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Готов превод Заведеевата майка - 23.7.1918-НБ-189 / .: 23.7.1918-НБ-189

TITLE: Zebedee's mother

"The mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Him."

From Matthew 20: 20

"Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Him with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of Him." The request is an impulse, a movement of Life, in one or another direction, caused from the human desires. Wherever there's Life, there is movement. The movement can be either in harmony or in disharmony with God's laws. Same can be said for the humans thoughts or desires. And they are caused from an inner or outer reason. The mother of Zebedee's sons wanted something important from Christ and it was that one of her sons sits on the right side of Christ and the other one - on the left side. Christ has only one right and one left side. If the Zebedee's sons take both sides, where would the other people sit? Till today people still argue who should take the right side and who should take the left side. Zebedee's mother didn't understand the God's law that it is not possible that her sons sit on the right and the left side of Christ, same as it is not possible that two women marry to the same man or to men marry to the same woman. Therefore when God cancels to fulfil our wishes, it is because we want to marry two women for the same man or two men for the same woman. In other words: It is not possible that we have Zebedee's mother's desire and that God fulfils it. It is not possible that both our sons sit, one on the left side, the other one on the right side of Christ. Christ answered her: “You don’t know what you are asking." And one should know what he's asking for.

We are not talking about the children now, but about the ones who walk on the path of dedication. They are exactly the ones who should know what they want. The children want many things, but their mothers give them only what is necessary. Everything in this world is cleverly distributed. For example, the continents are distributed between the different races: Africa is inhabited from the black race, Asia - from the yellow race, America - from the red one, Europe - from the white one and Australia - from the brown race. If you study the animals - fishes, birds and mammals, you'll see that each one of them has its certain shape. Moreover each animal takes a certain place. Whoever doesn't understand God's law is wondering why a small bug should live. Comparing to man a bug is a small, little creature, but the man comparing to the Higher beings is also a small creature, similar to the bug.

When Christ answers that the Zebedee's sons can't sit, one on His left side and the other one on the right side, He wanted to show the humanity that everyone should wish only what is defined for him. At the same time Christ considers the left side and the right side of man as two great principles: the left side represents the God's Love and the right one - God's Wisdom. Every man has two sons, that he wants to put in two specific worlds: one in the world of Love and the other one in the world of Wisdom. This is impossible. Why? Because no hypocrisy exists in these worlds. Which ordinary man is worthy to take one or the other place? And by the word worthy, Christ understands that man, who is capable to accept the things in their essence. To every man the possibility is given to understand the things as they are in reality. To every man certain specific possibilities are given. This in not only related to the mental, but also to the physical life of man. If you have two children, one with a healthy stomach and the other one with a sick stomach, for which one is the pie that's made? For the one with the healthy stomach. Therefore if you search for Christ to acquire His Love, you have to be healthy. The Love is for the healthy, not for the sick people. The sick one feels and perceives the Love only externally and the healthy one perceives it both externally and internally. When you suffer the Love is out of you, when you are happy it is inside of you. The same is with the Wisdom: when you suffer, the Wisdom is out of you, when you're happy, it is inside of you. Even out of you both the Love and the Wisdom are working for your elevation, but you can't perceive them consciously; you can't understand their internal content and meaning. To understand the things you have to live inside of them, to penetrate into their essence. For example, you read about the existence of different worlds - a physical one, an astral or a heart one, a mental or a causal one. You know that each world represents something specific, but very few have a clear idea about them.

What is the physical world? This is a world of movement. Here the forms are moving from one place to another. When you reach the Astral world, some of you think that it is far away from them, somewhere beyond the stars. The Astral world is the sensual world or the world of feelings. When you say that you feel pleasure or displeasure, sorrow or joy, you are in the Astral world. Man connects with the souls through the feelings and recognizes them. In the physical world the people study the things through their senses, in the Astral world - through their feelings. The souls have their smell, taste and tone, just like the physical objects. The finer the man's feelings are, the easier he can recognize if a soul is from the lower or the higher world. Everyone should ask themselves the questions from which world they are as a soul, if they are on their place in the physical world, do they have a noble heart and a bright mind. At the same time everyone should know if they are beautiful. The beauty is related with the Truth. You have to cover certain conditions to be externally and internally beautiful, this means that you should bear some Virtues inside of you. The beautiful person is a harmonious combination of his thoughts, feelings and actions. He has harmonized his mind and heart and his will. He lives righteously in the three worlds - the physical one, the Spiritual one and the Mental one.

