1939_08_13 THE VOICE OF LOVE

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THE VOICE OF LOVE

 

Now, in order to present the truth about a certain problem I have to give several examples.

 

During a winter night, a young man came out of his home and set off for the near-by forest, for a walk. Meanwhile, a pack of wolves appeared. He quickly climbed up a tree and hid. As the wolves passed by, the young man, who had calmed down, was about to come down, as he found out a new horror: a bear was climbing up the tree. The bear stopped one branch below him - it was also trying to escape the same pack of wolves. Looking up, the bear saw the young man who was stunned with horror, but it mentally calmed him down with the words: Don’t be afraid – at this moment I am not dangerous for you, because I, like you, am faced with the same danger. Instead of resting in my den, I went out for a walk, but the wolves ran after me and I hurried to climb the tree. As they saw, that they were out of any danger, the bear was the first to come down from the tree, then it looked at the young man, and nodded to him “goodbye”. The young man also said goodbye to the bear and come down from the tree. This tree symbolizes life, the young man symbolizes the human mind, and the bear symbolizes the human heart. So, as the mind and the heart are simultaneously in danger, they should not fight. They should climb the tree of life and seek their rescue there.

 

One summer day a young man went to the forest to chop wood. Suddenly, he heard a loud roar behind him. As he turned, he saw a large bear. Initially he became frightened, but as he was just about to raise the axe, he noticed, that the bear pointed its paw at him and wanted some help. He peered at it and saw that a large thorn had entered into its paw. The young man held the paw tightly in his hand and took out the thorn. After that, he took out some salad oil from his pouch, daubed the wound with oil and dressed it well. As he finished the operation, the bear took him by one of its paws and led him away. He followed it calmly, curious to see what it wanted from him. As they walked for half an hour, the bear stopped by a tree and looked upwards. The young man also looked upwards and saw bees there that were circling around a beehive. There, he understood that it was inviting him to feed from the honey there. Thus it expressed its gratitude for the favour done.

 

Consequently, as your heart is wounded, appeal to your mind to help you take the thorn out of its wound. After that, it will express its appreciation and show you where the bees live, so that you can take as much honey as you like from there. The bear, that is, his heart, took the young man to the bees and thus it gave him a good lesson – to strive towards purity and towards an organized life. The rational heart can be a teacher of the human mind. What the human mind learns for a thousand years, the reasonable heart learns for one day only. What the reasonable heart has learned long ago, the mind tries to learn now. Some people think that the mind does everything. Partly it is so. The mind does everything on the initiative of the heart. That is why man should understand the truth first by his heart and then - by his mind. The same holds true about Love. Man should first understand Love by his heart and then – by his mind. As you interpret the truth with your tongue to a man, leave him to understand it internally, by his heart. As soon as he understands it, he will transfer it properly to the mind.

 

Many people want to understand what Love is. As regards Love, the heart will be the first to understand and feel it. Whatever outer expression you may give to Love, the heart can neither be bribed, nor cheated. Whenever someone gives money as an expression of his Love, he is deceiving himself. This is the Love of the Earth - not his Love. Money is the possession of the Earth. When someone is giving you a nice woollen dress in order to express his Love, he is deceiving himself. This is the Love of the sheep – not his own Love. He has robbed the wool of the sheep, made a dress from it and now he offers it as his own dress. In what way should the human express his Love, then? A man should express his Love by the help of his good and rational heart. He should show that he loves as God loves. He should love as the mother and the father love. These concepts are for the mind, but their understanding should reach the heart as well. If help does not come from the heart, these concepts will remain just theoretical rules. The only thing within the human that is sacrificing is the heart. All the mistakes in human life originate from the sacrifices that the heart has made. In this sense, God forgives every mistake of the heart that was made as a result of Love.

 

One of the greatest teachers of the old times sent one of his disciples around the world to preach his teaching. At the same time, he gave him the ability to heal. As he entered the world, the first thing his disciple did was to begin to heal. He healed all the blind, deaf, and crippled people he met. The blind men began to see, the deaf men began to hear, and the crippled men began to walk again. In one word, he restored the health of all the people that were deprived of something. But what was his surprise, when, instead of showing their gratitude, all of them started to chase him – those who had began to see started to chase him, those who began to hear started to abuse him and speak ill of him. Those, whose legs and arms he had healed, started to beat him.

 

As he came across this great discrepancy, he returned to his master disappointed and discouraged and asked him why instead of gratitude he found so much abuse, persecution, and pursuit? His master answered him: the mistake is this – first you began to heal and open the eyes of the blind, open the ears of the deaf, and untie the arms and the legs of those people who were put under certain trials from Rational Nature. In fact, though, your first task was to preach to healthy people who have eyes and ears and whose arms and legs are healthy. After that – in your free time, when you had nothing to do, you had to heal the blind, deaf, and crippled. Finally you had to come back to me. All the people you healed were your enemies from the past. I tied them, so that they cannot hinder you today and you might evolve well. As you did not understand this, you untied them prematurely, with which you impeded the performance of your task. Because I tied them then, I myself was going to untie them now.

