DISCIPLE'S CONSCIOUSNESS ALERTNESS

[Ani]

DISCIPLE'S CONSCIOUSNESS ALERTNESS

 

After the performance of the Paneurhythmy we came near to the Master to greet him. It was one of those unforgettable spring days. The fruit trees have blown into flowers and made the meadow fairy. The slender pine-trees stood upright, gilded by the sunbeams. Snow still gleamed on the peaks of Vitosha and freshness exhaled from it. The case in point was the alertness of consciousness.

 

There is an apache, with which you cannot cope. You have one nice feeling, one nice thought, but they disappear, because the apache has stolen them. There is no one to keep you. A solid thought is needed in order you to be always fenced, one excellent philosophy is needed. Consciousness shall be always on the alert and man shall know, in the concrete case, whether the consciousness is his own or somebody else's and which thought to accept and which not. Now you have to keep from falling when you rise upwards; from occurrence of a reaction. For example, a tied bug flies off and falls, flies off and falls and finally it liberates itself and goes away. Sometimes you are also tied.

 

There are vermin in man, which want to delude him and then rob him, and there are Higher creatures, who want to protect him from them and in general - they help him. Man has to do something, in order not to fall: when he is awake, it is fine, but at a small interruption of the consciousness, the vermin get inside. When they want to rob you, they will make you drunk, i.e. they will blur your consciousness and when you sober, you will see that you have nothing. We do not know how to keep what we have. The mosquitoes stick their proboscises and suck blood; there are also psychic mosquitoes, which discourage you by sucking your energy. We have to liberate from the useless torment of the lower creatures. Jesus came to liberate the mankind from some creatures, of whom people used to be captives. Yes, power is there: the conscious life to correct things. There are some formulas, but I dare not to give them, because you do not have rhythm and you do not fulfil them wholeheartedly. And sometimes you as if shoot cartridges in the air, but you cannot do mischief. Man shall never impede the Divine in him. When he impedes it, he destroys himself. When man wants to arrange his things in a human way, he creates his unhappiness; in other words, man has to liberate the Divine in himself and it will arrange his matters. New education is needed, new understanding, new ways. You can put in your room clean or opal window-glasses; in one of the cases, they will not let light in profusely, but if you put crystal clear window-glasses, it will be even better. One who knows much and does not apply it, suffers a lot. Man does not suffer from much knowledge, but from not applying it.

 

The whole mankind goes to a new phase and a coup d'fttat takes place. People cannot live any more in the old way. The old shell is cracking and chicken either has to go out or die - one of both. Somebody feels sorry for the old time, but new sprigs go out from the old ones and fear is unnatural here.

 

In Ellada, they related that people had seen one big bony frog* in the sea and thought that this was an island. They fixed a flag and settled, but after a while the bony frog began to move and they ran away. In the same way, an idea emerges in our minds and we think that it is an island and we put a flag, but after that we go away. In translation, it means not to cheat ourselves by illusions. While you were going down to Earth, you have chosen a plan, but when you step on it, you find another plan.

 

As long as you think, feel and act right, you are where you have to be; as long as you do not think, feel and act right, you are not where you have to be. Think, feel and act like Jesus on a small scale. People look for the easy way, and it is the hard one. Under an easy way, it is understood an ordinary path of life. The beautiful path with the big achievements and success is the Divine path, which actually is the real easy way. It is preferable to get up early than later from a spiritual point of view. With regards to this, there is a wonderful example in the Gospel with the wise and unwise young girls.

 

When a thought tends to divide, it is of human nature. One man married to an old woman, who was dressed up as a young woman. After that the old woman showed her real face, which the man had had to check from the beginning. You also have lots of your own ideas, which you have to check what they actually are.

 

People shall not be pig-tenders. Malice, hatred, impure thoughts, desires, feelings, etc. are the pigs, after which man looks and he shall leave them and go to his father. There is no reason for staying with them and listening to their grunting, this is no concern of yours; do not drive them away and leave them, because if you drive them away, they will come back. Man shall liberate his mind from some useless thoughts, desires and acts. He shall learn to get rid of the useless load each evening and keep the most valuable, which may be applied in the concrete case. Man has to find ways for liberating from the thoughts of the others in him, which divert him.

 

There are five degrees of people - ordinary, talented, genial, saints and Masters, and there are five categories of thoughts and acts. For example, now you can have an ordinary thought, and another time you may have a talented or a genial thought, etc. We have to distinguish the thoughts. When a nice thought comes to you, do not reject it like a cock, which skips the diamond. In each moment you have to know where the Divine is. We have to go out of this world of hesitation and suffering and come to a world of harmony, where everything is Joy and Merriment.

 

There are feelings, which are of animal origin, and there are ones, which contain rationality - they are Divine and shall not be mixed with one another. When we say that man feels, and does not think, animal state is understood. What will be the results from that? In the physical world, when you slip downwards, there is nothing to catch at and you continue to go down like blazes. It looks like that to the others, but it is not the same for the disciple; he must have overcome this slipping downwards, because he works consciously. Before becoming aware, man is in a chaotic state. Lots of useless things may gather in the mind and man shall liberate from them. Dust enters the room without invitation. Man shall recognize what in his mind is dust and liberate from it. If you have Light and Warmth, the non- advanced spirit keeps away from you - it cannot approach you, but it always wants to stop the Light and Warmth in you.

 

Contradictions in life are objects for interpretation. No matter what happens, one who can unriddle, shall not embarrass. When man acts without Divine light, then evil is born, and catastrophes come. For example, when man gets angry to someone and wants to beat him, without thinking of consequences.

