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 058 of Thomas Gospel.
These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.
Gospel of Thomas Saying 58 - The labourer.
Jesus said, "Blessed is the man who has suffered and found life."
We take it that He “who has suffered and found life." is one who has gone through the trials of surrendering previously long held beliefs in order to hear, contemplate on, and live the teachings of Jesus.
One also needs to suffer through the surrendering of one’s ego to accept that “I” do not exist as separate from the singularity of the Divine Absolute.
One will also have surrendered all material desire, including the desire to flourish in this world.
The suffering and commitment of getting through the ‘dark night of the soul’ without turning back is a real thing.
To have attained to the state of the realisation that this existence itself is non-dual, that Absolute knowledge as consciousness alone exists is the greatest blessing.
To have “found life” is to have found or consciously realised the Singularity of bliss and immortality.
All verses of the Thomas Gospel.
Ohm peace, peace, peace.