People often ask themselves who is righteous and a good man or who is a spiritual man. Whoever has a noble heart and a bright mind, he is righteous and a good man. If you want to know if you are righteous and a good man, then take a look into the Divine mirror and ask yourselves: do you have the proper scent, is your heart a mild one, is your mind a bright one. If you want to know this, then from the Conscious world a commission will be sent to test you. It will check your scent, your mildness of the heart, the brightness of your mind, your fortune and it will understand how you use these treasures to determine in which group you belong. Then it will give you a mark, the same way that it is done with the students here and it will send you to God for approval. The man is being tested in all the worlds. Some think that they can live the way they like it and they understand the things, that no one takes count on that. That's not true, the Conscious world is precise, it measures and assesses everything. Some say that they are good priests, that they do their service well, they were from a good family. This is not enough. They'll test you in any direction and only then they'll assess what kind of man you are. You are a good person, but you can't resolve the smallest difficulty. Through the difficulties the man is being tested, if he can swim or not. The little duckling is hatching and immediately starts to swim, but the man can live decades on earth and still can't swim, meaning he can't resolve his difficulties. Whoever can't swim, he can't resolve his matters and drowns in the water. The good person in its complete sense resolves easily his matters. He has learned the art of swimming. The commission is testing him and gives him an 'A'. To the weak one it gives a 'F'. And after all of this, he wants to sit on Christ's right or left side. What does the left side of Christ mean? A work on earth. And the right side? A work in Heaven. This means that whoever wants to sit on the left side of Christ, he has descended on earth to work. Whoever wants to sit on the right side of Christ, he wants to work in Heaven. No matter if you sit on the left or the right side of Christ, you'll have to work in any case.

All the people have come to earth to work. God says: give work to every person, so that he manifests. Once the given work is done and the commission declares about his success, only then God would give His word where this person should be placed, on the left or the right side of Christ. Someone is a candidate for service on the left side, but he doesn't have enough patience to finish his work till the end and searches for a new service - on the right side. Patience is requested from everyone, especially from the Christians. You can't be a true Christian, if you haven't gained patience.

There was a devotional man in China once - his name was Natan. He was famous with his great generosity among the poor people and such in need. He made some big cantinas with abundant kitchens to welcome poor people and feed them. Soon Mitran became famous too. The poor people were going to him as well to feed them and to get some help. He was welcoming them, giving them food and money, so that he can surpass Natan in his generosity. There was a beggar woman among the poor people, who was trying to receive help several times per day. She was either entering one of the doors or the other and she was getting what she needed. Mitran noticed how she was sneaking either through one of the doors or through the other, but he remained silent. In the end though he couldn't support her arrogance any more and he kicked her away. She left his house, but she told him: "Hey, Mitran, all your efforts were lost away. Natan remains unsurpassed. I'm already visiting him thirty times, I'm entering either from one of the doors or from the other, but he never says a word. Everyday he welcomes me, as if he sees me for the first time, and I only came to your house for no more than ten times and you already kicked me away. Remember that the generosity is related with the patience. If you can't be patient, then you can't be generous neither."

The contemporary people need patience. What they call patience now is a woe. Some support it for a while and then they get angry and all of a sudden they ruin everything that they have built. You say that a man or a woman has suffered tremendously, that they have shown a great patience. Their patience is great, but they bear for no more than fifteen times. When they welcome the beggar woman fifteen times they loose their patience and they kick her away. They should work more on their patience, so that they welcome the beggar woman thirty times and they are still supportive. The man says to his wife: "Now this is too much from your side." The woman says to his husband: "Now this is too much from your side." Once they reach the number 15 they start being angry and whoever they meet on their way they start a fight with him. Wait a minute, you are rushing too much, you have to welcome the beggar woman for 15 more times, so that you reach the number 30 - a number of maturity, of growing up. You have to study in every world for ten years to become wise. After that a new, great science reveals and you have to study it too.

