Not everybody who is having psychological problems are pathologically ill. Most of them are victims of the situations in which they exist. So, Punya Puja is a way of consecrating your home, entire home, every part of it. The thing is, what this Punya Puja is, maybe we can use an English term so that everybody looks at it differently. Punya Puja is like, you know what's Punya? What is referred to as Punya and Papa? Unfortunately, these things are badly misinterpreted over a period of time. Punya Papa means those type of actions, actions which take you down, actions which, you know, increase the effervescence of life within you or actions which move you towards the inertia of life. Or in other words, actions which move you towards life, actions which move you towards death. When I say death, not just physical death, you can die in so many ways. So, there are many fantastic phenomena happening in the process of life every day. Every day, every moment, it's happening. Most of the humanity is dead to it. They're dead to the moon, dead to the sunrise, dead to the sunset. Only when something becomes acute or they have to get up in the morning, early morning and go for their work, then sun gets in their eyes and of course you put the pad so that you can't see it. Something like this, why this has happened is, the psychological space has overtaken the cosmic space.  This is all that's happened. And anyway, the puja is about getting you into an energetic space where you become alive to these things. So, the Purnya Puja is to end live in the house. The space in the house should become alive. If you have lived in such a way in your home that every moment you're on with love and light within you, then no Purnya Puja would be needed. But today you have built homes which are so large, it's very difficult to make them alive just by living. If you just had a one-room house and you lived in great sense of love and joy, you can easily keep it very alive. But today your house has ten, fifteen enclosures. It's very difficult for any human being to keep it alive. Once in a way if you do not end live in it, slowly if you enter certain parts of your home, you will see it feels like a coffin.   Some parts may be alive. Usually I find kitchens are alive because it's the only place something is happening. Everywhere else, if you live in a very, very alive way, you can end live in something. But when you have twelve, fifteen, twenty enclosures in your house, it's very, very difficult for anybody to end live in all that. So Punya Puja once in a way, at least once a year would light it up. That is, you have the space around you alive and it supports you. Can't I live beautifully in a coffin? You can. If you are capable of it, no problem. But not everybody is, they need external support. This is the idea of creating consecrated spaces. So Punya Puja is a way of consecrating your home, entire home, every part of it, so that there is some sense of aliveness and energy. But we cannot consecrate your home in such a way it's forever because your house is not built through that geometry. It doesn't have that kind of material to hold the energy forever. If we end live in an Indian home, easily one or two years it will stay alive. An American home, particularly, largely with wood and inside all those dampening, what is this, insulating material, keeping it alive. I'm saying if nothing alive is happening in the house, you're a depressed person, suppose. You have a whole bunch of depressed people in the house, nobody's really alive. If it is so, this Punya Puja may deplete in a matter of six to eight months. It will not stay for very long because the material used does not support that. If the house was built with brick or stone, we could make it alive and easily make it stay that way at least for two years. Minimum two years, I would say one and a half to two years, it could last much more. But it also depends on you, how you are. However the material is, if you are fine, you can live well. Because now most of the American homes are woodwork, you know, that's not a good word. It's woodwork, so it doesn't have the same capacity to hold. And another thing is it's recirculated air. Nobody opens a window or a door. It's all the time same air being recirculated or very minimal amount of movement of aliveness. If you have lot of plants around you, trees around you and if you keep the windows open, they will take care of the Punya Puja for you to quite some extent. They can. But most of the houses are shut off and recirculated air is going on all the time. People are not moving about joyfully. Either they're staring at their computer screen or they're depressed or they're sleeping. Inertia of various levels and various levels of stresses and tensions, it slowly builds up in the space and it can overwhelm a person. Any number of people will find if they're feeling sick, particularly if they're feeling psychologically, you know, kind of oppressed, you will see if they just walk out of that space, they will feel great. If they move to another place, they will almost become healthy.  Most of them are victims of the situations in which they exist, various type of situations. Energy situation is one of them and an important one. We have thought you are clear how to keep this, this body work within this boundary, how to keep it and live in all the time. But the larger woodwork of your home, how to keep it alive, if your Kriya is too fantastic, if your Shambhavi Mahamadurai is such, it's an explosion within you, then if you just walk around the house, maybe the space will get fixed. But if it's not like that, if you're not like that, then it's good to make use of the support of Pune Puja. It's a wonderful process through which it'll be done.


