ACTIVE IN LIFE

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ACTIVE IN LIFE

 

After Paneurhythmy we gathered around the Master and conversation began.

 

You think that your life has no meaning. And others think that Life has a meaning. Who is right? Those who think that the Life has a meaning. The New teaching does not tolerate any discontent, uneasiness, and anxiety. The beauty in Life consists of not worrying, even when things are not going well for us. In order to comprehend God, we need to learn to understand God's deeds and to rejoice in them. We all live with the goods of God and receive gifts.

 

Contentment does not mean passivity and vacancy; on the contrary, in that case you are active in Life again. When man is dissatisfied, in his dissatisfaction he should be satisfied. This is the new. When man becomes discouraged, God, who has created the world, goes and comforts him. God is not a God of the dead, but of the living. With the new understanding of Life, consider that every day is Divine and rejoice at this. Work with joy for today and do not worry about tomorrow. Rejoice at that, which has happened, and at that, which is yet to happen. Whatever happens, say, "Let it be for God's Glory!" Take out the notebooks, in which the ones who have to pay you debts were written, and erase everything.

 

In the School I had given you the task "A day in God's Kingdom", which consisted of the following: to spend the day in joy and to not allow any anxiety into your soul, to assume that everything is for the good, to have a beautiful attitude towards all souls, towards all creatures. Elaborate it.

 

Rejoice at the healthy and you will become healthy. Rejoice at the happy and you will become happy. Even if the worst happens to you, rejoice and do not get discouraged. The creatures of the Invisible world would give millions to have the experience of the Earth, and people consider sufferings to be unnecessary. Sufferings are an experience, a form, through which a truth has to be passed on.

 

Sometimes man has a feeling of dissatisfaction, because there are sacred longings within him, and he lives in a crude environment, which does not correspond to them at all. He should not worry, but instead work for the elevation of those around him, through which he himself will elevate and fulfill the mission, with which he was sent among them, and some of them will awake. To create a will in yourself, and in the midst of all misfortunes to walk calmly and in peace, it is an entire philosophy.

 

The Master cast a glance towards the beautiful meadow with the blossoming trees on the background of Vitosha, and said:

 

This view is magnificent, like a living cinema! I am interested in the stones, the sky, the clouds. It is beautiful when a man under the rain does not think that his clothes will get soaked, and does not frown at all: "Did it have to rain just now, it ruined the style of my clothes". You have to enjoy the rain, and when the sun warms you, you should not mutter again that it was hot. Why do we suffer? Because we restrict God. You suffer because you are the first to take.

 

There is no better thing than a man having an inner joy, an inner flash. All days carry blessings. Some blessings are pleasant to you, others are not. The Heavens first of all tests you how satisfied you are. What kind of thing is it for a man to be rational and content? To be put under even the worst conditions, but your state to remain unaltered, not to get discouraged, because in a good situation everybody is content. We say that life is miserable, we have believed in something which is not true. When you get up in the morning, think that Life is beautiful. Life from one end to the other is a Divine beauty! Rejoice at the variety. You think that Life is monotonous; no, it is varied. It is a hard thing for a man to cheer up. If man does not control himself, he worries. Be happy, so that you can become younger. I see that you have grown old prematurely. Rejoice at your eyes, ears, tongue, nose, hands, feet. That, which you see with your eyes, is very valuable. Let us say that some rich person is blind; then what does he need his riches for?

 

Someone says that he wanted to be happy. How can he be happy when he does not enjoy the best that God has given him. What better than to have a head, in which the mind thrives, to have a heart, where the feeling thrives. You want to have at least one housemaid, and even then you are not grateful to God. He has given you two housemaids below - to carry you, two housemaids above - to work for you, more housemaids on your head, and you dare to say that there no one to serve you.

 

You are dissatisfied with Life? Look at the poor beetle that crawls, and be encouraged, because it, in this poor form, makes efforts and works, it understands better than you. With your great wealth you have become discouraged with Life, and it, in comparison with you, is a first-class pauper and with his large poverty is content and works. The worm crawls away and does not get discouraged, and in comparison with it, you are an entire deity. You have more than you have elaborated. You even have more than you can carry.

 

You are sitting and preoccupied, and a birdie is chirping. It is content when it has a million times less than you do. The birdie chirps wherever it wants. Man can also go wherever he wants, as long as he carries out the Will of God. When he serves the people and God, he will then travel far through the air.

 

If you are discontent, if you doubt and get discouraged, you then deny the Rationality in the world and have no connection with the Prime cause. When man has lost the connection with God, then whatever you say to him, he will always be discontent. For instance, you give him a book, but when he takes it, he will put in a negative thought; he will look at random, and will again be discontent. All the contradictions are derived from the fact that people are not musical. We all suffer from drought, from dryness, we lack music. You see that somebody is stooping. That great discontentment is from an inner deficiency. Outwardly we have a lot of riches, but these are mountains of snow. Now, those who are moral will progress, they will prosper. Those who walk in the wrong way need great sufferings in order to mend, to free themselves. People who are not good are recognized by their being discontent.

 

Trust in what cannot be taken away. In the Divine world everything is in an ascending state. The physical world contains a good deal of conditions for the one who understands. For now elaborate on what you have been given. In the future you will be given more. There is something beautiful in Life. Every minute, every hour there are so many beautiful things! We have utilized only a hundredth of the possibilities that we have been given.

 

Do you know how good it is for a man to go through Life without having become discouraged? To the one who does not value the Life, suffering and death come along, in order for him to understand and value it. When death comes and takes away everything a man has, he then begins to value Life and to regret his body, and says, "What a lovely house I had!" So what, God can give you more than He had given you. Now you learn to value the house.

 

The grief upsets the nervous system of man. He should not think that this thing cannot be achieved, that nobody loves him, etc. Thus you cut back all the conditions which you live in. If you believed that nobody loves you, you would die immediately, you would not be able to live. Let us listen to the language of Nature and we will be joyous. First of all you shall believe that there is at least One who loves you. After all, everything you have lost will be brought back to you. When man is content and thankful, things start to go well for him! When somebody has contradictions, he should be quiet and not mutter, so that the spirits do not know where his weakness is. The contemporary person has to free himself of his discontentment, which I call leprosy of the consciousness. One who is greedy becomes ugly because he becomes exhausted. The discontentment opens the door of the human mind and heart to all the bad thoughts and feelings. Overcome! We live in a world of great possibilities.