Whom did the disciples pray when Jesus ascended to the Father?

[Śrī Anil asked: Since many Christians pray to Jesus instead of God (the Father), my Question is, whom did the apostles (disciples) pray to when Jesus ascended to the Father and was no longer on earth (God the Father or Jesus)? Why?]

Swami replied:- Jesus and God are one and the same. Father is the unimaginable God merged with first energetic being. Father is like a person wearing a shirt. Jesus is Father merged with a human being. Jesus is like the same above person wearing a shirt is again wearing a coat on that shirt. Here, you are confused because the person is neither the shirt nor the coat worn above the shirt. The person is the possessor of both shirt and coat. You are calling the person wearing shirt as Father and the same person wearing coat on the shirt as Son or Jesus. Here, Father of heaven or Son of God (Jesus) is neither the shirt nor the coat. Both Father and Son apply to the person wearing the shirt and to the same person wearing coat above the shirt. If this background is not understood people will say that shirt is Father and coat is Jesus. Due to this ignorant difference, your question finds a place in the spiritual knowledge. God acted like Jesus on the earth and acts like Father in the heaven. Ascending and descending appear as true to our eyes because the most complicated unimaginable point is that Father descends as Jesus and also stays as Father in heaven (Avibhaktaṃ vibhakteṣu... Gītā). From 2 kg mud, you have prepared 2 kg mud pot. The unimaginable point here is that after giving 2 kg mud pot, 2 kg mud remains as it is! What disciples do is not standard since the disciples lack the above said knowledge.

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