hey guys i hope you guys are doing well i just finished the last day of my show that i've been working on uh this is actually this sweater we got from it and that's pretty darn cool but the real point of this video is i'm actually a bit of a google review fanatic um mainly because they have sort of achievements sort of in it i am an achievement addict a little bit at least i was from my xbox then i found out that hey you can do it for google maps and that's actually somewhat helping society rather than meaningless numbers still meaningless numbers but at least you're helping people and you're doing stuff so i do photos and whatnot all the time anyways the point of this is i never knew this would happen but they sent me socks i got an email about it back in october saying that hey you've done over 10 000 what am i like 18 000 now points and they're like hey you've done all this for us so we're gonna send you some socks and i was like what that's awesome hey even says here thank you for updating information on google maps your contributions will help people access accurate information at a time when you need it most or they need it most here's a little something to say thank you these are them aren't these like the ugliest socks you've ever seen but not a bad quality at least they feel thinner or like thicker than most thin socks oh it even says local guide on the bottom here look at that local guide oh i love it there's the little google thing i'm a bubber right there oh that's dope i'm way more excited about this than i should be anyways guys i just wanted to say that also since i'm off my show now it's done i will be working on more videos now i'm going to be trying to catch up on movies that have been released on streaming services as well as getting ready to start supernatural season four you're gonna be seeing a little bit more of me in the next little while while also taking a little break because this show was pretty hard but the sweater sweet we also got a pretty cool mug anyways guys that's all for me hope you enjoyed this video if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe otherwise me and my cool new google socks we'll see you later thanks for watching the video my name is nits and you might remember me from the animated cult classic tv show undergrads it's been a while but i'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all new movie thanks to a successful kickstarter campaign but we are still asking for your support to see any and all updates about the upcoming undergrads movie be sure to check out and like the bring back undergrads facebook page and with any luck we'll see you guys soon


The Ottoman Empire lasted from 1299 to 1922. In 1453, the capital of the Ottoman Empire was moved to Constantinople. We've talked a lot about Constantinople as it was before that, a town called Byzantium. After the dissolvement of the Ottoman Empire, after World War I, Constantinople became known as Istanbul, as it's still known to this day. Now like any great empire of centuries gone by, the Ottoman Empire has a lot of legend, folklore, and stories. For a lot of people, especially for Westerners, stories that come from the Middle East around cultures that are very different from our own can be quite mysterious. And believe it or not, a particular house in New Orleans carries a legend that has to do with the culture from the Ottoman Empire. But before we go any further, you know what to do. Please hit that subscribe button and give us a like. As always, such a very, very special thank you to all of our producers and our patrons on this channel. We truly, truly could not do this without each of you. If you would like to join our Patreon, there is a link down in the description box below. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta, my name is Bryce, and today we are going to be talking about the Sultan of New Orleans. The Gardet Le Pret Mansion was built in 1836. This was a luxurious Greek home that was built at 716 Delphine Street at the corner of Delphine Street in Orleans Avenue in the French Quarter. Now, the story goes that the person who owned this house originally also had other houses out in the country known as plantations. This was common in this time period. This also was true with the McCarty family from Delphine Lollerie, who we covered last week. These people would live in their plantations for part of the year where most of their income was generated, and then they would go into the city to their city home for another part of the year. Well, in 1860, at the very beginning of the American Civil War, the landscape and socioeconomic standards for a lot of the people living in the south changed. Even though New Orleans surrendered quite quickly to the Union troops, there obviously was quite a crunch on the pocketbook of most of the residents. Around this time, this is when we believe that the person who originally owned the mansion in the French Quarter looked for a tenant to rent his city home out to in order to generate more income. The story goes that one night, the owner of this house ran into a sultan in New Orleans. The sultan had come from the then Ottoman Empire. Now, sultan is an Arabic word that means strength, authority, or rulership. Sultan is used in Muslim countries, whereas the word king would be a more secular term for a general ruler. We all know the story of sultans with their harams and their many, many, many wives and their beautiful, beautiful and expensive gold and jewelry. Now, again, many people believe with this story that the sultan rented the house, whereas others will tell you that the sultan flat out bought the house. I believe that the sultan rented the house, and I'll tell you why in a little bit. But nonetheless, once all the credentials seemed to check out, the owner of this house handed over the keys to this sultan. The sultan then moved in his many, many wives and his haram and all of his jewels and bedazzlement to his new residence in New Orleans. Once the sultan was moved in, the locals in the neighborhood noticed that chains were put on the gates and heavy, heavy locks were placed on all the doors, and they also noticed that the sultan decided to hang heavy drapes in all of the windows, so a pastor by could not quite see inside the mansion. Knowing that the sultan was from a different culture than the dominant culture of New Orleans, most people probably just shrugged their shoulders and went about their business. However, looking back on the story, we now know why he put up chains and curtains. The sultan's mansion was known to throw quite scandalous, loud parties at night. People would hear the music playing, the laughter, and could kind of see the lights dancing through the cracks in the curtains. These parties weren't just scandalous. I mean, most people in the town knew that these parties consisted of, shall we say, bodily pleasures. Sounds a little bit like the party's Delphine Lalere's mother was notorious for throwing as well. Well, on one particular night, the people in the neighborhood noticed that no sound was coming from the sultan's mansion. Although the story goes that some people were quite relieved to get a reprise for a night where there was going to be silence, other people found it quite odd. I know for myself, living right in the middle of a city, I find comfort in the noises of a city when I'm visiting places that are really out in the country.  