1921_06_09 Physical Life - a Path to Spiritual and Divine Life (Nik)

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Physical Life - a Path to Spiritual and Divine Life

Several people read some verses from the following chapters of the New Testament:

1. John 10: 1-10

2. Luke 2: 1-5

3. Matthew 13: 5-10

4. Luke 14: 14-20

5. Mark 10: 10-15

6. I Corinthians 5: 5-10

7. I Peter 4: 4-10

8. I John 3: 3-7

9. James 2: 2-10

10. Epistle of Judas, verses 10-15

After the verses had been read, the Master gave a talk. During the talk, a light, pleasant rain was falling. A large fire was kindled. We were all lined up around the fire because the weather was somewhat cool. The sky was cloudy. There was fog all around us.

The Master was sitting under a small, makeshift tent, and we were listening intently in the best, most pleasant disposition.

Physical life is a primary, necessary condition for passing into spiritual and Divine life. When studying the spiritual life there are three realms through which the Divine thought passes. In scientific language, I would say that it passes through material, substantial and essential realms. Or through the stomach, through the lungs and through the brain. Many of your thoughts pass through the stomach, many of your thoughts pass through the lungs and the brain, and once they pass through the brain, they enter the astral world through the astral body. And in the astral world they will again pass through three realms. From the astral world they will enter the world of Wisdom, i.e. the mental world. And here they will pass through three realms again. As they leave the mental world, they will pass into the causal world. When they enter the causal world, they will pass through three realms again. The other realms are almost inaccessible to you, not only to you, but to all learned people.

The divine thoughts that are now manifesting in the material world are all distorted. There is no Divine thought in the material world that is pure. It is distorted, crooked because of human minds, because of human hearts. As a result of this distortion, there are different interests between people. As a result of this distortion of the Divine thoughts, now comes this conflict in the world, a collision that is so tangible that there is no home in which it does not manifest. You will rarely find a society or home, spiritual and religious, that has approximately this ideal manifestation. It is you who have to intercede to study not the spiritual, but the material world. It is easy, but you must first study the relationships in material life. For example, what is the relationship of man to woman, what is the relationship of brothers to sisters, of masters to servants, of judges to defendants, of teachers to students and many others, thousands of relationships exist in the physical world. Some will say that a person's karma forces him to be one way or another. No, karma does not force man. It is funny when someone says that karma determines human life. Man creates karma. Therefore, it cannot determine his life. In this sense, it does not give any direction to his life, but only determines the nonsense in his life. It is possible for someone, after passing a life in poverty, in deprivation, to become angry, to become embittered, and in another life to be even worse. Someone says, "When I come to earth a second time, I will redeem myself." This is questionable. Redemption begins only when one knows that he has created his karma and he must correct it himself, and not expect God to correct it for him, because God will not do it. For example, a husband hits his wife. Why? Because she has not cooked well. The Lord will not come down from heaven to reconcile them. They can stay angry for weeks and they have to reconcile by themselves. Keep in mind that the Lord does not interfere in our disputes at all, and when we call on Him as an arbiter, seeking Him with all our heart, He will come and take part, but otherwise He never leaves His place. It has never been and will not be! He is not so foolish to expose Himself to such childish whims as we have on earth. Now, you often take on the role of conciliators, do you not? But you take on the role of conciliators as lawyers, to gain something. The judge takes on the role of judge, but to gain something. The teacher takes on the role of a teacher, a conciliator, but to gain something. I wonder why the world is going so wrong? Well, as long as we have such conciliators - "to gain something", that is how it will go. Now, as you listen to me, you say, "Will I gain anything?" - You will gain nothing, neither from my side, nor from yours. Sometimes you want to listen to me, to learn something. But do you know how dangerous a man I am? I also know how dangerous you are to me. Therefore I will tell you: When you are not ready for a truth, do not be in a hurry to hear it, because one more perturbation will enter your soul. For example, you often want to have Divine Love and seek it! Good, but if you have not applied human love, which is at the lowest cost, how will you apply the Divine one, which requires large costs? Your husband says, "Can we both agree with love, that you cook for me, wash for me, patch for me?" If you go to God to ask for Divine Love, it will not even stop, it wants a lot. I have noticed many people come to me; and sometimes, when I tell them the truth, I look at them, they get angry with me, they get arrogant. I say: So, you have to start the earthly way. Anger is a quality of earthly love. In order to love, you must be angry, and therefore whoever is not angry has no love, and whoever has no love is not angry. Therefore, the man who is angry, take him; if he is not angry, leave him, so the law says. Well, if this man is not angry, he does not have the strength to protect you. You, as a woman, may be attacked somewhere tomorrow, and he must protect you, he must be ready to fight everyone, to break their noses. Even for earthly love, one's nose must get broken.

