Dear All,
Mine, not thine - This expression originates in mind from the 1st subtlest ego - AVIDYA.
Avidya has been dealt in detail under the MBCA theme.
Avidya is ignorance, Ignorance of the truth that we are Divine and then, the next Ego creeps in, which is the sense of MINE-ness, which is dealt in the above gospel.
From this mine-ness, all the attachments and hatred, all the fear, all the impressions originate. That is why Swami has told that this sense of mine-ness is the root of all evil.
Swami goes a step forward and says "This distinction of mine and thine is applied even to God".
All the fights / all the misunderstandings / all the calamities/ all the unrest caused between human beings of any 2 different religions flow from the difference between the 2 religions believing in 2 different God!!
Main preaching of each religion is to practice the instruction of its God. No religion ever preaches to condemn God of other religions.
A devotee belonging to any religion, believing in any God, MUST transcend all limitations of his ego and merge in the Ocean of Love, which is the real existence of God!
Then and only then, there can be no my-ness, no mine, no thine but just "IS" ness, This "IS" ness is the eternal truth that only God IS!
Love.
