Sri Shantananda Saraswati
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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 056 of Thomas Gospel.
Gospel of Thomas Saying 56 - The world is a corpse.
Jesus said, "Whoever has come to understand the world has found (only) a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world."
“Jesus said, "Whoever has come to understand the world has found (only) a corpse”
The sensory material world is unreal. All material is subject to entropy and decay. All material is mortal and is therefore dying, or dead.
This world of material exists only as a projection of knowledge in the singularity of existence or Consciousness Absolute, or God.
Therefore, those who believe or understand this material world to be real are in fact misunderstanding, because the world has no true existence because it is dying.
“and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world."
The God realised ones understand that the only true existence is the non-dual singularity of Consciousness Absolute.
They will know that this material world is unreal and dying, or a corps. Their non-dual realisation makes them superior in their understanding to those deluded into a belief of duality.
All verses of the Thomas Gospel.
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