The new teaching that Christ has brought to humanity - the teaching of Love, it brings Power for the man. Therefore whoever wants to become strong, good and loving, he has to study zealously this teaching, he has to become a student of Christ. Often people ask themselves if their close ones love them. To ask yourself such a question is the same as to doubt your own Love. If you doubt your own Love, then you doubt the God's Love because God lives in all the people and through them He manifests His love. If you love the others they will love you too. If someone says that he loves, then he has given place for the God's Love in him. Whoever loves, God manifests in him and not the man himself. Because it is said in the Bible: "God is Love". Whoever wants to give place to the Love in himself, he should care only about his thoughts and desires, only about his actions and relations. It is not related with me if the peoples fruits are bitter or sweet, what is important is that my fruits have to be sweet. It is not related with me if the people have a pleasant or unpleasant smell, the important is that I carry pleasant smell all around me. The important is that my mind, my heart, my Spirit and my soul are on the right place. This is the main rule, through which a person can improve his life inside and outside. You'll say that a man should live for his household. This is truth but his household comparing to the whole life is the same as the little finger of the hand. The man doesn't live only for his little finger, but for all his finders. The little finger represents the physical world. A man lives not only for his physical, that said material needs. The ring finger represents the curiosity of the man, the middle finger represents the Truth, the forefinger - the religion and the thumb - the will and the mind. Once a man has come to earth, he should serve to all his fingers, he should satisfy all his inner aspirations. We have to give something to the people, so that they love us. And we can give only when we work on ourselves. We love God, because He gave us everything and He keeps on giving, He keeps on satisfying our needs.

People complain about their failures in life. Despite their desire to be righteous, to accomplish their ideals, they still don't succeed. So, there is something abnormal, unnatural in them that interferes. When they encounter these unnatural manifestations in them, they despair. There's one thing you should know: everything unnatural, that is distorted in your manifestations is not only caused from you. There are other factors, outside of you, that are guilty for your unnatural manifestations. You pass through a place and you feel an unpleasant smell. The reason for this unpleasant smell is not inside of you, but outside of you something is rotting and brings this smell. You are guilty as much as you couldn't feel this smell from a distance and stay distant from it. If you are out of sorts, then the guilt is partly in you, partly in the outer world, that is not in harmony with God. Every part of the body that is separated from the whole organism, starts to rot and falls apart. Therefore, in order not to get in places that are falling apart, hold yourself tight to the Whole. Ask the great and mighty Beginning for help. When you act this way, you'll be away from the bad conditions and your situation will get better.

This, what I'm telling you today is a little hard for application. Why? Because you have deviated from the right path and you can hardly go back. What should the water do, if it has deviated from its way? It can't go back. It has nothing left to do, but to make a new path. If this is the case then I'm telling you: Don't be discouraged, leave the old riverbed and make yourselves a new one. This is how the Nature does it. The old riverbed is your old life. Leave your old life, go to the commission to test you, to see what you know and what you don't know. Keep the knowledge that can work for you and get rid of the unneeded one. After that, you'll be sent to God, He'll give His last word. If you are ready for Heaven, you'll be kept there. If you aren't ready, they'll give you a new body and they'll send you back on earth, to study and to work. We call this process destiny. Man forges his own destiny. This is why Christ has said to the Zebedee's mother: "You don’t know what you are asking." This means: you don't understand the God's ways. People look only at the outer side of Life, but what God has ordered to be done, they forget it. No matter how the people think, they will know that what the Father has ordered to be done, it will be done. No one is able to cancel the God's plan.

What is the plan that God has set for the man? He has sent him on earth, to work with his mind, his heart, his soul and Spirit and to evolve. Christ descended on earth to learn the people how to live and how to work properly. He brings bright thoughts in the human's mind, noble and higher feelings and wishes in his heart and this way He lifts his Spirit up, makes it strong and fresh. Many expect Christ to descend from the clouds, but instead of seeing this, their heads get filled with fogs. Christ is knocking on the door of your heart and you are staring somewhere in the sky and you are wondering from where these knocking sounds are coming. Don't look up. He won't come from there, but look at the door of your heart, where the knocking comes from - Christ is there. Open your door and invite Him inside.

