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The Teaching of Babaji
Compiled by Vladimir Antonov
© Antonov V.V., 2002
CONTENTS
You should seek harmony in everything that you do.
We must shed all jealousy and envy, because they are harmful.
There will always be hills and mountains to overcome on the way to God. … It is the duty of the warriors to move the mountains.
(In the ashram) all people are prohibited from distributing food, clothes or money to the villagers. This creates an atmosphere of expectation and when it is not met, then the people return to steal things from the ashram.
All who come to the ashram must take responsibility for its care.
You must consider work as the real devotion.
Do your duty! Do not be idle! This is an age of action! Perform your karma yoga! Show the world ideal actions! Service to humanity is service to and worship of God!
Everyone should forget nationality: we are one here! This is a universal family! Have no idea of separation of identity: discard feelings of separateness! Serve the people with mind, body, wealth, and knowledge!
We are all equal, despite the country we come from, and national differences should be ignored! We are all a unity!
Work as a unit; there is no caste or creed here; there are no differences!
Babaji blesses all who do their duty sincerely and with devotion! Do your duty lovingly!
Whenever the world faces grave problems, the Lord takes human incarnation and comes to fulfill the needs and desires of mankind. However, when the Lord comes in human form, few recognize Him. Only those to whom the Lord wishes to reveal Himself realize that He is in fact more than just a normal human.
You may think that Babaji just sits here doing nothing. But He has been everywhere and is everywhere! He is doing much! Babaji sitting here is still present in the hearts of everyone in the world!
Those physically distant from here should not think they are far away — they are equally close to Me!
I do not recognize castes and races! I behold only one humanity! I am working for mankind while here!
Kindle the light in yourself, then kindle it in others! Like spreading light by lightning one candle from another all around a room, — so we should spread love from heart to heart.
If you are worthy, I shall show you freedom greater than you have ever dreamed about!
To become strong does not mean to become harsh and heartless. To become strong means to grow beyond pleasure and pain, beyond heat and cold!
There are many doctrines. Adhere to one principle — that of Truth, Simplicity, and Love. Live in truth, simplicity, and love and practice karma yoga!
I have come to guide humanity to a higher Path. I do not belong to any particular religion, but respect all religions. I seek the elevation of all mankind.
The result of hard work is happiness and the result of laziness is pain.
I want you to become brave warriors and attend carefully to your own duties! This is good for you!
Now change on a vast scale, such as at the time of the Mahabharata, will take place.
Do not fall back in your work, but go on! Karma yoga is your first duty!
Every moment, in each breath, while eating, sleeping and working, remember the Lord!
Even the Sun and the Moon can move from their course, but the faith of a devotee should not be shaken! Never be moved by false doctrines!
While your minds and hearts are impure, how can God live in your hearts? The water to clean the heart is the name of God. So, teach everyone to repeat the name of God — everywhere.
I do not want idle people. Japa
does not take the place of karma.
Japa and work go together.
I do not want japa to be a pretext for idleness! Do japa with your work and be liberated!
Work and be the Light; repeat God’s name!
Attachment to material things makes man cling to life.
While you are attached to life and afraid of death, you die with that fear and
that weight clinging to you. If you die without fear and remembering the name of
God, then the soul leaves the body free of that fear and attachment. If you are
reborn, your soul is still free from that fear. If you die in Unity,
you are free from rebirth, unless you will it.
We must always have good thoughts for each other.
All of you must be happy and healthy and appreciate the joy of life.
The seeds of righteousness have been sown in your hearts for you to kindle the hearts of others! I seek the general good of all people in the world!
You must do all work to perfect humanity! All people will be saved if kindness and mercy will prevail. You must work to elevate humanity and eradicate pride, jealousy, and hatred. Unite in love to elevate yourselves! Each one of you must vow today to sacrifice everything to obtain (such) oneness!
Be rid of attachment! And be prepared to burn your very bones, if necessary, to secure the public good and righteousness.
Why do you attach your minds to the transitory things in this world? Attach yourself to God!
Remove hatred and jealousy from the heart! The same thing has been spoken through Christ. Where there is jealousy and hatred, there is no religion!
I dislike idleness and gossiping! You have taken this birth on the Earth to work. Work hard! After death, what will you show to God? Not only here, but wherever you are, work hard!
Don’t use intoxicating drugs, but learn devotion and purity. It is strictly forbidden to use drugs! If you do so, there is no progress; you remain the same!
All of you must learn to be disciplined. Be alert 24 hours a day! All must vow to always work and serve, think good and do good! According to My plan, Liberation will come only to those who practice karma yoga.
Whatever money comes to you, spend it for good purposes!
I say all this in the service of humanity. To work, think good, and dedicate your life to humanity is the best! Each corner of the world must awaken to these words!
Only hard work can make person powerful and energetic!
Think good! — Be good! — Do good! One can follow any religion, one can follow any practice or path, but one must be humane!
We must always have good thoughts for each other.
All of you must be happy and healthy and appreciate the joy of life.
The seeds of righteousness have been sown in your hearts for you to kindle the hearts of others! I seek the general good of all people in the world!
You must do all work to perfect humanity! All people will be saved if kindness and mercy will prevail. You must work to elevate humanity and eradicate pride, jealousy, and hatred. Unite in love to elevate yourselves! Each one of you must vow today to sacrifice everything to obtain (such) oneness!
Be rid of attachment! And be prepared to burn your very bones, if necessary, to secure the public good and righteousness.
Why do you attach your minds to the transitory things in this world? Attach yourself to God!
Remove hatred and jealousy from the heart! The same thing has been spoken through Christ. Where there is jealousy and hatred, there is no religion!
I dislike idleness and gossiping! You have taken this birth on the Earth to work. Work hard! After death, what will you show to God? Not only here, but wherever you are, work hard!
Don’t use intoxicating drugs, but learn devotion and purity. It is strictly forbidden to use drugs! If you do so, there is no progress; you remain the same!
All of you must learn to be disciplined. Be alert 24 hours a day! All must vow to always work and serve, think good and do good! According to My plan, Liberation will come only to those who practice karma yoga.
Whatever money comes to you, spend it for good purposes!
I say all this in the service of humanity. To work, think good, and dedicate your life to humanity is the best! Each corner of the world must awaken to these words!
Only hard work can make person powerful and energetic!
Think good! — Be good! — Do good! One can follow any religion, one can follow any practice or path, but one must be humane!
