Vladimir Antonov

Ecology of Human Being
in Multidimensional Space

Translated from Russian
by Maxim Shafeyev

Polus, 2000
ISBN 5-89455-004-1
© Antonov V.V., 2000

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In this book, the Russian scientist Vladimir Antonov covers the essential issues: what is God, the place of human being in the Evolution of the universal consciousness, principles of forming and correction of destiny, ways of attaining health and happiness, most effective methods of psychic self-regulation and ways towards cognition of God.

This book is written in a simple and easy-to-understand language and is intended for all groups of readers.

Contents

What Is Ecology

Ecology is a science that studies relationships between living organisms and the environment they live in.

Its branches focus on studying specific kinds of these organisms and are called respectively. For example: ecology of river beaver or ecology of sturgeon, etc. The object can be researched in terms of its habitat, places and conditions of reproduction, mating patterns and other kinds of interaction with representative of the same species, competitors and enemies (predators, parasites, etc.), or just neighbors.

Human being can also be an object of such research. It is being studied mostly in its working environment (sea, coal mines, space flight, etc.)

A separate branch of ecology of human being is protection of his environment. In many countries there are special ecological services as well as voluntary environmentalist organizations like Green Peace. Environmentalists struggle with pollution of water reservoirs, air, and soil, as well as for preserving natural forests and fauna. They protest against nuclear weapons testing, fight for banning of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and antipersonnel mines that cripple civilians and animals. They also call for banning of the usage of traps in fur trade, which cause incredible sufferings to animals…

The environmentalist movement deserves highest praise and every possible kind of support. The applied ecological studies of professional activities of man are also very important. But in this book we will try to show that this is not all that the ecology of human being can study.

After all, man is not only his body, but also, and primarily, a consciousness. And he lives not only in close contact with air, water, soil, other people, animals, plants, viruses, and bacteria… He also interacts with non-embodied individual consciousnesses (spirits of people and animals) and — which is the most important of all — with God.

In reality we live in a multidimensional environment. And the material world that we can perceive with our senses is just a small portion of it. Other layers (eons or lokas) of the multidimensional universe usually remain completely out of our perception, although they are filled with life that can see us and which influences us.

This is what we are going to talk about here. And we will see that ecological science has a much broader field of study, than one may think.

What Is Man

In order to be really comprehensive the whole system of knowledge about human being should be based on the premise that man is not his body, but a consciousness, i.e. living energy, capable of self-awareness and that possesses mind and memory. The body is merely a transient habitat for the consciousness. And throughout his evolution every person moves in and out of those habitats, dropping off his old body and entering a new one.

Materialists and followers of primitive religious sects do not believe this. On the other hand, God has been telling us about this through Krishna, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Huang Di, Babaji, Sathya Sai Baba, and numerous other Divine Teachers and prophets.

One may or may not believe in this. A small and weak consciousness, which associates itself with contaminated and sick body, is generally unable to switch from blind faith (or lack of it) to the knowledge. But one can experience this, if one starts to develop oneself as a consciousness. This process is also known as walking the Spiritual Path.

It is this process of development of consciousness, both qualitatively and quantitatively, that constitutes the meaning of man’s life, as well as of lives of all living beings.

But what is this all for, one may ask? The answer is — for the sake of merging with God, and thus enriching Him with oneself. The entire material universe, including our planet and everything on it, exists only for that purpose: to ensure the possibility of development of individual consciousnesses on material mediums.

Evolution of any individual soul starts as follows. On the lattices of growing minerals the processes of formation and growth of the first rudiments of initially diffusive energy (called protopurusha in Sanskrit) begin. Subsequently the tiny amount of energy formed in this way gets incarnated into bodies of plants, where it continues to grow, then it moves into animal bodies and finally into human ones. The soul grows from one incarnation to another.

One can observe some primitive emotional reactions and motor reflexes even in the vegetative forms of life. Evolutionary advanced animals have a wide variety of emotions and feelings and, in some instances, even possess a developed intellect.

At the human stage of evolution, among other things, we have to get an understanding of the fundamental principles of consciousness’ development as well as to take an active part in this process. Unfortunately, the majority of people do not do this, mainly due to philosophical and religious ignorance that currently prevails on our planet.

Multidimensionality of the Universe

In reality, the universal space is multidimensional. Just like sunlight and water co-exist within the same volume, sunlight moving freely through the water with little or no interaction with it, just like radio waves of different frequency ranges are present deep in the space in and out of our bodies — multiple worlds exist everywhere deep inside multidimensional space, in and out of all material objects, be they in solid, liquid or gaseous states. Those worlds are abodes of spirits and God.

The multidimensionality scale is a special scale of energy states, which represent fundamentally different ranges. When studying this scale, the vector of one’s attention should be directed not upward or downward, or in any conventional direction, but inward. Layers of the multidimensional space (eons in Greek or lokas in Sanskrit) are ranged by their subtlety-coarseness.

The plane of the subtlest energies is God in the aspect of the Creator. He is perceived as infinite and purest Light, which is similar to tender and warm sunlight at dawn-time. He is Formless. All forms vanish on this plane.

His Name sounds differently in various languages: God-the-Father, Jehovah, Allah, Ishvara, Primordial Consciousness, Tao, etc. He is the God of Jewish prophets and of Jesus Christ, of Muhammad and of all the faithful ones of China, India and other places, where people have a correct concept of Him. Only those bounded by ignorance or intellectually primitive people can think that different names mean existence of different gods…

That first primordial plane, called the Abode of the Creator, is where the “construction project” of building any islet of the multidimensional Creation is supervised from. Protomatter (protoprakriti, bhutakasha in Sanskrit) — a diffused aggregate of protons, electrons and other elementary particles — is used as a “construction material” for creating solid matter. This layer — when entered by a human consciousness — is perceived from inside as infinite universal space, filled with Peace and Tenderness, though lacking intensive radiance. It could be compared to warm and tender starlit southern night.

