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 086 of Thomas Gospel.
These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.
Gospel of Thomas saying 86 - The son of man has nowhere to lay his head.
Jesus said, "The foxes have their holes and the birds have their nests, but the son of man has no place to lay his head and rest."
“Jesus said, "The foxes have their holes and the birds have their nests”
The foxes and the birds are of this world. Their birth was not caused due to their desire, That is, the animals are at home in this world, therefore they rest easy in their homes.
“but the son of man has no place to lay his head and rest."
The meaning is, the sons of man, human beings, desired the experience of a worldly life, therefore they experienced being born into the world.
Before that original desire to taste the fruits or the knowledge of a material life, our home was at eternal rest with the Non-Dual Absolute, or God.
This mortal material world with this mortal material body is not who we truly are. There can be no eternal rest for us here.
All verses of the Thomas Gospel.
Ohm peace, peace, peace.