1920_02_08 Prayer (Nik)

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Prayer

notes of a talk given by the Master on 8 February 1920, Sofia

(handwritten text)

"But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly."

Matthew, 6: 6

We need to convert words in modern language before we can clarify them, as mathematicians do. We have learned the simple and the compound rule. It reads as follows: "If one worker earns 5 leva for 10 hours, then 10 workers for the same number of hours, working 10 days, how many leva will they earn?" So for the first worker we know that he will earn 5 leva for 10 hours but for the second we do not know - and this is X. And then they determine X by taking one number from the top, another from the bottom and multiplying them. And when modern people are told to pray, they smile a little, they have a religious perception of prayer.

Prayer, it is not a waterfall that roars, it is not a wind that shakes the leaves.

I can liken the prayer to the dewdrops that fall from above on the earth, or it is a light that comes on the face of the earth and gives life. And do you know why these water drops come from space?

Reops asks, "Who gave birth to water drops?" I am asking, "Who gave birth to sun's rays, and why do these drops of water and this light come?" The light comes because of the sighs of all the billions of beings buried in the earth - they sigh and direct their thoughts towards this eternal source. And the dewdrops come to give life, that is also why sun's rays come. I believe that many of you do not agree with me, and I do not want you to agree, because I think agreement is disagreement and disagreement is agreement. When 10 people agree to steal, do you think there is harmony? I am telling you, the words I speak to you, take them like dewdrops and sunlight - they belong to everyone. If you reject a dewdrop, a second, a third, a fourth one will come, and so they will go on top until they make their way. No one can stop the dewdrops and no one can divert the sun's rays from their path. You can make huge buildings for yourselves, you can put narrow vents, you can put curtains to block out the light, but in years to come you will feel the need for it. You can drink wine and beer, but the time will come when you will feel that there is no better drink than water. All the scriptures, everything that people say, I consider it drinks, but what God says is pure water. Have you drunk it? I can describe to you the face of a drunkard who drinks beer, I can describe to you the face of someone who eats meat and another one who eats wheat. They differ: the one who eats meat has sharp, canine teeth, whatever he catches, he breaks bones. The one who drinks wine and beer, his face is swollen, his blood is unclean, his eyes are dim. I take drinking wine in a very broad sense. Do not think that I want to offend you. I take wine as a symbol, something that diverts our thought from the right direction.

Christ says, "But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly." You will enter, says Christ, into your secret room and pray to your Father. This is the rational, the great in the world, that unites all people into one, that considers our desires, our thoughts, our actions, that gives impetus to our growth, that raises the dead human soul. Have you forgotten it? If someone asked who your father was, you would all describe your stepfathers, you would say, "My father has blue eyes, his nose is long, his eyebrows are thick, his beard is black, he is muscular, stern, demanding." Others would describe: "My father is delicate, his mustache is small, his eyebrows are thin, his hair is curly." Everyone will describe their father, but this is the shadow of That Great Father. I will give you a clarification of what this shadow is. If you take a ray of sunlight and pass it through 10 mirrors, according to the law of reflection, what forces will this ray have in its last reflection? Does the sunlight, which is reflected by the moon, have the power to make things grow? It has lost its strength at the first reflection. So, if you want to know God according to the law of reflection, you will only have the light of the moon. You will describe it as poets describe it. You will argue whether God is visible or invisible, infinite or limited, why He created the world, and so on.

If I travel on the road and someone asks me why I raise dust, what my intention is, do you think there is any philosophy in this? I do not know why I am raising it. I would say, "Because the weather is dry, my feet get dusty without me thinking." Modern philosophers and thinkers also raise some question. They resemble that Spanish poet who wrote several verses, but one of the verses was so difficult to understand that when they went to him and said, "We cannot understand what you mean", he replied, "I also do not know what I mean." If you ask modern philosophers what they want to say with their profound verses, they will say, "We also do not know." When a student solves an equation, what has he done? When he solves this compound rule - that X is equal to 10, what has he solved? He has solved how much these 10 people will take. If you solve the equation for the workers, they will get something, but if you solve it for school, what will you gain from that? Just an exercise. I do not refuse the exercise, but I want your thoughts to be precise and definite.

