Jump to content

THE ART OF DOING GOOD


Ani
 Share

Recommended Posts

THE ART OF DOING GOOD


 


We were at the Bivouac. After a certain stay we climbed up on Vitosha, by the second shelter, where the height is 1560 m. Around us there were many violets in bloom and the Master said:


 


The violet is used as tea and cures asthma. Gather violets and other healing herbs here.


 


A sister inquired, "In which cases is it allowed for the flowers to be picked?" Only in two cases: when they are picked for scientific research and for healing.


 


In the conversation that was started, the Master said: The Love towards the neighbour will give rise to the good in us. You cannot do any good as long as you do not love. How can you be good if you do not see the Lord everywhere? Very little is required to be good. For instance, you will give a glass of water to somebody. If you cannot do anything good to some person, do a good thing to some animal, plant, or fountain. Above all, do something good to your feet - wash them in the evening. If you cannot do anything good to your feet, how can you do anything good to the people? When you eat the apple, sow the seeds. Do good to the others, because they are part of you. You think that you are good, but you cannot display your kindness yet. A good man is the one that lives for God. A bad man is the one that lives for himself. One who lives badly has never seen God, and the one who lives well has seen Him. When you are doing something good, you are getting closer to God. Not with one good deed, but with that great incentive inside are you getting closer to God.


 


I will give you a rule - in every good thing, in every deed we have to make a connection with the Divine world, in order for it to manifest. For instance, you hand somebody a glass of water; stop, become absorbed in yourself, feel love towards him, send him a stream of love. When you wait for a while, in order to come to the circumstance when you can hand a glass of water to someone, you put something valuable from your soul into it. And then, along with the water, your neighbour accepts that Divine thing, which comes out of the depths. In the world, out of which we have come, they are keeping us responsible for everything we do with what they have given us. When you do something good, the profit is left for you.


 


Sometimes the musician cannot work if he does not have a musical environment. So, thousands of musicians have to work in order for an incentive to be there. Also, in the good, thousands of people have to work well in order for an incentive to be there. Those who do not perform the Will of God properly create the evil. And those who know how to perform the Will of God have God do the good through them. When a person does something good for you, give glory to God, realize deep inside yourself that this is from God, not from the person. When you are giving something, give it with a consciousness that it belongs to God, not to you. The wealth that we have belongs to God.


 


They say now, "Be good". How can you be good if you do not see the Lord and the good everywhere? The bad people work individually, only for themselves, and the good people - collectively, for the others and for themselves.


 


In man there is something fatal. He is going straightforwardly, and all of a sudden he commits something bad - this is in the flesh. The flesh has to be subdued to God. On the upper world everything is in harmony, because everybody helps each other, and by Love at that. There the law is the Good. They love each other and do each other good.


 


The Good rules the world. The evil represents a brief outer order, and the Good - an eternal order. Doing good is not a duty, but a privilege! A rich person went to a philosopher and asked him how do proceed in order to have a run of luck. The philosopher told him, "I will give you two words and you will have good luck, but for those two words you shall pay. And if you are not lucky, I shall give you your money back, and you shall give me my words back." Those words were: "Be good!" The rich man, who previously thought how to cut some lev off his employees' salary, how to make some deal, would already remember the words: "Be good!" He wanted to dupe somebody, but would remember the words and would not do it. And from then on his matters began to get settled. So the good that man does settles the matters of the others, and his matters get arranged as well. After some time, the rich man went to the philosopher again, in order to tell him, "I would not give your words back for anything in the world!"


 


The most difficult question that exists in the world is for the people to become good. This is a great art. You have to work. The only rational thing in the world is the Good. It is the eternal, the powerful. What can transform things alchemically, what can transform the simple elements into precious stones, that is only the Good. Love makes the eyes pure and bright, and evil makes them dark. With the evil, the face darkens, and with the Good it becomes bright. When I see a person, what I am interested in is whether he has opened the door to the Good and the Love. Self- discipline has to start from there. Should you do a good thing, a small favour, even if nobody sees you, do it and take pleasure in it. For instance, in the forest you water a flower and you take pleasure in doing it. Nobody has seen you. That flower stays in your mind. The Good is a prerequisite for Perfection. Why do we have be good? In order to have conditions of Life and because Perfection is life and our aim.


 


Initially, the sin is like a very well dressed damsel - spruced up, ornamented with rings. But, should you commit a sin, it gapes at you like an old, toothless granny. When a man does something evil, he grows old, and when he does something good - he grows young.


 


Man cannot gain the Good life at once. In order to be good now, he has to have laboured for centuries. Each good deed, each good thought increases our faith. Only when man acts with Good, he is free, should you do evil, you become a slave to the circumstances. If you are bad, you are a chained slave. When you are prowling to kill somebody, another will be prowling after you, and then the freedom is gone.


 


God is the Good in the world. When man does something evil, it comes from the dark spirits. When you do a bad deed, you then have a mental and sensual derangement and you cannot see the situation clearly. With each good deed man frees himself. If you do a bad deed, you limit yourself; then hurry up with the good one, in order to free yourself. Somebody would say, "Why would we do good?" Without it you cannot grow. You have made a promise above and why have you not fulfilled it here? People have taken an absolutely different direction, they engage in other things.


 


In order to live well, you have to surround yourself with a good environment. And you will create a good environment for yourself only through doing good. Should you not do anything good, do not expect any good life and any happiness, nobody is interested in you. So it depends on you whether you are going to be happy or not.


 


Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

×
×
  • Create New...