I can understand that might have been some of the neighbors to the sultan's house hearing the parties every night. They might have become used to it. And so therefore, the one night where there was no party might have been a little bit eerie to them. And there was a good reason for them feeling eerie about the idea that there was no music, no party, and going on whatsoever from this sultan's mansion. Because the next morning, a man was out walking and he noticed something really, really creepy. As he was walking by the door of the sultan's mansion, he noticed oozing out from underneath the door. Now of course, this is concerning. So the man went to the police and brought the police down to the mansion where they proceeded to break in. Once they got inside, they saw a very, very gruesome sight. Needless to say, a bunch of the people that lived in the house, the wives, the harems, everything, and they had all been viciously removed from the earth plane. As our friend Janine says, since we can't say the M word, it appears that arms and legs were thrown about the house. It wasn't as if someone just came and took them all out. They really wanted to make a point. And from what it seemed, the removing of these people from the earth plane was pretty, pretty painful. It was definitely what we could call... Now, interesting. Outside in the courtyard, there was a hand reaching up out of the ground, almost like this weird, what we would call like modern art statue today, of just this hand coming right up out of the ground like it was reaching for life. Legends state that this was indeed the sultan himself. However, come to find out, the man who rented the house in the French Quarter wasn't a sultan at all. He was the brother of a sultan, and it seems that he had run off from the Ottoman Empire with all of his brother's wives, his brother's wealth, and his brother's harem of women. This is why all of the doors and the gates had chains and locks on them, and why this quote-unquote pseudo sultan, the brother of the sultan, had heavy drapes over the windows. He was hiding from his brother and his henchmen. However, obviously, his henchmen eventually found him and exacted their revenge. Now, the real interesting part of the story is that there's no record of the story ever happening. The owner of the house passed away in 1878, and it wasn't until 1922 around the time where the Ottoman Empire was dissolved, and Constantinople became Istanbul, that the story of the sultan got started around New Orleans. No one talked about it openly as a legend until that moment. Now, frankly, this is why I believe if the story is true about the sultan, that he rented the house because we have no paperwork of any transactions of deeds moving from the original owner to this mysterious man from the Ottoman Empire. Today, the sultan's mansion is still a residence, although it has been divided up into apartment buildings, and the people who live at these apartment buildings, as well as the owner of the property, claim that weird paranormal activity happens. Keys go missing, and quite often they see a lady with long dark hair roaming the halls. Now, this could be any lady, white ladies have long dark hair, but we know that women from the Ottoman Empire typically have long thick dark hair. They also see the apparition of a civil war soldier. Now, I told you that New Orleans surrendered to the Union troops before any battles could ensue in the city. I watched a tour guide from New Orleans tell this story, and he brought up a very interesting perspective on this ghost of this soldier. Again, we don't have factual paperwork to prove that a sultan ever lived there. This rumor, the story of the sultan's mansion only got started in 1922, again after the Ottoman Empire was dissolved. But this tour guide from New Orleans said, you know, a lot of times when people hang around, when they hang around after their body's physical passing, they'll go to particular places for particular reasons. Sometimes it's because they had a scary experience, sometimes it's because they're hanging out in their homes or trying to reconnect with loved ones. Well, this soldier from the Americans of War would have been around the time of the sultan's mansion if the mansion story is correct. And we know that in New Orleans itself there were a lot of hospitals or businesses and homes turned into hospitals for the soldiers. Could it be, could it actually be, that a soldier returned to this house because he had had a wonderful night of partying at the sultan's mansion? I would love to hear all of your opinions down in the comment section below. Now as always, some of these stories that I find I think are just interesting or creepy are just something that is legendary and folklore towards a particular area. But my thought with the sultan's story is that it's quite odd that at the time that the Ottoman Empire dissolved is when this legend started. And it's also quite odd that so many people know the story. Like the story doesn't vary. I listen to actually a lot of people tell this story. The story doesn't vary. In fact, this story varies less than the retelling of Delphine Lollerie's story, again that we covered last week, where we know for sure because of paperwork and documents that something happened at the Lollerie mansion. So why? Why is there no paperwork? And why did people only feel free to start speaking about this catastrophe, we'll just say, after the Ottoman Empire itself dissolved? And why hasn't anybody tried to dig up the courtyard to see for sure if perhaps there's a grave back there? And if they're hiding this story from us since there's no paperwork, then what other stories are they hiding from us? Again, guys, please give me your opinions down in the comment section below. I will be out of town next week, but I have videos already waiting to go to be dropped for you guys. So you'll have some content to watch. The only thing that I will not be doing next week is typically I'm on David Zublick's show on Tuesdays and then on Prime Show on Fridays and of course other shows here and there. I do Aquarius Rising Africa every other week and I do Beyond Mystics. Now I think we're trying to do maybe every other week we'll see going forward, but none of those shows will happen this week because I will be with my sister down in Gulf Shores. I am going to try possibly to get into New Orleans for a day. We'll see. I covered this in another video that will be dropped last week because of the forced break I had from YouTube. Some of my videos are now, some are airing before others because I had to reschedule some stuff, but it all depends on what's going on in New Orleans during that time. I might not be able to get into the city and if I am able to get into the city, it might not be worth it because things might be closed down. So we'll just see how it goes. I do want to go to New Orleans eventually though and film some of the stuff that we've talked about, especially trying to figure out where the laylines are that we spoke about with Janine a few weeks back. So anyway, I just wanted to give you guys the heads up. Thank you so, so, so much you guys for all the support and you love that you gave us last week. A couple of my videos did drop while I was on the forced break because they were prescheduled to drop. So I guess that's kind of the loophole in that.  I also have opened up another platform up on Rumble where I am starting to put some of my videos that were too scandalous. 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But in the grand scheme of things, I think we're moving pretty rapidly into a new timeline. So that's super exciting. Just hold the line. Do what you gotta do to keep going. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just unplug for a couple hours. Take a walk out in nature. Go for a run. Play some music and dance. Do whatever you need to do. That brings joy into your life while we're waiting for the flip to occur. God's got this. You've were put here for a reason. Alright, guys, I'll talk to you soon. Bye.