When we do exercises, we need to know that this is an exercise, not to confuse the exercise with the reality of life that exists.

Many people exercise in praying. I do not mind that, but it is not reality, it is preparation for reality. Christ says, "Go into your secret room." What is this room and where is it? Someone will say, "Inside oneself." This room is not located in the body. When someone sees me walking through a door, they will say, "You entered through that door." But when I go in and out, I can be out of this room. I know this room is above, out of the human brain, but when the human Spirit enters, it goes out. Christ says, "Go into this room where there is no noise." But on the Earth, there is noise in whichever room you enter, and where there is noise, there can be no understanding. In this room, all who enter are united, they consider themselves brothers. There are no nationalities, there are not many teachings, there is only one conscious and understood teaching. As in a music room, where it is pleasant when everyone plays, so it is pleasant in this room. Its description is very simple: it is magnificent, bright. If I could translate the words, I would say, "You, as you pray, enter the Divine world, go and be friends with the angels for a while, and you will understand the meaning of life." But anyone who enters this room must take the load off his back, same as a camel. And how difficult it is for us modern people to get rid of our burden.

All of you who are listening to me now are loaded like a camel, and I am also loaded as you are. I will teach you how to unload, because if you do not know how to unload, the cameleer will come to unload you and if he likes to drink, you will wait for him for a long time and you will pray to the Lord to come to unload you. The child waits for his mother to teach him how to pray. The religious person will go somewhere, or wait to be taught how to pray. And the disciples of Christ wanted Him to teach them how to pray.

Christ translates to them an old formula from the beginning of Genesis: "Our Father". If you were mathematicians to decompose the word "Father" into its absolute values, you would understand the deep meaning behind this word. It is sacred to me and I do not want to decompose it to its absolute values. Why? I will tell you. A beautiful maiden should wear a veil over her face. Why wear a veil? Because if she walks without a veil, she will be defiled. If a beautiful walks in these years without a veil, she is no longer a virgin. All the young men will direct a bad thought at her and she will be seduced. At the very least, she will perceive a thought, and after the perception, even in the smallest amount, she will be defiled.

Modern people believe that a person is a criminal when he commits a crime. No, as soon as he thinks of it, he has already committed the crime. But many will argue that a crime is not committed with thought alone. Two old hermit saints argued over this issue that man commits sin only with his thoughts. One of them said: “Let us cook beans, but only put salt in the beans in our thoughts. Will they be salted then?” Indeed, he is right logically. The beans are not salted by the thought. But I say that if the thought is strong, they can be salted. What is salting? This is an illusion of the tongue. Some people put a lot of salt and it is still unsalted for them, and some put a little salt and it is salty for them. How do we judge when beans are salted? If we think that beans are not salted with thought, this feeling is so intense that we cannot feel the salt that was put inside, and we say that thought cannot make the beans salty. I answer, "Leave the first lice in your head, and you will have all the lice, take out all the lice and you will get rid of all the others." One should never allow a bad thought in one's mind. Only then is he human. Christ says: "But you, when you pray..." Prayer, in my opinion, is a sublime work in this world. It is the only work that can be done. I say, "But you, when you pray, go to your Father." We say that the disciple, when learning, should go to his Master, because when the grain of wheat falls and is buried in the ground, it struggles to come out - this is labour, but work means getting rid of these two situations - the law of hardship and the law of labour and to enter into the law - knowing how to pray. Therefore, only the who knows how to pray has understood the deep meaning of earthly life. Or I interpret - the one who knows how to work. Enter this secret room to learn how to pray. Kneeling and folding your arms is not a prayer.

