This world is not to be feared or hated or loved: this is the illusion, and right where the illusion is, is the kingdom of God, My kingdom. My kingdom is the reality. This, that my eyes see or my ears hear, this is the superimposed counterfeit, not existing as a world, but as a concept, a concept of temporal power.My kingdom is intact; My kingdom is the kingdom of God; My kingdom is the kingdom of the children of God; and My kingdom is here and now. All that exists as a temporal universe is without power. I need not hate it, fear it, or condemn it: I need only understand it.JOEL GOLDSMITH
1. The Time, The Place, The Need, The Man 2. Getting This, You have All 3. The Love and Power of Life 4. The Days in the Little carpenter's Shop 5. He Called it 'The Way' 6. To know that All is Well 7. The Superb Teaching of 'Sin' 8. 'I AM a Man as you Are' 9. Sons of Men Living as Sons of God 10. A Source of His genius 11. Rich Toward God 12. That Wonderful Friendship with the Twelve 13. Entry to Jerusalem - To Die 14. He Teaches the Great Truth 15. When a Brave Man Chooses Death 16. Bigotry in Fear Condemns and Kills 17. Other helpers of the Way-Shower 18. Look up and Drop that Load 19. Love the Law of Life 20. The Creative Power of Faith and Courage 21. How His truth Started and then Became Distorted 22. The Truth that must save Christianity 23. How His Truth Compels Allegiance
The special purpose of this Upanishad is to give us the knowledge of the Real, that we may not come under the dominion of the ego by identifying ourselves with our body, mind and senses. Mortals become mortals because they fall under the sway of ego and depend on their own limited physical and mental strength. The lesson of the parable of the Devas and Brahman is that there is no real power, no real doer except God. He is the eye of the eye, the ear of the ear; and eyes, ears, and all our faculties have no power independent of Him. When we thus realize Him as the underlying Reality of our being, we transcend death and become immortal.
