ENCOUNTERING GODquestioned their existence. I just assumed they
were a legitimate and authentic part of the ‘yoga
experience.’ If my teachers upheld their status of
‘godhood,’ then it must be so.
I was somewhat shocked that Jesus (the
‘errorless avatar!’) described devotion to these
gods as serious spiritual error. When asked by a
scribe to identify the greatest of all Old Testament
mandates, He responded:
“The first of all the commandments is:
‘HEAR, O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD,
THE LORD IS ONE.”
(Mark 12:29, See Deuteronomy 6:4)
In echoing this Old Testament passage, Jesus
was upholding the unyielding Jewish concept of
monotheism – the perception that there is only
one true God. He is personal (not an impersonal
life force), infinite, omnipresent, omniscient,
omnipotent, and perfect in all His ways. He
dwells in the fullness of His glory in a heavenly
sphere, separate from physical creation. Though
He manifests within the material world, He is not
identified as the essence of life within it.
This short list of God’s basic attributes could