And Christ says, "And your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly." He will teach you to work in His Kingdom. In order for a person to enter the secret room, they must have the character of that mother mentioned in Bulgarian folklore. Her son fell in love with a beautiful girl. At first she avoided him, but then she agreed to marry him, but on the condition that he bring her mother's heart to her. The young lad went, took out his mother's heart and as he was walking, he fell down. Then the heart said, "Oh, son, did you hurt yourself?" Is there such a hero among you? There may be in the future, in thousands of years' time. "Go into your secret room." - The secret room, it is a consequence of getting rid of the bad influences in the world. Do you know how strong human words are? I can ruin your happiness with one word, you know? Words are the most dangerous weapon in the physical realm. That is why Christ says that only when you go to your Father will He teach you how to speak sensibly, because He says in Scripture, "The head of the Word is the Truth." Only then shall we speak well. And in order to find this head, Christ says: "Go into your secret room and pray to your Father." Who is the head of the Truth. Truth is the head of your Word. Then modern occultists say that man will become magnetic. If you come into my inn and I give you enough food, I will have an influence on you. But will food affect you or I will? Some people say, "Let us influence society." The innkeeper says, "I want to influence my customers." I t is possible by preparing healthy food for them, and this food will affect them. Therefore, if you give people the truth, if that truth is food, and if you give them that food, you will influence them. I tis not that you will influence them, but the food that enters them will create that influence. That is why Christ says, "When you pray, go into your secret room to learn this process." You are unhappy, you do not live with your wife, with your children, with society, you cannot find the reason why you are not doing well, you say: "There is a great contradiction in this world." Christ says, "Go to God to teach you what the reason is." But now we, modern people, are innkeepers and we say that food must be cheap, inexpensive in order to make a profit. The innkeeper must earn half of what the food itself costs. And so, if it costs him 50 leva, he will sell it for 100 leva. And as a result, the current greed, the rise in food prices happens. Butter is expensive, cheese is expensive, olives are expensive, wheat is expensive, everything is expensive. They ask now: "What should be done in Bulgaria to eliminate the high prices?" I ask the farmer how much it cost him to produce 1 kg of wheat, how much did he spend? I also ask the trader who produced 1 kg of butter, how much energy did he spend? Now the great law is coming into the world. The Lord will open the great book and question all the merchants, from the greatest to the smallest one. He will tell them, "Take this butter, it is yours, and give it to whomever you want." And He will say about the butchers: “Make them cows now, let those butchers who sell meat come now. You have sold a thousand kilograms of meat and consider it your private property. This meat belongs to which cows? Let these cows come.” And the Lord will gather all these cows and say to them: "Take your meat now, and make these butchers cows and slaughter them now." That is how it will be, you know? There will be no criminal left in this world who does not try what he has done. When you slaughter cows, the Lord will make you a cow, his knife will pass through your neck. You can understand this as you wish. You, who want to get rid of the great wrath of God, go into your secret room and pray to your Father to teach you how to save yourself. "But so-and-so doctor says that." Call this doctor. You, as the translator of this divine book, why did you distort the translation? Now, call so-and-so philosopher. Why did you insert your words into your philosophy, why did you distort the Divine Word? Now you will be judged, as people who sold indulgences were judged. "You will pay a hundred thousand leva, and your sins will be forgiven." There is no such forgiveness.

The law reads as follows: "You will pay to the person, whose house you burned." "But I had no intention." I pardon you, but you should pay for my house. If someone repairs a burned house and furnishes it, you will say, "Here is an honest man." Its owner will say, "He burned my house, but made me a better one." And if we want to fix our current life, we must necessarily build the burned houses. This is the great teaching that Christ once preached. And since you do not want to apply this teaching, you are misguided. The present Christian society was based on the same law. And misfortunes will come. Christian nations do not want to live honestly. Mothers will give birth to criminals from now on.
When will this society improve? Can you educate a wolf? He is still a wolf.

Some say: "Deunov teaches a doctrine against society, for the destruction of society." You have ruined this society, I am not the one who ruins the society. If you do not build your houses, leave the house. You can try my words without me telling you who is to blame, who is telling the truth? I also want to tell you how to build your houses. Christ says that all Bulgarians, from the king to the last pauper, should go into the secret room in order to improve their situation. The farmer should go into this secret room and ask his Father in secret to reward him openly. And then we will have a very reasonable social life. Our common goal is to live in one society, isn't it?

