PARABLE OF THE TALENTS

Temple of the Heart April 3, 2013

Version in the Gospel of the Hebrews

Eusebius of Caesarea includes a paraphrased summary of a parable of talents taken from a "Gospel written in Hebrew script" (generally considered in modern times to be the Gospel of the Nazarenes); this gospel was presumably destroyed in the destruction of the Theological Library of Caesarea Maritima in the 7th century and has yet to be found. In that gospel, Eusebius writes that while the man who had hid the talent was rebuked for his burial, only the man who had received two talents had invested and gained a return on his investment. The recipient of the five talents instead "wasted his master’s possessions with harlots and flute-girls;" it was he, in the Hebrew gospel, that was sent into the darkness (Eusebius expressly identifies the darkness as being imprisonment).^[10]

As a critique of religious leaders

Joachim Jeremias believed that the original meaning of the parable was not an ethical one about every man. Instead, he saw it as aimed at the scribes who had withheld "from their fellow men a due share in God's gift."^[18] In his view, Jesus is saying that these scribes will soon be brought to account for what they have done with the Word of God which was entrusted to them.^[18]

Jeremias also believed that in the life of the early church the parable took on new meaning, with the merchant having become an allegory of Christ, so that "his journey has become the ascension, his subsequent return ... has become the Parousia, which ushers his own into the Messianic banquet."^[18]

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My understanding:

The Lord entrusts His servants with the treasure of Love of God - "Devotional Service." The nature of Love of God (His pleasure potency) is to always expand and increase just as God Himself is always expanding and increasing. That servant who receives the Pleasure Potency but does serve or allow the increase and expansion is a disturbance to the Lord and has not properly understood the Lord's desires. That servant will have access to Pleasure Potency taken away, and be relocated to a more suitable position for service, outside the Pleasure Potency of God.

Needless to say that servant who tries to misuse the Pleasure Potency of God for his own sense gratification either gross or subtle will also be removed and situated more suitably in the external energy of Lord. 

Only the servant who allows the Pleasure Potency of the Lord (Srimati Radharani) to manifest according to Her inherent nature of expanding and increasing has understood the Desire of Krishna. And to that servant more is given.