1921_05_25 The Way of Thought (Nik)

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The Way of Thought

Every Divine thought passes through three media: material, substantial and essential, i.e. through the stomach, lungs and brain. From the brain the thought enters the astral world, where it passes again through three media. From the astral world it enters the mental world, also through three media. However, the thought does not stop here too. It enters the causal world, in three other environments, extremely inaccessible to man. Even the most learned man cannot enter the causal world. This is the path of the Divine thoughts that descend to the physical world. There is no Divine thought which, when descending to the physical world, does not become distorted, does not lose its purity. This is due to the distorted human minds and hearts. When a thought is distorted, people clash in their own interests. And indeed, in whatever society or home you enter, you see a collision everywhere. You will rarely meet a home or a society where people's thoughts are perfect, where there is no collision. Therefore, start studying the material world first. Once you have studied this world, you will easily study the spiritual one. One of the tasks of man is to study the relationship between man and woman, brother and sister, master and servant, teacher and student, judge and defendant, and so on. There are many relationships between people in the physical world.

Speaking of the distorted human mind and human heart, as an excuse, people say that karma forces them to manifest in this way. It is ridiculous to think that karma determines human life. Man creates karma himself. It is impossible for what you have created to determine the direction of your life. Karma has to do only with man's mistakes and folly, but it cannot determine the path of his movement. Conditions may anger or harden a person, but this is not a natural way of development. Having spent his life in poverty and deprivation, he has became angry, but this was the result of misunderstanding. If he understood poverty, he would not be angry. - Well, I will correct myself in another life. - This is questionable. A person can stand up only when he realizes that he is to blame for his own karma. Therefore, once he has created it, he will rectify it himself. If he expects God to free him from his karma, not only will he not get rid of it, but he will get even more confused.

One man beats his wife because she has not cooked well. Then they both expect God to reconcile them. They will wait long! They have to reconcile themselves. Know that God does not interfere in human disputes and misunderstandings. This has never been, and will not be. No matter how much you call Him as an arbitrator, He will not leave His place. You often play the role of a conciliator with the aim of something to drop into your purse. The lawyer protects, reconciles people in order for something to drop into his purse. The priest reconciles people again with the same goal - for something to drop. And the teacher reconciles his students in order for something to drop into his pocket. Then everyone wonders why the world is going astray. - It is very natural, as long as there are such conciliators, who are guided by the thought of getting something, the world will still go astray for a long time.

And you, listening to me, say: Will something drop? - Nothing will drop, neither from my side nor from yours. You want to learn something from me. - Do you know how dangerous I am to you? Do you know how dangerous you are to me? Therefore, if you are not ready to accept a truth, do not be in a hurry to be told. When you are not ready, it will bring great confusion to your soul. Someone wants to acquire God's Love. I say: You have not yet applied human love properly, but you are seeking God's. Human love requires little expenses. You cannot pay them, but you strive for God's Love, which requires great expenses. Can you cover these costs? The husband asks his wife: Are you ready to cook for me, wash for me and patch up for me with love? If the wife is not ready to do this with love, how will she talk about God's Love, which requires much greater sacrifices? Can you serve it? Someone comes to me, wanting to tell him the truth. When I say it, he gets arrogant, angry, he does not want to talk to me. I tell him: My friend, you act earthly, but you want something Divine. Anger is a human quality inherent in the earth, that is of earthly love. Whoever loves in a human way, will necessarily be angry. From the point of view of human love, there is no love without anger and there is no anger without love. Therefore I say to the woman: If your lover is angry, marry him; if he is not angry, leave him. - How is that possible? - Quite simply, if the man is not angry, he has no strength to protect his wife. As a woman, you may be attacked somewhere tomorrow. What will you do if your husband is not ready to stand up for you, to protect you? He will get angry, he will break the nose of the one who attacked his wife. He will break his nose, show him that love requires sacrifice. When some blood flows from the man's nose, he begins to think and says: Love requires sacrifices. I lead you to this thought in order to develop a correct understanding. As you live on earth, you have to study the laws that define human relationships. You cannot have a relationship with God until you properly resolve your relationship with people as your neighbors. How will you enter the spirit world if you have quarreled with someone? You say: I have been working on myself for ten years, I am making great efforts but I have not been uplifted yet. - How will you get uplifted? You have connected with so many people, and you want to rise. First, get rid of the ties that hold you to the ground. Then you will rise and acquire the knowledge that you are striving for.