An extremely important thing to know is that the Creator and the eons of akasha are somewhat on the other side of a “mirror” relative to the Creation — in the trans-mirror realm, so to say. The universal “mirror” is somewhat like a regular mirror — it has its dark and light sides. The only exception is that this universal “mirror” is not flat, but a “3-dimensional” one (it is hard to find a better word): this trans-mirror realm is on the other side of every molecule of the material world.

This is the phenomenon that physicists have been making conjectures about while trying to peep in their theoretical calculations “through the mirror” from the world of matter. They call the energy of the akasha plane… anti-energy, or anti-matter…

… In order to create another “islet” of matter within the Infinite Ocean of the universe, the Creator creates a zone of increased gravitation localized in space. Astronomers know this phenomenon as black holes. This zone starts to draw in various kinds of cosmic “garbage” — dead planets, meteors, cosmic dust, as well as elementary particles from the protoprakriti plane. Excessive pressure and heating that follow result in reactions of nuclear fusion — in this way all elements of periodic table, as well as molecules, including organic ones, come into existence. Then small lumps of protopurusha start to incarnate into the latter. This constitutes the beginning of concurrent evolution of organic bodies and souls that get incarnated into them. The evolution of organic bodies has been thoroughly studied by biologists — the only “missing link” here that one needs to realize is the guidance of God over the whole process.

Our task as human beings here on Earth consists in, having grown as souls, as consciousnesses, going all the way from the Creation back to the Creator, refining ourselves as consciousnesses — in order to merge into Him, to enrich Him.

This is what the intention of God was, when He created our planet. And this is the purpose of our lives.

It is important for us to realize, that we are not capable of existing on our own. Therefore, we have neither right nor grounds to feel egocentric and to consider ourselves to be more important than other living beings. Since the only being, whose existence does not need to be supported, is the Creator. And He did not launch all His Creation for our sake, but for the sake of His Evolution.

This sheds light on what determines our destinies: if we move in the right direction, then everything goes fine in our daily lives, if not — He brings our attention to this by means of our pain and of what we call “tough luck”.

… In the course of enormous time period (in earthly measures), billions of human bodies and an even greater number of souls of different age and level of development emerged on our planet. Those of them who attain perfection merge with God and do not get incarnated anymore (sometimes they do — but only as Avatars). The rest of the souls have to return to embodied states again and again — until the time period allocated for existence of this particular “islet” of matter is elapsed. When it happens, all matter along with souls that have not attained perfection get disintegrated down to the akasha state to serve as the construction material for creating new worlds of matter and various forms of life in them.

On the opposite from God end of the subtlety scale there is a diabolic eon — a world of coarse black-colored energies, which induces eerie emotional states and is perceived as something “sticky”, like petroleum. The way one gets there we will discuss separately.

Moving up from there one passes through a range of “intermediate” eons, collectively called astral plane^*. Further up there are those planes that some call paradise. After the death of the body a soul ends up in the eon it deserved while living in the embodied state. But we have to reach for the highest and the subtlest eons.

There are eons of prakriti and purusha (see a scheme below), pervaded with the Holy Spirit in His Fire- and Light-like states, respectively, slightly differing by their density.

Apart from these planes of the multidimensional universe there are akasha eons of protoprakriti, protopurusha and the Abode of the Creator.

For us, raised in the atheistic atmosphere and surrounded by religious ignorance, it may be hard, though absolutely necessary, to comprehend that God does not live only up in the sky, on a high mountain, on another planet and so on. He is everywhere in the universe — in the deep — inside and outside our bodies.

And the “stairway” to God does not lead upwards, but inwards. The levels of refinement of the consciousness are its footsteps. And this stairway begins in our spiritual hearts — our anahata chakras.

Everything said above is the result of a thorough research and personal experience of the author of this book and is neither a compilation of other texts nor a reproduction of somebody else’s words. And everyone should make an effort and walk this Path to the end. But it is important to know, that in order to advance one should go up one step at a time, from one “footstep” to another, without jumping over “flights of stairs”.

The Abode of the Creator is separated from the Creation by a three-dimensional Mirror that exists everywhere beneath every material molecule. Jesus said that this Mirror is “thinner than a sheet of the finest paper” [21].

God-the-Father is not in physical heaven; He is everywhere inside and around our bodies, underlying every bit of them. His Abode is extremely close to us! But one cannot get into it just like that!

In order to enter it one has to receive a blessing from Him. But only those who have properly developed themselves in Love, Wisdom, and Power can receive this blessing.

… There is a manifestation of the Primordial Consciousness that one can perceive while being on this side of the Mirror. This is the Divine Fire — the subtlest and tenderest flame-like Light. It is perceived primarily in the core of our planet. Divine Teachers can assume this form when They want to get in contact with us. Among Them are Jesus Christ, Sathya Sai Baba, Babaji, Huang Di, Krishna, Chaitanya, Ptahotep, Surya, Assyris and Others, as well as Those, Who joined this “rank” just recently: Elizabeth Haich, Annie Besant, Juan Matus, Genaro…[5]. They live with the most part of the Consciousness in a permanently dissolved state, merged with the Consciousness of God-the-Father, as His integral elements. But They come to us in order to provide us with models for attunement and to give instructions to Their personal disciples. Like tongues of the Divine Flame (Flame of the Holy Spirit) — They represent the Creator Who manifests Himself in the Creation in this way.

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… The Path to the Abode of the Creator is the Path of gradual refinement of oneself as a consciousness. As the first step it is necessary, as apostle Paul put it, “to avert from what is evil and cling to what is good” [10], which implies leaving company of drunkards, cruel and rude people, learning to see the beauty of living nature and of the true art, making companions on the Spiritual Path one’s friends. First steps in realizing the potential of one’s spiritual heart will be the next stage of acquiring steadfastness in remaining in subtle states. Then one can proceed with cleansing the remaining chakras and major meridians of the body, including chitrini (Brahma-nadi). The successful completion of this process will allow one to find oneself right in the eon of the Holy Spirit upon exiting the body through chitrini and the Pranava meditation will enable one to merge with the Holy Spirit for the first time… In this manner, gradually moving deeper and deeper inside the multidimensional universe, stopping for a while to rest and to settle in the newly discovered states, we can reach the Abode of the Creator, which with time becomes our Home.