When people are told about Divine Love, they say, "We do not understand you." When you break a person's nose, what does that show? By doing so, you will show him that love requires sacrifices. When you get that blood out of his nose, he says, "Love wants sacrifices, I am not going anymore." I lead you to this thought so that you have the right understanding. The laws that now exist in the world are the basis of your life. You cannot change these laws, i.e. you cannot enter into any relationship with God until you have resolved all your relationships on earth. If there is one person with whom you have not reconciled, he will be an obstacle for you to walk in the spiritual world. I look at you, sometimes you make great effort, you say, "I have been working for ten years, I have been making an effort, but I have not elevated myself." - How are you going to elevate yourself? Untie these connections and you will see what an upsurge, what knowledge you will gain!

So, the first thing is to start settling your material accounts. The law is such that whoever has not settled his material accounts, will also not settle his spiritual accounts. Whoever has not settled his spiritual accounts, will also not settle his material ones. Whoever has settled his material accounts, will settle his spiritual and Divine accounts.

And so now, you men, women and everyone else, who are not only in the new teaching, you all want to become spiritual, but I have not yet found a single author or person to explain what they mean by "living a spiritual life." I would like you to tell me one day about your experiences, what do you understand by the words "spiritual life"? Stop, consider that thought, think about what a spiritual life is.

Now we have come here, to Vitosha mountain. What are the motivating reasons for our coming here? If you ask me, I think there must be a very specific reason that made us come here.

When a person enters an inn, what is the motivating reason that makes him get in? It is not hunger that is the motivating reason, but the bread. When we enter this inn once, the quality of the bread will determine whether we will go there a second time or not.

Now, what I will be telling you here, if I were to tell you that in Sofia, it would not have such an effect in our minds, as it has here. There is no such oil there, so that I can cook for you. Now I open my kitchen to cook something nice, because there is butter. When you cook a meal, what do you find delicious in it? Is it beautiful, is it in the beauty? There is redness on the outside, but this beauty is fictitious, it is suggested by the tongue. But there is something else, the stomach, which then gives its opinion. The tongue says: "The food is excellent, it is delicious", it signs, but when it comes to the stomach, it does not agree with the tongue, it does not sign, but gives the inscription: "Vomit this food, it is no good!" Then the taste and the stomach are in conflict. Therefore, nice things, delicious things in life are not the best. By the way, not that they are not the best, sometimes they are good, but with the 50% exception. Then you can make an experiment in your home, namely as follows: those of you who have children, choose one of them and constantly praise it, the other child you constantly reprimand, and the third one either praise or reprimand. Make an experiment to see what the results will be. You have not made such experiments. Their results are as follows: the children who you praise a lot, some of them will be completely spoiled, and some will correct their behavior; when you reprimand them, some will correct their behavior, and others will be spoiled; and those who you both praise and reprimand, will become indifferent and say, "That is the way things are." These are my personal observations on you. I have used all three methods - I have made experiments with each one of you and I have seen the results. There is another method, it is the best one, and it goes like this: not to say anything to anyone, neither praise nor reprimand, be indifferent, pretend not to see, as if you are blind to both good and evil. I have not applied this method, I will apply it in the future. From my first experiment I have a 25% profit and a 75% loss. From the second experiment only 25% profit, 75% loss, and from the third experiment 1% profit, 99% loss. So 75 + 75 + 99 = 249 loss; 25 + 25 + 1 = 51 profit; the result: subtract 249 - 51 = 198, i.e. nearly 200 loss. So I have to give 200. You all hold me responsible for 200. You will apply these methods to yourself, because you do not think that we, by praising and reprimanding people (this is the material side), cannot praise and reprimand ourselves. We can brag, we can blame ourselves. Each of you has this experience. Now some people brag a lot, saying, "There is no other person in the world like me." But others say, "There is no vagabond in the world like me." Still others say, "I am not that bad, I am both good and bad." These are the three methods that you use.