 

One sister asked: "How to avoid bad thoughts?"

 

Think of good! Go five fingers up. Do not enter the lower flow; if your legs touch it, you will go under its influence. Sometimes something suddenly flashes internally in you, and sometimes - slowly. The candle glows all at once, and the Sun rises slowly. The quick things are human, and the Divine methods are slow.

 

When you enter no matter where, fence yourself, make in your thoughts shining circles round yourselves and breathe deeply; after that you can enter, because all bad influences are eliminated in this way and everything arranges. It is a mastery man to know how to use favourable conditions, which are given to him at the moment. The disciple shall always remember that he is a student; he shall never forget it - no matter in what environment he is and what environment he works.

 

When God speaks to you and tells you to do something, the second voice tells you, through you yourself, that there is no time and that it is not worth being so good, that you do not have means and strengths, and that you do not have to fast and pray so much. The second voice is the voice of the tempter. Side inlets may occur in man, but he shall eliminate them.

 

Once they put the eye of a man on one of the pans of scales, and on the other one they put gold, but the pan with the eye did not lift up. They piled more gold, but it again did not move. Finally they added a little soil and it lifted up. Man shall not want lots of things; if he wants lots of things, his eyes become weaker.

 

You are connected to Jesus. Go along that Path and the connection will increase by itself. You all live in the life of the past; you say that you have prayed ten years ago and God has listened to you, but the present day is the important one. Each day brings vast wealth. And you, thinking about the past, lose the present. Now you have to put a base; your internal life is important - you shall be right there. The internal man is from God. When you do something and you do not like it, it is from the dark spirits; if you do something and you like it, it is from God. The Divine always whispers to man from inside. When man forgets the road, he asks for it the others round him, doesn't he? Man also has to ask from time to time the Invisible world, he has to wait and be in no hurry to solve the problem. Listen to the new ideas, which are whispered to you from inside.

 

Today, the Divine thoughts and the thoughts of the dark spirits are entangled everywhere, that is why man shall not think that he will get rid without the alertness of his consciousness. The dark spirit says to God: "They look very good, they sing very well, but they are not such as they pretend to be. Wait, I will give them a game to screen them." Hence, the dark spirit wants to screen you. The little sins look like a publican's glass - you clink glasses in the inn and everything that God has implemented in you disappears; the aim of those, who want to rob you is achieved in this way. You have to recognize the dark spirit the first time he visits you and take measures. Your Angel - leader may talk to you through somebody and that is why you have to listen to what good people talk.

 

Somebody will ask you how you are going to live in future. I do not think about the future, I think about the present day and I believe that the next one will be better, and that the third one will be even better. One, who asks what will happen with him, does not understand life. Life, from one end to the other, is a Divine beauty.

 

One Master recommended to two of his disciples the following: to the first one - to tell people, whom he meets, that they will succeed in everything, and to the other - to tell people, whom he meets, that they will not succeed in anything. When the second disciple came back, he said that he had been beaten many times. We shall say people: "This too shall pass!" Contemporary people hesitate everywhere - both men of the world and men of God. They cannot recognize the Divine in themselves, they give in and sometimes the human gains mastery over. Sometimes we give advice to the soul - she comes forward, and we always ask whether it can be in another way.

 

We always keep in our minds those, who have done harm to us and in this way we impede our advancement. When the animal comes in man, brotherhood and sisterhood - everything noble in man disappears. Man can liberate from the lower spirits, which come. How? - He must not allow their weaknesses. If he has them, he attracts all foes. Man shall give up the old and leave only what is valuable and what is not - get rid of it.

 

When the nervous energy wears out, all illnesses come. When you do not have nervous energy, you are a tradesman in bankruptcy, who has no capital. There shall not be outflow of nervous energy. If you tell yourself: "It does not matter if I will understand it or not." or "It is over for me", your nervous energy flows away in this way. Each man shall have tension - to be in suspense; then energy comes and it is spent wisely. You have to self-educate from now on. Man is a stranger on Earth - he will be called one day, but he knows neither when nor how. They will call him when he does not expect, that is why he has to be prepared. When you are low-spirited, despondent, when you feel to be dejected, this means that you experience for one hour or for one day one not good past life. And when you feel to be jolly, happy, cheerful, then you experience one whole nice past life.

 

A man is coming against you; do not think if he will pass by, but think in advance how to make space for him. In this way you save time and dignity. If you think in this way, desire will arise in the other to pass by.

 

You have chains, but you are thirsty; there is water nearby, but you cannot go, your legs are tied. However, the key from the chains turns out to be in your pocket - unlock the chains, leave them, go to the fountain and drink water.

 

When you pass through the kingdom of the dark spirits, pass dirty and when you cut it across, wash yourselves. One wise man was taking one beautiful royal princess across one country, where they wanted to kill her, but she was dirty and ragged for not recognizing her.

 

When man works no matter in what sphere and implies personal feelings, the blood goes to the centre of the personal feelings, and not to the front and upper brain centres, which need blood. Then man can advance neither mentally nor heartily, nor musically, etc. When man has high aspiration, the blood goes to the front and upper parts of the brain and develops his supreme centres. But, if he stops working in the sphere of the high aspirations, the blood goes to the back and then man goes down to animal feelings - irritation, quarrels, revenge, and anger. Then a creature from the Invisible world has to come, to lead him, because he will bring suffering on himself. Life is the best music. It is hard to live, because we does know how

 

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* Bony frog (archaic) - turtle (Ed.)