The law is: Whoever does not settle his material accounts, cannot settle his spiritual ones. Conversely, whoever does not settle his spiritual accounts, cannot settle his material ones too. Whoever arranges his material affairs, will arrange both his spiritual and Divine affairs. This shows that there is a close connection between the material, spiritual and Divine worlds.

All men and women, both from the old and the new life, strive for the spiritual. How is it achieved? What does spiritual life mean? I would like one of you to come out and explain to me what they mean by "spiritual life." A person has to understand everything that he talks about and does. Here, today we have come to Vitosha. What is the motivating reason for that? There is definitely some reason that made us come here. You enter an inn. What is the motivating reason for this? You will say that hunger forces you to look for food. Not hunger, but bread. And from the quality of the bread, you will decide whether to go to the same inn another time, or to look for another one. By "bread" I mean the food that is offered to you.

What I am telling you today, on the mountain, I could not say in Sofia. There is no such oil there, with which I can cook food for you. Here I have a special oil with which I can cook you something nice. What do you think is a good meal? The red one? If it is a question of redness of food, it is something external, superficial. After tasting the food, the tongue says: It is perfectly prepared. It quickly gives its opinion and signs. Once the food enters the stomach, it is not in a hurry, it does not sign soon. It tastes the food here and there, and finally says: This food is worth nothing. It should go back! The tongue, that is the taste, and the stomach quarrel. So, tasty things are not always good. They are 50% good and 50% not good.

When observing the relationship between mothers and children, I come to the following conclusion: children that parents constantly praise, turn out 50% good and 50% spoilt; children who grew up only under the reproaches of their parents, 50% of them stand up, 50% get spoilt; children whom their parents sometimes reproach, sometimes praise, become indifferent. Whatever happens to them in life, they say about everything: It is matter-of-course. I have applied all three methods, I know what results they have. However, there is another method that is the best. It consists in the following: neither to rebuke nor to praise. Pretend that you do not see or hear anything. Be blind and deaf to both good and evil. I have not yet applied this method, I will apply it in the future. With the first and second method, I have a 25% profit, i.e. good result, and 75% loss. With the third method I have only 1% result and 99% loss. I add the result of the three methods: 25 + 25 + 1 = 51 profit. I add the loss for all three methods: 75 + 75 + 99 = 249 loss. Subtracting the profit from the loss, there remains a loss of about 200; 249 - 51 = 198, nearly 200 loss. Everyone holds me responsible for this loss of 200. Apply these methods to yourself. People are easily praised and rebuked. Try to see how you can praise and rebuke yourselves. Everyone has this experience, they know what it means to praise and rebuke oneself.

When educating, people apply one of these three methods. Someone says: I am a good person, there is no one like me. He applies the first method - praising himself. Another says: I am a bad person. He rebukes himself. A third one says: I am neither good nor bad. He applies the third method. People have applied all three methods in the past and nowadays, but they have not achieved great results. The new life needs a new method - the method of love, according to which you will be blind and deaf, both for good and for evil. The law is: Once you see the good in man, you will also see the evil, you cannot avoid that. This is polarization. If you look for the good features of a person, you will definitely come across the bad ones. And vice versa: if you look for his bad features, you will also find the good ones. If you do not touch either the good or the bad in man, you will only see his relationship with God.