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Hi, I'm Aranya. It's been a strange year so far, one that's highlighted many vulnerabilities in our systems. It's got a lot of us growing more food at home. And it's also increased the demand for permaculture courses, which is ironic because we can't teach any at the moment. We've been stuck at home here and we've been designing our site and it seemed logical to record that process and make it available as an online course. Design is a very hands-on practical course in that you watch videos of me explaining what we're looking for and then you go out and do it for yourself. In permaculture we tend to be looking at things like food and water and energy and also including in the course is a little bit about what permaculture is. So the course is for anyone who wants to design a land-based site. So if you'd like to learn a bit of permaculture and design your garden at the same time then this is the perfect opportunity for you.


Yeah, so just before the break, we started John chapter 21 and we looked at these disciples who have decided to go out to fish and we see in verse 3, John 21 verse 3, that they were unable to catch any fish. This is almost a repetition of what had occurred long ago, about three years back when they first were called into ministry. So if we were to turn to Luke chapter 5, we see over there in Luke chapter 5 that Jesus sees these first disciples fishing and then, you know, they have not caught anything and then Jesus says to them, throw the nets on the other side and they have a huge catch, which they are able to get, that would be in Luke 5 and at the end of that passage, Luke chapter 5, if we were to look at verses 10 and 11, this is what it says over there. So if we could have someone please read out for us, Luke chapter 5 verses 10 and 11, please. Luke 5, 10 and 11. And so also were James and John the son of Zebede, who were partners with Simon and Jesus said to Simon, do not be afraid from now on you will catch men. So when they had brought their boats to land, they foresook all and followed him. It says that they foresook all and followed him, that is, they gave up everything here in this, I think this, I'm not sure which version I have with me right now. It says over here, when they had brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and followed him. So which means, now onwards, the main full-time task would be to be with Jesus, learn from him, help him in the ministry that he is doing and all of that. So whenever they would get an opportunity, yes, they would support themselves. But what would be their main focus, their topmost priority from now on? It would be the calling which Jesus has given to them. He said, from now on, you are going to be catching people, not fish, okay? So this does not mean that they were always depending on, upon other people to support them and their families. It just means that from now on, their first topmost priority would be to do whatever Jesus commands them to do. So in that sense, you know, they became full-time ministers. So later on, we see Paul and his team also doing full-time ministry. But even as they did their full-time ministry to the extent possible, they supported themselves by making tents and, you know, taking part in other forms of trade. So here, on this occasion, again, they're unable to catch a fish in John chapter 21 and Jesus says, cast your nets on the right side. And it seems in those days, the fishing people generally would cast the net on the left side, it seems. But now Jesus says, you know, cast it on the right side and they're actually able to catch many fish. So that causes John to realize that this must be Jesus. And so he quickly comes, you know, Peter gets down into the water and comes running to the shore and then all the other disciples catch up and they all eat together. And then this conversation begins in verse 15, John chapter 21, Jesus' conversation with Peter. So this is basically what Jesus says to Peter. So maybe if we could have someone read out for us, John chapter 21, from verse 15 all the way up to verse 17, John 21, 15 to 17. So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these? He said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you. He said to him, feed my lads.  He said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you. He said to him, tend my sheep. He said to him the third time, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, do you love me? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things, you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, feed my sheep. Amen. Yes, thank you. So here this is the question which Jesus places before Peter. He says, do you love me more than these? So maybe Jesus is referring back to the first time when Peter and the other disciples were called into ministry and he's saying, yes, you will always have human responsibilities. Yes, you will have need to go and do fishing. But do you love me more than these, all these earthly responsibilities that you have more than this need to be able to make money, to be able to earn a livelihood, do you love me more than these things? Peter's immediate responses, yes, Lord, you know that I love you. You know, it's what Peter says. Now there are so many things which are said regarding this passage. We will look at it in stages. So first let's just, you know, look at this commission, the re-commissioning that Jesus is doing over here. I guess we'll just dwell on that first. So Peter and the disciples have been fishing and now the question that Jesus is asking is, do you love me more than these things? You will have earthly responsibilities. You will need to earn a livelihood.  Are you willing to resume that?  So we see this being repeated twice. The first time he says, feed my lambs. The second time he says, tend my sheep. And the third time he says, feed my sheep. So you have lambs being mentioned and you have sheep being mentioned. Lambs of course would be the younger offspring of the grown-up sheep.  