The Journey to Attain Peace
Christ said that when the heart is pure he dwells in that heart as love. He said that when the mind is clean he appears there as the light of understanding. He said that when faith is fixed courage appears and there is no fear or depression. To keep his love, light and faith in the heart, flesh, blood, mind and in all thoughts and actions is the only way to achieve peace. None can achieve peace only through family, wealth, power, position or any other acquisition.
Peace can only be achieved through pure love, faith, and the fountain of joy that comes from within. Then you can enjoy eternal peace within. You should live with that peace in the family and society, and try to help others to attain this peace.
When you attain this peace, you can see God, because God is a Being full of peace, a Being full of love, a Being standing at the Supreme Cause behind all the causes of creation, behind all nature. One who finds God as the Supreme Cause through his pure conscience feels He is omnipresent. He is all-pervading in the universe, covering space and time eternally as the bed of Supreme Consciousness that is the Background of all existence. That is the state of trance, the state of the greatest Enlightenment.
God cannot be seen by the mind, which is created by the reflection of the environment or by the vibrations of inner emotions or complexes. He can be perceived immediately when the self transforms into love, moves on the path of faith, achieves the state that is conscious about the Supreme Being of God, and becomes one with Him. That is the state of self-elevation.
All human beings on this earth, in this galaxy, are meant to attain the highest state of life, the state of union with the Supreme. On the way to attain it, life is captivated by its own vanity, called ego, that little, tiny ego that makes us feel separated from others by an inferiority or superiority complex.
You must start thinking about the reason for your birth. Ask yourself what is liberation, what is freedom? Is it to ignore your life and family, your duties and responsibilities? No. It is to discharge some of the qualities of your own instincts, to discharge some of the responsibilities of life, love and relationships and perform every duty perfectly. Your entire human computer, brain, intelligence, conscience and mind become awakened. Your heart expands and then you expand further and further.
But humanity does not know what is life and how it functions: what are the emotions; what are the complexes; what desires are coming; from what necessity do they come; what is our nature; what are our particular associations. We know nothing about the self. We should start to self introspect.
Self-introspection begins when you can adhere to someone who is conscious about life and the self, someone who knows about the environmental influences, about every human computer, its function and the result. When you take such a person as a friend, love, beloved or a guide, through his eyes and with an inner spiritual communication your own eyes are opened.
The third eye opens. The third eye means that Pure Consciousness where the mind finds the reasons, sees what is right and what is wrong, and attains discriminating understanding. With that third eye you can see your self, how you function, your defects and merits. Through self-introspection you can understand what is useful in life and what to throw away, such as unnecessary thoughts, misbehaviour, a certain way of talking that is unhelpful for peace or the flow of love or faith.
Then self-adjustment begins. Self-introspection and self -adjustment together create self -reorientation. As quickly as this works in life, so you achieve a condition when you come to the understanding of what life's real purpose and aim should be. You begin to realize that you have inherited instincts from your parents, some good and some bad. The bad has to be adjusted and the good exercised through some profession or activity. You must not throw away your instincts but use them for good.
Then you realize that the stars under which you were born have an influence on your brain, nerves, thoughts and emotions. The bad influences can be changed by your auto-initiative urge to love the Holy Spirit. For that you need meditation, self-reorientation and autosuggestion. This neutralises any bad effects of the stars, and the good effects of the stars can be used for good. Actually, stars are neither good nor bad, but because of their position they affect the brain and can work for either good or bad in life.
Then there is the environmental influence. If you are attached or inclined to someone, their stars and life affect you too. We have to observe our attachments and exercise His love, which purifies our lives. Even if one loves a bad person, one is still not affected, because that love purifies all one loves.
When you achieve that flow of love, the self and ego disappear. Ego transforms into intelligence. If you take the wax of a candle as the being, then the wick of the candle is the thread of the ego. As it burns, it creates light, which is intelligence. Ego is transformed into wisdom the more it burns, and the more it burns the more it gives light.