Therefore, a person's understanding of life has to be the same as a healthy stomach's understanding of food. What will a sick, upset stomach say about food? Whatever food you give to it, in the end, it will be vomited. Therefore, while on earth, in the physical world, consider your stomach, your lungs, and your brain. When the stomach is satisfied with the food, it says to its master: My lord, I am satisfied with what you have given me. I will process this food and send it to the lungs for purification. If they are also satisfied with the food, they send it to the brain, where the right, Divine thought is born. If the thought does not affect the physical world as a beautiful, pleasant feeling, it is not right. And if the feeling does not give an impulse to work, it is not pure, it is not Divine.

Today, all people, religious and secular, strive for the spiritual world, i.e. to a higher world than the physical one. They are right, but they have to know one thing: First, they will go through the physical world, and then into the spiritual one. No skipping is allowed. How are you going to enter the spiritual world without having studied the physical one? Man has the most points of contact with the physical world. If the newborn baby did not need milk, would he love his mother? If the child did not need an actual, positive knowledge, would a mental connection be established between him, his parents and his teachers? If he did not need any friends to share his games with, would he develop higher feelings of friendship and amity? Therefore, while on earth, man creates three types of connections: physical, that is material, which are related to the stomach; emotional, that is spiritual, which are related to the lungs; and mental, which are related to the brain, that is to the thought. Once he has come to earth, a person must be healthy. A healthy person is recognized by having correct physical perceptions. As long as his physical perceptions are correct, so will be his spiritual perceptions. If a person's willpower is weak, his heart will also be weak. As the willpower grows stronger, so does the heart. They say his feelings are strong. When a person is physically healthy and with a strong willpower, he stands up for love, for his convictions. As soon as his willpower wavers, he also weakens physically. He makes many promises, but cannot keep them. Man's willpower is tested on earth. It is the place to exercise. You admire the heroes on the battlefield. Do you know how many years they have exercised their willpower until they become heroes? It is not easy to become a hero. From the point of view of the spiritual and the Divine world, war is not necessary. From a physical point of view, however, it is inevitable. Whoever has not yet developed his willpower, will have his nose smashed, and he will smash other people's noses; they will beat and kill him, and he will kill. The animals around us are also learning the same law. They will be tempered until they become bold and determined; until they learn not to hesitate.

Many people ask the question, why suffering comes. I answer with an occult law that says: Suffering will exist, as long as fear exists. If the fear decreases, the suffering will also decrease. When the fear disappears completely, then the suffering will also disappear. That is why it is said in the Scriptures, "The cowardly will not inherit the kingdom of God." - How can I not be afraid when they are going to kill me? - So what? As long as you are cowardly, suffering will follow you. When you get bold and determined, the suffering will gradually move away from you. As you have come to earth, you need to properly settle your relationships with your neighbors and with God. If you do not settle them here, you cannot enter the spiritual world. How are you going to think about the spiritual world, the sublime and the great, if a person is unpleasant to you and you cannot stand them? I knew a woman from Varna, brave, fearless - a tomboy. She used to swim in the sea for four or five hours without any fatigue, but when she saw a leech, she ran away. She felt an indescribable fear of the leech, even in a closed bottle.

And so, a leech is able to ruin human life. Whether you are a man or a woman does not matter; if there is something you are afraid of, that fear will ruin what you have built all your life. For example, you are a good Christian, ready for all sacrifices for Christ. They chase you, they beat you, you endure everything. However, one day you get sick and they have to put a leech on your neck. You say: I can endure everything, but I cannot look at a leech. If you say so, everything falls apart. Where has your philosophy gone? You should say: I can bear anything for Christ. As I speak to you like this, do not look for the faults of others. Do not criticize this or that person for being cowardly. Criticism is a leech that will hinder you. Being cowardly does not save you. It is important that you are not cowardly. It is not good for you that you know your neighbor's mistakes. The more you know people's mistakes, the more you fall into temptation. The less you know about them, the better for you. This is a law that everyone will apply to themselves.

