What Does Jesus Mean by 'Many Rooms' in the Bible, John14:1-4?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Anil Antony asked: Given below is an excerpt from the Bible (John 14) for reference. In My Father’s House Are Many Rooms. 1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. 2In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.”]

Swami replied:- Many rooms mean many levels of devotion. This means that the devotion must be developed step by step in the case of ordinary devotees. A blessed devotee of high level devotion in the previous birth may be born in this birth continuing the same high level of devotion in this birth and may rise to the more higher levels also. You shall not compare the high level of such high devotee with normal levels of other devotees and say that such and such devotee reached very high level in this birth itself and you all have not reached that much height. This will discourage the normal devotees. The actual fact is that the exceptional devotee of such height has already gone to very high level in the previous birth and the soul is born in this birth continuing that high level already reached in the previous birth. The human incarnation told that it will come again, which means that it will come again and again to lift all the devotees. If a relative is leaving your house by saying that he will come again, it does not mean that he will come once again only. “I will come again” means that He will come again and again till the lifting work is finished. Fantastic fellows!, who say that He will come again once only and not many times! The Gita says that God will come in human form again and again whenever there is necessity for Him (Yadaa yadaa hi...). Of course, there is a merit in such misunderstood interpretation also, which is that the souls must reform quickly as early as possible because this is the last but one chance (that is coming before the final dissolution of the world)! This indicates that the soul on this earth can reach the ultimate divine goal through the human incarnation only, which alone is relevant to humanity.

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