Your mind affects your actions which in turn affect the people around you. Small though your thoughts may be, each one has the potential to cause massive changes in the near and far future by this chain of cause and effect. Death of the physical form is but a small notch in the pattern of the universe that we exist. Your views are pegged to the short-term aspects of physical sustenance and the corresponding death of the sustained form.
If a person kills and rapes, his actions will have effects that are different from those of a person side-stepping just to avoid squashing an ant on the pavement. What these effects are, no mortal can possibly tell. Yet, by extrapolation, we glimpse the likelihood of this chain of effects and events. When the rapist or killer repents, likewise, his new state of mind and subsequent actions will have corresponding effects on the future. Does it mean that one who repents will go to heaven while the killer who does not will be condemned to hell?
What is death? When is judgement? No one knows for sure. When prophecies become actual events, everyone becomes all-knowing through hind-sight. Until then, all we can do is to conjecture and criticise in the meanwhile.
The crucification of Jesus bears more meaning than most of us would give credit for. Spend some time to imagine the state of mind, emotions and mental processes that Jesus went through in order to complete the passage. Ask why a mortal being would subject himself to such physical pain for his beliefs. Perhaps it is because the spiritual pain and emotional agony was far greater than what he was going through physically. He grieved for a world of mortals driven by their most basic instincts, his fellows who would condemn one who was harmless to them simply because they subscribed to the basal desires that they were born with.
That is the pain that pierced right through his heart.
If a person kills and rapes, his actions will have effects that are different from those of a person side-stepping just to avoid squashing an ant on the pavement. What these effects are, no mortal can possibly tell. Yet, by extrapolation, we glimpse the likelihood of this chain of effects and events. When the rapist or killer repents, likewise, his new state of mind and subsequent actions will have corresponding effects on the future. Does it mean that one who repents will go to heaven while the killer who does not will be condemned to hell?
What is death? When is judgement? No one knows for sure. When prophecies become actual events, everyone becomes all-knowing through hind-sight. Until then, all we can do is to conjecture and criticise in the meanwhile.
The crucification of Jesus bears more meaning than most of us would give credit for. Spend some time to imagine the state of mind, emotions and mental processes that Jesus went through in order to complete the passage. Ask why a mortal being would subject himself to such physical pain for his beliefs. Perhaps it is because the spiritual pain and emotional agony was far greater than what he was going through physically. He grieved for a world of mortals driven by their most basic instincts, his fellows who would condemn one who was harmless to them simply because they subscribed to the basal desires that they were born with.
That is the pain that pierced right through his heart.
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