There is an urge for unification in all life, the original urge latent in the being from the soul of God the Supreme. The cohesive urge between hydrogen and oxygen creates a drop of water, which in its turn has a cohesive urge to merge with the ocean. The same material, God in the form of man, is anxious to be one with his original form as God.
That cohesive urge is the urge of the being to the being, the soul to the soul. In the mental region that urge is the urge to know the unknown. In the region of the heart it is the urge to love someone. In the region of the flesh it is the urge to have contact with another.
In every different chakra there is a different type of urge. Man has the cohesive urge to be one with someone. Everyone has an affinity with another according to the character, instincts, nature and qualities. This affinity is normal, it is called worldly love. When the worldly love is fulfilled, there is no more desire. All that remains is the existence of a person as a friend, husband, wife, son, daughter, mother or father.
Then the being wants to become one with its Reality. The search for God begins. If you stay in the self of your flesh and blood, you will search for sex, have greed, want power and position for that self. If you keep the spirit of your Lord in your flesh and blood, that same sex will be transformed into love.
For the sake of love, husband and wife will come together. When children are born from a union with that love, those children are the holy children of God.
If you can have complete faith in the Lord?s spirit and want only what He wishes, then He gives everything, whatever will be useful to the world. This is how God through nature, through every atom is ready to serve and show mercy to everyone.
God has given us plentiful resources for our practical life and growth, food and shelter through medicine, science and technology. God has given us His wonderful gifts through our inner nature, given us His love in our hearts and the abundant resources of nature. We have to use all those gifts, or there will be an imbalance in our lives.
Everything needs energy for its existence and growth. Anaemic love does not know how to love actively, how to give completely. Active love, potent love, is very dynamic. In this universe and in our being that same love is all pervading. The more you take, the more infinite it will be for others.
Religion and spirituality began with the art of receiving that love. The investigation of life, love and joy asking at every step the when, where, and why is also the world of spiritualism, the path to acquiring the love of the Supreme Father. To acquire that love, we have to feel and act accordingly.
First of all you have to love a superior being. Superior is he who, under whose ruling and mastery, we too achieve mastery over our own selves. By surrendering ourselves to him we achieve his qualities.
God exists eternally. His creation goes on eternally. The Holy Spirit also exists eternally and you are all the spark of that Spirit.
When that Spirit is ignored or avoided by wrong thinking about the self, by weakening your self through some limitation or desire, then the evil spirit appears in the mind to create a wall of doubt. It appears in the heart to create hatred and grievances for others, finding fault in others. It appears as depression and anger.
To overcome that evil spirit, which is always ready to appear, you have to remain in the Holy Spirit. You can always remain in the Holy Spirit, as a fish remains in water. You can be humble, submissive, receive the messages of the holy messengers, read the holy books, pick up the holy guidance from others, try to understand and to follow.
Through a dog's love for his master you can achieve devotion. You can achieve love from every atom of nature, from the love of a mother, from the love of a wife for a husband, from a devotee?s love for the Master, whatever degree or potential of love and devotion there may be. If you go on picking up, accumulating and respecting love and devotion in others, it makes your own inner love sprout with all the fragments of divinity. These fragments of divinity are the real joy within, which can never be rubbed out or touched by the evil spirit.
When you achieve this, the Holy Spirit rules your being and you become free from all bondage. Living in the world with wife, husband, family and friends, you also live in the Holy Spirit. Those who are in that spirit know each other.
Those who try to attain that spirit follow the same common principles of life and love. Religion means to follow those principles of Being and Becoming. It has no particular name, it may be any faith, and any church, any messenger, or it may be followed directly. It is a universal truth that if you put your hand into fire your hand will be burnt. So how must fire be used, how will it benefit life, how can you use everything, not only for your own Being and Becoming but also for other fellow selves?
The combination of the whole of humanity is my self, including me. Those who are close to the Holy Spirit are so near and dear, and the rest are also myself but not awakened. My responsibility is to awaken them, if they will follow.
