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“Babaji’s Formula”
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
…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.
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