Described above is the true Way towards attaining God, as opposed to what sometimes is mistaken for it, i.e. crusades against “infidels” or declaring anathema on some particular otherwise-minded persons or sects, or even on whole nations! Those are ways to the development of devilish qualities, the road to hell.

God

So, we have discussed where one should search for God: one should not search for Him somewhere up in the sky at all, but deep inside the multidimensional universe. And one should begin searching for Him not far in cosmos but in one’s own chest — in one’s spiritual heart (the anahata chakra or the middle dantian).

We have also agreed that the word God (with capital G) in the first place should be interpreted as Primordial Consciousness that dwells in the deepest and the subtlest primary plane of the multidimensional universe. This Primordial Consciousness is One for the whole universe and therefore for all living beings, including people who live on our planet. And the fact that the word God sounds differently in different languages does not mean that there are many Gods or that various nations that inhabit Earth have their own God. The words Sun and Earth too sound quite differently — when spoken by people of various nationalities in their native languages, but it does not mean that people of each country have their own sun or that each nation lives on its own planet.

But still we have not discussed all aspects of the definition of the word God. One may ask: “But what is the meaning of the thesis that God is All, which was proposed by Vedanta?” Or other questions may arise, like “What is Christian Trinity?”, “What is Brahman?”, “Are there planetary Gods-Demiurges?”, “How should I understand the assertion that Jesus, Babaji, Sathya Sai Baba — each of Them — is also God?”, “How can I combine the Vedantic thesis that Brahman is Absolutely All with Krishna’s assertion that there is a yet higher level of the Divine Consciousness — Ishvara or God-the-Father?”… Let us make it perfectly clear.

First of all, we should not regard various pagan deities since they have nothing to do with the ideology of a serious seeker of God. Those deities are what people were fantasizing about before they were given the knowledge about One Universal God. There was plenty of those pseudo-religious fairy-tales in ancient Greece, Rome, India, Arabian countries, and Russia. Let us leave those characters to folklorists to study and continue with serious scientific approach based on experimental study of Truth and information provided directly by God.

So, what is the Absolute? This word means absolutely everything that exists in the universe. And what exists in the multidimensional universe? First of all — it is the Creator Himself. Material constituent of the Creation and consciousnesses of all levels, other than that of the Creator, are just a small part of the Absolute. Furthermore, the Creator pervades the whole Creation with Himself. The Creation, consisting of manifestations of the divine energy in various eons, is like a multidimensional layered pie, in which the primary layer dominates the rest. At the same time this “pie” is a single whole.

There exists only All, One Whole Multidimensional All — this is not only one of the most important themes for meditation, but also an undoubted truth that reflects the Absolute at the macro level.

But we, people, are we integral parts of the Absolute?

The answer is yes and no.

On the one hand, we are like blood-cells in the multidimensional Body of the Absolute: we are negligibly small compared to Him, incapable of separate existence and dependent on Him in everything, although having a certain freedom of movement within His Body.

But on the other hand, from the standpoint of these “cells” as opposed to the Body of the Absolute as Macro-Organism we, as souls, are undoubtedly separate from Him. Moreover, we possess a significant amount of free will, which He granted to us.

The point is that we, having come into existence as separate souls have to return to the state of non-separateness, or non-duality, with God in His “basic” eon.

The thesis that we are originally identical to God and even that we do not have any free will at all, proposed by some, can serve only as a theme for meditation, though quite effective one, that calls upon us to merge with Him.

In reality, the free will is the mechanism of natural “sorting” of people by the ethical criterion: do we observe the rules of life given by God, do we aspire towards mergence with Him in Love? Our destinies form depending on decisions we make in this respect.

The level of our philosophic and religious knowledge and the intensity of our efforts on transforming ourselves in accordance with the Will of God determine our moving from one eon to another, in particular. As it should be clear from everything said above, it depends not on our actions, but on our prevailing emotional status: whether we accustomed ourselves to living in coarse or subtle emotional states.

If we accustomed ourselves to living in the “heavy” and coarse states of malice and hate we are going to share the diabolic “abode” with those who feel the same way.

But if we lived in the subtle and tender states of love — we naturally get into the harmony and purity of paradise.

If we lived a dull life without falling into particularly coarse emotional states but without pronounced subtlety of consciousness, after the death of the body we find ourselves in the “gray” eons.

But not even paradise should be our goal; it should be the Abode of God-the-Father. He told us about that through Krishna, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Babaji, Sathya Sai Baba, and many Others (see [5,7,10]).

In between paradise and the Supreme Abode there is the eon of the Holy Spirit. In order to settle in it, having become the Holy Spirit, one should possess not only subtlety of consciousness, but also Wisdom. One can gain it through increasing the level of one’s erudition, intellectual work, active serving other people with good deeds and persistent aspiration towards cognition of God. (The way one can become one with the Holy Spirit (Brahman) was described in details by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita [10]).

The souls that form the aggregate Consciousness of the Holy Spirit dwell in Him merged into one — in the mutually pervasive state. One should master this state while still living in the human body, in the incarnate state. This is a far superior stage of development of Love, than just caress and tenderness. It also implies fusion of consciousness with the Object of one’s love — merging of consciousness with Consciousness. People have a chance to learn this in a harmonious marriage, although the special techniques that assist in mastering the meditation of total reciprocity play the crucial role in attaining this state.

The embodied man who has learned to merge with the Holy Spirit receives the rank of the Holy Spirit (Brahman).

It should be emphasized, that love of a Brahmanic person is so powerful, that he is able to merge in love not only with a single person, but also with all people who dwell in this eon.

The cosmic function of the Holy Spirit is to supervise the evolution of all souls of lower levels of development. It is the Holy Spirit Who organizes and supervises our destinies. He does it Himself, directly or by calling to assistance numerous spirits that possess various qualities, either “paradisiacal” or “diabolic”.

When we perceive the waves of bliss coming from somewhere in response to our righteous thoughts or actions — this is the Holy Spirit manifesting Himself. In such instances people say that He is granting us His Blessing. Special meditative techniques allow one to get into frequent blissful contacts with the Holy Spirit quite easily.