You should sing devotional music in a way that stirs the soul — it should evoke deep feelings. You should sing with love! Do not sing like you are taking part in a theatrical performance! When you make music, it should touch the heart so that it leaves a memory on the mind! When you sing, you and those who listen to the kirtan should enjoy it! It (kirtan) should be sung in harmony, with a slow rhythm. Put the soul into it and it will flow! The melody should flow in all its sweetness!
Think of the Earth as of a Mother! This is one Earth! Don’t be divided by thinking of yourselves as belonging to different countries! We belong to one Earth! Look to the future with a vision of good deeds for the whole world, not just one country!
When human beings come in this world, they forget their duty and they fall into the attachment of maya and into the concepts of “me” and “mine” and so they forget God.
Jealousy and hatred are the two causes by which humanity is ruined. In your lives these two vices should have no place!
I am against non-violence that makes a human being a coward. Fight for Truth! To face life, you must have great courage every day!
Everyone must be courageous, facing the difficulties of life with bravery! Cowardly people are like dead people!
I want to create a world of brave people who face life as it comes!
Keeping this basic principle in mind, our main duty should be to spread the Message of karma yoga in the world. We ourselves give an example to all, by practicing it!
Service to humanity is the best service to God! Our motto is “work is worship”!
The only way to obtain siddhis, to become really strong, is karma — action.
If you learn right action, you can do anything! Action is Mahayoga — the Highest yoga! You should progress through action! Man is meant for action!
The main order of Mahaprabhuji is that you must be punctual in all your duties, always!
There are many kinds of yoga, but karma yoga is of supreme importance! Karma yoga must come first, then others types of yoga can be added.
The great people who lived in the past thrived by doing karma yoga!
Karma yoga teaches you to lead a true life! Only karma yoga is able to transform the world. Inaction is the cause of pain and all troubles!
Train your children in karma yoga, that they may become people of good and strong character!
Therefore, take care of the body! As long as the body is in good health, you can serve! When you are sick, how can you serve? It is very important to have good health! In order to do karma, it is vital to keep your body healthy! So, follow these teachings about cleanliness and health and teach others, also!
So, all of you have to go beyond the fear of death and the hope of life and go on doing karma yoga! We must perform those actions which will benefit others — and not only other people, but the whole of Creation!
Shri Mahaprabhuji wants the creation of very brave and courageous people in the world! If, with full faith and devotion to God and with a firm determination, people follow the Path of Truth, Simplicity, and Love with karma yoga, they will reach their goal! When the whole world is burning with the fire of sins and sorrows and the flames are about to swallow the world, this is the only way by which humanity can be saved!
There must be no place for fear! People must work fearlessly in the world! When man is fearless, no one can stand against him in battle — either a battle in material life or in spiritual life! He is victorious in all the battles of life!
Mahaprabhuji has control over the “god of death”.
Mahaprabhuji can create many worlds and can destroy many creations at His Will. If you are His devotee or disciple, why should there be any fear in you? You should not worry at all! Be fearless!
Now Babaji is suggesting another point — that we must annihilate the feelings of “I-ness” and “my-ness” from our minds. When you all belong to this whole universe, where is the place for “I” and “mine?” By this means only will the world be benefited. This is not the concern of one individual but that of the whole universe.
Everyone must remove the differences between themselves and others and work in the world in unity!
There is only one way for mankind to be saved and that is by changing the hearts of all people. Shri Mahaprabhuji will give His full Spiritual Power to this, but every man and woman will also have to make their best efforts toward this end!
In every way, in every manner possible, do good to others and make them happy! To each individual and to every country, provide what they lack!
If you are engaged in doing good deeds and go on doing good acts, you will have good sleep, good appetite and bad thoughts will not cross your mind. Otherwise, you will always be criticizing others.
The food which we eat must be clean and nutritious. We should pay special attention to everyone’s health! Wherever there are centers, people should try to grow and cook good vegetables and make halvah and distribute them to others. Food should be nutritious so your strength for working will increase and your minds will be strong, too. It is necessary to keep the body in good health in order to do good karma! If the body is not strong, how will you work? We should eat nutritious food so our bodies become energetic and our brains work better!
I want a Creation of strong and healthy people! I want people in this Creation to be as fast in their actions as the wind! I want people who work with all their bodily energies! At this time, the world needs such brave, strong people!
We must follow a path, which will strengthen us! How can that be done? It can only be done when you are hard working and active! That is why it is very essential to be active and hard working! See Babaji here, Who is working from morning until evening like a machine!
We must depend on ourselves and not lay our burden on others!
No one should cease the practice of karma yoga! This is the eternal, unshakable Way!
The fact is, a great fire of sins and sorrows is burning throughout the world. Everyone living walks and works through this fire! Death is dancing before everyone’s eyes!
The calamities, which are coming to this world, are unavoidable. Only he who has a strong determination to do good acts and who is strongly devoted to God can survive this destruction!
Only he who has surrendered completely to the will of God is secure!
You should not do anything, which will do harm to others. Only that work which benefits the majority of people is truly called karma yoga.
I tell you that you must all spend your time and energy working for the good of the entire universe! Only by doing this will you be benefited! Whatever we do, we will to do, must be based on the universal good!
You must all step together and form a great international organization — bigger than anything organized in the history of the world!
We must advance for the sake of upliftment of humanity!
We have to go beyond the hope of life and the fear of death! Whatever happens, we must go ahead! You should not be afraid of fire or water! When the need arises, we will have to jump into the Ocean! When the time comes, we must be prepared to jump into the Fire! That is why all of you must be firm and stable! You must have only one aim, one goal — to serve every living being in the universe!
Only those who are very alert and careful can be successful in their lives!
I do not like dishonesty! I want everyone to be honest and dutiful!
Everyone must do his duty correctly! You must know what you should do and be busy doing it. By karma one will not fall but will always rise higher! No work is low or bad in this world if it is done in the right spirit!
The leaders should be those who are very able, who are full of all virtues and capable of spreading this Message. There must be weight and wisdom in their words, so people would like to obey them. A leader must be selfless; one who desires to work for the upliftment of humanity! The leaders must be dedicated to their country and spend all the time for its upliftment. They must be able to encourage people. It is very important!
Everyone must use his own common sense and do his duty without waiting to be told what to do. To do your duty is the greatest worship (of God), the greatest service, the greatest devotion and penance (tapas)!
You must seek Liberation and help others to achieve Liberation!
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We have already examined all stages of the spiritual Path in the
terms of Patanjali’s scheme.
Now let us discuss the same problem using analysis of the formula of spiritual
development, suggested by Avatar Babaji.
