When we say that God hates death and overcomes death, what we mean is that there is something outside God that stands opposed to him. But is that right? If God is infinite and thus all pervasive, how can there be anything including death that stands outside of God? It makes no sense. Are we stuck in our own limited view of God, a projection of our own insecurities, and thus unable to see beyond the surface of things?
I submit to you that death is as much a part of Life as birth is. We celebrate birth. So can we celebrate death. Death is a natural process of dissolution, moment by moment. Without death, there is no birth. Death is part of the mystery. So is birth. Life is that mystery — wondrous, sometimes scary, and utterly numinous.
Life is far bigger than either birth or death, or both combined. Life is far bigger than all the multiverses put together. Life is also not other than all of that. Life is in essence the dance of Love. God is Life. God is Love. And Love is not controlling or selfish or tyrannical. Hence, Love cannot be omnipotent.
When Love became flesh amongst us, it is not to “conquer” death in the way that we crave for but to throw a light on the mystery of Life from which we can and have never been apart. In this Life, both birth and death lose their sting and are seen for what they really are — part of the mystery of Life: timeless, placeless, nameless Life ad infinitum.
When we freely respond to Love with open willingness, we enter into a fresh energy and mutuality of loving embrace. This embrace magnetizes us home, away from the adventure of experience of this or that object into our primordial empty transparent source. When we freely resist this embrace out of being driven by our habitual egoic programs, we lose the chance to partake in this infinite Life.
But in every passing moment, the chance to enter into Life re-presents itself to us. We are never forever damned. But we can and do resist Life’s gracious invitation to drink from its plenum ecstasy. Again and again. As such, we perpetuate our own suffering caused by the cyclical reactive patterns of our conditioned mind. The choice is ours. Choose wisely.
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