9. Become the center of the Universe!
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A small story:
Galileo, the scientist who discovered that earth was not flat, wrote a book after his research. He wrote, ‘planet earth is round. It is a globe. It is not flat.’
In the Bible, it is said that earth was flat. Bible also says that sun goes around planet earth. It did not say that the planet earth was moving around sun! The Bible is not wrong. At the time Bible was written this was the best information available to them.
A Christian court summoned the scientist. They said, ‘No. You can’t say planet earth is going around the sun. Bible says sun goes around planet earth. You have to change your statement or face penalties for declaring Bible as false.’ They were talking of death penalty.
Galileo changed his statement. But he added a footnote in his book. He said, ‘I am Christian. I changed my statement. But the sun and planet earth are not Christians. So they go around as they go around. They are not going to change the direction based on my statements.’
Like majority of the population, the court too missed the point of what Jesus said.
When Jesus said the whole existence moved around him and he was the center of it all, he did not mean it to be interpreted literally. Jesus was expressing his enlightened state in these statements.
Understand! When we experience enlightenment, we will also experience whole existence moving around us. This is what Jesus meant when he said that entire existence moved with Him. The statement was a metaphysical expression. Jesus found and experienced that even the sun revolved around Him. He was in such deep joy that is brought by enlightenment.
When a metaphysical statement is recorded and interpreted as a physical statement, as a fact, it loses its validity. What Jesus declared was the truth of His experience. He declared it from the depth of his enlightenment.
Be clear! When we create superstitious beliefs out of metaphysical experiences of our spiritual Masters, we are doing harm in many ways. We are reducing Master’s metaphysical experiences into physical plane. When we apply it without understanding we are reducing it to a superstition. When we fail to follow the superstition and someone points it out to us, we also experience guilt.
Break this cycle! Guilt will kill intelligence. It will strangle our being. Clear this guilt with deep understanding. This will eventually bring enlightenment. In an enlightened state, entire existence will continuously flow towards us!