A KORA OF KORAS

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taught that the sacrifice that is essential is not cultic or external to
the individual, but it is necessarily a moral and personal sacrifice made through
love. It is the sacrifice of all that is oneself, and all that one possesses, into forms
of loving and compassionate participation with others, and into the absolute
Mystery of the Reality and Divine Person wherein we all arise and change and
ultimately disappear. Therefore, the proof of his Teaching is not in the
independent or knowable survival of anything or anyone, but in the enlightened,
free, and moral happiness of those who live the sacrifice while alive and even at
death.
“We cannot cling to the survival of anyone, or even ourselves. This clinging has
for centuries agonized would-be believers, who tried to be certain of the survival
of Jesus and themselves. Truly, Jesus did not survive in the independent form that
persisted while he lived, nor does anyone possess certain knowledge of the history
of Jesus after his death. All reports are simply expressions of the mystical
presumptions and archetypal mental structures of those who make the reports.
And neither will we survive the process of universal dissolution everywhere
displayed. Jesus sacrificed himself. He gave himself up in loving service to others
and in ultimate love to Real God. All who do this become what they meditate
upon. They are Translated beyond this self or independent body-mind into a
hidden Destiny in the Mystery or Intensity that includes and precedes all beings,
things, and worlds.”
- Adi Da Samraj