There is an eternal, human law of love, and prejudiced scientists, studying animals, have discovered the law of struggle and attribute it to human life. What a lie!
Man has the consciousness that he is God and he is right, because God is in him. He is aware that he is a pig, and again he is right, because the pig is also in him. But he is sorely mistaken when he imagines that the pig within himself is God.
Baba says that man and the world were created by Our Father the Heavenly King, and the learned teacher says that the origin of man is the result of the struggle for survival between species and that the world is also the result of evolution. The difference between these conceptions, obviously in favor of the grandmother, is that, through her words about the creation of Our Father, the Heavenly King, sees in the creation of man, of his soul, and in the creation of the world something incomprehensible, inconceivable for the human mind. But, by his petty observations and conclusions, the learned teacher wants to mask that fundamental, incomprehensible and inconceivable thing, which must be recognized and separated from what is clear and accessible in order for these clear and accessible things to really be as I am.
We do not recognize the law of love that is proper to man. It was revealed to us by the greatest sages of the world and we know it well in our souls. But because we do not see it applied in the material world, but instead we see, we see, the law of struggle (proper to animals), we recognize it and attribute it to man. What a terrible mistake! And that is precisely the conception of the world that the most enlightened people have.
I would do well to ask myself the question: would you accept to be condemned and despised by all for doing what you consider to be God's work, your purpose, not to mention your personal happiness? It would be good to ask myself and answer: yes, but fortunately it did not happen and cannot happen that the man who does God's work does not find understanding in anyone.
Habit is a big thing. Habit makes the deeds that once required effort every time, a struggle between the spiritual and the animal, no longer require effort and attention, and the effort and attention can be used for other purposes. It is the mortar that strengthens the laid stones so that others can be placed on top of them. But the same good part of habit can become the source of immorality, when the animal wins in battle: eating people, torturing, fighting, owning land, using prostitution, etc.
Yes, faith, prejudice, fanaticism gives the great force of self-denial. But this happens because one goal is established, the main goal of life and the most accessible, the one that brings with it the fulfillment of the law of life: obedience to the laws of the church, castration, burning your being, destroying the unbelievers and others. Without religion, without prejudices, for the fulfillment of God's law, you don't have to do something specific, something determined, but the most important problems of life are solved by the law of God's love, by the law of love. And such a preoccupation does not bring with it manifestations as fiery as the first.
The greater the self-denial, the harder it is to remain humble, and vice versa.
The words of a dying person take on special importance. But we die day by day and most obviously in old age. Let the old man remember that his words can have a special meaning.
What audacity or terrible madness or rather astonishing of the missionaries who, in order to civilize them, to enlighten the "savages", teach them their church faith.
What we call the world consists of two parts, consciousness and the things we are aware of. If there were no consciousness there would be no world either, but we cannot say that if there were no world there would be no consciousness either. (Is that so?)
You often say that you cannot talk to a man about things that are not accessible to him, but in fact you do not hold back, and often you waste absolutely useless words and get irritated because he does not understand you who cannot understand you.
The selfish life is irrational, animalistic. Such is the life of children and non-reproducing animals. But for the mature man who has reason, the selfish life is unnatural, it is foolishness. In the same situation are many women who have lived from childhood a justified selfish life, then family selfishness through animal love, then selfish domestic love, then motherhood, and then, when they are left without family life, without children, they retain only reason, but without total love, and is in the condition of an animal. It's a terrible and widespread situation.
You want to serve others, the worker wants to work. But to work usefully, you must have tools, and it is not enough to have them, they must also be good. What are you, with all your qualities, character, habits, knowledge, are you a good tool to serve people? You must not serve men, but God, and His service is clear, precise. It means increasing the love in you. By increasing the love within you, you cannot but serve people, and you will serve in such a way that it will benefit you and people and God.
Unhappy is not the one who is in pain, but the one who wants to cause pain to another.
Every human being is always in a process of growth, therefore we cannot reject it. But there are some who are so alien, so distant in their condition, that you cannot speak to them other than to children, loving them, respecting them, protecting them, but without putting yourself on an equal footing with them, without to ask them to understand what they cannot understand. One thing makes it difficult to communicate with them, the fact that instead of the desire for knowledge, the sincerity that children have, these other children are indifferent, they deny what they don't understand and above all they are very confident.
Rarely have I met a man more gifted with all the faults that I am: voluptuousness, cupidity, malice, arrogance and above all selfishness. I thank God that I know this, I have seen and see this wickedness in myself and I am fighting it. This explains the success of my writings.
...This ignorance is strong and incurable because people don't see it, don't want to, can't see it. And they don't want to, they can't see it because they are very satisfied with themselves, with their situation. We evolve, we progress. We have airplanes, submarines... What else do you want? Give us a deadline and everything will be great. And even so, non-thinkers can't help but be excited about airplanes and all that. There is a reason why all of this came about. They came about because the 99%, who are slaves, do what the 1% command, and it's true that miracles happen. And people really believe that these miracles are necessary and therefore they cannot, they do not want to change the life that produces such miracles. Miracles are the basis of the bad life. Bad life produces miracles. Can you improve life by continuing to live badly? Only one thing is necessary, to put the moral requirements first, because if you put the moral requirements first, the airplanes will immediately disappear and...
It's hard to imagine the turn that people's material life will take if they stop living the vicious, animal life, even if they don't start living according to love.
If we are to talk about God the Creator, then the God who, according to their conception, made man, the man who cannot understand Him otherwise than within the limits of space and time, this God, according to their conception, is also in space and time, i.e. it is omnipresent (in space), eternal (in time). Very good.
At first it seems that living only before God is something uncertain, petty, artificial, unnatural. But just try to live like this and you will see how easy, certain and natural it is. For that is how everything is. Isn't life given to man in time so that he can affirm himself by living in God? Isn't it the same when people live only before people: politicians, scientists, artists? No matter how vain these concerns, no matter how doubtful their results, people devote their whole lives to them. Then how can you not give your life to a soul concern that always bears fruit, is free and rewarding?
How easy it is to forgive the one who repents, the humble one, and how hard it is to suppress in new grudges *, the lack of goodwill towards the one who offended us, the confident, self-satisfied! But above all, we must learn to forgive them.
Love is the awareness that you are a manifestation of the Whole, of your union with the Whole, love for God and fellow human beings.
It is enough to become aware of the fact that you are humble and immediately you cease to be humble.
When you are alone with yourself, it is good to get used to not doing things that you would not do in the presence of others: not to kill a fly, not to be angry with a horse...etc., and in the presence of people it is good to do things for which you know you will be judged, but which you do not consider bad.
God is that spiritual principle in itself *, boundless, which I consider my "self" and which I recognize in all living things.
Instead of learning to live in love, people learn to fly. He flies badly, but, just to learn how to fly, he stops learning to live his life in love. It's like if birds stopped flying and learned to run or build bicycles and ride them.
It is clear to me that neither my walking, nor my bodily movement, nor my thoughts represent life. What is life? I know only one answer: life is the liberation of the spiritual principle of the soul from the body that confines it. And that is why it is clear that those conditions that we consider catastrophes, misfortunes about which we say: this is not life (as I used to say and believed about my situation), they are precisely life or, in the last instance, its possibility. Only in those situations that we call catastrophes and in which the struggle between soul and body begins, only then does real life, life itself, become possible, if we struggle being aware of it, i.e. the soul conquers the body.
Living in time and space enables me to become aware of my timelessness and spirituality, that is, my independence from time and space.
If there were no motion in time and matter in space, I would not be aware that I am incorporeal and timeless: there would be no consciousness.