HOW YOU SHALL LOVE GOD

[Ani]

HOW YOU SHALL LOVE GOD

 

We went on an excursion to Vitosha at 8:30 p.m., and reached Bivaka at about midnight. Entering a communion with the Bright creatures was our goal. At about 1 a.m. we lined up across the meadow at a distance of one meter from each other. Thus we spent 15 minutes in meditation and secret prayer.

 

At dawn, after performing the prayer programme, a conversation began. In the conversation the Master said:

 

Today the world is full of contradictions and hardships. Everywhere the world is a hospital. The smallest creatures suffer. You are walking, and you can trip over some rock. However, there is a Real world without those contradictions. Be constantly plunged into the Reality, so that you can live consciously within God. Each moment, man should aspire to see the manifestation and the presence of God in the smallest things around him. All matters can be settled only through the Love. With the law of violence, nothing is achieved. The love towards each creature must be like the one between Radames and Aida, or in each creature we must see Aida. Actually, the love towards Aida is a Love towards God. This is a searching for God in this or that form, but in order to see Aida in each creature, you must enter the Real life.

 

A brother said, "Before talking at a meeting, I connect with the Lord, I experience love towards the Lord, and then I send that, which He accepts, towards the people, and when I talk, I have a wondrous result".

 

To love God more than everything, means to be a monk. When man sticks with his Love to God, he breaks the connections with everybody, in order to be alone with Him. That is not an easy job. Man should love the other people, but he should not make connections. This means for man to be alone with God and to love without establishing connections.

 

A brother said, "You said in one of the recent lectures what monk means. It means that he loves everybody, but does not connect with them, and connects only with the Lord".

 

To be a monk does not mean running away from the world. Man has to learn to serve the Lord in the world. If he is disturbed about who and how to love, he is not a monk. He needs to have learned that long ago! If he has not learned it, he is not a monk. The evolution in the world begins with Love towards God, before that it is an involution. Once man transgresses, he will fall, he will involute, but after that he will ascend and be a carrier of the Divine in the world. If you are increasing your Love, you have a future. Call upon God in times of difficulty - where no one can help, and you will see. Come to love the Lord, and in the future you will gain everything. You cannot live consciously if you do not love the Lord. Love towards one is dangerous, and Love towards God is safe. Our love towards the Lord is a response of God's Love towards us. The thought of Apostle Jacob, which I explained to you once ("How will you love God, whom you do not see, when you do not love your brother, whom you see"), has to be understood mystically, like this: whoever does not love God in his brother, how will he love that God, whom he has not seen? The weak side of a person who has no respect and esteem for the others is that he has no Love towards God. If you have a correct idea of God, then only by thinking about Him, if you are ill, you will recover, and if you do not understand a question, it will clarify immediately. What you perceive from God you shall utilize as God requires. The salvation of man depends on perceiving the Love, using inside himself what he can use, and sending it towards the people. He must give as much as he has taken.

 

Unless man connects with the Lord, he lives under the law of the karma. Now birth, marriage, etc, is under the law of karma. If you live in the law of Love, you leave the law of karma. You then have Freedom. The most important thing is that man has a sacred feeling towards the Lord, and then his sorrows and sufferings will momentarily disappear. In that situation, man feels strong, brave, and is able to do everything. Should he move away from God, he becomes weak again. In order to alter his fate, man has to alter his relation towards the Lord. Each one, who moves away from the Centre, becomes enslaved, and when he gets closer, he becomes free. The Love towards God will give a meaning to our lives; it will free us from limitations. Love is food. The Immortal is there. Let us acquire a connection with the Lord, so that we can find that element, which we are lacking - the immortality. That is the lost key, the lost word. When you make use of the water in a bottle, it is a temporary process; soon the bottle will empty. The process has to be eternal. When man enters the Boundless, he no longer dies.

 

We should know that there is One, whom we can rely on. Whether you are a butterfly, a bug, or a worm, it makes no difference. But know that there is One, whom you love and who loves you. Man has to be sincere, pure, to always have Love and proper relations towards the Lord, so that He and the White Brotherhood can subserve him. If man is left alone to do something, he cannot accomplish anything significant. The Love towards God can mend the world, and then the true Life will come. You shall have only one Father, and everybody else shall be your brothers and sisters. When this idea becomes alive in you, things will get fixed. Should the idea of "Love towards God" enter the world, it will cardinally solve all problems. When we come to love the Great in the world, and see It in the light, in the wind, in the water, in all the creatures, in all of the tiniest things, the world will mend. When you love, you care, and you serve, you are one of the new people and your heart will be filled with Joy!

 

After we had tea, we performed Paneurhythmy on the meadow. After that we gathered around our beloved Master and sang many songs. At about 10 a.m. the Master ordered us to spread separately in the hazel-groves for meditation. We had the communal lunch on the meadow, where we formed in a big circle. The Master was inside the circle. The day was one of the unforgettable. At around 4 p.m., after a joint prayer, we set off downwards.