So they would be youngsters to be taken care of. Maybe those were spiritually young and they would be older sheep also who would need to be taken care of. So that word that is used over there, feed is used twice. It just basically talks about grazing, you know, you graze the sheep. So in the same way, when it comes to the human flock, the few human flock would have to be fed taken care of in different ways. And then the second occasion, he says, tend my sheep. The word that is used over there, it's not referring so much to grazing. That word that is used over there is talking more about leading, guiding. So in that sense, it has more to do with governance.  All of those things are referred to. So you have the, so when it comes to this whole matter of doing ministry, of being fishers of men, this is what it would involve. It would involve feeding them spiritual food. It would also involve leading them and guiding them and taking care of decision-making, you know, decision matters and things like that. So it's talking about leadership. It's talking about service. It's talking about taking care and tending in that sense as well. So if you were to, you know, reflect upon Ezekiel 34, where God, Yahweh, talks about these false shepherds who were not good, you know, shepherds to the people. And if you were to go back to Ezekiel 34, this is the accusation which Yahweh makes about these people. He says in Ezekiel 34 verse 2, Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves, you know, should not the shepherds feed the flocks, you know, is what it says over there in Ezekiel 34 verse 2.  You slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock.   And then he goes on to say, I will raise up a shepherd for myself who will go searching for the flock, the lost ones, he'll bring them back. And that was Jesus, the true shepherd, you know, who came and did that for us. So now these people are being called to take on that same responsibility, Peter and all of the others. They are going to become shepherds. And this is what would be expected of them, because in Ezekiel chapter 34 verse 4, you kind of have a small role description of what a shepherd should be doing. What exactly, of course, these false shepherds were not doing those things, but this is what our true shepherd should be doing, Ezekiel 34 verse 4. It talks about how the weak will have to be strengthened. Not everyone is going to be spiritually mature and strong. The shepherd would have to go after the weak, sit with them, you know, encourage them, help them to take a more active role in developing their relationship with the Lord. So someone would have to sit with them and strengthen them. It also talks about how the sick would need to be healed. So there would be those who would require physical healing. There would also be those who are maybe spiritually sick and need to be restored. So that also would be involved. Verse Ezekiel 34 verse 4 also talks about how the broken need to be bound up. There are those who have been injured, maybe both emotionally as well as in a spiritual sense. So someone needs to bind up their wounds and help them to recover. It even talks over there in Ezekiel 34 verse 4 about people who have been driven away.  So someone has to go after them and bring them back into the flock so that Satan will not take advantage of the situation and harm them. And then of course, you know, the leaders also have to be people who will seek those who are lost. Those who have never come to the fold.  So these are all the different things that a shepherd actually does. So here when Jesus is saying to Peter, feed my lambs, feed my sheep, tend my sheep. These are all the things which Peter is being asked to do. So if he is going to be only interested in fishing, then these tasks will get neglected. So it is important that Simon son of Jonah should love the Lord more than these earthly things. Because only then, you know, if his priorities are right, only then will he prove to be a good servant of his master. So that's regarding the feeding of the lambs and the tending of the sheep and all of that. Coming to the other aspect where there's a lot said about the words which are used in the original Greek for love, a lot of wrong interpretations are given. And it all this only started 1960 onwards. Before that, people did not really think about this passage in such a negative sense. What happened was that in 1960, C.S. Lewis wrote a book called The Four Loves where he kind of took four Greek words and he gave them very, very specific definitions and said, you know what, this word means this and this word, this Greek word means this. And so this is this kind of love and this love is inferior to that love and this love is better than the other type of love and all of that. But actually, if you look into your Greek Bible and you look at those four words being used in different places, that kind of strict demarcation is not there between these words. These words were used more as synonyms, you know, I may say that I adore my dog or I may say that I love my dog. They're just two ways of saying that I have affection for my dog. So I have used, in fact, three words now, you know, a love, adore and affection. They're all kind of synonyms. So which was what the case was with Agape and Filio. It's not like as if Agape is in some way some kind of superior kind of a love, nor is it a kind of divine love. It's just a word for love. Filio is in the same way, not an inferior word for love. It's just another word for love. And we will actually look at passages which would prove this case. So what we actually learn from commentaries is that these words were Filio and Agape were kind of used as synonyms and used interchangeably, okay? So they were not meant to be used very distinctively. But New Testament writers began to choose this word Agape more and more whenever they would talk about the love of God, simply because this word Agape, the emphasis of that word is more on the object that is being loved, okay? So the object that is loved is cherished. The object that is being loved is considered as