Why is a nation created? What is the distinguishing feature of the Englishman? What makes him English? His honesty. Remove his honesty and he is not English. What defines the Russian? His devotion. He may get drunk, he may commit many other crimes, but there is devotion in this man's soul. I can define all nations in one word. I am asking now, what is the distinguishing feature of the Bulgarian? I will not say the bad stuff. This is a great philosophy in life that we need to understand. You think that you can build life in another way? You can do everything, you can build as much as you want, but it is impossible to recreate your life according to these understandings. You may live a hundred thousand years, but you will not fix even a hundred thousandth of it. In a hundred thousand years, you will hardly raise the Bulgarians, who are in such a bad situation, even a hundred millionth fraction towards heaven, so who can save them. If you want to know what God will do with the Bulgarian people, open the history of the Jewish people and you will see what God did. People want to sin and God to be merciful, but the one who does not show mercy, will not be shown mercy to. As you are all so learned, tell me what will happen in the world in 10 years? Ask the scientists in Bulgaria, ask the priests what will happen in 10 years from now? What will be in the 30s of this century? Everyone will say, "It will be just like every century." I say, "It will be something that you have never seen." I do not want to prophesy to you like that Persian hodja who was poor. As he was unable to earn a living, his wife made him become a clairvoyant, to predict the fate of people. And he did predict. He once succeeded and was given a few coins. He started going out every day and became famous. It was rumored that he was a clairvoyant, a seer, and he could reveal secrets. There were major thefts at the Persian Palace and he was called to find the criminals. He said to his wife: "What trouble you have brought to me. It has been very easy so far, but here my head will go if I cannot find them." That is why he asked the Shah for 30 days' time and 30 grains of corn. And he began to repent: "Why did I have to become a prophet, why did I not keep my old craft as a hodja." The robbers who committed the theft sent someone to listen to what the hodja would say. In the evening, at sunset, the hodja threw one grain of corn and said, "Here, one has passed." He implied that one day had passed, but the robber thought it applied to him. The next day the second robber went to eavesdrop, and in the evening the hodja threw a grain and said, "Here, the second one has also passed." The robbers thought he knew them and went to him to beg him not to betray them. This is a coincidence of clairvoyance. Such prophets are present everywhere. When he says 20-30 words, like the hunter who fires a machine gun, something will be hit. He says, "My word has come true."

Prophesying is based on a great divine law, in which there is only one percent exception. And the prophet, guided by this Divine law, will have an exception of only one in a hundred. You say, "What will my life be like, what will happen to me?" Christ says, "Go into your secret room to your Father, pray, and He will tell you what will happen to you." When someone says an insulting word to you, if you get angry, do not keep your cool, but you say: "And I am not paying attention to this insulting word", you want to lie to him, as well as lie to yourself. No, cleanse yourself, get rid of these bad feelings and do not hide them. This angry thought, that you keep inside yourself, is not right. "But I did not tell him anything." Does the one who wants to catch the bird say anything to it? He takes the trough, adjusts it well and prowls for the bird. It enters the trough and he carefully closes it, so the bird stays inside under the trough. And he does not say anything to it. But for how long? Until it enters the trough, he waits for an auspicious moment in life and then he will say to it

Only in this hidden room, in these deep reflections, in this union and promise given to God, will you find all the clues of earthly life. Christ says, "All the tasks that disturb your mind will be solved in this room." I am asking you, "After you die, what will your daughter say about you?" She will say: "May God forgive my mother, she is gone!" But you died an 80-year-old grandmother, with an old wrinkled face, hunched over, and your daughter will also want to see you like that in the other world. If she meets you in the other world, young, beautiful, she will ask: "Who is my mother?" You will grin at her and tell her, "Your mother is not here, she stayed in the grave and you will not find her, if you look for her being old."

So, we should know not what is in front of us, but the soul of man, what is inside him. This is how modern public life should be restructured. When I sell butter to a person, I have to know his soul and not blackmail him, for the sake of God who lives in man. I have to give this man the opportunity to live like me. If I am a teacher or a priest, or an officer, or whatever, I need to know that once I have done my duty, I have to let all the people around me live freely and not blackmail them. You will object to me: "Should we only expect good in this world?" When your leg is sprained and you call a surgeon to fix it, will he speak kind words to you? No, if he comes to fix your leg, it will hurt you. The mother often takes a stick and uses it to smack her child. This is magnetization. By doing so, she gives him grace. A child who has been smacked by his mother is blessed, and a child who has never been smacked by his mother has no blessing. You will say: "Smacking is a contradiction in modern pedagogy and psychology, and everyone is rebelling against it!" Well, but is the place where the water falls, not being hit by it? Do not the sun's rays, falling on the leaves, cause blows? The damage that sunlight causes to the leaves and flowers of plants, in relation to the benefits it causes them, is in the ratio of one to a thousand. To one evil - 1000 good things. So, by doing 1000 good deeds, we have the right to do one evil to salt them (or to strengthen them - it is not clear).