This formula sounds as follows: “Truth — Simplicity — Love — Karma Yoga (Service
to humanity) — Abandonment of the lower self for the sake of merging with the
Higher Self of God”.
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Coming of Jesus Christ — The Messenger of God-the-Father — to
Earth had been prophesied by numerous Jewish prophets. But when Jesus did come —
only some of the Jews acknowledged Him as Christ; those were the people who
became His first disciples and spreaders of the Teaching of God which was new
for that region of Earth. But the official Synagogue never accepted Jesus as a
Messenger of God-the-Father and… for more almost two thousand years has been
waiting for another Christ ever since.
Similar phenomenon can be observed today in all mass
organizations that call themselves Christian: they also do not see God Who
appears before people of Earth in human form.
Jesus Christ Himself prophesied: “When you see One Who was not
born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That One is your Father” (Gospel
of Thomas, 16). But in 1970 Avatar Babaji came to Earth exactly in this way— but “Christians” did not recognize Him.
(Now another Avatar —
Sathya Sai Baba — is
working on Earth, preaching the same Eternal Universal Teaching of
God-the-Father — and again hierarchs of all mass Churches refuse to recognize
Him!).
God became a competitor for many religious organizations: for He
can “entice away” their “flock” to Himself. Who would then support all those for
whom churches are a source of income? This is why the Russian Orthodox Church
intimidates its congregation: “everything that comes from East — is of Satan”,
or “if you do not stick to us — you are going to go to hell”…
But Jesus Christ incarnated in the Middle East — in Judaea.
Krishna, Babaji and
Sathya Sai Baba — all of
Them are from East. So, is God — “from East”?
But this kind of “Christianity” was brought to Russia from West
— from Greece…
Isn’t it time to come to our senses?
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Babaji is One of the Representatives of God-the-Father, a Part
of Him. He periodically embodies on Earth as an Avatar in order to help people.
One of His incarnations took place at the end of 19th century; it was
described by Yogananda. The
next one was from 1970 to 1984 — again in Northern India, where He appeared
before people by materializing a body of a young man for Himself, in which He
lived for 14 years.
Now Babaji, together with Jesus Christ,
Sathya Sai Baba, Krishna
and other Divine Teachers, Who are Manifestations of God-the-Father, keeps on
helping worthy disciples of God — but this time from the non-embodied state.
From His last incarnation on Earth Babaji left people a concise
and brilliant version of the Teaching of God, the “core” of which is the
mentioned above short and exhaustive list of what we, people, have to
accomplish. The main thing for us now is to try to correctly understand what
these words mean and then to fulfill all this.
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This part of the “Babaji’s formula” implies understanding what
God and the Evolution of Universal Consciousness are, what our place in it is
and what exactly we have to do. Today almost everyone lacks this understanding.
In India currently the favorite “people’s god” is fairy-tale
(fictitious) Ganesha: a man with the head of an elephant allegedly born in
Heaven by other gods.
In “Christian” world people sincerely believe that their God is
Jesus Christ and that Muslims have another God — false, of course, — Allah.
Although Allah is simply a literal translation of the term “God-the-Father” into
Arabian language. And it is Love for Him and aspiration towards Him that Jesus
Christ preached.
Holding on to Jewish Bible (the Old Testament), which in fact
“legitimized” aggressive and predatory wars, murder, violence and cruelty as
well as on the heavily trimmed version of the Teaching of Jesus Christ presented
in the New Testament,
the majority of “Christians” have lost both God-the-Father (Who was the main
figure in the Jesus Christ’s preachings) and Love. They substituted Them with
typically pagan “deification” in the form of the cult of “Heavenly Queen” Mary —
the mother of Jesus, “official” damning of other confessions, Muslims and all
Jews (although this is a real paradox — since Jesus, His parents, His Apostles
and all first Christians were Jews!), wars under the sign of cross, tortures,
forcing of Satan, demons, sorcerers and vampires into the center of attention of
believers, as well as with promotion of alcoholism in their congregation and
aggressive expansionism…
Among other things this “Christianity” destroyed pure and
spiritual traditions of our remote Russian ancestors not all of whom were
pagans, i.e. worshippers of spirits and fictitious “gods”, but many of them were
direct disciples of God-the-Father.
In particular, one of the Divine Teachers Who worked on the
territory of Russia at that time was
Assyris (not Osiris of
Egypt). One of the strong spiritual schools of Assiris was in the North of
Novogorod Russia. (I was honored to have helped one of His advanced disciples of
that time who is currently incarnated in the female body to enter the Abode of
the Creator.
Assyris is now working on
the territory of Russia (and other countries) in the embodied state and helping
worthy disciples of God.)
For many centuries following the “Christening” of Russia among
the “Christian” rulers of our “Christian” state the favorite methods of capital
punishment were impalement and burning alive. The times
of establishment of the Orthodox faith in Russia followed by extirpation of the
“Old Believers” who disagreed with reforms of the Patriarch Nikon were the
darkest pages in the history of the Russian Orthodoxy.
And today few people realized that the attempt of Chechen people
led by general Dudaev to unyoke themselves from the Russian domination was a
reaction to the expansion of Orthodoxy into a country with ancient Moslem
traditions.
The author of this book started his breakaway from atheistic
primitivism and obtained his first mystical experience with help of the Russian
Orthodox Church and knows it quite well “on the inside”. He is very grateful to
it and is sure that despite all its defects it can help people wake up
spiritually, which happened to him and happens to many other people. He has also
seen many honest priests, who sincerely believe and strive to become better and
to help others… But their voices do not get heard: they are forced to keep
silent by aggressive moneymakers working in the religious field.
In philosophical respect the main destroyers of the Christ’s
Teaching in Russia are so-called “Bryanchyaninovtsy” — an anti-Christian sect
represented by followers of the demoniac bishop Ignatiy Bryanchyaninov which
currently dominates within Russian Orthodox Church and which has, in fact,
“ousted” God from the world outlook of its adepts and replaced Him with devil.
This sect is hard at work attuning people to hell inhabitants, preaching not
refined love, but despondency, constant self-flagellation, despair and hate…
This is why any intelligent person has to learn to see the
difference between true Christianity as the Teaching of Jesus Christ and those
interpretations of it that exist under the same name. And among the latter one
may single out various degrees of distortion up to its absolute perversion, to
its exact antithesis.
