“Minorities”

The Original Teachings of Jesus Christ / “Minorities”

“Minorities”

They who disdain people of the opposite sex, in the next incarnation will surely get a body of that sex and will be incarnated in the social environment which will make them experience fully the same disdain on themselves.

It is the same with national factor, with confessional one, with the problem of “sexual minorities”: he who despises or hates people because they are “not like me”, “not like us” will be taught by God to compassionate the pain of others through his own pain. This is one of the usual methods of God for guiding us.

It is for this reason that He creates bodies of various “minorities” — to incarnate in them the sinners who disliked these “minorities”.

Our task is to learn not to subdivide people by any feature into “us” and “aliens”. “We all are children of God” — thus God teaches us: “… There is no difference both of Jew and of Greek, for the same Lord is over all who call on Him” (Rom 10:12). It is the same with any feature of external human appearance.

The important characteristic in assessing people is their gunas. Yet, one has to love everybody, though differently: some — with love-devotion and respect, others — like we love children or friends, and yet others — with love-compassion. But one must never hate or disdain anyone!

“Regard a disciple of God. If he is a sensible fellow, he understands what discipleship is all about. The bodily forms do not deceive him, but he looks at the qualities of the soul when someone speaks to him. There are many animals in this world living in human form. When he identifies them, to the swine he gives acorns, to the cattle he gives barley and chaff and grass, to the dogs he gives bones. To the slaves he gives crops, to the children he gives the perfect.” (The Gospel of Philip, 119).