Well, this is karma. I am talking to you about these three methods, because they have been applied and applied for a long time, and not only in this life of yours, but also in your past incarnations. As you can see, not much has come out of us. These results that we have achieved are thanks to these three methods. In the future, the new method of love is to be blind to everything - not to see evil and good in the world, because that is the law. You will see the good in a person, you will also see the evil, you cannot avoid it, this is polarization. If you look for his good sides, you will also find his bad ones. And the opposite is true, i.e. if you look for the bad sides, you will find the good ones. If you do not touch him, you will only see his relationship with God. Therefore, your first understanding should be such as the feeling of a healthy stomach, not a sick stomach, i.e. make it a rule to always take the advice of your stomach; if you want to be good in the physical world, to understand God's thought, you have to satisfy your stomach, to comply with it. Having worked for a while, being pleased with your food, it says, "Lord, I am pleased with what you have given me." It then processes the food and finally sends it to the lungs.

The important thing is your thought to make a pleasant impression in the physical world, and that thought must be purely specific. Do not seek to suddenly move from the physical, material world to the spiritual one. I look at you, you all jump immediately from the material to the spiritual world. But you have not yet explored the physical world! And you all have the most points of contact with the physical world. What if your child in the physical world did not need any food, would he love his mother? If this child did not need a specific teaching in school, mental food, would there be any connection between the mother, father and child? If this child did not need friends to play with, would there be any relationships developing between them? Therefore, our current relationships are material - purely of the stomach, emotional - purely of the lungs, and intellectual - which are related to knowledge and human thought.

So, in the future, we must strive to have these correct physical perceptions. A person who does not have the right physical perceptions cannot have the right spiritual perceptions. If our physical perceptions are painful, so will be our spiritual perceptions. The law is correct. If our will is weak, our heart will be weak. If our will is strong, meaning the physical strength of a man, his feelings will also be strong. Take those people who have a healthy body and a strong will, how do they sustain their love? And those mothers whose will is weak, when being alone they promise to hold their feelings, but when the test comes, they deny three times like Peter. The will of man is only recognized in the physical world, and from this point of view many people have exercised their will for thousands of years. People who have gone to the battlefield have developed the will to endure for thousands of years. From the point of view of the spiritual world, war is not needed, but from the point of view of the physical world, it is necessary. Whoever has not developed his will must break his nose and have it broken, he must kill and get killed. That is why all the animals that are here, around us, learn this law, they harden. They will be hardened until they learn to be brave and determined, not to waver their will. Then a rule is added into the occult science, the suffering of man continues as long as the fear continues; as fear decreases, so does suffering. That is why the Scripture says, "The cowardly will not inherit the kingdom of God." But they will kill me! So what? As long as you are not brave, the suffering will increase, but the day you become brave and determined, these sufferings begin to recede.

And so, we have to solve the question purely materially, to resolve all our relationships in the physical world. What if a person is disgusting to you, you cannot stand him, cannot look at him, you do not have feelings to overcome all this, how will you think about something spiritual? There was a woman in the town of Varna who could swim 4-5 hours in the water like a catfish. She was fearless, but when she saw a leech even in a bottle, she ran away. She was so masculine that she could kill a man, but when she saw a leech in a bottle - she ran away. Now, this leech, it will ruin your life. You may be afraid of just one leech in your life, but it will ruin your whole life. You may be a man, but if there is only one thing you are afraid of, that fear will ruin everything you have built. Let us say you are a Christian and you are afraid of leeches, they beat you - you resist, they chase you - you resist, but the day comes when they put a leech on your neck, you say: "I can handle everything, but to have a leech put on my neck - no I can stand it." You lose everything. I ask: Where is the philosophy? - There is no philosophy. You can do all things through Christ. Now, as I speak to you, some thoughts in your mind again stand out in the physical world, that someone, Dragan or Stoyan, is afraid of leeches. This will not save you. You say, "No, I am not as scared as the others." It does not matter. Knowing the mistakes of others is not a good thing for us. The more we know people's mistakes, the more we fall into temptation. The more we know them, the worse for us; the less we know about their mistakes, the better. Most importantly, you shall apply this law specifically to yourself.

