35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36 Overhearing [ignoring] what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”
37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” 40 But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41 He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!”(which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
(Mark, 5:35-43)
The Spiritual Master Eugenia Comments on the Passage of the Gospel:
Often we find in Our Master and Lord Jesus this attitude of waiting for situations to reach a limit of irresolution, so that He can fully manifest His Condition of Ambassador of the Creator for the Earth and His moral ascendency over physical, psychical and human elements of the planet.
Still noteworthy, in this gospel passage: Jesus is not impressed by the appearance of finitude of possibilities (the news of the girl’s death), in a universe of infinite possibilities, as presently revealed by particle physics.
“The girl sleeps” could be understood as “the girl is disconnected from the spiritual reality” – in contraposition to the concept of “awake”, meaning “the Buda” –, as we all find ourselves, in different levels of childishness of the soul, before the great truths of Life.
Frequently, we do not see, like the child’s parents and the Apostles perhaps (this is why Christ says: “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”), how to revive the ideal’s flame that seems to us dead and extinct forever… And suddenly the Master, Present in the name of God, specularly, in the Voice of our own Consciences or of Those who represent It, accompanied only by the matrixes of the psyche, that is: the two basic psychosexual poles of the unconscious (“the girl’s mother and father”), as well as the three apostles more in tune with Him, because they could not only understand Him, but also assist His healing’s energetic effort– personifying in them the powers of resilience of the human mind –, brought back the motivation and the soul from the lost idealism, symbolized by the girl, returning her to life and also to movement, because the words “began to walk around” give us note that there is no legitimate ideal that does not turn into meritorious action.
The age of 12 years, as being the typical period of menarche, translates to us the idea of fertility that follows this moment of cure and how Jesus, like in the passage of the “Fig Tree”, appreciates not only the attitude of action, but mainly the production of good.
He severely warned not to boast His glory, to demonstrate that the real inner posture of those who align with the Supreme Good is not of showing off an alleged condition of superiority – that is: it is not by the ego that one reaches the great achievements of the Spirit –, but rather moving away from the state of idolatrous astonishment to the benevolent service to others, sharing with others through the practice of fraternity, the Divine Grace that has been received. In contrast, upon arriving at the house of the girl’s father, he also strongly reproved the reverse emotional state of those in the ambience: of vicious lamentations for what apparently had no solution.
Finally, the Christ, with the perfect efficiency that was peculiar to Him, offers us the lesson of not being bothered by the laughter of those who disbelieve our potential of doing good, ordering all to leave – not giving them, any citizenship in their own Mental House – and moving on, immediately, to the room where the young lady’s body lays lifeless: our languid and fragile souls, before the reviving touch of the Sublime Spirituality…
(Text received by Benjamin de Aguiar, on October 22, 2011.)
The Christ Resurrects a Teenage Girl, in the Unforgettable Biblical Passage, and the Spiritual Master Eugênia Makes a Profound, Enlightening and Pragmatic Interpretation of the Historic Episode, Received by Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar.
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36 Overhearing [ignoring] what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”
37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” 40 But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41 He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!”(which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
(Mark, 5:35-43)
The Spiritual Master Eugenia Comments on the Passage of the Gospel:
Often we find in Our Master and Lord Jesus this attitude of waiting for situations to reach a limit of irresolution, so that He can fully manifest His Condition of Ambassador of the Creator for the Earth and His moral ascendency over physical, psychical and human elements of the planet.
Still noteworthy, in this gospel passage: Jesus is not impressed by the appearance of finitude of possibilities (the news of the girl’s death), in a universe of infinite possibilities, as presently revealed by particle physics.
“The girl sleeps” could be understood as “the girl is disconnected from the spiritual reality” – in contraposition to the concept of “awake”, meaning “the Buda” –, as we all find ourselves, in different levels of childishness of the soul, before the great truths of Life.
Frequently, we do not see, like the child’s parents and the Apostles perhaps (this is why Christ says: “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”), how to revive the ideal’s flame that seems to us dead and extinct forever… And suddenly the Master, Present in the name of God, specularly, in the Voice of our own Consciences or of Those who represent It, accompanied only by the matrixes of the psyche, that is: the two basic psychosexual poles of the unconscious (“the girl’s mother and father”), as well as the three apostles more in tune with Him, because they could not only understand Him, but also assist His healing’s energetic effort– personifying in them the powers of resilience of the human mind –, brought back the motivation and the soul from the lost idealism, symbolized by the girl, returning her to life and also to movement, because the words “began to walk around” give us note that there is no legitimate ideal that does not turn into meritorious action.
The age of 12 years, as being the typical period of menarche, translates to us the idea of fertility that follows this moment of cure and how Jesus, like in the passage of the “Fig Tree”, appreciates not only the attitude of action, but mainly the production of good.
He severely warned not to boast His glory, to demonstrate that the real inner posture of those who align with the Supreme Good is not of showing off an alleged condition of superiority – that is: it is not by the ego that one reaches the great achievements of the Spirit –, but rather moving away from the state of idolatrous astonishment to the benevolent service to others, sharing with others through the practice of fraternity, the Divine Grace that has been received. In contrast, upon arriving at the house of the girl’s father, he also strongly reproved the reverse emotional state of those in the ambience: of vicious lamentations for what apparently had no solution.
Finally, the Christ, with the perfect efficiency that was peculiar to Him, offers us the lesson of not being bothered by the laughter of those who disbelieve our potential of doing good, ordering all to leave – not giving them, any citizenship in their own Mental House – and moving on, immediately, to the room where the young lady’s body lays lifeless: our languid and fragile souls, before the reviving touch of the Sublime Spirituality…
(Text received by Benjamin de Aguiar, on October 22, 2011.)