Many of you did not come to Vitosha today, they were afraid of the fog and the rain. They looked at their clothes and shoes and said to themselves: Who would want to get wet? We better stay home. Look what terrible clouds there are in the sky! I say: When the best things in life come, then a person will imagine such images that will frighten him. In this way, he misses the beautiful things. Once you are on earth, no rain, no clouds should scare you. Raindrops are a blessing to you. - When? - When you have sown good thoughts and desires in yourselves. If you have sown bad thoughts and desires, the rain brings misfortune to you.

It is said in the Scripture, “Some seed fell on rocky ground, other - among thorns, still other - on the road. The fourth seed fell on good soil and bore good fruit - one 30, another 60, and other - 100." Every seed falls under such conditions and on such soil that it has created itself. So, whatever you sow, you will reap. The seed, which fell on the road and was pecked by the birds, shows what it means to make roads where you should not. Only one seed had prepared good soil and gave good fruit. You walk on the road and say: These thorns have torn my clothes! - You have created them yourself. - These stones have broken my legs! - You have also created them. You have created all thorns and stones. Now there is nothing left but to work the road well, to plow it, to clear it of thorns and stones, and to sow the good seed.

Some people come to me and say: Master, sow us something! - I have sown a lot and I will sow again, but some thought will fall among thorns or on stony ground, and you will encounter greater evil than if I had not sown anything. If the Divine seed does not fall on good soil, not only will it not germinate, but it will give bad results. You have created the thorns yourself, to poke with them, you will uproot them yourselves. Someone follows the Divine path, but you tell him: Why have you gone on this path? Why not give it up. It will not bring you any good. - Here, your thorn has stuck in him and hindered him. You meet a capable boy, an evangelist, a third grader. He is preparing to go to high school. You appear before him and begin to persuade him to become a preacher. You tell him: By preaching Christ, you will be blessed. But like this, you will finish high school and gain nothing. And this young man goes with a Bible in his hand to preach. But as he has no knowledge, he fails. At first he is very spiritual, but then he languishes, he loses heart. After a few years, you see, he has left preaching and become a merchant. It is not easy to become a preacher.

Encourage the young and those able to learn, to acquire knowledge, to strengthen. Then they can become good preachers. When working for Christ, you will serve without money. That is what a sermon means. Where there is working for money, there is no real preaching. If you think you can serve God without knowledge, you are on stony ground. This is one of the reasons why Christianity is not progressing. So, do not expect a result where money plays a role. Whoever works for money, cannot turn anyone to God. The true preacher is selfless. The success of Christianity is due exclusively to the selfless, unpaid preachers, to priests without any races and caps. The real servants, I call singers — crickets. They have developed the road, they have plowed it and sown it with good seeds. And those, the paid employees, they have sown thorns, they have created stones. The bigger the thorns and stones, the better they were paid. They have created the wide road.

I say: You all have to work for free. Beware of the thought to become preachers in order to profit. Woe to the one who expects to be paid. This is what the new doctrine says. Woe to the one who preaches with money! Woe to the one who serves God with money. In the physical, that is in the material world everything is tolerated, but when it comes to the spiritual world, the requirements there are different. No payment is allowed there. If you have turned someone to God, he must repay you with love, not money. Love is answered with love. Someone saved you from death, and you want to thank him materially. You invite him home, treat him, make him presents. No, this is not repayment. You want to get rid of an obligation easily!

Start with the physical world. You want to become spiritual before you have studied the physical world. Therefore, shape yourself physically first. Strive to be healthy, to have a healthy brain, healthy lungs, a healthy stomach, so that when you command them, they will listen to you. It is not a question of fasting, of exhaustion, of upsetting your organs. The stomach is your good friend, you will talk to him and tell him: Listen, my friend, let us join forces, work as much as necessary for both of us. You will eat less, load less to live more time on earth. What are people doing now? They eat three times a day: for each meal, the stomach works four hours. So, it works 12 hours a day. By convincing your stomach that it is overworked, it will tell your cells, i.e. its citizens: Let us reduce our labor a little. Thus we will fulfill God's plan. By reducing the work of the stomach, the work of both the lungs and the brain is reduced. Do you know what energy is sent to the brain after 12 hours of stomach work? Until it copes with this energy, the brain cannot do its job. The more the stomach works, the less the brain works. Conversely, the less the stomach works, the more the brain works. To get our brain working, we need to spend six hours a day thinking. That does not mean telling your stomach not to eat. It is another extremity. And nature does not like extremities. You will tell it to be sensible because eating too much is not good for it.