Now, many of you have not come to Vitosha because of the fog, because of the rain, so that it does not wet them. They will look at their shoes, their clothes, the rain - they will give up. Look at this cloud, you say, "Oh, it is scary!" For the best things in the world that bring us the greatest good, we produce such forms in the physical world that constantly hinder us. When you come to earth, no rain should stop you. These drops from above are a blessing. They are a blessing, but when? If according to this law you have sown in yourself all the good thoughts and desires, there will be the best results, but if you have sown the worst thoughts and desires, this rain will have the worst results. The Scripture says that one seed fell among thorns, another on stony ground, a third on the road, and one on good soil, and only that one bore fruit, some 20, some 60, and some 100 times. Why is that? The one that fell among the thorns, it prepared such conditions by itself and therefore fell there. Christ says, "This is what you have prepared, there you will grow." The other one that fell on the road and the birds pecked, Christ says, "This is to see what it means to make roads." And the one that fell on the rocky ground is what you have planted yourselves. Only one fell on good soil and bore good fruit. And that is also what you planted, i.e. prepared. You say, "Damned thorns, how they hinder us!" You have prepared them. Christ does not explain the reason. You say, "These stones!" You have prepared them. Therefore, the thorns, the stones, the road, we have prepared them, and the first thing ahead of us is to repair the road, to plow it well, to remove the thorns, the stones and then to sow. Some people come to me and say. "Master, sow!" Well, I have sown so much, but some thought will fall among the thorns and you will create evil for yourself. Any blessing that God has given, if it does not fall in a good place, it not only fail to be sown and sprout, but will create bad conditions. It was us who created the thorns. Through what? Is it not a thorn when we can poke this or that person, to impede them? For example, a person reads something there, he has set out on the Divine way, but I go and tell him. "Why did you go this way, why not skip it!" And immediately in this man, the whole impulse of his soul ceases. Another case that evangelists often do and cause the seed to wither - they throw it among the stones. Imagine there is a very able, gifted student who has set out to study, but they need a worker and they say, "You do not need any more studying, why not become a preacher!" He finishes only the third grade, drops out of school, takes the Bible, and goes out into the world to preach; when he has no knowledge - he perishes. And then he gets worse. At first he is very spiritual, but then he becomes lethargic, you look at him, he has abandoned preaching, he has become a merchant. They must tell him, "Listen, go to study, become strong and wise, and then come to work with us. When you come, you will not take any money, you will preach without money." If there is money involved, if you say that a lot of knowledge is not needed, I say, "This preacher has thrown the seed on the stone." This is one of the big reasons why Christianity is not progressing today, because all work is done for money. There is absolutely no result, i.e. there is, but this result is not due to any preacher. Anyone who has turned to God, has been turned by a man who is not paid. The preacher constantly seduces him, but he says to himself, "That man who turned me to God, he was a good man." And so, the current achievements of Christianity are due to those unpaid preachers, those unpaid priests, without any cassocks and priest's caps, while those on the outside, I call them "crickets", they have also done something, they have created the roads, stones and thorns in the world. The bigger the thorns, the more money they paid; the bigger the stones, the more money has been paid; the wider the roads, the more money has gone into this bag. So, we have to work for free. Do not let the thought of becoming a preacher to get paid, enter your mind. Woe to you if you learn to get paid. That is what the new teaching says. Woe to them who preach for money, woe to them who serve God for money!

So, when it comes to preaching for money, it is out of the question. In the physical world matter tolerates anything, but the purely spiritual world does not tolerate any payments. The one you have turned to God, he should not repay you with money, he should repay you with love. Love for love, such is the law. For example, you have saved him. He buys a peacock, then a house - he wants to repay you. No peacocks, no houses, nothing he can repay you with. He wants to get away with very little. So, we will now undertake to apply, to understand the physical world. Do not try to be spiritual until you have taken shape in the physical world, until you have a healthy body, a healthy stomach, lungs and brain, so that when you command them, they listen. That is what adepts do. Fasting is not to exhaust your stomach, to exhaust your whole body. The stomach is your good friend, you will talk to it in a friendly way, you will say to it: "Listen, it is good for you, and also good for me, come on, you will make do with less, you will reduce your work." And you eat at least three times a day and with each meal the stomach has approximately 4 hours of work, so it works 12 hours a day. And when you tell the stomach that 12 hours of work is unbearable for it, all its members will say: "Let us reduce this work, let us apply the law!" By reducing the work of the stomach, the brain benefits. Why? From 12 hours of stomach work, do you know how much energy will be sent to the brain? There is no energy left for the brain, for the thought. If the stomach works a lot, the brain works a little and vice versa. The law is like that. In order to make our brain work, of these 12 hours, we should spent 6 hours on thought and 6 hours on the physical world. You will not tell the stomach not to eat, this is an extreme and nature does not tolerate extremes, but you will reasonably ask that it does not want to eat a lot, because it is not profitable. And so, we will return to that basic idea, when the first humans had healthy bodies, healthy stomachs, and not as distorted as today's stomachs. There is no healthy stomach in the world! And this stomach, in order to make it work, they put in the food some butter, pepper and whatnot. We do not get a natural hunger, but as soon as we smell the food, so deliciously prepared, our taste is irritated, we eat and then say: "This food did not fill me up." You eat well and then say, "Let us become spiritual now, let us love God and the people!" You cannot love with an upset stomach. A man with ailing lungs cannot love at all. A man with a damaged brain also cannot love. A man with an upset stomach cannot love 1/3, with a damaged brain cannot love 3/3.

