What will happen to the Soul of Mother Teresa? — A Critical and a Metaphysical Analysis.

All born, die. Those who die, are reborn.

Until “That” Which Is, forgives them. As per their karma. Or they “get” What Is. Then, the ballgame changes.

About forgiveness, only God knows.

But did Mother Teresa “know” the Ultimate Truth? No, absolutely not!

Was she just a common lot and a conceited Christian fundamentalist evangelist? Was she a good and a godly person? Was she a saint?

Well, judge for yourself.

Here are some public facts about her life, collected from different sources:-

• The New York Times came to the view that she was “less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs.”
• Hemley Gonazalez, a noted humanitarian worker describing Missionaries of Charity, where he briefly volunteered, goes on to mention that “Workers washed needles under tap water and then reused them. Medicine and other vital items were stored for months on end, expiring and still applied sporadically to patients.”
• “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion,” Mother Teresa said. “The world gains much from their suffering.”
• The German magazine Stern estimated that only 7% of the millions of dollars Teresa received was used for charity.
• When Teresa told one man suffering from cancer “you are suffering like Christ on the cross, so Jesus must be kissing you,” he replied: “Then please tell him to stop kissing me.”
• Teresa was unrepentant, insisting that a home for the dying was not a hospital. “We are not nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teachers, we are not social workers,” she said: “We are religious.”
• In 1995, she publicly advocated a “no” vote in the Irish referendum to end the country’s constitutional ban on divorce and remarriage.
• After the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s suspension of civil liberties in 1975, Mother Teresa endorsed her, and compliantly said: “People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes.”
• In 2000, a deeply disturbed Susan Shields, a former Missionaries sister, said that she herself had “written receipts of $50,000″ in donation but there was no sign of the “flood of money.”
• This “simple” lady, Mother Teresa, committed to “poverty”, traveled the world in a private jet given to her by a corrupt politician. She refused to return the jet even after the law enforcement in the US told her that it had been purchased with embezzled money.
• Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptize dying patients, without regard or respect for the individual’s religion. Without their explicit their consent.
• Susan Shields, a former member of the Missionaries of Charity, writes that “Sisters were to ask each person in danger of death if he wanted a ‘ticket to heaven’.” An affirmative reply was deceitfully and deviously taken to mean consent to baptism. The sister was then to pretend that she was just cooling the patient’s head with a wet cloth, while in fact she was fraudulently baptizing him; mumbling the necessary words that are said during baptism in the Church. Secrecy was important so that it would not come to be known that Mother Teresa’s sisters were covertly and conceitedly baptizing Hindus and Muslims.
• Recently, The Guardian reported — It is a far from universally accepted verdict. The most formidable of her critics was another British journalist, Christopher Hitchens who in 1994 made a film called Hell’s Angel. It claimed that Mother Teresa treated the symptoms of poverty while ignoring the causes. She took money from distasteful political figures and rich fraudsters, and didn’t publish any accounts. Her Catholic opposition to abortion and contraception made her a religious fundamentalist. Her Kolkata home for the dying had poor medical standards. It all constituted, Hitchens railed, a “cult of death and suffering”.

In India, it is advised not to speak ill of a departed soul.

However, since a question has been asked about the said person, it must be answered without sanctimonious piousness or prejudice.

The above mentioned deeds and thoughts in action do not seem to be the workings of a saintly soul. Some may view the same to be the doings of a double-dealing, double-speaking damsel — in no distress.

Such a soul wanders.

For us not to wander away from our “home” — the End Reality — we must be in the “know” of our Final Abode.

To Mother Teresa, home was where the Christian mythology says it is. In an illusory material place “up there”. Just like the “home coming” of Jihadis, in Islam, is fancied to be a carnal heaven. Equally true, or false.

At the minimum, all this is just a jaundiced view. At the maximum, a fancied, flawed, fundamentalist religious outlook. Looking down upon “heathens” — those of other viewpoint. That’s most of us!

And believing thus, blindly and blatantly, like other evangelists, Mother Teresa dedicated her life to “harvest souls”. Trying to bring in the “infidels” — the easy to target, poor people in India — to one’s own outfit. Of her own fundamentalist Christian faith. And sorry to say, by hook and crook. If need be, then, by a under the belt hook.

The Duchess of Orleans narrated that Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: “I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool.”

The history of most Christian saints in un-saintly.

Cutting to the chase, simply put, in the West a saint is an holy, a godly fellow. In the East too a saint is a hallowed being — given to good thoughts, godly teachings, and holy deeds. In India too, the meaning remains more or less the same. That is why some may regard Mother Teresa as a saint here.

Though that many, if not more, deny her sainthood. As a Vatican hoodwink. Meant for those who amongst us know much less than nothing. And a probable fable for those who do blink, but do not much think.

Metaphysically, at least here in India, a saint is held to mean much more and thereof the same is spelled more exotically, as “sant”. That is, one in whom the “sva” (personal ego and earthly self) has eventually met its “anth” (final ending). Such an holy person or a god-man is a saint/sant.

And in whom does the sva/bodily ego/worldly self, meet its eventual end?

In a being, who in self-realization, is enlightened and awakened to the metaphysical reality that sans separation all’s but One Self.

That is, to such a chosen one there is no distinction between one being and another. Each being thus seems to be one’s very own, flesh of flesh, in spirit too akin one’s own mother, father, sister or brother.

Therefore, a “sant” or saint is above all isms, ideologies and ilk.

Was Mother Teresa such a person? Did she consider all people equal to those of her own dominion of Christianity? No. For, in Christianity, were one to go purely by what is in the Bible — the Word of God, as per the Christians — then, only those who accept Jesus as their lord go to heaven — others go to hell. Just as the Muslims hold similarly for their own religious creed — under the blind belief in their fancy, faith, and its founder.

Hence, metaphysically, people who live and die in duality, with a dual-consciousness as their death carrier, are reborn. Until they do enough good deeds to earn Divine Grace, of That Which Is. Or are advanced spiritual souls who while “here”, live and die “There” — in Oneness, with Divine Unity, and unto the Allness of the Whole. Of What Is.

Only those who “get” the Whole, have the Infinite Wholeness as their Final Abode.

Therefore, viewed with the “Single Eye” of the eternal metaphysical reality, will Mother Teresa be reborn as a human? Who knows! For, the “That” of Which Is does what “It” may. Who knows what the Almighty Whole does or not!

But to die in non-unity, is to miss Divine Unity.

Such souls return. To “get” What Is.

And so do we all. ~_~