Comfort crawls upon you, what is comfort? Let us see, very simple. In Christ’s symbolic life, its very deep significance is this: that comfort is nothing but the matter overpowering the Spirit. Do you see that point? If you are sitting on a chair then you can’t sit on the ground. If you are sitting on a sofa set you can’t sit on a chair. If you are sitting on a velvet, then you cannot sit on an ordinary thing. Is the matter always over-powering the Spirit and He was the Spirit, what does it matter to Him? Whether straw or anything?
It is insurmountable, nothing can displease the Spirit of these material things, I mean the matter otherwise will take over.
That is the thing is one has to understand that He was the Spirit and if you have to become the Spirit first of all try to give up your comforts, lash your bodies a little bit, I’m sorry on a Christmas day I have to say that, because He was also lashed that way. If you see on the day He was born, for a mother to put the child in a crib that was a manger is too much of a sacrifice. How much you want to do for your children, you see, dress them up properly, do this, do that. But the child was to be put in the manger, was put in the manger, just for you people to learn that comfort crawls on the Spirit.