Some people say, "That is not true, the soul works." I ask, if that is true, why does the soul not manifest outside the stomach, lungs, and brain? Why does it require food from the stomach, air from the lungs and thought from the brain? So, God has put our soul confined to the body. You will say, "It is written, 'God will destroy this stomach.'" Yes, but if a person makes the stomach and lungs a goal in life, they will file an application to God and He will fire you.

First of all, strive to have healthy bodies, healthy stomachs, lungs and healthy brains. Each of them feels in their own way. The stomach feels in one way, the brain - in another, the lungs - in a third way. The Gospel of John says, "The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy." By "thief" He means the physical world. In it there is eating and drinking, there is theft. In the spiritual world, there are no thefts. Wherever there is theft, that is the physical world. It happens here.

Now I will ask you: Up to now, to the point where I have reached in my thought, what have you understood from your point of view? (They answer: Let us be healthy.)

Good, health is the goal, but how to get that health? What methods, what ways are there for this? (They answer: To live reasonably, moderately.) What is reasonable, moderate? (They answer: In food, in thought, in desires.)

No, the answer will only come when you make an experiment. Even if I give you an answer, this will not do you any good. So, what is Christ's method? (They answer: Love.) - Where is Love? What I am saying is for you to harmonize, to live fraternally, these things are indefinite values, X's. When a rich man becomes poor, he looks for the poor man and says, "You are my brother." Why? Why does he change his behavior? This is not a fraternity. The fraternity implies that even when he is rich, when he is a scholar, and when he is a king, there should be no change in his behavior, there should be no change in his life. If you have a friend, and after he becomes king you begin to shy away from him, is this a brotherhood? Where is the friendship? He should remain the same as he was in the first place. And because we serve the Lord, we have come to the point that when we become clergymen, we begin with God most perfectly, but then we start to fear Him, saying, "I will not pray any more." Well, you have lost the true concept, the true notion of God. God never changes. He is always the same. Sometimes you say that God was like this, other times - like that. These are the views of various authors. From what the apostle Paul said, he abused some Divine thoughts. And you all abuse the Divine. You say, "The Apostle Paul said so"; "One spirit spoke to the apostle Paul, another, higher spirit spoke to this spirit, another, even higher spirit spoke to the second one." Do you know how many realms this thought has gone through until it reaches us? In order to understand this thought as it was transmitted, you have to catch it from this first spirit. Not that Paul did not know these things. No, he has experienced a lot of things, and when he was hit 7 times 77, he started writing very well and said, "Brothers, we will enter the Kingdom of God with suffering." Many of you say, "We will enter the Kingdom of God with Love." When you get hit 7 times 77, you say, "Through suffering one enters the Kingdom of God." You say, "The Apostle Paul was very foolish." No, he was very smart.

So, in order to gain health, the first thing is to realize the basic law that God has put in the physical world, because the physical world also has its good side. Matter in its original state was of the Divine substance, but after it was separated, it is no longer the same as it was then. But we will return namely to that physical world, which was pure, crystalline, and in this body there will no longer be any excesses, it will not smell, death and life will be constantly balanced in it, there will be constant changes in it. Therefore, we have to create a pure body in which the Spirit can live. That is why the apostle Paul says, "If this body is destroyed, we have a house which we are building now, and in which the future body will enter to dwell." It will be better than the one that we have now.

