Picture: Shushil Gupta & Mother, the saint Mother raised from the dead 10 years earlier
Inner House Is Divided between Ego and God
A house divided against itself cannot stand. If an earthquake was to take place and all of a sudden this tremendous quake would just sever a house in half, that house would fall. It could not possibly stand. And so it is with all of the things of life. It is so with the human family, with the man and his wife. You must be a united family if you are to stand on the rock of God, of Truth. It is so in your business. You cannot have a business divided against itself and have a successful business. It is so with a nation. It is so with the world. And that’s why we are having so much dissension, because we are a world divided against ourselves.
Body Is the Temple Housing Little Self and God. Now, this is a great truth. What Christ meant when he said this, “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” means exactly this. This is the temple of the living God. This is where we find Him—not outside of ourselves, but right in here. This is our house. And yet we are a house divided against ourselves because we have the little ego and the God Self. We are two selves, not one. And so therefore we must fall.
Sin Is What Maintains Separation of Self from God. And that is the meaning of the passage in the Bible where it says, “The wages of sin is death.” Because sin is all of that which keeps us separated from God. It is that which takes us away from our true Self. And so because of the fact that we are separated, then we must go through what we know humanly as death.
But when we have come to the point where we have blended this little self with the God Self within us where we can say truly, “I and my Father are One,” then we have control over that last enemy, which is death.
Oneness Gives Control Even Over Death. We learn through the control of breath as taught by the masters of the East, to have complete control over our body, to go and come at will, even as Christ did. He was constantly going up into the mountain of his own being. And so it is said that “breathlessness is deathlessness,” and this is so. When you can learn to do without breath and yet remain in full consciousness, when you can learn to come and go from your body at will, then you have taken death into your arms.
And then when it is time for you to throw this garment off and put on a new one, you sit in the lotus posture and you go into what is called mahasamadhi, or the final state of leaving the body voluntarily. You are not choked out of the body. You do not go by accident. Your breath is not taken from you. But you go of your own volition in complete peace and comfort.
“He who has conquered the first death,” the Bible says, “need not fear the second death.” It cannot harm you.