445. When the word of the Christ is misinterpreted the Truth is Lost….

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There is this episode from the Gospel of John. The passage describes a group of Scribes and Pharisees want to punish a woman by stoning her to death as prescribed by the Laws provided by Moses, she is suspected to have committed adultery. When every person present there was eager to cast the first stone on the woman, Jesus shames the crowd to disperse when he says “Let him who is without sin, cast the first stone.” As the crowd thins, Jesus walks to the woman and says, “Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.” 

This sequence in the life of Christ is misunderstood and used to suit to our words and conduct. Here one has to realize that Christ is not optimistic about all of us committing sin, instead He wants us to point our finger only if we are correct. If I am correct I have the right to complain and protest about the incorrect things about others. Jesus did not say we are all sinners at some point of time in our life so there is not much to worry about so let us carry on. The word of Christ as I comprehend is that He wants me to excel and stop gauging the excellence of others. In simple words this episode warns me of my hypocritical behavior, it opens my eyes and slaps me on my face when I point my finger at others fault. This episode wants me to be perfect in the first place before checking how perfect other around me are.    

At this juncture I remember the story of a woman who brought her son to Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. The boy was fond of sweets and the mother was obviously worried about his health and she believed that her son would heed the words of Ramakrishna. But in reality Ramakrishna also was fond of sweets and relished it as the boy did. So he asked the lady to bring her son a week later and then the next week he advised the boy to check his intake of sweets. The mother of the boy was amazed why Ramakrishna took a week to say this simple words, she questioned him why he could not advice him a week back when she had brought him then? Ramakrishna told her before advising the boy he had to cut down on consuming lots of sweets. If Ramakrishna had misinterpreted the word of Christ he would have told the mother not to worry about her son consuming sweets as he also had the weakness for sweets and it is alright to eat lots of sweets.

These words from the great personalities can be comprehended when the seeker tries to grasp them from the mind of the great personality who has made the statement; if one tries to get them from their own mind they tend to tilt the statement to their advantage and hid the Truth……what say????