… In order to clarify the meaning of the word Brahman we need to say a few words about the ancient Indian philosophical system of knowledge called Vedanta. This is important for us since Sathya Sai Baba, an Avatar of modern age, addressing Hindus, educated within the Vedanta tradition, often uses terminology of this particular philosophic school.

The Vedanta philosophy originated in India even before Krishna and was based on the pagan teachings of the four Vedas. At that time Indian people did not know about existence of Ishvara — God-the-Father (i.e. the Creator Who dwells in His Abode). This was the reason why Brahman was considered by the Vedanta philosophy as the Supreme Godhead and even as the Absolute.

It was Krishna Who told people of India about God-the-Father. Later God declared the same Truth through Jesus Christ and Muhammad to the people of Israel and of all modern Christian and Moslem worlds. But people of both India and the Christian world failed to preserve this knowledge about God-the-Father, which exceeded their ability to understand it. They almost completely forgot about His existence, having switched their attention to the ancient fairy-tale characters (in India) or to some deified persons (in Christian sectarian churches) (for more details see [7,9]).

… There is the last question out of those listed in the beginning of this chapter that we have not answered yet, namely: who is the Son, as a member of the Trinity? To know what Jesus Christ Himself thinks of this the reader might want to be referred to The Book of Jesus [21].

In short the answer sounds like this:

There exists God-the-Father — the Supreme Primordial Consciousness — Who dwells in the subtlest eon of the multidimensional universe, on the other side of the Mirror relatively to the multidimensional aggregate of the Creation. He is the Highest Goal for all people.

His primary Manifestation, the Representative, an active Manager and Supervisor of all life on any populated planed is the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes God-the-Father manifests Parts of Himself through a human body. Those Parts are people who attained Him in the past. In various languages They are called Messiahs, Christs, Avatars, etc.

In other words the Trinity, in Bhagavad-Gita’s terms, is — Ishvara, Brahman, and Avatar.

But, as Jesus Himself explains [21], the term Son is not at all felicitous, since everyone should learn to see God as their Father (Mother) and themselves as His Son or His Daughter.

This is what Jesus meant when He was referring to Himself as a Son of His Father-God. But people did not understand Him then, neither do they now…

God — and Us

God is not at all an invisible flying person, as some primitive religious sects often depict Him. God is a Universal Ocean of Consciousness. What size is He? Can we imagine the distance of one light year? This is an astronomical space measure equal to the distance that light covers in one year in earthly time measures. Astronomers discovered cosmic objects located at a distance of billions of light years. But God is still larger, for the universe is infinite. He is infinitely large.

Whatever large we consider our planet to be, when we walk, tired, across its surface or fly around it, Earth is negligibly small compared to the Greatness of the Ocean of the God’s Consciousness.

Earth is just one of the countless islets of matter, created by Him within the Ocean. Here on Earth, as on many other planets in the universe, the conditions, favorable for life and evolution of organic bodies, developed. It is in the bodies of plants, animals, and humans that the evolution of the Universal Consciousness takes place. Every one of us, people, is a lump of energy of consciousness, which has gone through the stages of its evolution that took place in the bodies of plants and animals and at the present human stage has to make vigorous efforts on self-perfection.

We should try hard to become worthy and capable of “plunging” into the Abode of the Creator and of merging with Him. Then we will attain the ultimate Peace in the Supreme Bliss of Eternal Oneness with Him, of Being Him.

He has been reminding us about this goal over and over again by incarnating parts of Himself into the bodies of Avatars (Messiahs, Christs). But the majority of people have always been unable to comprehend this Truth and to keep it in memory. They always tend to forget about, distort, and pervert the Teachings of God that He grants to us. This is how various religious sects emerge [7,16,34].

… The lifetime of each planet — of that “islet” of matter in the infinite Ocean of God — is limited to a certain period of time. When this period ends the “islet” experiences its individual end of the world. Those consciousnesses (souls) that failed to reach the Union with God or at least to approach Him closely enough by that time get destroyed, disintegrated. But those who have attained the state of Mergence enrich Him with themselves, thus they completely realize the meaning of their lives and their love for God in Mergence with Him.

The Meaning of Human Life

The question of the meaning of one’s life gets inevitably raised before any person who matures in his or her development, moving up from the instinctive-reflexive stage to the really human one, at which intellect begins to dominate in choosing one’s way of living and conduct.

Many philosophers have been racking their brains over this question. But the majority of them were not able to comprehend the true God’s philosophy, while perverted conceptions created by numerous sects could not satisfy them. As a result the question about the meaning of human life was “declared” by many philosophers to be a “pseudo-question”, i.e. the one that cannot be answered by its own nature. This atheistic concept assumed, in fact, that man is not dramatically different from animals and the objective meaning of his existence on Earth is just… reproduction, ensuring the survival of the human race and creation of material values for the descendants. Therefore no spiritual efforts are necessary, and ethics in relationships with other leaving beings can be neglected…

“What’s our life? — A game… Good, evil — only dreams… Work, honesty — just tales for the females…”^* And suicide “when the time comes” is the only right move for those worthy of respect …

But the Truth is that there is the meaning of human life.

It consists in development of consciousness: both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Qualitative development consists in intellectual and ethical perfection, as well as in refining of consciousness. Quantitative aspect implies a direct increase of the amount of the refined energy of consciousness.

The latter reflects, among other things, the level of so-called personal power — the psychoenergetic might of the particular individual consciousness that depends on the quantity of the energy of consciousness, or in other words on the size of soul.

According to this quantitative criterion God classifies souls into “small” and “large” ones [9]. But regardless of this classification each of them can possess both positive and negative properties. God calls the “small” souls that have developed negative properties demoniac ones; if in addition to this they have accumulated significant amount of personal power they are considered diabolic, or devils. They could be encountered either in embodied or non-embodied form. Hell is their abode while they are in the non-embodied state; when they do get embodied — this takes place in “hellish” conditions, where they will be experiencing the results of their bad karma (the fate they created for themselves). In this way God suggests that they experience what the pain, which they were causing to other living beings, is like. He does this in order to help them to become better, to make it urgent for them to think about their ways, about the meaning of human life, about God and the Path to Him…

But those people who develop in the right direction at increasing speed rush into the embrace of their beloved God; their lives become filled more and more with Divine happiness and exultation of Divine Love.