Someone says, "We must not do evil, bad things." No, you can, but only after you do 999 good deeds will you do one evil for them to compensate, to be balanced. This evil is the packaging, and everything has to be packed. You have to do evil, so that the good is packaged. Therefore, this world can not do without evil, this is how the world is made. But when a person does 999 evils and only one good, we will say that this person has applied the Divine law upside down.

Someone says, "Do I not have the right to get angry?" You have this right, but only when you speak to someone kindly 999 times, dear, you have the right to be rude to them once. Then this person will say to himself: "Well, I also went a little too far, they have the right to be rude to me, I did badly." He will realize his mistake. That is why we must enter this room, it is our great Teacher of our lives. But now they wonder what it means to enter this secret room. I do not clarify this question in depth, but I only draw, I draw one point, I draw one eye, then another point - the other eye, then a line representing the mouth, here is a whole person. Someone drew an ox. Can an ox be drawn on paper? The teacher in elementary school says: "Hey, little Dragan, draw an ox!" Can a whole ox be drawn on paper? The teacher should say: "Hey, little Dragan, draw the shadow of an ox on paper, so that I see how you draw 'shadows'". A child draws the shadow of a donkey, and the mother says, "My child draws a donkey very well." If your child could draw a donkey, it would be a great person, but it does not know how. If I can draw a jackdaw, to give it wings, to make its lungs, its stomach, and make it fly, that is a real jackdaw. And in life today we deal with shadows. Someone says: "I gave 1,000 leva for the poor." Everyone starts talking: "So-and-so gave 1,000 leva for the poor." Another one says: "I gave 10,000 leva for the poor." And they start talking about him. Such is modern charity. It is a good thing, but these are shadows in life, this is not that great, Divine law which should govern life.

Which code of the Divine law says that money should be given to poor people? It is written in your law, but not in the Divine one. Isaac says, "Come and buy from me without money and without gold." Therefore, money, gold, is an emblem of true Divine knowledge. To give money to a poor person, that is to teach him to work, to labor. If modern society wants to reform, to get rid of beggars, it must first send them to a school where they toil, then to a school where they labor, and finally they will go to a school where they will work.

The new culture is not allowed to have poor people, it is not allowed to have beggars. Poor people - poor in spirit - this is a great thing, but poverty, like the current one, is a crime to exist. God sends billions, billions of tons of wheat to the world, and if people used it wisely, they would live a good life, but with this old culture that they serve, they are abusing it. A hundred years ago in America, when there was a great abundance of wheat, some rich people decided to use the surplus of wheat as fuel, so that it is cheaper than coal for them. When they implemented this plan, there was an immediate wheat crisis in America. Practicality! Now, if someone comes out to tell people that they are not living by the divine law, they will say, "Here is an anarchist." And the one who robs people, he follows the law, he is not an anarchist. An item used to cost 1 lev, but today it is sold for 1,000 leva and everyone says: "Time demands that." One kilogram of butter used to cost 2 leva, today it costs 80 leva. Time demands that! And today we find ourselves in a contradiction. I will liken this situation we are in today to the following case. In the past, the Russian tsar, while spending time in Svishtov, fell ill with a boil. A Bulgarian started treating him and in order to make him an ointment, he bought a tallow candle which cost 25 cents. This candle was supposed to be included in the expenses ledgers, but while it went through all of the ledgers, its price rose to 12,000 rubles. Why was its price increased so much? Because it was necessary for the king. Our candles also have a big price now. The Lord will ask you, "How much did you buy this candle for?" - "For 25 cents." If we increased it one hundred percent, it would still not be the same as we see. That is why some hatred emerges in both the buyer and the seller, some anarchy, which will be expressed in a stronger form in the future. Teachers of mathematics and other subjects must show their students the ways, the rules by which the price of an egg can increase, but not multiply 1000 times, in order to understand the real laws.