I would like the fourth method to remain in your mind: to stay blind to the virtues and mistakes of people, and to open your eyes for yourselves, to know both your good and bad sides, not to rebuke yourselves and brag, but to know why you are like that. And so, Christ wants to save us in three ways - physically, spiritually and Divinely, and then the resurrection will come. And I say - the rising is related to the physical world, the revival - related to the spiritual, and the resurrection - to the Divine. We cannot come to life without physical health; we cannot get spiritual life if we have not obtained physical life, because physical life is the basis of the spiritual, and the spiritual one is the basis of the Divine. So, do not say, "I want to get rid of this physical life." You should have all the respect for this physical life insofar as God has given it a price. The spiritual one will be planted on him, and the divine one will be planted on the spiritual. I would not like you to say that this spirit said so, that spirit said so. A true philosophy is when a person has a healthy body, a healthy brain, healthy lungs and a healthy stomach. The condition of these three organs determines your physical life. And spiritual life is determined by the parts of your brain. When the lungs are healthy, one has a healthy heart; when the brain is healthy, a person has a healthy mind, meaning the mind then can manifest properly; when the lungs are healthy, the feelings are manifested properly; and when the stomach is healthy, the willpower can manifest properly, but it does not mean that the stomach creates the willpower. That is why we have come out today to Vitosha, among this Divine air. Do you see this land? This rain, these clouds, seemingly unpleasant things, but in order to be in this situation, we must be able to interpret these things in nature. Through these drops falling on our heads, let us receive God's blessing. Every drop has brought thousands of riches. In this school, students are required to create a favorable atmosphere. But now you all have one bad desire. Let me tell you what it is. You are given an apple, you eat it, there is one more left, you want it too, to insure yourselves for tomorrow. The remaining apples spoil your stomach. Besides, you take, but you do not give. Everyone around me, you are just like leeches. You just take and fill your bags. Then what should I do? "I am sending some ghosts to rob you." I tell them: Go plunder them, their bags are full. I send them on purpose to rob you. Why? ”“ Because you do not need what is in your bags. That is why God sends evil spirits. They are like guards, they say, "Give it yourself." Then you nod, "Thanks for not beating us." I am telling you how I understand your condition. Sometimes, when you are around me, I feel such an oppression, as if thousands of thorns are pricking me. By a selfless visit I mean that when a person comes around, you feel some goodwill, as if that person is carrying something. Because each of you wants to suck, you sometimes cannot stand each other. This is not right. Sucking is not allowed. That is why demagnetization occurs, there is no harmony. These things happen to you unconsciously. That is why selflessness is recommended in Christianity. Because, when a person takes a higher step in the activities of life, better conditions are required. The energy from the stomach has to be sent upwards.

I will give you as example an anecdote that happened in Sofia. In one meeting, a good speaker gave a speech. There was a large audience, so the people were crowded. A large, elderly gentleman, elated by the speech, started waving his arms up and down, applauding. There was a small man under him, whom he had not noticed, and only after he heard a shout: "You crushed my hat!" - he realized that there was a man below him. So, sometimes we also get excited, but the person below us suffers. When you get excited, it is dangerous to raise and fold your arms among people, because if you are a giant, those around you will suffer. Away from people, you may get excited. These giants are people of strong willpower, and if you are among them, by getting excited they may harm you involuntarily. Something remains unclear, doesn't it? The ambiguity is that people cannot see the connection between the physical and the spiritual world, between the spiritual and the Divine world. We say that we do not need the physical life. No, physical and Divine life are the two poles.

If you notice, today's people, whether in Europe or America, anywhere, when they see a healthy, beautiful person, they cannot stand him, they start to envy him. Preachers in America preach that people should not be healthy, but a little dry, with sunken eyes. This is how they perceived the saints, that they must also be thin in the face, with sunken eyes. This is a pathological perception of the saint. If he is a saint, his face should be bright without being skinny.