Follow what? That is the important thing. The army is used for the defence of the country. For the defence of the self there is also a military force. That is the force of all the good desires and wishes. Another battalion is all your experiences. Another is the art of activity. Another is knowing how to behave, how to talk and what is right measurement the art of living.
In that army there is only one discipline to follow: to fall in and fight the enemy. The greatest enemy within is self-doubt. The next is doubting God or the Lord. The next is doubt of your beloved.
Everybody loves. It may not be like the love of God or Guru, but we should be satisfied with whatever love we receive. We cannot expect everyone to love perfectly, but we should help them to love more. Before blaming others we should blame ourselves. Pray for others, do not keep any venom or grudge. In this way you can overcome the enemies of doubt, ignorance, weakness and attachment.
Attachment means the attitude of 'This is my self and my possessions, my friend. I will not share with anybody. I want to possess everything for myself.' This is another enemy of selfishness and you have to fight it. If you can fight yourself, then the Supreme Messenger creates the circumstances of life beneficial to all whereby the fight will be automatic. The attachment goes and you evolve.
Another enemy is having a weakness for something. Human complexes are not bad in themselves, they have been given to serve us. Anger exists to give us the courage to fight evil, not to wound others. Greed exists so that we can achieve the inner gifts, not only external things.
Yet another enemy is self-pity.
You have come on this earth for only a few days, and then you will go back. What answer will you give on the last day? What have you done? For whom? Will you be able to say, 'I have done this for my Master, this for unity, this for my friends. I have tried to give solace to so many?' That will be your satisfaction.
So you have to fight a series of enemies with the divine battalion. In that divine battalion the most important thing is command. The supreme command is from the pure conscience, not a false conscience. The pure conscience is your Guru within. To awaken your mind and to expand your heart is the highest service to your life and is the supreme command that comes from God. Whether it comes through your Guru or conscience, it must be followed.
Always follow your supreme commander. Just as in the army the penalty for disobedience during war may be death, so you too will suffer and lose something if you disobey your conscience. Follow your conscience, your heart and your feelings. The more you will follow, the more you will be promoted. This promotion in your life is called elevation. At the highest state of your elevation you will feel that you and your Father are one. At that state you are completely free.
Peace can only be achieved through pure love, faith, and the fountain of joy that comes from within. Then you can enjoy eternal peace within. You should live with that peace in the family and society, and try to help others to attain this peace.
When you attain this peace, you can see God, because God is a Being full of peace, a Being full of love, a Being standing at the Supreme Cause behind all the causes of creation, behind all nature. One who finds God as the Supreme Cause through his pure conscience feels He is omnipresent. He is all-pervading in the universe, covering space and time eternally as the bed of Supreme Consciousness that is the Background of all existence. That is the state of trance, the state of the greatest Enlightenment.
God cannot be seen by the mind, which is created by the reflection of the environment or by the vibrations of inner emotions or complexes. He can be perceived immediately when the self transforms into love, moves on the path of faith, achieves the state that is conscious about the Supreme Being of God, and becomes one with Him. That is the state of self-elevation.
All human beings on this earth, in this galaxy, are meant to attain the highest state of life, the state of union with the Supreme. On the way to attain it, life is captivated by its own vanity, called ego, that little, tiny ego that makes us feel separated from others by an inferiority or superiority complex.
You must start thinking about the reason for your birth. Ask yourself what is liberation, what is freedom? Is it to ignore your life and family, your duties and responsibilities? No. It is to discharge some of the qualities of your own instincts, to discharge some of the responsibilities of life, love and relationships and perform every duty perfectly. Your entire human computer, brain, intelligence, conscience and mind become awakened. Your heart expands and then you expand further and further.
But humanity does not know what is life and how it functions: what are the emotions; what are the complexes; what desires are coming; from what necessity do they come; what is our nature; what are our particular associations. We know nothing about the self. We should start to self introspect.