precious. It's considered as valuable and important. So there was a slight nuance to this particular word Agape, which was not there in the other word Filio. So the New Testament writers started using this word Agape more for God's love and that is basically how a demarcation came about, okay? So originally in the Greek language, when people used to speak, these two words were just very commonly used as synonyms and we see that happening in many places in the New Testament. But New Testament writers began to choose this word Agape for two reasons. One of course is the heavy emphasis which is there on the object, where the person who is doing the loving considers this object so precious, so valuable, even though it may be something ordinary, the person who is loving it considers it very, very valuable. The other thing is that it's not really an emotional kind of a love. Filio is a very, very emotional word. It's the kind of love that exists between family members, with friends. It's very heavily emotional, Filio is very, very emotional. Agape on the other hand is something that you choose to do and whether you feel like it or not, you do it because that object that you love is that special and that dear. So whether you feel like it or not, you do it, which is why you see when the commandment is given to husbands and wives in Ephesians chapter 5, that word Agape is used and in Ephesians 525, this is what it says over there, husbands love your wife, Agape your wives, just as Christ Agape the church. So in this modern era, you have people in broken homes, they say, oh, I don't feel love for my spouse anymore, so I think I should just leave the person. It's not about emotion, it's not Filio. If Filio will be there on some days, Filio will not be there on some days, but you don't go by emotions, you make a choice, it's a will and you declare and say, yes, I shall be faithful to this person. So Agape does not depend on emotions, it considers the object valuable enough, whether you're feeling like it or not, whether you're feeling Filio or not, you will choose to express love. So it's in that sense, it's unconditional. All right, so Agape and Filio are both good words. Filio is in no way an inferior word. And we see this in, especially in John chapter five verse 20, where it very clearly says, the father Filio the son. Okay, so this is the word Filio is used for the father's love for Jesus Christ. So it's in no way inferior to Agape. All right, so Agape is beautiful, Filio is also beautiful. It's just that Filio is a very emotional word where you feel a lot of emotion towards your loved ones, towards your friends, towards the people who are close to you. Agape, on the other hand, is more stable, doesn't go by emotions. It just decides in its heart, you know, this person is valuable, deserves to be loved irrespective of whether I'm feeling like it or not. I am going to love this person. So it's more stable kind of a word. Okay, so that's just the difference. So now having understood the background, if we were to look at what is happening over here in the conversation between Jesus and Peter, Jesus says to him in verse 15, Simon, do you Agape me more than all these things of the world?  So yes, Lord, you know, you're going to be my first priority. But then Jesus says to him a second time, do you Agape me? And he's probably puzzled that Jesus is asking this a second time. And he says, Yes, Lord, you know that I filial you and he's still using the deep emotional, you know, that word which is packed with a lot of emotion. And so then the third time Jesus uses the emotional word. And he says to him, Simon, son of Jonah, do you filial me? And over here, he's also using that emotion, emotional word, that filial word. And then he says that the third time we are told in verse 17, Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, do you filial me? And he just replies and says, Lord, you know all things. You know that I filial you. So because now Peter kind of catches what is happening here. Jesus is asking him three times.  And so it probably reminded him of that occasion. And Peter is grieved that Jesus is saying this to him for the third time. And he says, Lord, you know, you know all things. So you know whether I really know filial you or not. And so this passage troubled me for a long time because we are told in scripture that once God forgives, he does not remind you of your sin. He does not rub it in again and again. What is forgiven is forgiven. So I always wondered why did Jesus rub it in for Peter? I'm sure he weeps bitterly after the third betrayal. You know, after he betrays Jesus for the third time. So he has repented. He is no longer against Jesus. Why does Jesus bring this up for the third time to hurt his feelings? You know, it's a question which is always there in my heart. But then I, you know, read somewhere about this and I began to understand. Jesus says this to him to help him bring to put a closure to what happened. You know, so because maybe Peter was always reminded of what he had done. Maybe that guilt of that always rested upon him. And now Jesus wants to completely remove him from that feeling of guilt and show him that he's going to go on to much greater things. And he needs to leave this behind. It doesn't have to go on holding on to this. So because you see Peter says, Lord, you know all things.  In fact, he knows to what extent Peter is going to filet you him. And so he goes on to say, yeah, I know this is what is going to happen in the future.  But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands and over there, the wording that is used over there is the kind of wording that is used about, you know, hands being stretched out on a cross. You know, so and Jesus says to him, someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go. And in fact, in verse 19, it confirms and we are told Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God.  You know, you have repented, put it behind you, not continue to live in guilt. Move on from there because indeed, I do know all things.  