God’s will…makes death seem more comforting). After all, is life neat paragraphs brimming with utter and pure optimism? It is, but man does it take discerning wisdom and accumulated merit to really keep that going, and then offer it to others…


Jesus can walk you there entirely, but until you really master the logic underlying it all… until you develop a personal stye and can get yourself to the “abode”/”Father’s mansion” of your own volition, you’re not likely to stay “communed”. The Eucharist on Sunday… when I ate it… growing up as a kid without this discerning wisdom…I just wasn’t entirely certain that I felt different or that it changed anything.


Pardon my lewdness but take 7 grams of good acacia confuse and brew it in some warm water for a while… and you will be induced into the most powerful state of communion I know of without the discerning wisdom…and you will always and definitely be provided the discerning wisdom after the fact. It works, every single time, and it works well. Still, people fail to facilitate optimally, but just saying…


I don’t know why that is…but I would like to believe that if we keep doing what we’ve been doing, that can change…without turning the Sunday Mass into some sort of insane day-trip. We can make it better, the Sunday Mass, its impact on our lives, the sacrament of communion even (trust me its not sacrilegious to say, that what the Eucharist is ever trying to do in the first place, this journal entry is a facet of it…). That’s why.



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