Self-introspection begins when you can adhere to someone who is conscious about life and the self, someone who knows about the environmental influences, about every human computer, its function and the result. When you take such a person as a friend, love, beloved or a guide, through his eyes and with an inner spiritual communication your own eyes are opened.
The third eye opens. The third eye means that Pure Consciousness where the mind finds the reasons, sees what is right and what is wrong, and attains discriminating understanding. With that third eye you can see your self, how you function, your defects and merits. Through self-introspection you can understand what is useful in life and what to throw away, such as unnecessary thoughts, misbehaviour, a certain way of talking that is unhelpful for peace or the flow of love or faith.
Then self-adjustment begins. Self-introspection and self -adjustment together create self -reorientation. As quickly as this works in life, so you achieve a condition when you come to the understanding of what life's real purpose and aim should be. You begin to realize that you have inherited instincts from your parents, some good and some bad. The bad has to be adjusted and the good exercised through some profession or activity. You must not throw away your instincts but use them for good.
Then you realize that the stars under which you were born have an influence on your brain, nerves, thoughts and emotions. The bad influences can be changed by your auto-initiative urge to love the Holy Spirit. For that you need meditation, self-reorientation and autosuggestion. This neutralises any bad effects of the stars, and the good effects of the stars can be used for good. Actually, stars are neither good nor bad, but because of their position they affect the brain and can work for either good or bad in life.
Then there is the environmental influence. If you are attached or inclined to someone, their stars and life affect you too. We have to observe our attachments and exercise His love, which purifies our lives. Even if one loves a bad person, one is still not affected, because that love purifies all one loves.
When you achieve that flow of love, the self and ego disappear. Ego transforms into intelligence. If you take the wax of a candle as the being, then the wick of the candle is the thread of the ego. As it burns, it creates light, which is intelligence. Ego is transformed into wisdom the more it burns, and the more it burns the more it gives light.
There is an urge for unification in all life, the original urge latent in the being from the soul of God the Supreme. The cohesive urge between hydrogen and oxygen creates a drop of water, which in its turn has a cohesive urge to merge with the ocean. The same material, God in the form of man, is anxious to be one with his original form as God.
That cohesive urge is the urge of the being to the being, the soul to the soul. In the mental region that urge is the urge to know the unknown. In the region of the heart it is the urge to love someone. In the region of the flesh it is the urge to have contact with another.
In every different chakra there is a different type of urge. Man has the cohesive urge to be one with someone. Everyone has an affinity with another according to the character, instincts, nature and qualities. This affinity is normal, it is called worldly love. When the worldly love is fulfilled, there is no more desire. All that remains is the existence of a person as a friend, husband, wife, son, daughter, mother or father.
Then the being wants to become one with its Reality. The search for God begins. If you stay in the self of your flesh and blood, you will search for sex, have greed, want power and position for that self. If you keep the spirit of your Lord in your flesh and blood, that same sex will be transformed into love.
For the sake of love, husband and wife will come together. When children are born from a union with that love, those children are the holy children of God.
If you can have complete faith in the Lord?s spirit and want only what He wishes, then He gives everything, whatever will be useful to the world. This is how God through nature, through every atom is ready to serve and show mercy to everyone.
God has given us plentiful resources for our practical life and growth, food and shelter through medicine, science and technology. God has given us His wonderful gifts through our inner nature, given us His love in our hearts and the abundant resources of nature. We have to use all those gifts, or there will be an imbalance in our lives.
Everything needs energy for its existence and growth. Anaemic love does not know how to love actively, how to give completely. Active love, potent love, is very dynamic. In this universe and in our being that same love is all pervading. The more you take, the more infinite it will be for others.
Religion and spirituality began with the art of receiving that love. The investigation of life, love and joy asking at every step the when, where, and why is also the world of spiritualism, the path to acquiring the love of the Supreme Father. To acquire that love, we have to feel and act accordingly.
First of all you have to love a superior being. Superior is he who, under whose ruling and mastery, we too achieve mastery over our own selves. By surrendering ourselves to him we achieve his qualities.
