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Here are the explanations on sayings of Jesus with the Eastern perspective using the Ancient Wisdom as guide...
When reading the Bible and seeing "I am", referring to Jesus, it is helpful to mentally substitute "The Christ Principle", and think in Universal concepts rather than a person.

Jhn. (14.1) “Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God, believe also in me.

Jhn. (14.2.) There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

Jhn. (14.3.) And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

Jhn. (14.4.) And you know the way where I am going.”

Jhn. (14.5.) Thomas said, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

Jhn. (14.6.) Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jhn. (14.7.) If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Jesus referes to God and "his father" as a separate entity, a sign that Jesus is human and not God incarnate.

When one replaces "I am" with the "Christ Principle", one would find a symbolic affirmation that we are on the right track in our path to God’s Conscioiusness if we get overshadowed by the "Christ Principle".
The “dwelling”, “house” and other methaphors for the ultimate goal for men, which is Oness with God, but not in the flesh only in Spirit.
Jesus is showing the way and in fact the only way to spiritual advancement by Love, Service and Sacrifice. He is hinting to them what follows (his impending death and ascend).
It says, in no uncertain terms that the disciples can have the same eternal life as the Master, if and when they also achieve the same as He.

Copyright © Andras Nagy, February 15, 2007

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