Now, let us go back to the time of the first people, who had healthy bodies and healthy organs. Today, there are almost no healthy stomachs in the world. In order to make the stomach work, people put various spices in the food that excite the taste. They do not create a natural appetite, but the taste is artificially irritated, and then a person starts eating. When he has eaten, he says: This meal has not satisfied me. You eat this seasoned food, you upset your stomach and then you say: Let us live well, let us love each other, let us serve God. - You cannot love with an upset stomach. Do not expect love from a person with an upset stomach, a weak chest and a sick brain. You say: It does not matter. It is the soul that loves. - If so, why does the soul not manifest outside the human stomach, lungs and brain? In order to manifest, the soul takes food from the stomach, air from the lungs, and thought from the brain. In order for the soul to manifest outside, a person should not make his stomach the goal of his life. If he makes it a goal, God will fire the man himself, will take away his ministry on earth.

So, work on yourselves to have a healthy body, a healthy stomach, healthy lungs and a healthy brain. Each organ perceives things in its own specific way. If the conditions are not favorable, it suffers. John says, "A thief does not come except to steal, destroy, and slaughter." By "thief" he means the bad conditions of the physical world, where there is eating and drinking for pleasure, where there are thefts and murders. There are no pleasures in the spiritual world, no thefts and murders.

What did you learn from what I have told you so far? - We realized that the most valuable thing in life is health. - How is it acquired? What method do you know about acquiring health? - By living reasonably. - What do you mean by 'reasonable living?'- Eating right, thinking and feeling right. - I think the answer will be right when you try to live reasonably. What is Christ's method for a reasonable life? - Love. - Where is love? What is called a harmonious, good, fraternal life, these are indefinite values, X's in life. When the rich man becomes poor, he looks for the poor man and calls him a brother. Why does he call him brother? Why does he change his attitude towards him? This is no brotherhood. The brotherhood does not change. No matter if rich or poor, learned or stupid, you should have the same attitude towards man. Is it a brotherhood if your friend occupies a high position and you start to shy away from him? Where has your friendship gone? You are not free with him because he has already changed his attitude towards you. The rule is: Whatever position you take, stay the way you were originally.

Man has come to the point that when he becomes spiritual, he has an ideal relationship with God. Gradually he starts to fear God, changes his attitude. Why does he change? - Because he has no clear notion of God. God never changes, He always remains the same. To think that God is changing, is the opinion of foreign authors, not yours. Some apostles have abused certain Divine thoughts, thus losing their notion of God. You have also abused the Divine in yourself. One spirit spoke to the apostle Paul, and to him spoke another, higher spirit. And to that higher spirit spoke another, even more exalted one than him. Do you know how many spheres the Divine Thought has passed through, before it reaches you? In order to understand this thought as it is transmitted, you have to grasp it from the first spirit through which it has passed. This does not mean that Paul did not know these things, but he had to go through tests. And when he was struck three times by 39 with a stick, he started writing good epistles and said: "Brothers, with great suffering we will enter the Kingdom of God."

So, in order to be healthy, the first thing is to come to the basic law that God has put into the physical world. The matter of the physical world, in its primordial state, was of a Divine substance, but once differentiated, it changed. Therefore, we must return to the primordial physical world, which is distinguished by great purity. When we connect with it, we will gain such health, such an organism that will be free from any excess. There will be no decay in it; death and life will be constantly balanced in it. Man needs a pure body in which the Spirit can abide. That is why Paul says, "If this body is destroyed, we will have another one, not made with hands." The new ideas will come through it.