… In Buddhism there have also emerged many sects, in the
philosophy of which there was no place for God left anymore. And what gets
brought to the forefront there is, of course, fear: fear of demons, vampires and
so on. Various methods of “bioenergetic” defense against them are being
developed within those sects…
I have already given an example of the training, where people
are taught — for big amounts of money, of course, — to plug the lower foramens
of the body with quite material corks on the grounds that those who do not use
this method can fall into hell through those foramens… Such trainings that are
conducted in dead earnest are from those degenerate Buddhist sects. Killing of
animals and using their bodies for food is not considered a crime there as well.
Although the Founder Of Buddhism, as well as the Founder of Christianity,
taught the opposite.
Nevertheless, we should understand that this primitivism does
not have anything to do with true Buddhism: practices of the sound Buddhist
schools aim at penetration with purified consciousness into the subtlest lokas
and the mergence with Primordial Consciousness (also called Adibuddha — the
First Buddha).
…And the mass Islam — while attention of believers there is
correctly directed towards the Creator — lacks an expressed tendency towards
mastering Love and Refinement of consciousness. On the contrary, violence and
cruelty are characteristic features of the Islamic “fundamentalism”, i.e. an
attempt to forcefully instill into modern-day life the customs which existed at
the time of establishment of Islam… (Although the “fundamentalism” is typical
only for some Islamic countries).
It appears that deliberate cultivation of Love and Refinement of
consciousness, which is the only practice that enables one to get closer to God
and to cognize Him, takes place only in sound Sufi schools of Islam.
…Another pseudo-religious fashion in Russia is astrology.
Although astrologers mention God sometimes — in fact, God in astrology became
just an empty phrase… He — the Creator, the Master and the Goal for every living
being — has been turned into an abstract symbol which does not really mean
anything. In fact, He has been crowded out by… planets and stars, as if it is
not him Who, being in the immediate vicinity of every part of our bodies and
souls, directly or through the Holy Spirit and other spirits teaches us
constantly on the “pastures” of Earth according to the ethically important
decisions that we make — but… it is distant planets and stars that do this…
…Other people go even further and following current Russian
fashion with religious zeal drink their own urine in large quantities,
intoxicating their brains and thus degenerate and go insane in a very short
time.
…The religious atmosphere that currently prevails in Russia can
only repel intelligent people from religion and make perish those whose
intellect is not developed enough to discriminate between Truth and falsehood.
It would be good if psychiatrists prepared and presented to the
government description of a mental disorder of schizophrenia type, which is so
typical for Russian “believers” (although they do not go to doctors as a rule,
hopelessly seeking help from those who maimed them). Its symptoms are absolutely
identical in all patients — be they victims of “Bryanchyaninovtsy”,
pseudo-Buddhists or just ignorant “psychics” and “magicians”. Those miserable
ones who have gotten convinced that one should learn not how to love and develop
oneself by serving people in everything good, which actually is what service to
God is — but to fear devil, demons, sorcerers and vampires, defend oneself from
them using “guard magic” techniques (conjurations, wearing special “protective”
belts, making “the sign of the cross” over everything that one touches etc.) —
these people accustom themselves to living in fear, anxiety and hate to
“enemies”. Such coarsest emotional states make real inhabitants of hell out of
them, all kinds of non-embodied evil spirits that live in those eons become
perceivable to them, they scare them even worse and thus obsessions with the
well-known symptoms of inadequate behavior start developing…
In this way the perversion of the Teaching of God to its exact
antithesis leads great masses of people straight to hell and, since this
phenomenon, so typical for Russia, is gaining momentum — the prospects of
accelerated degeneration of the entire nation become more and more real.
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Some readers may think: the author is criticizing everybody —
maybe he wants to present himself as a “Savior”?
No, not myself I want to present as a Savior, but God. I need
neither fame nor popularity, I chose a modest and quiet monastic life for
myself. I want to help people. And I serve God.
…People tend to ignore God and to fall for magnificent clothes,
well-trained voices and arrogant manners of various leaders — often criminal and
ignorant, who act solely for the sake of gaining personal glory and money.
Although even in the Old Testament God advised people not to rely on spiritual
guidance from men, but to seek advice from God!
And I am speaking only about this, although I attracted a lot of
hate and slander and listened to threats of punishment from “Bryanchyaninovtsy”.
I know God. But they know only their sects. And this is the
fundamental difference between us in the Face of God. And we go in the opposite
directions with them: to God and to hell.
…Indeed, God does not lead infidels to Himself by the Straight
Path. These are words from the Koran.
And the Straight Path to Him is the Path of Love: love for
people, for all living beings, for the Creation and the Creator. This is the
Path to Him as to the correctly understood Goal. This is the Path of purging
oneself as a soul of everything that is not Divine: including coarseness,
violence and all kinds of egocentrism — and of replacing egocentrism with
God-centrism. And all of this is real.
…If you only could embrace non-embodied Jesus Christ Who appears
in the human-like form and feel His Divine love, Subtlety and Tenderness —
combined with unlimited Power, resulting from Unity with the Universal
Consciousness of the highest eon, and Divine Wisdom — then you would realize
right away what God appreciates in people and what He wants us to be like.
But in order for us to be honored with such Embraces, we have to
get closer to Him — not physically, but by the characteristics of souls.
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…One of the ways to answer the question “What is the Truth” is:
“There is the Evolution going Within the Body of the Absolute.
Our Goal is the Creator. Our task is to transform ourselves from the part of the
Absolute into the part of the Creator, to enrich Him with ourselves. In order to
fulfill this task we have to become Love — strong, wise and refined to the level
of the Primordial Consciousness.”
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Simplicity means sensible naturalness of the way of life and
behavior, as well as modesty and lack of arrogance and self-importance.
Simplicity is a pre-requisite of Love. It is also the indispensable tool of
spiritual warriors, which God wants us to be.
The best way to develop simplicity is keeping close to nature
and learning how to attune to its harmony. Here, in the solitude of forests,
fields and lakes, without make-up on the face, with no earrings, fancy synthetic
clothes or even with no clothes at all — we can love the beauty of the Creation
and the Creator, accepting help from God in the optimal way, expanding with
consciousness in the beauty of the Creation and in the Holy Spirit.
Simplicity is also beautiful in expressing one’s love for other
people: in a smile, friendliness, tenderness and openness with friends.
But it is important to always have sense of proportion. For
instance, walking naked among those who do not understand you and propagating
your understanding of “simplicity” in this way — this can only be called
tactlessness; this cannot be called a harmonious and spiritual act.
The same principle can be applied to sexual relationships: the
“simplicity” that leads to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted
pregnancies, as well as that which is connected with violence and egotism — is
not what God wants from us.
“Spontaneity” in expressing and realizing all of one’s whims,
needs and desires, which is encouraged in some modern pseudo-spiritual sects and
other organizations, also does not have anything to do with the true Simplicity.
