"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart also. The eye is the light of your body. If your eye is simple, your whole body will be in light; but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be in darkness. Now if the very light in you has become darkness, how great is that darkness! You cannot serve two masters: God and mammon."
In this parable, Jesus emphasizes the folly of the profane, who only think of accumulating material treasures - and extols the wisdom of the spiritual man who, above all, holds divine treasures in his soul.
To comprehend the above, no religiosity is required, as common sense and logic are sufficient. Unfortunately, these two concepts hardly reach the mind of the analytic man, and consequently, such is the confusion in interpreting the messages of Jesus when intuitive reason is not used.
No one has ever taken a penny of all its wealth, not a single atom of all its possessions after death. Just as we enter this life without material goods, so we will leave it. If a man has not realized spiritual goods within himself, he has lost years of existence, with the aggravation of leaving here with heavy spiritual debts, debts with which he has not entered earthly life; for the Creator does not give man potentialities not to be dynamically realized, for example in the case of the third servant of the parable of the talents, who is condemned as a “bad and lazy servant” because he did not develop the creativity he had received.
The purpose of a man here on Earth is to boost his potentialities. Earthly life is a period of testing, a school of self-realization. Whoever can, should boost these potentialities; and those who can and should and do not realize them, create debt - and all debt generates suffering. Cosmic laws do not allow inert servants. Whoever is not accomplished by good deeds will lose its existence by the extinction of its individuality succumbing to "eternal death". Whoever does not integrate, disintegrates, this is the inexorable logic of eternal laws, which no man can circumvent.
Producing quantities in material treasures, without creating quality in immaterial treasures, is to be a bad and lazy servant. Quantities are illusory and will return to nothing - the quality is true and lasts forever.
Immediately after Jesus spoke the words about the earthly and heavenly treasures, he immediately goes on to an enigmatic comparison, which seems to make no sense to the previous idea: he speaks of the "eye that is the light of the body." He says that if this eye is simple, the whole body will be illuminated; but if the eye becomes evil, the whole body will be in darkness.
What eye exactly does he refer to? And why he says that this eye is simple and is the light of the body? And what relationship is there between this simple eye, this eye-light, and the human body? Moreover, what interdependence is there between this eye-light and the heavenly treasures?
For all these 21 centuries, theologians have been discussing these enigmatic words, which is why many ancient and modern translators have abandoned the first-century inspired text by other texts of their invention. Instead of "eye", they say "eyes"; instead of "simple", they say "good" or "sound".
Paul of Tarsus well said that "the intellectual man does not comprehend things of the spirit which seem to him to be foolish; neither can he comprehend them, because spiritual things must be discerned spiritually."
The initiated of the East, millennia ago, speak of a "third eye", the so-called "eye of Shiva", which, if opened, would allow the man to clairvoyance or Cosmo clairvoyance, a perception of non-sensorial and non-intellectual realities. This "third eye" is stunted in the common man, for the hypertrophy of intellectual analysis of the human ego has stunted the intuitive view of the divine Self. But through prolonged and deep meditation and silent introspection, man can awaken within himself this "third eye" and see things not visible to the profane man. The state of ecstasy or samadhi is equivalent to the awakening of the "simple eye", the "eye-light".
The consequence of this cosmic vision would illuminate the whole body, which would lose its opacity and acquire crystal transparency. Some think that Jesus referred to the spiritual eye that potentially exists in every human being, but only dynamically in a few.
By the awakening of this "eye-light", there is the grand transformation of man, and from then on, he is no longer interested in earthly treasures, but the treasures of heaven, his Cosmo clairvoyance revealed to him as the only Reality, while others know illusory facticities. This man is no longer interested in serving riches but the divine spirit, for only by the awakening of spiritual vision does man see eternal reality.
This is the secret affinity between the heavenly treasures and the simple eye.
Many scholars claim that there is a relationship between the brain's pineal gland and the simple eye, which manifests according to the Orientals, at the base of the forehead, between the eyebrows. Some scientists have tried to arouse this dormant eye by technical means. Aldous Huxley has resorted to mescaline, an essence extracted from a cactus. Others have experimented with lysergic acid (LSD), and other exciting and numbing products.
But the result is precarious, fleeting and counterproductive.
The real and permanent opening of the simple eye requires long, arduous training. Neither can it be done by artificial means, but only by the total awakening of the divine spirit in man, done mainly by true meditation. Jesus emphasizes the effect of the simple eye on the whole human body, which becomes fully illuminated, permeated with light.
The opening of the simple eye of the Self requires closing the eyes of the ego, the eyes of the body, mind, and emotions. While the eyes of the profane and tyrannical ego are fully functioning, the eye of the mystical Self does not open.
We know that all true initiated have gone through long periods of total silence and conscious solitude - and thus awakened in themselves the eye of spiritual vision. When at the first Pentecost in Jerusalem, 120 people opened the soul's "simple eye" to the reality of the kingdom of heaven - what was the immediate consequence for their lives?
Luke refers in the "Acts of the Apostles" that these happy converts spontaneously stripped themselves of their material possessions, placing them at the service of all. Those who discover the heavenly treasure are no longer interested in the pseudo earthly treasures, which Paul of Tarsus calls "trash". The consciousness of Being devalues all illusions of Having. When the light appears, the darkness disappears. He who opens the eye of the spirit closes his eyes to matter.
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