God exists eternally. His creation goes on eternally. The Holy Spirit also exists eternally and you are all the spark of that Spirit.
When that Spirit is ignored or avoided by wrong thinking about the self, by weakening your self through some limitation or desire, then the evil spirit appears in the mind to create a wall of doubt. It appears in the heart to create hatred and grievances for others, finding fault in others. It appears as depression and anger.
To overcome that evil spirit, which is always ready to appear, you have to remain in the Holy Spirit. You can always remain in the Holy Spirit, as a fish remains in water. You can be humble, submissive, receive the messages of the holy messengers, read the holy books, pick up the holy guidance from others, try to understand and to follow.
Through a dog's love for his master you can achieve devotion. You can achieve love from every atom of nature, from the love of a mother, from the love of a wife for a husband, from a devotee?s love for the Master, whatever degree or potential of love and devotion there may be. If you go on picking up, accumulating and respecting love and devotion in others, it makes your own inner love sprout with all the fragments of divinity. These fragments of divinity are the real joy within, which can never be rubbed out or touched by the evil spirit.
When you achieve this, the Holy Spirit rules your being and you become free from all bondage. Living in the world with wife, husband, family and friends, you also live in the Holy Spirit. Those who are in that spirit know each other.
Those who try to attain that spirit follow the same common principles of life and love. Religion means to follow those principles of Being and Becoming. It has no particular name, it may be any faith, and any church, any messenger, or it may be followed directly. It is a universal truth that if you put your hand into fire your hand will be burnt. So how must fire be used, how will it benefit life, how can you use everything, not only for your own Being and Becoming but also for other fellow selves?
The combination of the whole of humanity is my self, including me. Those who are close to the Holy Spirit are so near and dear, and the rest are also myself but not awakened. My responsibility is to awaken them, if they will follow.
Follow what? That is the important thing. The army is used for the defence of the country. For the defence of the self there is also a military force. That is the force of all the good desires and wishes. Another battalion is all your experiences. Another is the art of activity. Another is knowing how to behave, how to talk and what is right measurement the art of living.
In that army there is only one discipline to follow: to fall in and fight the enemy. The greatest enemy within is self-doubt. The next is doubting God or the Lord. The next is doubt of your beloved.
Everybody loves. It may not be like the love of God or Guru, but we should be satisfied with whatever love we receive. We cannot expect everyone to love perfectly, but we should help them to love more. Before blaming others we should blame ourselves. Pray for others, do not keep any venom or grudge. In this way you can overcome the enemies of doubt, ignorance, weakness and attachment.
Attachment means the attitude of 'This is my self and my possessions, my friend. I will not share with anybody. I want to possess everything for myself.' This is another enemy of selfishness and you have to fight it. If you can fight yourself, then the Supreme Messenger creates the circumstances of life beneficial to all whereby the fight will be automatic. The attachment goes and you evolve.
Another enemy is having a weakness for something. Human complexes are not bad in themselves, they have been given to serve us. Anger exists to give us the courage to fight evil, not to wound others. Greed exists so that we can achieve the inner gifts, not only external things.
Yet another enemy is self-pity.
You have come on this earth for only a few days, and then you will go back. What answer will you give on the last day? What have you done? For whom? Will you be able to say, 'I have done this for my Master, this for unity, this for my friends. I have tried to give solace to so many?' That will be your satisfaction.
So you have to fight a series of enemies with the divine battalion. In that divine battalion the most important thing is command. The supreme command is from the pure conscience, not a false conscience. The pure conscience is your Guru within. To awaken your mind and to expand your heart is the highest service to your life and is the supreme command that comes from God. Whether it comes through your Guru or conscience, it must be followed.
Always follow your supreme commander. Just as in the army the penalty for disobedience during war may be death, so you too will suffer and lose something if you disobey your conscience. Follow your conscience, your heart and your feelings. The more you will follow, the more you will be promoted. This promotion in your life is called elevation. At the highest state of your elevation you will feel that you and your Father are one. At that state you are completely free.