A historian has no right to exaggerate historical facts when describing them. In this respect, the Bible is an excellent book because it conveys events as they were. How did the Jews describe their best King David? He was described with all his sins. They describe him where, how he manifested himself, as good or bad. It is in this impartiality, in describing the facts of the past, that the value of the Bible lies. The good and bad deeds of everyone in the Old and New Testaments were impartially noted. Rise and fall rest on this law. Bulgarians today are workers in society. They work to get materials for those who govern. Because, how will a person govern if you do not give them materials, conditions? In Bulgaria, whoever becomes a minister, everyone says about him: "He will not put Bulgaria right, he is such and such." They adorn him with bad thoughts. I can point out to you so many cases of Bulgarian ministers who, when they came, they did nothing as expected, because they were greeted with such bad thoughts. If the Bulgarians direct their thoughts towards a minister like this: "This man is good, he will get Bulgaria right and we will give him all our assistance." In this way, they will pass on him the most noble traits. But today, the first thing that happens when someone comes to power is, they get used and then condemned. Acquaintances start going to the Ministry, they want to use the Minister, but he is bored and expels one, another, etc. They come out dissatisfied with him and say to themselves, "I have changed my opinion of him." They complain that he drove them away, there is no nobility in him. But the one, whom the minister receives well, says: "Strange thing, I had a bad opinion of him, but he welcomed me politely, kindly." We are human, we are not angels, we cannot receive all human beings well. A minister, he алсо has his Saturday. Bulgarians say, "I found someone on a blind Saturday." i.e., the Saturday of indisposition.

Everyone has a day when things are not going well, be it Monday, Tuesday or any day of the week. And then he says, "Do not touch me on this day." This great law is in all religious societies. I know many Orthodox priests, and now they turn their attention to me and say, "He is such and such." I am not the person they can smear. Why? Because I have been through the fire 10 times and there is nothing people can bribe me with. I can live just the same here with you and with the angels in the Divine world. I have excellent friends among the angels, so even if you drive me away, I will go to them. You will say: "What is Mr. Deunov saying?" Yes, I have angel friends and God Himself is my friend. Why? Because I often go into this secret room and study the great Divine laws. I say, "Father, what can I do in this case, how can I act according to Your law?" Anyone can go through this room. You will say, "He has a very high opinion of himself!" In this regard, I have a high opinion of myself. I never allow myself to offend anyone. When I offend people, I offend myself, when I love people, I love myself. I do this thing for myself, for my own good, not for you. As I love you, I will pass by you, I will throw rain and light on you, and will leave. You will say, "Thank you very much." Not at all, thank yourselves. So does this law of Divine science state. When you learn these rules, you will begin to study philosophy as you study it today. Those who understand, should learn everything, everything is useful to you. I got distracted from my topic, but when I say that God is my friend, do not think that I want to recommend myself to you. I want to tell you that each of you can be a friend of God, but only on one condition. God will ask you: "Do you give up being a minister in Bulgaria?" - "I give up." - "Do you give up being a king?" - "I give up." - "Do you give up being rich?" - "I give up." Do you accept to be a servant of the people and to do them good? ” "I accept." Then God says, "You can be my friend." When I say that I am a friend of God, I do not mean that you have to honor me therewith, because I have long since given up on this kind of thing. On the contrary, this thought expressed by me, will bring me more bad thoughts than good ones. A friend of God is any person who does good, who loves the Truth and whose heart is always warm. Christ said the same thing to the Jews: "Go into the secret chamber and pray there." If those Jews could not understand these words, you, the Jews of 2,000 years ago, must understand this. I am calling you Jews too. Anyone who commits a crime here on Earth, I consider them a Jew. Anyone who does good and speaks the Truth is an Israelite. Anyone who wants to kill their brother is Esau. We modern people need to change our names. That is why the Lord says to Jacob, "From now on, you will be called Israel." Some of you are called Mara and others - Maria. Mara is always bitter, she is in the law of suffering, and she must become Maria. How will you translate Maria? She means salt, she is always salty, and the Divine Maria, she is light, sun. In Greek, light is called phos (φωσ).