Man has two doors: one is the official one, the other one is the daily one, through which there is a constant entering and exiting. The official door is the nose, and the daily and reachable door is the mouth. Through the mouth come the air and the food; the air also partly goes out through the mouth. This is allegorically said. In other words, the mind is the official door and the heart - the daily door. Christ will pass through the mind - the official door, He'll descend down to the heart and there He'll knock. All the priests are talking about Christ's coming on earth, but they don't know through which door He will enter. For two thousand years He has been knocking to the nose, meaning to the mind of the people, but they have their mouths open, waiting for Him to enter their stomach from there. The mind, the official entrance of the people is closed today. Someone wants to see Christ. I'm asking him: is your mind open? It is not. Since it is not opened, open it and wait. Learn from the worldly people how to welcome prominent guests. Christ is already standing in front of your minds and waits for you to open Him, so that He enters from there to your hearts. Everything comes from the mind, therefore the old people say; the scientists destroy the world, the scientists will repair it. Whoever destroys, he can also repair. God has created the world through the Wisdom. This is how you should work too.

I wish to all the people to start a new life and to start listening to their enthusiastic and sublime desires. This requires a bright mind, a noble heart and a trained, strong will. It is not necessary that man thinks only about eating and drinking. When you invite a guest to your table, does he think what he'll eat and drink? The important thing for him is to have strong teeth and a strong stomach. Does he have to think if he'll be invited again to your table? If the host is rich, externally and internally, he always puts a table. While eating well today, don't thing about what you'll eat the next day. Don't think about provisions. God said to the Jewish people through Moses not to think about the next day, but to gather manna only for one day, so that it doesn't get spoiled. Where did the rich people stay, that have insured themselves for years? They went bankrupt. All the rich companies have disappeared. They left for the other world with empty skulls and dry bones, without muscles. People say about someone: he was a smart man. Where did his smart head remain? While he was alive, you have seen his head, but after his death you don't see anything, except an empty skull and dry bones. People say about a woman: she was beautiful! I don't see any beauty in her today. "He was a strong man!" - I don't see any strength in him. Everything that has impressed you - rationality, beauty, strength, has disappeared, because it is temporary, transient, variable. Start the New life and go ahead with God. Whoever connects with Him, he'll become rich, physically and spiritually. God, for Whom I'm talking about, is not only a Bulgarian or a Jewish God, but to all the nations, to all the people on earth. There isn't any more reachable creature than Him. He brings the wholeness of Life within himself. Call Him and He'll answer back. Many people are burdened today: they think about their close ones, which are on the battle fields, they are afraid for them not to be killed. Don't think about that, but let everyone ask himself: Do I do the God's will? Do I love my close one as I love myself? When every person and all the nations answer themselves positively, God will bless them.

I wish you to prepare yourselves to welcome Christ. If He comes to your homes and finds, that you are not ready, He'll take back what He gave you. If your man, your wife, your children are good people, but you don't value them, they will be taken away from you. Christ will tell them: "Come to me, I'll fulfill your needs and will give you a well-deserved place." In the end all of us we'll return back to God, from Whom we were created. You'll say that this return is scary. There is nothing scary in the return of a soul back to God. The scary thing is for those, who live badly, who lie, who steal and don't accomplish the God's will. They'll loose it all. Only dry bones will remain from them. They'll try to enter in their own hearts, but they will be overwhelmed by cold, lovelessness and no warmth, no feeling at all; they'll try to enter their own minds - they'll find no thought, no Light. I tell to everyone turn to God of the complete Life and ask everything from Him. What does the trader do today? He's striving for the positive thing in life. The gold coin has content for him. As for the banknotes, he is not counting on them. The American students have the custom to make each other gifts of checks of 30 - 40'000 leva, which though can't be turned to money - no bank will pay for them. It is better that a man has one lev, but in a coin, than thousands of leva in banknotes, that no one admits. These are tricks in life. Keep your relation with God, like a capital, to whom you can always count.

So, no matter how much you strive for the right or the left side of Christ, He won't put you neither on His right side, nor on His left side. Why? Because when you have a heart, you are already on the left side of Christ, when you have a mind, you are on His right side. When the man dies, he goes on the right side of God. When the woman remains on earth, she is on the left side of God. The separation of the Christians to Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants shows that they don't understand the Christ's teaching. Some Christians don't support this separation, but they want everybody to be on the same side; either on the left side or on the right one. Actually, one side exists - the right one. It contents everything in it. It is good if all the people go at this side, because it leads to God. Some don't recognize where the right side and where the left side is and they ask where God is, to which place He has placed them and so on. Firstly, God has placed them on a good place. If they are not happy with their place and they find it bad, they should know that they have chosen it themselves. They complain about their life and they say that everything is sour and bitter. It depends on them to sweeten their life. You have to add more sugar to the sour and the bitter. You shouldn't be too sweet on earth though. Here both the sour and the bitter things have their purpose. While you are on earth you can be tree quarters bitter and one quarter sweet; in the Angel's world you'll be half bitter and half sweet and in the Divine world you will be completely sweet. Pray to God to help you to develop correctly your mind, your heart and your will, to dress yourselves in Christ, as it is said in the Bible. In other words: accept Christ in your heart, as a friend of yours; in your mind, as a Teacher of yours and let Him cover you internally and externally, not that you are only dressed in Him, as if you are in a garment.