In fact, you filet you me to an extent where you're going to be doing this. You'll be glorifying God one day in that manner. And then you have a very interesting statement. You know, yeah, he's then he said to him, follow me. And of course, you know, Peter is more than willing to follow Jesus. In spite of knowing this is the way he's going to be, you know, die. If he follows Jesus, he doesn't care about that. He's more than willing to follow Jesus. So, you know, he and then in verse 20, it says, Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. Now, this is something so wonderful, you know, this conversation which happens between Peter and Jesus is a private conversation. It's not happening with all the other disciples sitting over there as an audience. It looks like the meal has finished. They have got up. They have, you know, they have both of them together are walking down the beach. The others are not listening into what's going on. So in private, Jesus brings up this topic of what he had done in the past, you know, the betrayal that has taken place in the past and three times Jesus asks the question. Three times Peter replies, yes, I fill you and he says, Lord, you know all things and Jesus has very truly, this is how you're going to glorify me one day. So, you know, what has happened is now put to rest. Jesus helps him to bring flow. You know, Jesus brings closure to whatever has taken place and now Peter can move on confidently knowing that, you know, God is going to strengthen him because that is what Jesus says to him earlier.  He is going to be tending the flock. He is going to be a leader. So Jesus brings closure to that issue. So if you and I are still living under the dark cloud of something that we have done in the past and it keeps coming back to you again and again, no matter what you do for the Lord that comes back to you and you think, oh, this is who I am. This is what I did. This was the kind of person I was. And if you're still being haunted by that again and again, maybe you should sit down with this passage and, you know, reflect upon it as though Jesus is speaking these words to you and he's asking you now in the present, do you agape me? And like Peter, are you able to respond with all of your heart and say, yes, Lord, I filet you. That is the case. Then know that in the same way that, you know, Jesus wanted Peter to move on and become a person who will strengthen his brethren, who will tend to the flock, that is the same role that Jesus wants for you as well. So do not live in the past. What happened happened?  And the Lord has accepted that because the Lord has accepted that. He is saying, yes, now fulfill the role which I'm giving you. And he's saying, follow me. Are you willing to follow him? Or are you going to be haunted by that thing in the past, which the Lord himself has forgiven? The Lord has forgiven it. Who are you to hold on to it?  Who on earth made you God? Let the Lord decide what needs to be forgiven and what should not be forgiven, because he's the one who paid the price for it. I mean, he paid the price in full. That is a forgiven sin. Are you saying that the blood of Christ was not enough to, to forgive you of that sin? I mean, how can you say that?  And he will cleanse you from all unrighteousness is what it says over there in what's John one nine. So therefore, like Peter, we can move on with our lives and glorify God in the way Peter glorified.  Peter probably was crucified during the time of Nero. You know, so he would probably be dead by now. By the time this particular Gospel was written, because, you know, if you were if you have done all the Gospels, you would know the first three were written earlier on and the Gospel of John was the last one to be written a little later. So by this time, Peter's crucifixion probably would have happened already. You know, just to address the question which Rosalind has posted over here. So it's the Agape love and unconditional love, like we like we talked about Agape is this very stable love. Its emphasis is on the object that is being loved. So whether you're feeling filial, whether you're emotionally moved from the depths of your being to express love or not, you just choose to love. It's a very stable love. And therefore, when we are commanded by God, you know, to love the Lord, we are told to this word, this is the word which is used. Okay, maybe John 1423, in John 1423, Jesus answered and said to him, if anyone Agape me, he will keep my word and my father will Agape him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. So here Jesus is saying, it's not a divine love which only God can feel. No, that's a very wrong definition. Humans are quite capable of expressing Agape love. In fact, we are being commanded to express Agape love. Jesus commands us in John 1423 and says to us, if anyone Agape me, let him show that in action, you know, by keeping my word, those who obey me and keep my word and submit to it, they are the people who Agape me. You don't depend on filial only when you're feeling filial, you don't just obey the Lord, whether you're feeling emotions or not, you choose to obey him. And when you do that, the father in that same steady manner, he will Agape you.  