Only the Simplicity of intelligent people who belong to the
sattva
guna and of those who have reached even higher spiritual heights is the true
Simplicity.
People of the tamas guna under simplicity will understand either
sugariness, or violence, rudeness, scuffle and lying drunk in the mud.
The true Smplicity is one of the elements of the “God training”.
It is not for those who are far from Him.
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Love is the major quality of God. In order to merge with Him (or
even to escape hell, to begin with) we have to learn to feel emotions of love
and to perform deeds of love, to eliminate all the opposite states and acts,
whatever external conditions we live in.
Love is the main thing that God wants from us. And we do not
have any other possibility to cognize Him and to merge with Him unless we
transform ourselves into Love.
Love is special emotional states; in other words — this is a
state of the energy of consciousness. And consciousness (a soul) is what every
one of us is in reality.
Every time we exit from the state of love we alienate ourselves
from God. “Every exit from the state of love leads to accumulation of bad karma”
— this is what God told me once.
People blame their misfortunes and diseases on anyone but
themselves. Even though it is always themselves who are to blame. I illustrated
this with examples from my own life in the book.
It is of paramount importance for us to understand that the
stable and confident state of love can only be achieved through practicing
special psychic self-regulation techniques that should include working with
chakras, primarily with the anahata chakra. (We will describe these methods in
the following chapters of this book).
In the ancient Christianity a special method of “opening up” the
spiritual heart was developed, which got named “the Jesus’ prayer”. Adepts were
supposed to constantly repeat a special prayerful appeal to Jesus, and after
years of practice some of them succeeded in making the prayer “break through”
into their spiritual hearts — and this made them realize what Love really was.
After that had happened the whole life of the person dramatically changed.
Later, when Bryanchyaninov-type demonism acquired dominating
positions in the Russian Orthodoxy, they started to talk that the “secrets of
“the Jesus’ prayer” got lost”…
…Once God, seeing my sincere aspiration towards Him and my
strong desire to help people, helped me to create tremendously efficient system
of methods on “opening up” and development of the spiritual heart. Some of these
methods were described in several books of mine
and were widely taught in Russia and some other countries some time ago.
However, I need to mention that out of thousands of students
only few were able to attain the actual and quite complete cognition of
God-the-Father. What was the reason for “dropping out” of the rest? It was their
inability to thoroughly comprehend the points of the “Babaji’s formula”.
The overwhelming majority of the students were lacking that
intensive aspiration towards cognition of God, which could allow them to switch
their attention to Him from the objects of the material world. Other gave in to
the threats of Bryanchyaninov’s sectarians.
The psychic techniques per se are incapable to make a person
attain God; they can only play the role of wonderful and necessary aids. But the
main prerequisite of success is the ability of an adept to comprehend with his
developed intellect the entirety of the Truth and to build a steadfast loving
aspiration towards the main Goal, in other words — to fall in love with the
Creator.
True spiritual Path necessarily implies complex development of a
person. It should first include intellectual and ethic as well as
psycho-energetic components.
A person also cannot successfully cultivate real love only by
performing exercises with the anahata chakra during the meditation classes. The
developing love should fill the whole life of a person and to pervade all his
activities.
It should be manifested in constantly being with concentration
of consciousness in the anahata chakra, in sincere respectful and tactful
attitude towards every person whether one knows them or not, in the ability to
forgive and forget insults quickly, without taking revenge, as well as in
behavior that excludes any possibility to offend or aggrieve someone wrongly.
Love should have a sacrificial component of willingness to help
others even if it goes to one’s own detriment, interests of those who deserve
this help should be given a higher priority than one’s own.
Love must be directed not only towards God and people, but also
towards animals and plants; nobody may think that their love is developed if
they are still able to kill or maim plants unnecessarily, if they allow
themselves to eat bodies of animals for the sake of satisfying their gluttony.
God has been repeatedly pointing at the necessity of pure “cruelty-free”
nutrition: among Those Who were telling about this are Gautama Buddha, Jesus
Christ and Babaji; now this is being preached by
Sathya Sai Baba.
But leaders of degenerated religious sects insist on the
diametrically opposite — for the sake of preserving for themselves the “right”
to sin and maintaining mass attendance of their churches — by those people, whom
they deceive and who pay for living expenses of those false pastors.
Love should be irreproachable in relationships with children.
Let it be expressed in being incapable of getting irritated. Although being
demanding in teaching children discipline and honesty should not be excluded —
in the interests of the children in the first place.
Everyone should analyze qualities of their love in the sexual
sphere, since this is where human vices usually get manifested very
dramatically.
Any kinds of violence or constraint in sex — even in the verbal
form or in thought — are examples of the behavior which is opposite to love.
Carelessness of a man as to prevention of an unwanted pregnancy
is another example of the same type of behavior.
Passiveness of the woman during a sexual intercourse when she is
not aiming to present the man with her love but egotistically expects only
satisfaction for herself, being able to resent him for doing something “wrong” —
is a phenomenon of the same nature. (Since all people differ by features of
their sexuality, and the new partner never knows in advance how to satisfy one
better).
True sexuality is an art of presenting one’s partner with
oneself and one’s love through sexual relationships. And only a combination of
sincere and giving love on the side of both partners can lead to attaining
harmony in sexual relationships.
I am sure that many women would benefit from reading the
wonderful book of Barbara Keesling,
which promotes the practice for women of presenting their sexual love as a gift.
Although I would not recommend doing everything that is written there. For
example, practicing oral sex regularly increases the risk of transmitting
infections dramatically. Also, sexual relationships with many partners are
absolutely incompatible with serious spiritual Path: during a sexual intercourse
between partners an intensive energy exchange takes place, which leads to taking
on possible energetic coarseness, impurities and diseases of the partner.
* * *
…Our sexuality has been conceived by God not only as a means of
reproduction, but also as a method of spiritual development. Since it
contributes to the growth of such aspects of love as tenderness, care,
self-giving, merging of two consciousnesses into one, which prepares one to the
Mergence with the Consciousness of the Supreme Beloved — the Creator. Sexual
love can directly contribute to the development of the spiritual heart, which we
have already discussed. It also teaches us Peace (if everything is going
alright), which is an indispensable component of Perfection, one of the
qualities of God, which we need to master.
But all this relates only to the sattvic, pure sexuality of
people who make real progress on the spiritual Path. In this case it does
accelerate their advancement significantly.
But sexuality of coarse and egotistic people who do not possess
developed spiritual hearts can be disgusting and lead them to hell.
