"I am the resurrection"

Jesus said unto her, “I am the resurrection, and the life: 
he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 
And whoever liveth and believeth in me 
shall never die.” (John 11:25–26) 

Being the words of Jesus, it is easy to see that the “I” and the “me” refer to Jesus. Who was Jesus? This question can be answered in many ways. So let’s narrow it down to: Who was Jesus referring to when he used the pronoun “I”?

Our Pseudo-Freedoms

Many of us like to think of ourselves as “free” people. It cannot be denied that many of us enjoy considerable freedom at the social, economic, and political levels.
       But it would be foolish to imagine that we are free in every possible way. Moreover, all of our freedoms have their limits. As someone famously said, “Your freedom ends where my nose begins.” Our freedom is also restricted by factors related to time (the body does not last forever), capacity (the mind and the intellect have their limits), and the force of habit. Can we say in all honesty that we are absolutely free from jealousy, anger, hatred, dislike, and attachment?

Life as a Series of Dreams

We don’t have just one dream every night. Most of us have more than one dream. We effortlessly pass from one dream to the next, and usually it is the dream we had just before we wake up that we remember. When we pass from one dream to another, we don’t generally recall the earlier dream. Waking up is the only way for these series of dreams to come to an end.