So, what does God want us to become, specifically?

Destiny and Its Correction

Living in our physical bodies we ordinarily think that we can be left “alone”, that we can have secrets, which “nobody is ever going to know”. But in reality this is our naïve illusion. It is because with our bodily eyes we can see only the bodies of other incarnated people, from whom we can really conceal or hide something.

In reality we are literally naked before the eyes of God and numerous spirits. They not only watch our activities, hear us speaking, perceive our emotions, but also know all our thoughts.

There is no way for us to stay absolutely invisible to all. When we are having sex in any variation — we are being watched, too. In a desert, in the woods or on a tiny island in the ocean — day and night — we can be seen by God and by many non-embodied beings. Even if we lock ourselves sitting in a water closet we will still be visible to them — from all around and even from within. Neither clothes, nor any other kind of covering can be the obstacle that could prevent them from seeing us.

In light of the above said the following meditative theme could be very effectively used: “I am on the palm of God.” If we see ourselves as being always before His eyes it will make it easier for us to cleanse ourselves of impurities, to get rid of all that is unnecessary.

… But they (God and spirits), while being invisible to us, can influence us in various ways.

In particular, they can easily affect our emotions, especially if we do not have sufficient control over our emotional sphere. For instance we can be easily directed into falling in love or, in the same manner, in growing suddenly bored with someone. Or walking down the street we may suddenly “feel like” stopping, turning right or left, or increasing our pace …and there…

Or a thought may “occur” to us. And we readily take this thought for our own.

Or by stimulating our brain they can make us lose balance, slip, fall down or hurt ourselves. Or miss when shooting.

And if a criminal attacks me and injures me in some way — it is not only because he is a fierce and malicious hell-bound primitive, but also because God has led him to me in this situation.

It should be noted here that the more primitive intellectually people are, the easier it is to manipulate them: they do not have steadfast ethical principles of their own, thus they show no resistance to manipulation.

Animals can be manipulated even more easily. So, if a dog bites someone — it was not just the dog’s intention.

God and spirits can control people and animals. But they can exert influence over inanimate objects as well. A bullet can be deflected from its trajectory, if needed, and a bomb, a shell or a grenade can be prevented from going off, a fire can be made to go out. And vice versa — fire, water, or anything else can appear out of the blue in unexpected place and at unexpected time. The evidence of that are various poltergeist phenomena as well as the miracles that Messiahs perform not only around the places where Their bodies are but also at any distance. Currently this is demonstrated by Sathya Sai Baba [5,7,10], David Copperfield [9], and Anastasia [22].

Upon realization that God is present everywhere and that He is omnipotent we need to learn to see that no external powers can do any harm to us, unless it complies with the God’s will. (All spirits are also supervised by Him). And if something unpleasant does happen to us, we should search ourselves for the cause of it — our deeds and mistakes: either recent or those of remote past.

… We have previously mentioned that God created His entire Creation not at all for the sake of us, humans, but for Himself. We, humans, are not at all capable of existing independently. And we are not objectively separated from God. On the contrary — we are in Him, and our separateness is nothing but a silly illusion, which is the cause of all our adversities and misfortunes.

We are totally dependent on Him. He shepherds us as His flock, sending us to the “pastures” of Earth to develop and to mature. Here, in close interaction with our peers and objects of material world we acquire and strengthen our personal qualities, whether good or bad.

We need to learn to see, to hear and to obey our Pastor, as well as to love Him. Some people take delight in learning this, while others keep trying to hide from Him, pretending that it is not Him Who exists, but they do — being strong and all-around nice.

The humble, kind, loving and intelligent — them He nurtures with caress, draws near and lets in Himself fast.

The rest have to keep coming back by accepting births in new bodies. In between the incarnations they live among similar souls for a long time — in the states of consciousness they accustomed themselves to while living on Earth.

God never stops caring about us — up to the very end of the world — constantly reminding us about Himself through His Messiahs and prophets, as well as through holy scriptures. He also shows us what it is like — to be malicious, lying, mean, covetous of somebody else’s property — by subjecting us to attacks of criminals or fierce animals… By this He wants to explain to us what pain, fear, the other people’s anger, being robbed are like … — to teach us to never do these things to others. People call it the law of karma — the law of cause and effect in formation of our destinies. He will continue to “strike” us until we rid ourselves of our vices, until we become what He wants us to be — gentle, caring, altruistic, absolutely honest, free from self-importance and arrogance, not capable of being angry, of using violence — except for those cases when we are protecting good people from somebody else’s cruel violence.

He is Love. In order to merge into Him or even to approach Him we have to become Love as well.

But what is Love? So few people understand what this word means! Love is primarily emotional states. What is principal and the most precious about these states — is subtle tenderness accompanied by the inner Peace. And also — caring attention, benevolence, esteem, respect, gratitude, and so on. Emotions are not the same as thoughts, mimics, behavioral reactions or electrical processes in the brain. Emotions are not at all generated by the brain, as materialistic physiologists hold. Emotions appear in the chest, in the neck or in the belly. They are generated in specialized emotiogenic structures — chakras.

Variations of Love, listed above, are generated by anahata chakra, located in the chest. In fact, they are known only to the people whose anahata is developed and properly functioning. For the rest of people tenderness, benevolence, etc. are just words, devoid of any emotional content. And if a person lives without ever experiencing “cordial” love — that means that he lives “far off” from God and has little chance of spiritual success, of cognizing God and His Love or even of getting to paradise as yet.

Love and Peace are the two states, living in which we have a chance of rapid spiritual advancement, of getting closer to God. Various kinds of anger (hate, fury, irritation, condemnation, jealousy, discontent, etc.) and fear — those are the states, which lead us in the opposite direction from God — to hell. These two pairs of emotional states are opposite and mutually exclusive.