Spreading of perverted “Christianity” that has lost love became
a damnation for spiritual evolution of many people of Earth. Among other things
it pronounced anathema against sexual love and declared renunciation of it a
“Christian feat”. It profaned all conceptions by calling them “defiled” as
opposed to the “immaculate” (i.e. without a man) conception of the mother of
Jesus Christ that allegedly took place. A real cult of the Blessed Virgin’s
hymen was created. (She must be really upset to see all this fuss around the
fabulous features of her genitals!) The human body itself, especially the female
body, was declared shameful. “Decent” people felt shy even to say the word
“legs”. The words that related to the sexual subject were declared “indecent”
and transformed into cursing — means of defiling other people. In this way the
language of the tamas guna — “mat” (Russian obscene language) was created.
And how could a pure attitude to sexuality form in people who
regard it as an odious “vice”, who hate sexuality in themselves and especially
in others. But without this kind of attitude one can hardly succeed in
refinement of consciousness, development of love and getting close to God.
People started to fear what in reality could help them to become
better. Men called to hate women exactly for what women could help them with.
Since women are in general significantly more refined than men, if for no other
reason than their hormonal status. And by this characteristic they are closer to
God.
Jesus Christ taught the same in His addressing to men:
“Respect her, uphold her. In acting thus you will win her love
and will find favor in the sight of God…
In the same way, love your wives and respect them…
Be lenient towards woman. Her love ennobles man, softens his
hardened heart, tames the brute in him, and makes of him a lamb.
The wife and the mother are the inappreciable treasures given
unto you by God. They are the fairest ornaments of existence….
Even as God separated the light from the darkness and the land
from the waters, woman possesses the divine faculty of separating in a man good
intentions from evil thoughts.
Therefore I say unto you, after God your best thoughts should
belong to the women and the wives, woman being for you the temple wherein you
will obtain the most easily perfect happiness. Imbue yourselves in this temple
with moral strength. Here you will forget your sorrows and your failures, and
you will recover the lost energy necessary to enable you to help your neighbor.
Do not expose her to humiliation. In acting thus you would
humiliate yourselves and lose the sentiment of love, without which nothing
exists here below.
Protect your wife, in order that she may protect you and all
your family. All that you do for your wife, your mother, for a widow or another
woman in distress, you will have done unto your God.” /Life of Saint Issa,
12:13-21/.
But “Christianity” (and not only “Christianity”)… called woman
“the source of sin” and prescribed to cover her body in any possible way. In
Russia for many centuries women had to wear special long dresses when bathing
and even to sleep in clothes. In Russian Bryanchyaninov-type monasteries they
still keep a strict control over this rule: “What if you die in your sleep — you
will appear before the Lord naked! What a shame it will be!”.
Another example of a similar kind of abomination is declaring
some children “illegitimate” and holding up to shame the motherhood of those
women to whom God entrusted the upbringing of those children.
…We need to understand that it is people of the tamas guna who
live immersed in vice and who do not see anything except for it, while
possessing aggressiveness, seize the “reins of government” in the originally
holy religious movements and gradually turn them around into the opposite
direction, warping the doctrine of God to its exact antithesis.
In the sexual aspect of life they — while belonging to hell
themselves, obsessed with passion for violence, defilement and satisfaction of
their egotistic lust — are unable to imagine that for other people, the sattvic
ones, sexuality is not a lust but a way of giving their love, presenting
themselves as a gift. And that this may be their way of serving God!
…Monasteries were originally designed as spiritual schools. But
in the Bryanchyaninov-type monasteries — in both male and female ones — monks
are not being taught anything good. These monasteries are just huge “communal
flats”, where irritation and hostility boil up, where “killed food” is served
even during official fasts and where people apart from monotonous standard
prayers are busy with regular household activities.
They are allowed to wash their bodies once in two weeks. This is
called “mortification of the flesh”. And their bodies do suffer from diseases,
aggravating already grave states of their souls.
In addition to this many inhabitants of the monasteries “burn”
with sexual passion, which they hate so much. While, maybe it is this passion
that they are trying to hide from behind the walls of the monasteries?
With a rare exception monks possess an outstanding coarseness of
the souls — both men and elder women. “Bryanchyaninovtsy” accustom them to
permanently living in negative emotions by teaching them to constantly fix their
minds on hell, demons, their own total and hopeless depravity, which was
transferred to them from Adam and Eve, who allegedly committed a deadly sin long
time ago.
They are in fact sinking in hell, feel this hell and its
inhabitants — and frighten other people with it, alluring them into fear of hell
and spreading this mystical contagion around the world…
I am far from calling to “shut down” all monasteries: people do
need them, really, — for many reasons. I myself benefited from them long time
ago, when I was living, working and praying in them, confessing and making my
communion every day. I am talking about spiritual sanation of not only
monasteries but the Orthodox Church as a whole — about purifying them of
“Bryanchyaninov” Satanism and getting back to the Teaching of Jesus Christ.
Who would take the task of performing these “Herculean labors”
for Russia?
* * *
But getting obsessed with sex is also not good. The term
“fornication” is valid not only for people but also for God. It denotes both too
many sexual contacts and sex with inadequate partners (those who are not at the
same level of the spiritual advancement).
Sexually transmitted diseases are the mechanism that God uses for slowing down
the tendencies for sexual amusements in people.
The truth here is that we should try to direct all our attention
towards searching for God, without distracting excessively for anything else.
(And sex is just one of such distractions).
Now is especially right time to talk about sexual “extremes”,
since in many countries, including Russia, many pseudo—disciples of Rajneesh
(Osho) — an Indian spiritual Master — expanded their activities. Calling
themselves “enlightened” and “Swamis” (monks), knowing nothing about God,
obsessed with sex and sometimes with violence, energetically black inside and
sick, making advertisement on the name of the Teacher, they make their living by
propagating permissiveness in everything, including food, drugs and, of course,
sex. It was a well known instance when in one of such “ashrams” all women who
were allured there by advertisement were “initiated” through group raping.
I myself saw outbreaks of sexually transmitted diseases and
rapidly progressing devilization (by energetic status of souls) among victims of
such novations.
…So, in sex, like in everything else, everyone should find the
golden mean between two extremes… Only in this case one will be able to achieve
a sattvic state — a state of harmony and purity.
* * *
Refinement of consciousness and true sattva as a necessary stage
of cognition of the Holy Spirit and God-the-Father are impossible to achieve
without accepting and understanding concepts of Beauty. “Beauty: Cosmos
establishes Evolution on this formula” — this is what God taught us through
Elena Roerich.