Now, I would like you to keep in mind the fourth method of self-education: To be blind to the mistakes and virtues of people and to open your eyes to your good and bad traits. It is not a matter of reprimanding and praising, but knowing why you are good or bad. There are three ways in which Christ can save us: in a physical, spiritual, and Divine way. Then the resurrection will come. I explain these ways as follows: You rise - a physical process, you come to life - a spiritual process, you are resurrected - a Divine process. You cannot come to life if you have not risen; you cannot be resurrected if you have not come to life. So, physical life is the basis of both the spiritual and the Divine one. Knowing this, do not say that you want to get rid of physical life. It is important insofar as God has given it the necessary price. The spiritual life will be planted on the physical one, and the Divine will be planted on the spiritual. Therefore, the philosophy of human life is to be healthy: to have a healthy stomach, healthy lungs, a healthy brain. The condition of these organs determines a person's physical life. And spiritual life is also determined by the state of the heart, lungs and brain. When the lungs are healthy, the heart is also healthy; when the brain is healthy, the thought is also right. Therefore, a healthy heart - sublime feelings. A healthy brain - bright thoughts. Strong, rational will - righteous acts. The stomach does not create the will, but the will manifests itself through it.

Today we have come to Vitosha, as on a Divine stomach, i.e. on good soil. The earth we step on, the rain, the clouds, seemingly unpleasant, require from us the ability to live well and understand nature. Through the raindrops we receive God's blessing. Every drop brings thousands of treasures for us. The school you have entered to study in, requires you to create a favorable atmosphere, both for yourselves and for your surrounding ones. One bad trait can impede you, same as it impedes external people. It is your desire to secure yourself. For example, they give you an apple. You eat it right away and see if there is more, so that to secure yourself for later. One apple brings a blessing, but the others spoil the stomach. You take, but do not think of giving. This is a leech in life. When I see that someone only takes, without giving, I send a spirit to rob them. I say to it: Go rob this man. - Why? - His bag is full, he does not need that much.

God also uses these spirits-robbers. When they come to you, they say: Give what you are carrying in your bag. You do not need that much. When they rob you, you say: It is good that they did not beat us. When someone sits next to me, I feel as if thorns are pricking me. This shows that this person is sitting next to me in order to take something, to rob me. This is selfishness. When a selfless person sits next to me, I feel great pleasure. He does not want to take anything, but gives of himself. - Why can we sometimes not tolerate each other? - Because everyone wants to rob their neighbor. This is sucking. Nature does not allow this thing. After all, it demagnetizes man. This happens unconsciously. In order to avoid robbery, Christianity recommends selflessness. A person has to make an effort, to rise to a higher level than the one he finds himself on. This implies consciously transferring energy from the stomach to the lungs and from the lungs to the brain.

A large public meeting in Sofia was attended by many people. One prominent public speaker was talking. Someone from the audience, a large, strong man, excited by the speech, began to wave his hands, to applaud. At one point, he heard a shout from below: Please, you crushed my hat! It was only at this moment that the tall, large gentleman noticed that a small, short man was standing beneath him. It is dangerous for someone to get excited, to raise and lay one's hands, to applaud loudly. There will always be a person beneath him who will suffer. Once you get excited, you will go where there are no people. The giants have a strong will. When they get excited, they may inadvertently hurt someone.

As I speak to you, something remains unclear to you. The ambiguity is due to the fact that people do not see the connection between the physical and the spiritual world, on the one hand, and between the spiritual and the Divine world, on the other hand. The physical and Divine worlds are poles. What do we notice among people? They cannot stand each other, especially when they see a healthy, beautiful person. They cannot stand him, they envy him. If you enter a religious society, you hear them say that the spiritual person must be weak, yellow. This is a pathological understanding. This is also how they thing about the saint. In my opinion, the saint should have a bright face. He should be strong and healthy, not weak and yellow. The task of man is to correct his mistakes, which are the cause of his painful condition. It is not the result of his present life, but of his distant past.

