Sri Shantananda Saraswati
Om May no harm be done Here, May this desire be motivated by Love. May what is not beneficent wither to obscurity.
 
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The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is extra to the canonical gospels in the New Testament of the bible. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. Scholars speculate that the works were buried and hidden after the declaration of a strict canon of Christian scripture, where any works that were not selected for inclusion in the new testament were ordered to be destroyed. Scholars have proposed dates of composition as early as 60 AD and as late as 250 AD as a collection of sayings of Jesus.
Our Commentary on Verse 041 of Thomas Gospel.
These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.
Gospel of Thomas Saying 41 - The person who has will receive.
Jesus said, "Whoever has something in his hand will receive more, and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little he has."
”Whoever has something in his hand” is grasping onto nothing. There is nothing in this material realm that is something. That is, nothing has true eternal existence, all is decaying. But, this grasping man of duality and ignorance desires more so he will gain more.
The wise let go of everything. The wise seek the divine by surrendering all this material world.
“Whoever has nothing” in his hand is free of this world, and desires only to be relieved “deprived” of his material being, thus confirming his rejection of the material world.
Such wisdom will enable his total renunciation and enable his conscious unity with the Absolute.
ref. Luke 8:18, Luke 19:11-27, Matt 13:10-13, Matt 25:14-30, Mark 4:24-25.
All verses of the Thomas Gospel.
Ohm peace, peace, peace.