Spiritual beauty exists at two levels of the scale of gunas:
rajas and sattva.
Rajas in this context means boldness, self-discipline and beauty
of exploit. It is manifested in a spiritual warrior with unbending will. Rajas
can be found in states of nature, it also can be expressed in dancing, music and
fine art. Examples of the latter are paintings of Nicholay Roerich.
Sattva — spiritual purity and beauty, refined and saturated with
tender love — is the last step on the ladder leading to cognition of the Holy
Spirit.
In the nature we can find sattvic states in the purity of
sunlight at dawn, in singing of spring birds, in charming silence of a tranquil
evening etc.
Among the most vivid examples of highly sattvic music are some
compositions of Anand Shankar. Also some singing created by members of the
“Society for Krishna Consciousness” deserve the highest appraisal. I know
marvelously sounding Orthodox tunes and chimes.
Sattvic beauty of harmonious human body is also spiritual and
can attune to tenderness, tranquility and peace, which so many of us are
lacking.
Sattva came to Russian cities with Gorbatchev’s Perestroika
primarily in the form of posters with tender beauty of naked female bodies. This
was undoubtedly a spiritual breakthrough.
But businessmen of the tamas guna started to defile this subject
almost immediately by filling the market with low-grade photos featuring
protruding buttocks…
This is how different gunas manifest in the same genre of art.
The sattva guna promotes beauty of love, while the tamas guna defiles it.
…Let everyone ask themselves — which guna do they belong? And
what should they do in this connection?
* * *
And another addition to the subject of Love.
One day I was traveling by train, perfecting humble thinking of
myself and studying the situation: my fellow travelers were a mother and a son.
She had a huge body and was very rude. Her son — a military cadet — was about
fifteen years old. All the way she constantly shouted. About what? She… was just
talking with her son in this way, shouting at him everything what was coming to
her mind — all her thoughts. For example: “Darling! I am going to go to the
toilet and throw the apple stub out!… Why don’t you answer, when your mother is
talking to you???!!!” And her exhausted son was looking in the window with a
dull expression on his face being able only to nod listlessly…
How can the behavior of this “mommy”, sincerely loving her
child, be characterized?
Violence? — Yes. Tactlessness? — Yes. One can name some more of
her traits… But what is important to stress now is that her love lacked Peace.
An ability to feel deep inner Peace, especially when there is no
need to perform energetic actions is a very important and valuable quality. It
is a fundamental prerequisite of true Love.
And attempts to love without this inner Peace sometimes turn
into what I have just described. Such “love” can only cripple its victims. It
induces in them only an urgent need to escape. If there is a place to escape to…
…The state of God-the-Father in His Abode can be described as
Tender Peace. Let us learn this from Him when preparing ourselves to meeting
with the Creator.
But the true Peace is not something opposite to a sound Drive
and Energy, but matches them harmoniously. Let us analyze this postulate and
apply it to our lives.
Apart from the recommendations that you may find in this book
you may find it helpful to study the best spiritual experience accumulated in
traditions of Zen- and Chan-Buddhism and concrete methods that were created in
these schools: “tea ceremonies”, “stone gardens”, “meditative landscapes”, the
best methods of Samurai’s training etc.
The term “karma yoga” means “Path to Mergence with God
through performing selfless service”.
What is service to God?
An incompetent reader may start to recall: “I know the term
“Divine service”… What is it? Prayers… And what are prayers? “Lord, give me
this! Lord, give me that!”…
Yes, for the majority of believers who consider themselves
Christians praying means begging something from God. And they see in this,
paradoxically enough, their duty and their “service” to God…
But God does not need our panhandling. He does not listen to
this. Otherwise it would “make Him sick” to hear all the nonsense that people
invented, their addressing Him as a servant who is allegedly supposed to serve
whatever he is asked.
He needs our efforts on self-perfection and our help to other
people in this. He wants us — every one of us! — to take an active part in His
Evolution. And not to whine passively and expect “grace” from Heaven.
Helping other people on this Path — this what service to God is!
He claimed this through Babaji and
Sathya Sai Baba; Apostle
Paul said many wonderful words about this as well.
But one should not interpret this kind of help too narrowly:
only as preaching, conducting religious classes or writing religious books. No.
In order to live on Earth fruitfully and to evolve people also need housing,
food, clothing, fuel, transport, safety, medical help, education and many other
things. Therefore, karma yoga means helping other people in everything good.
But what does harm to people is not karma yoga, not a service to
God, but that to forces of the devilish eon. This applies to production and
distribution of alcohol, tobacco and other toxic substances, killing animals and
feeding people with their dead bodies, promotion of hatred of mankind and
aggressive wars…
The most important characteristic of karma yoga is the right
motivation: one should not act for gain or reward, even in the form of a salary.
One should perform actions for the sake of helping other people, as acts of
selfless giving. This does not imply, however, an unpaid work. But it is up to
those whom we help and to God to take care of the material welfare of the giver.
In other words, the essence of “mutual settlements” of worthy
people who help one another is exchange of gifts. All necessary details of the
“gift theory” (or the “theory of giving”) are set out by God in Chapter 17 of
Bhagavad Gita.
The essence of it is that God regards only those gifts as sattvic, i.e. true and
pure, that one gives to the worthy person at the right time and in the right
place.
So, the short definition of the term “karma yoga” sounds like
this — “selfless help to all worthy people in everything good”.
It is very important to emphasize that a person develops
correctly not through parasitism, panhandling, endless repetition of prayers or
making ritual bodily movements — but through creative work and active love for
other evolving beings, which is expressed in actions for their good.
Sathya Sai
Baba clarifies the idea of karma yoga by the following illustrative example.
He says that if you are members of one family you do not ask the head of the
family for payment for each kind of work you perform around the house — it is
outside people that work for money, but not the “own” ones. So you, if you feel
that God is your Father you must not engage in bargaining with Him, but on the
contrary — you must act in the interests of His Plan, for Him, for the Evolution
and not for your personal gain.
This kind of activity is the background against which God allows
us to develop intellectually, in love and in power.
This is the final part of the Teaching. It includes Mergence of
an individual consciousness of the man who reached the highest eon with the
Consciousness of the Creator. At that the person’s self-awareness dissolves in
the Ocean of His Universal Consciousness.