Christ says, "Go into your secret room, into your inner laboratory, to understand this great law." You can enter this laboratory in 10 years' time, but it is better to enter it now when its windows are open, rather than at a time when they will be closed.

Christ says, "If you want to be smart, go into your room and ask your Father what to do." I am not saying that you should not read books, but I am saying that there is one way to know your heavenly Father, and that is "Prayer".

Prayer or work is the only way we can get to know our father and talk to Him. If you want to reach God, if you want Him to become your friend, your father, you must necessarily go into your secret room and pray to Him, and He who sees in secret will reward you openly. Do not doubt whether God is there or not, because that will hinder you. If you have no doubt, I will rejoice, because your suffering will end and you will move on to labor. Then you will move on to work and angels will come to teach you, i.e. advanced souls will come to reveal to you the Divine knowledge. But now, when someone meets you, they starts measuring you from top to bottom and say, "I understand him." When you meet the Master who will teach you, He is like pure dewdrops and light. These two qualities are qualities of the Great Teacher. These dewdrops will wash away your dust. I call this Great Teacher "Spirit." He is not something like the wind, as many believe, He is something great.

In Bulgarian language, there is no more meaningful, stronger word than "suffering". Likewise, a meaningful and powerful word is "Spirit." When a Bulgarian is told about the Spirit, he imagines something else. For him, this word has lost its true meaning. But when you talk to him about suffering, he has a very clear idea of that word. Bulgarians say: "Man came to this world for suffering." I say that man did not come for suffering, but for the Spirit and today is a Great Day - a day of the Spirit.

If today you go into your secret room before the great day, all your angels will rejoice and you will feel the inner meaning that you have been waiting for so many years. Then you will become strong, and when a person becomes strong, he is ready to suffer and struggle together with all who suffer and struggle. He is ready to take a small stick and help turn this wheel together with everyone. Think about this: go into your secret room and work to understand the true meaning of life.

Christ, who spoke to the Jews 2,000 years ago, His Spirit is saying the same thing today, “Enter the secret chamber while I am lighting the way, because if I stop lighting the way, you will lose it. Enter while it is day, because if you postpone it for the future, this Spirit will disappear, darkness will come and you will find nothing. If you enter your secret room through this way, you will understand the meaning of prayer, the work of public life, you will find meaning in everything and when you return to Earth, you will know how to work among your loved ones, you will know them. If you lose your way, you will be in the position of those passengers who travel at night, on a gloomy, dark night, in blizzards and storms. What happens to them? They are disoriented in their way. I know that all of you will enter this path, but some of you will enter after being whipped many times. Some will get into this room only by lifting the whip in front of them, without being hit. Others - by being whipped a few times, and still others - only after they get ten thousand whips on their backs. There will be no man who does not get into his secret room, even though after being forced by many whips. In this respect, you will look like that French officer who wanted to oppose a new law recently introduced by the Ministry. However, to make sure that he was strong enough to resist completely, he went to a fellow officer and told him: “Hit me with the flat part of your knife several times, I will tell you how long, when I tell you to stop, you will stop the hits.” The officer started hitting 1,2,3 times and heard his comrade telling him to stop. The hero realized that he would not be able to oppose the non-fulfillment of the new law and decided not to oppose. And now we say, "How shall I pray, I cannot." But when you are whipped a dozen times, you say, "I pray to you, be my brother, do not beat me!" When the child does not listen to his mother, does not want to obey her will, she beats him and he begins to pray, cry and say: "Mom, do not beat me anymore, I will do what you want!" So far, everyone has been preaching that God is Love, but what beautiful whips He has, how firmly He strikes us! The Lord beats His beloved son first. They say to Him, "This is Your beloved Son." - "Whip him 50 times!" "And this one is somewhat of a vagabond." - "Whip him 50 times." - "And this third one is a scallywag." - "Do nothing to him, do not whip him one single time!" What do you say to that? You, good people, will also get a whip from the Lord. It will layer you well, it will magnetize you so that your soul becomes magnetic. God has such a hand that when He magnetizes you once, you become a man and a half. He may only push you with a finger and you become a man. Blessed is the man whom God has magnetized. That is why the greatest saints have waited 25 years to gain the privilege of being beaten by the Lord and go into this secret room. Only then did they feel that they had passed into a new phase of their lives and understood the meaning of life as it was then, not as it is now. These saints also live now, they work and they are people's teachers. Now some may say that I am talking about rebirth. Strange thing! If a twig grows on a tree, is it rebirth or growth? If you break off this twig and another one grows in its place, is this rebirth or growth?