Now let us all set out to correct our mistakes, which have been introduced into our body from our past. What we are experiencing now is not due to our present life, it is due to our past existences, and the present life is determined by our past existences, so we must be sincere. Someone says, "Tell us our mistakes." First, we need to fix our stomach, then our lungs, and finally our brain. There is no other better system, no better way of education than these three. They tell someone, "You are ambitious." - "Why?" - "Because you love fame." The tell another one, "You like to stretch the truth." We need to understand the causes, the roots of these shortcomings. We have many deficiencies that stem from the stomach. Many of our deficiencies stem from the lungs and many stem from the brain. We cannot eradicate our mistakes if we do not know where evil is rooted. For example, if I recommend that you develop your feelings, I will tell you like this: "Extend your nose, breathe deeply!" By extending your nose you expand your feelings, by flattening your nose you also flatten your feelings. As your lungs expand, so do your feelings. I say: Expand your lungs, extend your nose. "No, I will pray," you say. Whoever breathes deeply prays well; whoever breathes shallowly prays shallowly. There are yogis who breathe deeply, hold their air for up to 20 minutes. Whoever prays shallowly, his prayer stays an inch above his head. You need to breathe deeply, you will hold your breath for 5-10 to 20 minutes and then you will concentrate your thoughts on God. So there will be good prayer. Notice when you are not praying well - it is when you are irritated. Once you are focused, prayer is also good and you breathe deeply. I will define for you what the prayer is all about. The prayer is a force that transforms. Sometimes someone insults you, you cannot control yourself and say, "I will put up with it now, but one day I will make sure to give him a piece of my mind." Such a person cannot have a deep prayer that the Lord will hear. When you are insulted, you should immediately polarize yourself and throw out this poison, there may be a small particle of the poison left, but most of it you have to throw away. If you have left most of the poison inside you, then you have a great handicap in the astral world, therefore you cannot forgive.

In the future, a large school will be formed, in which exams will be held, objects will be made, same way as women make various objects, men sew shoes, paint pictures, etc. Then we will say whether we have a correct method of work or not. How many of you, if subjected to a test, would pass it. For example, you come back from a sermon, you are enthusiastic, but everyone at home attacks you. If you keep your peace, your joy, it shows that you have understood the Divine and realized that these are temporary ordeals. One of you may say, "When I came out of the talk, I was in a very good mood, but one sister worried me, I lost my good mood." The other one responds, "Well, so do I." This is a leech that is found everywhere. For in the Divine life you are required to understand the laws of the physical world in order to endure suffering. Sometimes, when I stand, I also try to endure. For example, I have often noticed that as soon as something has an effect, some of you quarrel and everything gets stirred up. Then I sit down to put everything in order. I have taken the brushes, the paints - I paint, I fix what is broken. You quarrel again, you scatter my brushes, paints, everything becomes a mish-mash. My situation is ridiculous. I have no choice but to take a cane and disperse you. I say to myself: They have left again, let me see if I can put everything in order, can I forget all this? This is science. It is for all of you, not just for me. You will encounter these obstacles everywhere. One has to pass these exams. The Lord will put him before them and he must endure them. There are no privileges there, you will only study. You will gain patience on your own, you will gain knowledge on your own, you will learn everything on your own. If you do not study, that will be a temptation.

All the contradictory verses that we have read, explain the following: we should bring all the contradictions in life into harmony, and when we bring them, we will have a different experience in life, a different consciousness will come. I would recommend you the following: to be blind and deaf to the mistakes and goodness of people, and neither to brag nor to rebuke yourselves. I have noticed, you take someone you love, you praise them, but tomorrow the situation changes, you start reprimanding them. This is what the women in Sliven (town) do. When a man follows their will, they say that the Spirit speaks through him, that they see him in magnificent clothes with a crown and a wreath on his head, like him there is no other. But if he starts not following them, not going according to their will, they start saying that he is no longer dressed in such nice clothes, that his crown and wreath have been taken away. And he says, "In order to be as I used to be, I must follow in their footsteps." This is extortion of our religious beliefs.

In order to follow the right path, you must be blind to the goodness and mistakes of others. Whoever wants to know my opinion about him, I will not tell him anything, but if he wants 1,000 leva (the currency of Bulgaria), I will give it to him. If I tell him that he is an honest, good man but I do not give him the 1,000 leva that he wants, where is the consistency between words and deeds? When I give him money, by that I praise him and say to him: In my face you have all the trust. So, we should not brag, but show everything in deeds.

From this talk, keep the following in your mind, be blind and deaf to the mistakes and goodness of others as much as possible. I want you to be 75% blind and deaf, and 25% to see. I want you to be cheerful and happy today!

Now we will have lunch and then some gymnastics.

(In the afternoon we climbed high on Vitosha mountain. We all felt very good. Up there, on the high Vitosha hills, we did some gymnastics.

And then we went back to Sofia cheerful, happy, satisfied.)

09 June 1921, Thursday, Ascension of the Lord (Spasov Day), Vitosha

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