John 14:19-20 … Heaven ever within (10/14/16)
“In a little while the world will no longer see me, but You will See me; because I Live — and you also will Live. And on that day you will [finally] realize that I am in my Father — and that you are in Me — and that I am in You.” ~ Jesus (John 14:19-20)
While the traditional, conservative interpretation of this passage has been used to support the notion that Jesus was and remains the only Son of God (a contention that Jesus himself loudly & clearly rejected on numerous occasions throughout the Gospels – see Mark 10:18, John 7:16, John 8:50-54, John 12:47, et al), there are many other, deeper meanings embedded herein as well …
First & foremost, Jesus intimates (quite ironically, in light of the aforementioned religiously dogmatic interpretation hereof) the great Truth that the Wisdoms within the teachings of any “Master” can only be seen when that teacher is no longer the focus of his or her students’ seeking. In other words, Jesus is saying here that his disciples would only be able to finally comprehend the true depth of his teachings after they stopped focusing on him and started focusing on the various applicative possibilities within his teachings …
History seems to show that they never did this, of course (with Judas, John, James, & Thomas being four possible exceptions), and yet they could only have done so after Jesus left the scene – only after they would no longer be tempted with the enamorment of his enlightened presence.
Indeed, this is so for any disciple of any “Master” — for the simple reason that every true Master essentially teaches that the same Divine Essence he or she is radiating is already just as alive & well in the conscient True Selves residing within every one of his or her disciples, and that it is impossible for those followers to see this Truth — impossible for them to see that the Master is not only “in God”, but also that the “God” within the Master is ever within the Soul-Self of every other sentient being — until the Master has departed (or until they depart from the Master) and they are left to themselves and their own actualization of their own innate-yet-latent Majesty.
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