The spirit can take thousands of forms. He can dress the way we want. It is said that no one can command a Spirit, He can dress as He wills and as many times as He wills. He can come down to Earth as many times as He wants. You say, "No, once a man gets dressed, he cannot do that any more." I am asking you, "Well, how many times a day do you get dressed and undressed?" This is not a rebirth, but a law of the Spirit for the processing of matter, as the Egyptians call this in a philosophical sense. In order for matter to be processed, it has to pass into the power of the Spirit. Therefore, through the coming of the Spirit, matter is processed, which shows that it is alive, it works. When the Spirit descends into matter, He says to her, "I am a little impatient, you will excuse me." She replies, "Not at all, do as you know and I will do what I want." You are often angry too, but there is nothing wrong with that, anger comes from matter. As you go into your room, you will understand the deep meaning that God has put into your life, you will understand why your father created the world, what your purpose is, and what you must do in this life. What are the Bulgarians? A small branch of this great Divine tree. What are you? - Small leaves, small twigs, small roots. Some are small flowers, just now budding, and others small fibers, etc.

Christ says, "When you go into this room, you will understand the meaning of this great Divine tree, from which the first man ate and sinned." All right. Eve did not know from which tree to eat. I am telling you which one to eat from. Now you are in front of heaven, you will enter there and the Lord is telling you which tree you should eat from. This tree is the new teaching, in new phases.

Christ says to you, “Go and preach the new teaching. I will be with you even to the end of the age." And now they say that Christ was in heaven. No, He is here, He is working with you here. It is said, "When the Son of man comes, will he find faith?" i.e. when this age is over, will there be faith? This is how these words should be understood.

Keep this secret room in your mind in order to find your father. Do not condemn me, do not say that Mr. Deunov came to preach for some sect, to ruin the Bulgarian people. I just want you to find your father. If you do His will, you will mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends of mine. If you do not do His will, you mean nothing to me. I am not talking behind the scenes, I am telling the truth straight in the eyes. Do not think that I have such and such intention. I intend for you to do everything as Christ taught. I speak to you of this Christ, Who will be with you until the end of the age. Go, live and preach this teaching. Someone comes and tells me that he saw this from above, he saw that, he was told that, and so on. I do not see anything from above - I see the world differently. And now many clairvoyants are meeting up. Someone comes and says that he saw God - the Father with a crown on his head, as He is painted in the churches. What you see in icons and in churches is not God. Some years ago I passed through Anchialos (a Bulgarian town, now known as Pomorie) and a gentleman showed me one of his presents. They had given him the image of Christ with a broad head and a low forehead. I say, "Whoever painted this image of Christ, was a criminal." This artist had no idea of art. He painted an outlaw and said it was Christ. The features of Christ, of God, are not as we find them painted in the churches. God, Christ cannot be painted. He does not live in the churches, but only in human minds, hearts and nowhere else. Whoever says that God lives in churches made of stone, is not telling the truth. I do not want to be dishonest, to say what is not true.

God is a great principle of knowledge, Truth, Wisdom and Love. He wants to introduce us to every twig, leaf, flower, stone and show us what this world is like. God wants to teach us to understand our younger brothers and thank them for everything they do for us. When you ride a horse, say to it, "Thank you, brother, for putting up with me a little, I am weaker than you," and stroke him. When you milk a cow, give it a kiss and a gratitude. You will say to it, "Sister, thank you for giving me some of your milk, excuse me, if I have taken more."

This is the deep meaning of Christ's teaching, and we will achieve it by frequently entering our secret room.

We must do this so that all the animals around us can feel that we are created in the image and likeness and know God, our Father in heaven.

Talk given by the Master on 8 February 1920, Sofia

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