Learning to feel anger and fear is simple. Almost everyone can feel them. In Russia leaders of the Communist Party over decades were successfully instilling them in people; now it seems that Russian fascists and mystics with schizophrenic and paranoiac tendencies took the baton. The entire situation in our country — economic chaos, salaries holdbacks, criminal outburst, alcoholism, welcoming violence and fear in movies — all this greatly makes for skyrocketing of the number of Russians that are going to beef up the diabolic eon.

But do we really want to go there? How can we confront the evil that is drawing us to hell? By hating those who “staged all this”? This would be the simplest — and the most foolish — decision! It is this decision that will ensure us not only bad karma for this and the following incarnations, but also abiding in hell in between them.

The conditions each of us is in now are the karmic consequences of our past lives, which were devoid of spiritual aspiration. Do we want our future to be even worse?

Only Love and Peace — if we feel them regardless of circumstances — can lead us to a favorable fate, to paradise and to God.

But how can we learn to always feel Love and Peace?

The first way that God has been suggesting from the old times is harmonious sexual love — love that is free of passion, lust (selfish desire) and jealousy, love based on mutual respect, on giving the whole of oneself to the partner, acting for the sake of overall harmony and not only for the sake of one’s own good.

The second method is fostering children — in the atmosphere of harmony and happiness.

The third is harmonious contacts with living nature.

The fourth is spiritual art. In particular, the art, which in the first place contributes to developing Love and Peace within us.

The fifth is visiting churches and temples, where harmonious collective meditations, which make for development of Love, are practiced.

In addition to this there are special esoteric methods of self-perfection, where the development of the anahata chakra — the main organ responsible for generation of the emotions of love — should be of paramount importance. The next stages include methods of refinement of consciousness, of cognizing first the Holy Spirit and then God-the-Father.

… Over the course of our personal evolution we, as souls, or consciousness, have developed some individual qualities, also called character (or personality) traits. These traits can be both good and vicious.

Among our vices can be tendencies to be aggressive, angry, violent, sarcastic, arrogant, greedy, selfish, boring, untruthful, rude, tactless, etc. One can have less harmful but still unpleasant for surrounding people traits like bad habits of biting one’s nails, trembling one’s knees while sitting at the table, sniffing, using obscene language or just talking a lot or in a loud voice. The absence of some positive traits can also be considered as a vice, for example, the absence of inner peace, absence of the ability to love sincerely and tenderly, lack of fidelity and reliability in relationships with other people, lack of faith in the existence of God, absence of aspiration for spiritual Perfection and of sincere willingness to help other people in everything that is good.

How can one fight one’s vices? Recommendations differ depending on the situation. Sometimes the mere realization of the viciousness of some of our actions is enough to break this particular behavioral pattern. For example, the author of this book quitted smoking, drinking alcohol, and eating bodies of killed animals as soon as he realized that God and the meaning of life do exist, that eating animal corpses is not a necessity for us but it only serves to satisfy our cruel whim of gluttony.

In other words, there are vices of ignorance — and they disappear easily in the light of knowledge.

But there are vicious traits like habitual lying or constantly being irritated, angry or bored, as well as arrogance, greediness, selfishness, cowardice, etc. that cannot be eliminated overnight. It takes certain intellectual efforts to overcome them — efforts on understanding their vicious nature, on developing new correct patterns of thinking, emotional reacting, and conduct. Reading serious religious books, some psychoenergetic methods like tuning up the system of one’s chakras and serious penitential efforts could be of great help here.

Now let us discuss the nature of repentance: what its meaning and mechanism are.

Degenerated religions, too, may have the practice of repentance, but it lost its effectiveness there. The reason is that those religions lost the understanding of the true relationships between man and God. They picture God as some kind of a terrifying judge who, for some reason, examines people for sins, of which they have not repented yet, and then sends them on this basis either to paradise or to hell to abide there eternally. According to them, the saving “repentance” consists in duly informing the local “pastor” of the particular sect of the sins one has committed. Then the pastor would “remit the sins” and thus save one from hell. In other words, it is perfectly fine to sin. Since everyone does. If one does not sin, they say — one may become proud of one’s righteousness and this would be the most deadly sin. Therefore, one may sin as long as one keeps coming for saving confession.

Intelligent people clearly see that this “repentance method” is but a means of intimidating the congregation, a method of forcing people to visit churches and temples and to pay “voluntary contributions” to support the “pastors”.

In the context this book it should be interesting for us to find out what allowed to fix this absurd scheme of repentance theoretically. The point is that the concepts of those “Christian” sects have lost the knowledge about God-the-Father, Who waits for us to merge back into Him — after we have become all that we can be: perfect, Godlike. This implies that the meaning of repentance is not at all simply “reporting” one’s sins to a priest and thus escaping hell, but complete elimination of one’s vices as qualities of the soul in order to become Pure Love, like God, and upon gaining Wisdom and Power to merge into Him forever, to become a part of Him. In other words we have to prepare ourselves as a worthy gift to God, as a gift of our Love for Him, as a Holy Offering. And this Offering must be Divinely pure.

It must be perfectly clear for us now that regardless of how many times we have “reported” and “apologized” for our sins this practice will neither save us from going to hell nor bring us any closer to paradise and to God, as long as we keep on living in emotionally coarse states!

… The primary mechanism of repentance consists in feeling a deep remorse about the transgressions that we have already committed. Any harm to any living being that we do either out of self-interest or negligence, or due to our bad temper — this is the main type of sins that we commit. We harm others not only by our evil deeds or words, but also by our negative emotions. Moreover, every time we exit of the state of love we not only alienate ourselves from God but also contaminate the space of the Absolute with the energies of our bad emotional states. And God points out to us that even these our states are sins and that they lead to accumulation of bad karma.

Our sins can be pictured as beads stringed on the threads of our bad traits, or vices. In order to get rid of vices we need to recall all the situations where each of them was manifested, to try to feel all the pain that we caused to the other living being and, having repented that we did it, to mentally re-construct this situation in the correct way. It is using this method that we can destroy our wrong behavioral and thinking stereotypes and prepare in advance the patterns of ethically correct decisions.