Attempts of the leaders of some sects to either fully destroy
self-awareness of their disciples without providing them with a new substrate
for autoidentification
or to convince them that they are already God should be regarded as extremely
harmful. Self-awareness of a person should not be destroyed but transferred. And
cognition of God and Mergence with Him are not performed through convincing or
self-convincing, but by means of stage-by-stage penetration with correctly
developing consciousness into more subtle eons, their exploration, establishing
in them, learning to Merge with the Consciousness of the Holy Spirit first and
then with the Consciousness of the Creator. All other directions prove to be
dead-end and lead to either delays in a person’s development or to cultivation
of gross vices and turning to the direction opposite from God, which is fraught
with devilization and insanity.
Work on this part of the “Babaji’s formula” should begin with
elementary correction of one’s behavior in communicating with other people.
Tendency of many people to dominate over others, to behave as if they are the
“boss”, to look “important”, look comical from the standpoint of spiritual
growth. Violence, resentfulness, jealousy, revengefulness, wrathfulness, desire
to own people and things (except for essential ones), sexual desire (lust), like
any intensive wanting something from people or from God, — all of these are
vicious manifestations of the lower self. They must be eliminated.
Jesus Christ and His Apostles left many invaluable
formulas-precepts for us: do not sit at the high place, if you want to grow
spiritually, — become a servant to other people, never resent or revenge
yourself, regard others as higher than yourself etc.
Lao Tse and Juan Matus were telling about exactly the same in a
very straightforward and concise way.
For me personally the following formula that God gave me once
proved very helpful: “Realize how trifling your earthly affairs are compared to
the greatness of Universal God”.
It takes deep self-analysis and hard work on repentance in order
to get rid of manifestations of one’s “protruding” lower self.
But regular Orthodox or Catholic churches do not provide one
with the optimal method of dealing with this task. The thing is that there is no
such phenomenon as “absolution” in reality: God does not have this concept.
The purpose of repentance is not obtaining forgiveness for
concrete acts that we have done, but getting rid of vices.
“Sins”, i.e. our mistakes, are either consequences of our lack
of experience and knowledge or specific manifestations of those qualities of our
souls that are called vices.
I have already given the example of my killers who never
repented, but just went to church, received “forgiveness of sin” from a “priest”
and thought that their conscience was clear. But there are a great number of
people who have been deceived just like these poor fellows. Because religious
pseudo-pastors convince them that preserving vices and their manifestations in
the form of the most terrible sins is a perfectly acceptable thing — provided
that after “sinning” they come to church for confession, after which everything
will be fine, everything is going to be alright…
But it is not going to be alright.
…The true mechanisms of deliverance from vices are
self-analysis, repentance and strict self-control.
If it is not possible to eliminate the vice that has been
uncovered and realized right away, one should recall the entire line of its
manifestations — starting from one’s childhood (and sometimes from one’s
previous incarnations). And one has to re-experience anew in one’s mind all
situations, which one previously resolved incorrectly, but this time in the
right way. Moreover, it makes sense to “play over” in advance all possible
future situations when this vice can manifest again.
It is also important to try, if possible, “to redress the wrong”
to those whom we harmed — be they people, animals or plants. Even if they are
not currently “alive” on Earth — we should address them as non-embodied souls.
And let us remember that God really accepts such our efforts on getting rid of
our vices.
We need to repent of all our times when our non-love for other
people and for God got manifested, as well as of all our egotistic actions and
emotions.
Many dully-egotistic persons try to push their bodies into a
subway train car as soon as the doors open without letting the people whose stop
it is to get out first.
Or while waiting for a bus or a tram they block the sidewalk
with their bodies instead of standing on the side so that not to hinder anyone
from passing by, thus showing care about other people.
Or entering the subway station hall some people hold the spring
door behind them to help the following person to enter, whereas others let the
door go, crashing their “neighbor” with it.
Even when they get into a sound spiritual school, egotistic
primitive people behave in the same manner. While the course is being conducted
they feel good, they are happy and filled with bliss. But once the course is
over — they start to feel bad: they have already gotten used to the situation
when someone is making them feel good; and suddenly it stops… And since they do
not feel good anymore they start to experience increasing negative emotions
towards the instructor and the school…
Egotistic person knows only his selfish interest and resents
when an obstacle in the form of someone else’s need gets in the way of his
satisfaction.
Moreover, when a person wants something strongly from anyone it
is an indication of the viciously protruding lower self of the one who wants.
This can start the mechanism of bio-energetic “vampirism” and to become the
cause of diseases of those, whom a person wants something from, and of
“aggravation” of destiny of the one who wants.
But a loving person is always being attentive: he cares not to
hinder anyone in anything, but, on the contrary, is using any possibility to
help everybody, giving the interests of other people a higher priority than his
own.
He is always polite and benevolent, he strives never to offend
anyone without a reason, even with his own not the best states: sickness or
being tired.
In sexual relationships he will never obtrude himself, but will
wait for the moment when his desire will become reciprocal.
…In this kind of self-analysis detailed recommendations by
Sathya Sai Baba can be
of great help.
* * *
Once I was riding on a dirt road in a goods wagon crammed with
people. I was the last to climb into it, having let everybody through. My
backpack was protruding outside. The truck got turned over. My body rolled out
without even getting hit. What happened to those who rushed to take their seats
first… — it would take too long to list their injuries here.
* * *
Deliverance from coarse emotional states and the ability to
attune to sattvic phenomena of life that we can achieve enable us to begin with
meditations of “dissolving” ourselves in harmony of the surrounding space.
Especially effective such meditations can be in quiet evenings, at dusk — in the
forest, prairies, at lakesides, seashores or near other water reservoirs. The
meditation should be performed using the following formula: “There is only
harmony of the surroundings: forest, lake, — but myself is not there”. At that,
consciousness expands from the anahata chakra and attunes to the subtlety and
purity of nature.
The next fundamental stage following this one will be mergence
with the Holy Spirit in “Pranava” meditation (see below), and then
stage-by-stage mastering of “total reciprocity” (Nirodhi) in the eons of the
Holy Spirit and God-the-Father.
This is how man completes his individual evolution forever,
becoming a Part of the Primordial Consciousness, a Part of the Creator. After
that he continues to live creatively but not as a separate being but as Him.
Back to the Contents
SEE ALSO:
Conversations with Babaji
Slideshow and screensaver — Babaji: Flight of Soul
Babaji pictures >>>.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Spiritual Practices. Training Aid. “Polus”,
Saint Petersburg, 2002 (in Russian); iUniverse,
N.-Y.
2. Shyam R. — I Am Harmony. A Book about Babaji.
“Peace Through Culture” Association, Moscow, 1992
(in Russian).
3. Yogananda — Autobiography of a Yogi. N.Y., "The
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