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 070 of Thomas Gospel.
These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.
Gospel of Thomas Saying 70 - Our salvation is within us.
Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you."
“Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you”.
We are all God’s children. Quite literally, we are all projected and sustained within the knowledge and consciousness of the Absolute, God or Father.
Our true being is eternally at one with the Absolute. But, we desired to taste the fruits of a material life.
This life experience of ours is enabled through divine consciousness.
Although our consciousness is now limited to an awareness of being born, living and dying, we do retain, within our subtle being, access to divine knowledge.
There are those in this life who sense the existence of higher truth. Those people are the ones who seek out a teacher and consult the scriptures.
Through spiritual work they enhance their God given reasoning and intuition to gain access through their heart to higher knowledge. From then on there heartfelt desire is to surrender this world and return to unity with God.
At the time of their death their conscious desire ( “If you bring forth what is within you” ) leads them home ( “what you have will save you” ) to Divine unity and eternal rest.
“If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you."
There are also those in this life whose desires lead them deeper into a more material awareness.
These ones, taken up with ambition and material wealth do not take time to consider their higher being. Through neglecting seeking higher truth and purpose they remain ignorant of their subtle inner being and access to divine understanding.
These ones, at the time of their death only know this material realm. They have not found and come to desire God ( “If you do not have that within you”. )
Retaining only the conscious desire for material security, having no desire to return home to God
“what you do not have within you [will] kill you." they will be guided, in consciousness, to a further life and death experience.
All verses of the Thomas Gospel.
Ohm peace, peace, peace.