Jesus was in penance for God on the hill for 40 days
Jesus was in penance for God on the hill for 40 days without taking even a piece of bread. He was not hungry because He stopped taking bread not by force. He was immersed in the knowledge of details of God and subsequently in the love (devotion) to God. It was absorption by theoretical knowledge and theoretical devotion by which the hunger and thirst were not felt at all. Whenever you are strongly interested in an item like cinema, you forget hunger and thirst. You are not aware of mosquitoes and blood bugs sucking your blood present in your seat in the cinema hall! In the place of cinema, if God is present as the object, it is called as penance.
As you are absorbed in the cinema in a natural way, you must be absorbed in God similarly in a natural way without any external compelling force like fulfilling your desire by the devotion to God. The best word to be used here is attraction. Concentration is done by force also. The force of attraction should be in the object. The cinema is attracting you and all the attraction force is in the cinema, not in you. Similarly, the divine personality of God (personality means energetic or human incarnation of God since the personality of unimaginable God remains unimaginable).
Jesus was absorbed totally in the divine personality of Father of heaven, who is the energetic incarnation of unimaginable God. The attraction force existing in the divine personality of Father of heaven made Jesus forget His hunger and thirst. If you fast on a political issue, the force of attraction on the issue exists in your heart and not in the inert issue. Such fasting is not natural and is maintained on your force and rigidity. In such top most level of penance, actually, conversation with God takes place. Hence, Jesus told that a true devotee forgets hunger and thirst by the words (conversation) of God. You experience this practically when you are talking with a person and get absorbed in his words focusing the truth. You do not feel hunger and thirst even though the time for taking food passed away long back. This is the meaning of the statement referred by Jesus that one does not live simply on bread but also lives on the word of God coming from 'mouth'. The word mouth indicates the human form of God preaching the spiritual knowledge either in the phase of matter or in the phase of inert energy as medium associated with awareness (human incarnation or energetic incarnation).
Satan is the ego and ignorance mixed together present in almost all the human beings. This Satan always brings doubts to the heart and does not allow the right analysis. Doubting is not bad since you should not believe everything blindly. After the doubt, analysis should come. Satan is tempting Jesus to jump down from a long height saying that God will protect Him, if He is a real devotee. This is doubting the existence of God. It amounts to testing the very existence of God.
Jesus already did penance, which is very sharp analysis about God for a long time that is to be projected before the world attained by Him without food, water and sleep. Those 40 days were equal to 40 years in our time scale of normal life attending the discussion on God for maximum time. After such long analysis on God, if you are not sure of the existence of God, Who is to be always tested by the miracle, you will always remain as the doubting Thomas and not as Jesus. After the stage of analysis, the stage of firm decision should come in which one should not go again to the beginning point of the first stage. Hence, the suggestion of Satan was simply rejected, which can apply only to doubting Thomas and not to Jesus. This gives the message to devotees that once you decided after a long and deep analysis, you should not go on doubting and testing God throughout your life till the last minute. Take long time before taking the decision so that you have to eliminate several false entities escaping the real goal just by hair split margin. But, one day or other, you must come to the stage of firm decision before your life ends (Samshayaatmaavinashyati… Gita).
Satan showed several attractions asking Jesus to develop the ultimate and unique bond with him so that Jesus can serve him with total surrender and sacrifice. Here, Satan represents all these worldly bonds showing false and momentary attractions to bind the soul and bend it as the servant to such bonds. In the illusion of these false worldly bonds, the soul is doing even horrible sins, which establish that the soul is made a slave to such bonds. Jesus referred these worldly bonds elsewhere by saying that unless one hates these worldly bonds, he/she cannot become His disciple. Here, Jesus asked Satan to go away at this stage, which shows His hatred to the Satan.
-By Shri Datta Swami
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Universal Spirituality for World Peace
As you are absorbed in the cinema in a natural way, you must be absorbed in God similarly in a natural way without any external compelling force like fulfilling your desire by the devotion to God. The best word to be used here is attraction. Concentration is done by force also. The force of attraction should be in the object. The cinema is attracting you and all the attraction force is in the cinema, not in you. Similarly, the divine personality of God (personality means energetic or human incarnation of God since the personality of unimaginable God remains unimaginable).
Jesus was absorbed totally in the divine personality of Father of heaven, who is the energetic incarnation of unimaginable God. The attraction force existing in the divine personality of Father of heaven made Jesus forget His hunger and thirst. If you fast on a political issue, the force of attraction on the issue exists in your heart and not in the inert issue. Such fasting is not natural and is maintained on your force and rigidity. In such top most level of penance, actually, conversation with God takes place. Hence, Jesus told that a true devotee forgets hunger and thirst by the words (conversation) of God. You experience this practically when you are talking with a person and get absorbed in his words focusing the truth. You do not feel hunger and thirst even though the time for taking food passed away long back. This is the meaning of the statement referred by Jesus that one does not live simply on bread but also lives on the word of God coming from 'mouth'. The word mouth indicates the human form of God preaching the spiritual knowledge either in the phase of matter or in the phase of inert energy as medium associated with awareness (human incarnation or energetic incarnation).
Satan is the ego and ignorance mixed together present in almost all the human beings. This Satan always brings doubts to the heart and does not allow the right analysis. Doubting is not bad since you should not believe everything blindly. After the doubt, analysis should come. Satan is tempting Jesus to jump down from a long height saying that God will protect Him, if He is a real devotee. This is doubting the existence of God. It amounts to testing the very existence of God.
Jesus already did penance, which is very sharp analysis about God for a long time that is to be projected before the world attained by Him without food, water and sleep. Those 40 days were equal to 40 years in our time scale of normal life attending the discussion on God for maximum time. After such long analysis on God, if you are not sure of the existence of God, Who is to be always tested by the miracle, you will always remain as the doubting Thomas and not as Jesus. After the stage of analysis, the stage of firm decision should come in which one should not go again to the beginning point of the first stage. Hence, the suggestion of Satan was simply rejected, which can apply only to doubting Thomas and not to Jesus. This gives the message to devotees that once you decided after a long and deep analysis, you should not go on doubting and testing God throughout your life till the last minute. Take long time before taking the decision so that you have to eliminate several false entities escaping the real goal just by hair split margin. But, one day or other, you must come to the stage of firm decision before your life ends (Samshayaatmaavinashyati… Gita).
Satan showed several attractions asking Jesus to develop the ultimate and unique bond with him so that Jesus can serve him with total surrender and sacrifice. Here, Satan represents all these worldly bonds showing false and momentary attractions to bind the soul and bend it as the servant to such bonds. In the illusion of these false worldly bonds, the soul is doing even horrible sins, which establish that the soul is made a slave to such bonds. Jesus referred these worldly bonds elsewhere by saying that unless one hates these worldly bonds, he/she cannot become His disciple. Here, Jesus asked Satan to go away at this stage, which shows His hatred to the Satan.
-By Shri Datta Swami
www.universal-spirituality[.]org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
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