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What Should We Do?In this critical time it is extremely important to understand that God does exist. That He is not some kind of a fantasy, not just one of the personages of the adult game of operating abstract symbols. God is the reality, regardless of how much effort people make to defile Him. He is present everywhere at the same time. And He takes part in everything that people do. But He does not provide paradise on Earth. He takes to His paradise and into Himself only the Worthy Ones from the earthy hell. We have to prove to God that we are still worth something from the Evolutional perspective. He intends to gather a good “harvest” of Perfect Souls from nations. A nation has to be promising in His eyes in this respect. Otherwise… The way out consists in that people should receive true knowledge about God and what He wants from us on the national scale. This is what I am writing about in my books, basing my writings on my personal experience of God and on what He has told people and is repeating to them now in various people’s languages. … God does not want to have a total religious homogeneity on Earth at all. On the contrary, His Will consists in providing different people with an opportunity to choose from different religious traditions the one that would be the most suitable for them, and then to practice its methods of self-perfection. He wants people to help one another to seek the Supreme Truth and to become better in the face of God — in all temples and houses of prayer. But at the same time He wants religions to unite people in their aspiration towards Him — the Father of the whole Creation. He asks us to focus our patriotic feelings and emotions on Him (the Father=Pater) — rather than on national sects that preach their superiority and aggressively promote “their own God” — in contrast to Unified God of the entire universe and of all people. To help you, I will cite the words of God relating to this problem, with which it is hard not to agree: “Formal public worship, mumbling of hymns, habitual mechanic performance of the rituals cannot make God live in your hearts. The Liberation is not in mystic formulas or beads, but rather in selfless devotion. … We need the faith, which would enable us to look at ourselves as children of Unified God, Whose name is — Love…” [9]. … If you have a need to visit temples to take part in collective prayers — it is perfectly all right, unless there is a risk of becoming a victim of the sectarian terror there. Temples, rituals, icons, and other objects of the religious cult — are like toys for the beginners in religion. When people mature — the need for toys falls off naturally (except for some clinical cases). If you have a healthy personality, you may well grow out of the temples in the direct meaning of this word. When consciousness becomes large enough — a person feels all temples in himself; at this stage it becomes absurd for him to be in any temple physically. The people who develop successfully must find God not in temples, but in the universe. And the “entrance” into His Abode is in their spiritual hearts. Try to understand also the following: virtually all people who fell under the influence of the Bible formed an opinion, based on the Old Testamental absurdity regarding the “creation of man”, which is extremely harmful for the understanding the most important fact about themselves. It consists in the contraposition of man — versus his soul (or “I — versus my soul”). While in reality man is a soul. True opposition would be the following: “man — versus his body” (or “I — versus my body”). “I — am (so far) “my soul””! If you are unable to accustom yourself to this way of thinking of yourself yet — you should not practice spiritual disciplines other than love for nature and opening up the spiritual heart: it will be dangerous for you. And now — you are welcome to start gradually mastering psycho-physical exercises, methods of cleansing and development of the spiritual heart, as well as looking from it, as it is described in the book [10]. More advanced meditative techniques are described in the book [11]. But I will rather not be describing the methods that bring one up to the higher level of consciousness: everyone will be able to receive them from God personally, when one accomplishes all the previous stages. Although… here is the subject for meditative attunement with God for those, who approached the end of the Path:
I am — subtler that the subtlest, I am — the Essence of Being. Everything comes out from Me I am — everything that exists in Eternity, I permeate the essence of all things.
I am — in the hidden meaning of words, I am — in each breath of life, I am — in everything, by nothing is what I am. Realize Me! I am — the eternal Peace!
(Transcribed by Anna Zubkova, November 1998)
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