Man's present life is determined by his past. Everyone has to be honest, to acknowledge this fact. You say: Tell me the mistakes. - First, you have to fix your stomach, then your lungs, and finally your brain. There is nothing better than this method of correcting mistakes and self-education. It is not enough to tell someone that he is ambitious; another one, that he is vain; a third one - that he does not love the truth. The reasons for these shortcomings must be known. Some shortcomings stem from the stomach, others - from the lungs, and still others - from the brain. We cannot eradicate our mistakes if we do not know where evil lies. If I give you a method for developing feelings, I will tell you: Breathe deeply in order to widen your nose. As the nose widens, the feelings expand. If the nose is flattened, the feelings are also flattened. The same goes for the lungs. As the lungs expand, so do the feelings. That is why I tell everyone: Widen your nose; expand your lungs too! - No, I will expand myself with prayer. - Whoever breathes deeply, prays well. There are yogis who breathe deeply and hold their breath for 20 minutes. Deep breathing is needed! You should hold your breath for 1-20 minutes. This means consciously directing your thoughts to God. This is a real prayer. When irritated, man does not pray well. The more focused he is, the better he prays. Prayer is a force by which one transforms one's condition.

Someone insults you and, if you cannot control yourself, you say: I will show you who I am! If you control yourself for a moment, you act with diplomacy. You say nothing to him, but you think: This time I will be silent, but one day, when you do not expect, then I will answer you properly. This person cannot pray well, and his prayer is not accepted. When they insult you, you should immediately polarize and throw the poison out. If you keep a part of the poison in yourself, it shows that there is a defect in the astral body that prevents you from forgiving.

In the future, a large school will be opened, where various objects will be made, same as the way men and women work in life today. Different methods will be applied to try which ones are better. How many of you, who are subjected to exams, will pass them? You return from a sermon enthusiastic, well-disposed. Immediately your family pounce on you and start annoying you. If you keep your peace and joy, it shows that you have understood the Divine and you look at all ordeals as temporary, transient. One sister recounts: Today I came out of a talk with a great disposition. But one sister worried me, and I lost what I had gained. - This is the leech that you saw. Divine life requires an understanding of the laws of the physical world. Only in this way will we endure suffering.

In this regard, I am also trying to see how much I can endure. I am just working on something, I hear several sisters arguing. They confuse everything, and everything around me gets confused. I sit down again, to put order in everything. I take the brushes, the paints, in order to repair the spoiled drawing. I have barely repaired the drawing, they start quarreling again and they stir the brushes and paints. My work is funny: now I paint, now I correct. If I act humanly, I will disperse them with my cane. It is important to resolve the issue in a Divine way. I put everything in order again. This is a science that applies to everyone, not just me. Obstacles are found everywhere. Everyone will pass these exams and you have to pass them well. There is no privilege for anyone there - you will study. Thus, you will gain patience, knowledge, experience. If you do not study, my virtues will not

help you. They can only tempt you.

Remember: Be blind and deaf to people's mistakes and goodness: neither praise them nor rebuke them. Today you love someone, you praise him. Tomorrow something happens between you, you start reprimanding him. That is what people do. As long as a woman does her husband's will, there is no one better than her. If she opposes him, there is no one worse than her. It is the same with the man. I am not saying that you should do the will of the man or the woman, but I am saying: In order to walk on the right path, fulfill the will of God. Be blind to both good and evil! Someone wants to know what I think of him. If he asks me for a favor, I will serve him, but I will not give my opinion on him. What is the point of telling him that he is a good and honest man, but I am not ready to help him with a small amount? Where is my consistency between words and deeds? By giving him the amount he wants, I express my confidence in him. Actions are demanded of us, not words.

I would like at least one thought from today's talk to remain in your mind: Be blind and deaf to the mistakes and virtues of people. Be 75% blind and deaf, and 25% you may see.

I wish you to be fresh and cheerful.

Now we will have lunch, we will rest a little. Then we will race.

A talk by the Master, held on Vitosha - at the camp, Ascension of the Lord Day (Spasov Den), 1921.

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