 

Each man has one blind and deaf thought, as well as one blind and deaf feeling within himself. Should he prematurely untie them? Consequently, as regards his mind and heart, man should help just those of his thoughts, feelings, and actions that are healthy. In his free time, when he has nothing to do, he may heal his ill thoughts, feelings, and actions. The ill thoughts, feelings, and actions in man are his enemies. If he starts to heal them and unties them prematurely, he gives them the opportunity to chase him.

 

As I say, that one should not preach to ill people, I mean, in fact, that they are not yet ready to accept the Divine Word. As the younger son asked for his share from his father, he intended to live. He did not return to his father until he spent everything – money, health, and strength. He returned to his father as a prodigal son. If there were more people to pity and help him, he still wouldn’t have returned to his place. He would still have been occupied with the young ladies. But the young and rational ladies do not tolerate stupid disciples. The son returned to his father, who was not blind, deaf, or crippled. His father was healthy and reasonable. The reasonable young lady always teaches the young man a lesson. She makes him spend his money and become a pig-tender, so that he can come to his senses.

 

Many people think, that in order to study and evolve well, man should be rich, so that he might have good opportunities. If this is true, Christ should have been born in a royal home, under the most favourable conditions. At the same time, he would have had the authority and no one would have dared to touch Him, chase Him, and crucify Him. If He had been born in a royal home, though, Christ would not have done the work that was assigned to Him. He would have learned a lot of things in the palace, but he would not have known what suffering is, or what it means to sacrifice for your fellow man. While he was a simple shepherd, David lived a pure and holy life. As he became king of Israel, he committed many sins and crimes about which people continue to talk about up to this day. Finally his son Solomon was born - the wisest king at that time who had 300 women and 600 concubines. This speaks for his insatiable desires. From the point of view of his grandiose and insatiable desires, many people resemble King Solomon. Before the flood there were also animals with great, insatiable desires, but where are they now? Where did their desires remain? Nothing remained from them – Nature destroyed them. Today, the biggest animal here is the deer. In comparison with the big animals that lived before the flood, it is like a small calf, though.

 

During the Ottoman yoke a Turkish pasha visited a Bulgarian village near the town of Varna. The village people welcomed him very warmly. In order to express his gratitude, he gave this village a present – an elephant. For a whole year, the people from the village fed the elephant regularly, but the village began to get poorer. Each day, they had to give it 50-60 kilograms of rice. They wondered what to do with the elephant – it cost them dearly. One day, the Turkish pasha met a peasant from this village and asked him: Are you pleased with the elephant? – Yes, we are. – Do you look after it well? – Yes, we are. – If you like, I can give you one more elephant. As he heard this, the man became frightened and ran away.

 

Who made the mistake: the Turkish pasha, or the peasants? The mistake was made by both the Turkish pasha and the peasants. The peasants had to know how to use the elephant. They had to harness it to work, so that it can justify the food he ate. The Turkish pasha is the human mind, while the peasant is the human heart. As the mind wants to express gratitude towards the heart, it should not give him an elephant, but a beehive that will bring it great profit.

 

As you study human life you see, that three important things motivate a man: a bright thought, a good feeling, and a noble act.

 

All contemporary people are exposed to internal trials, to internal discontent, that can be removed only by the help of bright thoughts, good feelings, and noble deeds. The only Good, which God has put into the human mind, are the bright thoughts that he receives from the Elevated World, into his heart He has put the good feelings and into his will He has put the noble deeds. The wealth of a man lies in this. If through his bright thoughts, good feelings, and his noble actions man cannot see God, he cannot see Him through anything else. The strength of a man is in his bright thoughts, bright feelings, and noble actions. One of these three features is that as they visit a man, he fills up with such strength, that he preserves his balance irrespective of the hard conditions he is in.

 

One of the great scientists of the old times set a task to one of his disciples, so that he could understand what a strong and a bright thought means. He told him: go among the people around the world; there you will meet three people: a military man, a Brahman, and an adherent – slap each of them in the face. As you finish your task, come back to me and tell me what you learned. The disciple left and the first person he met was a military man. He slapped him in the face, but the military man turned and slapped him twice and threw him to the ground. As he stood up, the disciple thought: this military man was a strong man! He continued his way and stopped by a temple where he saw a Brahmin praying to God. He came near him and slapped him in the face. The Brahmin raised his hand with the desire to slap him back, but quickly lowered it and continued to pray. This Brahmin has turned into a weak man, the disciple thought. Finally he met the adherent – he was lost in thought. He came near him quietly, slapped him in his face and quickly walked away. The adherent remained in the position in which he was before the hit – he did not even move. This one is completely weak – concluded the disciple.

 

As he finished his task, the disciple got back to his teacher and told him everything that he saw and learned. His master told him: until you acquire the features of the adherent who serves Love, you will never succeed. So, a military man symbolizes a man who serves the force. The Brahman symbolizes those, who serve the law, while the adherent symbolizes a servant of Love. Within each man, three types of states exist – strength, law, and Love, while the very man is the disciple that learns from them. Unless he gives priority to the adherent in himself, man will never achieve his wishes. The same categories of people we meet among the whole humanity. Until the world does not give first place to the adherent in himself, people will always find themselves before trials and hardships.