… Truth (i.e. the correct understanding of what God, man and Evolution are) — Simplicity — Love — Karma yoga (serving God through serving other people in everything that is good) — Abandonment of one’s lower self for the sake of merging with the Higher Self of God — this is the scheme of spiritual work that was offered to people by Avatar Babaji. Transforming ourselves in the way preferable by God we change our lives in the future, filling them with more opportunities for spiritual growth and advancement, making them happier, getting closer to the Ultimate Goal of our personal evolution — the Bliss of Merging with God-the-Father.

Love, Wisdom, and Power

Once God explained to me that His main qualities are Love, Wisdom and Power. This is why those who aspire to merge with Him should develop themselves according to these three fundamental parameters [9]. Many years later the same words came to us from God through The Book of Jesus [21].

Mastering each of the mentioned qualities of God is possible both in the course of “ordinary” life, provided that it is inspired by the right aspiration, and by means of special psychoenergetic methods.

Jesus taught and is continuing to teach the same [10].

Our great Contemporary — Messiah Sathya Sai Baba — is giving detailed explanations of the same principles for the modern people [5,7,10, 28-30 and other].

Invaluable advice on bringing oneself up to the highest ethical standards can also be found in lessons of other Teachers, Who attained God, such as Juan Matus, Rajneesh, and others [10].

… So, we should start developing the ethical aspect with studying what God wants us to be in this respect, with tracing our vices and eliminating them, through repentance, in particular, and with cultivating positive qualities. And for those who advance boldly on this Path, who aspire towards practical cognition of God and are full of sincere Love for Him, the crucial stage of their ethical self-correction (in terms of controlling one’s emotions) will be trainings on psychic self-regulation. These trainings begin with acquiring proficiency in shifting the concentration of consciousness from one chakra to another. Since chakras are the organs, responsible for the generation of emotions and other psychic states.

For instance, anahata chakra (the spiritual heart)^* is the organ that generates emotion of cordial love. Therefore, if we have purified and developed this energetic structure by special exercises, the mere entering it with concentration of consciousness will be enough to get us out of states of fatigue, irritation and anxiety and into the light and pure states of love and tranquility. Those who practice such methods notice that people’s attitude towards them starts to change gradually. We begin to create favorable energy fields for those around us, which makes people feel better. They find communicating with us easier and more pleasant; so the change in the attitude follows.

If we need a burst of energy for some activity, then we will find a well functioning manipura chakra or even the whole set of the three lower chakras (the structure also known as hara) very helpful.

Mental activity cannot be effective if chakras located in the head are impure and undeveloped…

The condition of chakras directly impacts functioning of the organs located in the corresponding parts of the body. The mere cleansing of the corresponding chakras can easily cure many chronic diseases.

… Development of the Wisdom aspect includes two main stages.

The first one is accumulation of knowledge and development of one’s thinking abilities. Ability to discern false teachings and concepts from the true ones and creative abilities of one’s intellect (i.e. the ability to find fresh decisions, ingenuity in small as well as in big matters) indicate a high level of its development. Studying in various educational institutions, reading books, intellectual games, intellectual efforts in scientific, professional, and educational activities — all of this contribute to positive evolution of human souls.

Engaging in a serious religious practice without developed intellect is extremely dangerous. In this case it is very easy to get under influence of false and destructive concepts like those, for example, which assert that drinking own urine in great quantities makes for spiritual progress of a person or that Liberation can be achieved by casting off all ethical norms and through “spontaneity” of behavioral reactions. These people cannot distinguish between love — and lust, tenderness — and sugariness, subtlety — and coarseness, God — and devil. They take voices of demons and devils for God’s voice and surrender to them in their actions, they take great delight in possessing and using what they call their personal power, while being attuned in fact to the diabolic coarseness. Psychoenergetic work is not for the mentally weak. Their task for the time being is self-improvement through service, strengthening of their faith, ethical self-correction and through accumulation of knowledge.

The second stage of development of the Wisdom aspect relates to real exploration of multidimensional space by the consciousness of the seeker and cognizing of the consciousness that dwells there, including the Consciousness of the Creator. This process leads to a gradual displacement of original human egocentrism with God-centrism. The most profound Wisdom can possibly be achieved by an embodied man through the ability to see the phenomena of the material world with God’s eyes, literally “from God”, instead of seeing them from one’s small self attached to one’s body, as it is the case with almost all people.

“Fix your mind on Me,” God teaches us in the Bhagavad Gita [10]. In other words, we should first try to gain an understanding of what God is and what role we play in the Creation in light of the fact that He exists. If we succeed in this, then through special spiritual practices we can gain the ability to submerge ourselves as consciousnesses into Him, to get closer to the full and final Mergence with Him.

The ability to control the orientation of the mind and consciousness — as opposed to mere reflexive reacting to the stimuli coming from outside or inside the body — too, cannot be gained without special psychoenergetic training. I am talking about working with indriyas.

Indriyas is a Sanskrit term. It denotes “tentacles” of consciousness.

“Ordinary” secular embodied man is not the master of the body that he lives in. Rather, he is its slave. He is attached to it just like a driver that has been handcuffed tightly to the steering wheel and chained to the seat for a long time is attached to his car. The “cars” differ from one person to another — someone’s is new and well functioning, whereas another one’s may be decrepit and falling apart. A person, as consciousness, is usually “stuck” in one chakra, which is often contaminated and not functioning properly, and moves to some other one (if at all) not voluntarily, but only when he is forced to by the needs of the body: when it hurts somewhere or there is a sort of sinking or pleasant sensation somewhere else… Man looks out of this “vehicle” only through his senses: vision, hearing, smell, etc. At that, he stretches the “tentacles” of consciousness through his sense organs, as it were.

We can watch ourselves, for example. Here I am, listening to the radio. My indriyas are stretching from my ears to the radio set. But suddenly the phone rings. I instantly shift my indriyas to it, having taken them off the radio set. Now they are on the phone and there is no radio to me anymore.

