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The Gospel starts in an incredibly beautiful way. No other book starts that way, no other book can
start that way. The Bible is ’the book of the books’: that is the exact meaning of the word ’Bible’ – the
Book. It is the most precious document that humanity has. That’s why it is called ’The Testament’,
because Jesus has witnessed to God in it: Jesus has become the witness to God, a testament. It
is the only proof possible. God cannot be argued, but only a man like Jesus can become a proof for
him.
The Gospel carries all that is beautiful in Jesus’ flowering, the Beatitudes. Those statements are
the most beautiful ever made. Not even Buddha, not even Lao Tzu, have spoken that way. Buddha
is very philosophic, very refined; Jesus is very plain, simple. Jesus speaks like a villager, a farmer,
a fisherman. But because he speaks the way common people speak, his words have a solidity, a
concreteness, a reality.
Buddha’s words are abstract; they are very very high words, philosophical. Jesus’ words are downto-earth, very earthly. They have that fragrance of the earth that you come across when the rains
have started and the earth is soaking up the rains and a great fragrance arises – the fragrance of the
wet earth, the fragrance that you find on a sea beach, the fragrance of the ocean, the trees. Jesus’
words are very very earthbound, rooted in the earth. He is an earthly man, and that is his beauty.
Nobody else can be compared with that beauty. The sky is good, but abstract, far away, distant.
So I say to you, no other book starts the way the Gospel starts; no other book talks the way the
Gospel talks.