So we literally have the triune Godhead living in us, making his home in us, willing to consider ordinary human beings as his temple. I mean, you know, in the Old Testament times, the temple was revered to something respected because that is where the presence of God dwelt. And today you and I are that temple. This almighty God is choosing to, you know, that in that day, he chose to stay in our temple that was slated with gold and which had golden vessels, which were used for the service. And today he's staying inside humans, just made a flesh we sweat. I mean, at times our health is, you know, maybe not good. Sometimes we are strong. Sometimes we are weak. He has chosen to dwell in a, in a perishable clay God like this, the almighty one, he has chosen to make his home with us. You know, it's not just, you know, like he's just coming over there as a kind of beauty. He wants to be with us. He considers us family. So how careful we should be in the thoughts which run through our minds? No, do we have all kinds of hatreds and jealousies and greed and pride in our mind? That is no way to honor this amazing God. So agape love is a good love sometimes, you know, we don't go with our emotions. We choose to be steady in the way we choose to love him. So yes, in that sense, it's a steady love, not based on emotions. In that sense, it is an unconditional love. Okay, so whether we are, whether I'm feeling the condition of love or not, I will still love. So in that sense, it is unconditional, of course. All right, so yes, if we can have someone read out versus 20 and 21. So here, here we are in chapter 21. If someone could read out versus 20 and 21. In fact, maybe up to 25. Yeah, John chapter 21, if someone could read from 20 all the way up to 25, yeah. Then Peter turning around saw the disciples whom Jesus loved following who also had lean on his breast at the supper and said, Lord, who is the one who betrays you? Peter seen him say to Jesus, but Lord, what about this man? Jesus said to him, if I will that he remains till I come, what is that to you? You follow me. Then this same went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yeah, Jesus did not say to him that he would not die. But if I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? This is the disciple who defies of these things and wrote these things. And we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not compare the books that would be written. Amen. Amen. So we had seen our introduction that some copies, original copies that have survived and come to us, they contain only 20 chapters. Whereas we have some other manuscripts which contain 21 chapters, so which is why people said that maybe John actually when he first wrote, he just finished off with chapter 20 and then later he wanted to clarify and clear up certain additional things, which is why maybe I know he again under the he was inspired by God to add one more chapter, which is why in some manuscripts you have 21 chapters being mentioned. So they say that maybe this was one thing which he wanted to very clearly clarify. There was this false rumor going around saying that, Oh, John is never going to die. He's going to stay alive till the second coming off the Lord. So if people hold on to that kind of a belief and then you know Monday, John dies, then it would affect the faith of people. So he wanted to make that very, very clear that this is not at all what was meant when Peter asks Jesus what about him? Jesus says, you mind your own business.  What I will do with other people that's between me and them. So so he Jesus only meant it in that sense. So John wants to clarify and make it very clear to the readers that in no way is he going to be immortal. He's going to die the same way. Everyone else has died. So in fact, we learn from Jewish tradition that he most probably was burnt to death is what they say. I mean, there's no clear historical record regarding that. But yeah, so even, you know, John dies just like all the other people. And so now we have a second conclusion over here at the end of chapter 21, where it where the where this John is saying, we know that his testimony is true. He's talking about himself. You know, he says I am that disciple who leaned on Jesus' breast and about whom Peter asked this question. And so he says, we know that his testimony is true. Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. So you again have a repetition of what was mentioned in the earlier chapter. So in this way, you know, the gospel of John comes to a conclusion. So after we have covered all of these things, anything that anyone wants to say regarding the entire gospel of John. I mean, I don't mean just to raise class any comments that you would like to make or any question that you would like to raise. Yeah, otherwise, you know, we can actually close early with a word of prayer. But if anyone wants to ask anything at all from the gospel of John, which has been covered so far, yeah, you can go ahead. No, all right. Okay, then in that case, let's close. So of course, you know, next week, we will get into the epistets. Lord, we just thank you so much for all the lessons that we could have that we were able to learn up to now from the gospel of John. Thank you, Lord. Lord, it has been very clearly established that you are the Son of God, that you are the Messiah who has come, and it is through you alone that we can have eternal life. Lord, we pray that even as we have learned these truths, even as we have spent time reflecting upon them, now or Lord, we will fulfill the commission that you have given us and go out and share these things with other people. Lord, even as we carry the Holy Spirit now within us, we know, Lord, that He will convict the people whom we speak to. So we pray, Lord, that we will do our part so that the Holy Spirit can work through us and bring about work of conviction and repentance. We pray, Lord, that whenever we have the time, we will go through this book once again. We will reflect on the important truths that are contained in it, that, Lord, we would absorb them into our hearts and minds and then go out and share these things with other people so that they may be benefited, so that they may know you in a personal way that we know you, O Lord. We pray that you would anoint all of us for this task, O Lord. Every single student who has attended so far, me, O Lord, who has tried to teach some of these truths and concepts, please, Lord, we pray that you would anoint us afresh, equip us, O Lord, so that what we have learned through this Gospel of John, we will not just keep it to ourselves, but we will go and share it with others so that, Lord, they too can be part of your flock. They too can enjoy the eternal life which we enjoy. Thank you, O Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thank you so much for staying with me throughout the Gospel of John. And, yeah, next week we will begin with the Epistols. Thank you.