Some are searching for Christ through an external path, only in one person. They won't find Him this way. Christ reveals Himself to the one who sincerely searches for Him. How does He reveal himself? Through the internal path, not only through one person, but through many people. He manifests as a Light. Christ is both in the one and in the many. He is both in the whole tree and the fruit. Where is Christ? Above. Two thousand years ago He was on earth, but now He is working in the upper world. Whoever sees Him, immediately follows after Him, same as the maid elopes to a beautiful young man. Don't cry for those ones, who have eloped to Christ. It was that no one valued them here that they went to Christ, so that He values them and they are happy with their condition. Their close ones are crying for them, they want to see them. There's no reason to cry for their torn clothes. Some want to know if their close ones, who have left the earth, are thinking about them. What would they think about? They are not interested in your material condition, but how you live, if you love each other, if you are ready for a sacrifice for one another.

Christ descends from above. This is a great Truth, that you'll all check yourselves. All the rulers, all the priests and the teachers, mothers and fathers will see Him and will accept Him as their God. I wish all of you to be joyful and calm. The Good is already coming to earth. Christ descends from above! Everyone will see this. Some will be in Christ, some will have Him in them. A great good is coming for the humanity. I wish all the Bulgarians to listen to what God tells them and to be carriers of His Word. If you want to check if God is among us, gather around a sick person and start praying for him. If the sick one gets better, God is working among you. Gather around an extremely poor person and start praying about him. He needs bread. If the bread comes to him, this means that God works here too. If there is drought and you pray for rain in the name of God, the rain will come and together with it the abundance too. The people now-a-days get philosophical, they think about everything, but they forget about God.

Which God am I talking about? The One, Who gives to every man what he deserves. Don't make statements about the other people's things, they have who to criticize them, who to think about their life and follow it. God requires from everyone to correct their life, to fulfill His will. If they don't listen to Him, then hard days will come. Whoever listens to God, he will have everything that he needs - both bread and land. How shall we recognize God? When we do the same test, as the prophet Elijah did at his time. I'll call God, for Whom I'm talking about and we'll wish that He does something, through which we will see His presence. Let the ones who serve Him do the same test, so that we see to whom He'll reply back. Once you know that God is alive and rules the whole world, you shouldn't be afraid of anything. Death shouldn't scare you neither. If it appears on your way, tell yourselves: God has sent me to earth to work and therefore no external force can take my work away from me. I'm not changing my way until I get it done, I'm not changing my place. Whoever tries to move me from here, he won't fight with me, he'll fight with the One, Who brought me here. He keeps in His hands all the nations. Poor nation to any nation that doesn't fulfill the God's will.

The Divine teaching is great. Only through it the nations will be reconciled. Only through it the men and the women will agree with each other. Let every nation exist, every country, every home and every man, but let them be carriers of Love, of Wisdom and Truth. Be prepared to sacrifice yourselves for the Great thing in the world. I'm not talking about the ordinary sacrifice, where one dies to save the other; I'm not talking about death, after which the dead one is buried, there is a ceremony and mournful speeches. I'm talking about such sacrifice, after which a man passes away without leaving a grave. Whoever sacrifices himself this way, he becomes invisible for the surrounding ones - no one knows where he is and what he does.

Blessed are those nations who listen to God of the complete fullness and do His will.

Be God's servants, to carry His blessing everywhere.

Be brave to teach the God's Teaching. This is how the Christ talks, the One who is in all the people.

(It seems that this gathering is extraordinary, as it has taken place on 23.07.1918 => Tuesday, although it is published in a collection of Sunday talks "Is it possible" and in the bibliography it is noted as a Sunday' one.)

Sunday Talks

23.07.1918 Tuesday, Sofia

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Превеждали: Elena_Ivanova (Елена Иванова)

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