 

Another disciple went to the same master and asked him to explain to him what Love is. The master remained silent and did not answer him, but the disciple persisted. For ten years, he continued to visit the famous Master and asked the same question over and oven again, expecting to get some answer. In the tenth year, the Master, who was a healthy and well-built person, took the disciple to the river Gang, where he immersed him in water. The disciple began to suffocate due to the lack of air and to kick, until finally the Master pulled him out. What did you feel while you were under water? – I felt I was suffocating, I felt I was sinking deeply somewhere for the lack of air. The master told him: When you find yourself in the same situation in life – to feel; that you suffocate, lose consciousness, and miss air, then you will know what Love is.

 

So, three categories of people exist in the world: the category of the military man – the man of force – if you slap him in the face he will slap you twice. The second one is the category of the Brahmin who serves the law. If you slap him in the face, he wishes to strike you back, but he immediately lowers his hand and says: there is no need to defend myself - a law exists that gives everyone full credit. The third category is the one of the adherents, who does not even dwell on other people’s actions and who does not want anything from anyone.

 

As disciples, you are required to be brave and decisive like the military man, but as you serve the Divine – not the human law, that to each one answers with two. [M1] Be resourceful and rational like the Brahmin, who still serves the two laws – the old and the new one, but as soon as he refuses the old one, he immediately lowers his hands and accepts the new law – the law of the Spiritual World. And finally – be like the adherent, who serves the law of Love, because of which he is blind to the human sins and crimes.

 

One day, when you return to the Invisible World, all of you will be subjected to examination - to check to what degree you have applied the law of Love. As they see that you made use of criticism, they will ask you why you criticized. If you say that you wanted to correct the people, they will immediately ask you: did you correct your own self? Do not criticize people before you have corrected yourself, so that you do not find yourself in the position of the grindstone that sharpens the knives of the people. Mind that you do not become a grindstone that sharpens the knives that cuts the people’s heads. The task of a man is not to be a grindstone.

 

Imagine that you are to receive an inheritance of 10 million leva. At the same time you are to take one hundred leva. Do you have to neglect the 10 million and fight to get the one hundred leva instead? Forget the one hundred leva, forget about your debtor and turn your gaze towards the ten million, so that you do not miss the term for their reception.

 

Man has come to the Earth to study, work, and acquire a great inheritance. As he knows this, is he to occupy himself with the mistakes of people and with the trifles in life? The mistakes and the trifles are meshes. The one who falls into these meshes has won the one hundred leva, but has lost the great fortune. If you carry a bottle of water that contains one litre, don’t you have to let the man, who wants to drink, drink some of it? If someone wants to drink from your bottle – give it to him readily. Do not be afraid, that you will remain without water. You are near the source and you will be able to fill your bottle with clear, fresh water. You have to change the old water anyway. Consequently, whatever damage people might cause you, everything is for your own good. Do not think that this is a discrepancy. Do not say, that you have to defend yourself because people cause you damage. There is someone to defend you. When the royal son goes for a walk – should he carry his weapons with him to protect himself? There is someone to protect him. He is constantly accompanied by people who first attend to him and then to themselves. The same holds true for everyone. No matter how insignificant some man in society might be, there are beings that are appointed to protect and defend him. One thing only is required from you – to listen to the voice of those, who protect and take care of you.

 

Somewhere in America, the child of an engine driver used to play on the railway line where trains passed. One day, the child again went to play on the railway line, but at that time the express train arrived. The child had not noticed the train and continued to play there undisturbed. As the train came near, the father saw his child on the railway line and shouted: Lie down! The child lay down, the train passed, and he was rescued. What would have happened to the child if it had stopped to ask his father why he should lie down? Would he have succeeded in saving itself then?

 

For this reason, whatever Love tells you – listen to it. As soon as it tells you “lie down” – you lie down. Get up! – You get up. Shut up! – You shut up. Talk! – You talk. Whatever Love tells you, listen to its voice and obey its advice and orders. The solving of all the problems is in the obedience to love. If you like to know how to understand the language of Love and the obedience, you will enter the practical school of life. What I am telling you now is not a theory – this theory should be implemented in life.

 

Listen to the voice of Love and you will accept the true Life.

 

Listen to the voice of Truth and it will provide you the absolute Freedom.

 

Listen to the voice of Wisdom and it will provide you the required Light.

 

This is the great good for which all of you are called upon in the world. The new age is coming and you should accept the great good in Life, Knowledge, Light, and Freedom. If you accept the Divine Word and live in compliance with it, the Spirit will come into you and the verse will come true: “The Spirit will descend in you” and you will get what you like. In whatever situation in life you might be, apply the Divine Word and you will see the positive side of its application. I believe that all of you will put it into practice.

 

August 13, 10 a.m.

 

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