We also stretch our indriyas through our mind to objects or to people, when we think about them. Sensitive people can perceive or even see other people’s indriyas directed at them or at someone else with clairvoyance. Depending on the emotional state of the sender, his or her indriyas may have a favorable, neutral, unpleasant, or even pathogenic impact on the object. The latter phenomenon is called the evil eye: if an unkindly and at the same time psychoenergetically strong person touches someone with his indriyas, he infuses the energy of his bad emotions into that someone and that one starts to feel bad or may even get sick as a consequence.

Let us make the following conclusion out of this: our emotional state, especially if we already possess some amount of personal power — is not only our personal business anymore. We need to remember that we can do considerable harm to others with our bad emotions, even involuntarily. On the other hand, we can help others, heal them, in particular, if we send our love to them.

… As a person develops himself as consciousness in the right direction, he gradually frees himself from the fetters that chain him to his body. First, he becomes capable of moving freely with concentration of consciousness within his own body from one chakra or major meridian to another and acquires the ability to rid his body of various impurities. All this dramatically improves his health. After that, it becomes feasible to him to move outside the body, to grow in size as consciousness, to develop personal power, which allows him to move from one eon to another, thus exploring the multidimensional nature of the universe.

A developed consciousness, which has moved out of the body, can be compared to an amoeba, which stretches its indriyas freely without the aid of the sense organs of the body to objects and draws itself to them. As we progress in refining our consciousness we become able to enter into more subtle eons in this manner — up to the Abode of the Primordial Consciousness, the Consciousness of God-the-Father.

… Man’s personal power is not the power of the body, but that of the consciousness. It may become either diabolic or Divine — depending on which direction man is following in his personal development. And this in its turn is determined by what emotional states he got himself accustomed to.

Correct development of the personal power cannot be achieved unless one keeps one’s body healthy and active. Therefore, physical work, athletic workouts, physical conditioning, and proper nutrition are very important, especially if they are cultivated from the childhood. The body has to become strong and healthy in order to make one really capable of high spiritual achievements.

The energy structure necessary for intensive growth of the individual consciousness is a set of the three lower chakras — this is called hara (or lower dantian). But it would be a gross mistake if one starts spiritual work with development of this structure, since gaining personal power before having developed anahata chakra and without being profoundly adequate from the ethical standpoint can tempt one into cultivating one’s ethical vices. In this case psychoenergetic training, instead of bringing one a great benefit, will do tremendous harm to one.

This is why development of the spiritual heart (anahata chakra, or the middle dantian) should be given priority in psychoenergetic work, especially in the beginning of the spiritual Path. The ability to look at the world from anahata and to preserve this state even in the extreme situations should be used as the criteria that a disciple can be taught methods of increasing the power of consciousness.

What Is Love

Love has multiple aspects. It manifests Itself as care, tenderness, devotion, self-sacrifice, active service to God, which is realized through service to other people called karma yoga (work not for reward, but in order to please God), and in many other ways.

But the “foundation” of love is constant staying with the consciousness in anahata, transforming oneself as consciousness — through this — into constant emotion of love that is being radiated on all people, all living beings. One of the principal manifestations of love is tenderness, including the sexual aspect of it. It should be noted here, that the ethically correct sexual life directly contributes to developing one’s ability to love.

God is Love. If we want to Merge with Him, we have to transform ourselves into Love as well — into consciousness, constantly living in the state of Godlike Love. This is when we become those disciples of God whom He grants all other aspects of wisdom and then accepts in Himself. This is the principal pre-condition to one’s ability to walk the Straight Path to Him.

But those, who oppose love — oppose God.

Upon developing his spiritual heart, a follower of the Straight Path learns how to expand it beyond the bounds of his body — first, for several meters, then filling entire Earth with it and then — even wider. This is the optimal way of breaking the identification with the body and also the correct way of growing individual consciousness and of gaining experience of being and acting without the body while it is still alive.

The person that has developed himself up to such a level, sheds all attachment to his body and does not fear death anymore: since he finds out that now it does not matter to him whether he has the body or not. He is sure that death of the body will spare him the unnecessary earthly trouble. For such a hero, the moment approaches when the Creator will reveal Himself to him and let him in His Abode.

Love for People

Love can and should be expressed in both emotions and actions.

We talked about the emotional love already and will continue to talk about it below. Here we will just reiterate, making a special emphasis, that developing love in oneself is a major method of spiritual self-perfection. This is the method by which we transform ourselves (as consciousness) into Godlike Love first and then into Divine Love, uniting and merging with God.

This love should not be confused with lust — selfish sexual passion. It is not the same as sugariness — a travesty of love, something, which takes place when one is attempting to demonstrate love when one’s spiritual heart is void of this emotion. Another sign of true love is a lack of elements of violence and compulsion in it. Otherwise it is not love anymore, but constraint, rape. Love is subtle, tender, and free from egotism and egocentrism. It rests on caring about the other, not oneself. Maturing of love should be based on the true knowledge of God and of the meaning of human life.

As this love accumulates knowledge and experience, it becomes wise.

As it develops in helping others, including fighting for their good, and also by means of practicing special meditative techniques — it becomes strong.

Love, Wisdom and Power — these are three qualities of God. Those who have mastered them up to the Divine level infuse easily into the Consciousness of God-the-Father, thus completing their evolution in the human form. After that they continue to exist in the capacity of an active Part of God-the-Father.

But one cannot walk this Path to Divinity to the end just by thinking about It. This is a long and difficult work on transforming oneself. This work can be compared to the work of the athlete who spends many years in persistent and exhausting trainings in order to bring his body to perfection. But work with consciousness is much more difficult. In this work, just like in athletics, the person, as a rule, cannot achieve serious results without the help from an instructor. On the Spiritual Path this can be either an embodied Guru — a person who has already walked the entire Path (or the most part of It) and knows personally the Goal of the Path. Or God Himself may become one’s Guru, like it was the case in my life [9].

Karma yoga is a universal method of self-development on the Path to Perfection, which God constantly suggests to us. This is a way of perfecting oneself trough service to God, which is carried out by helping people in their evolution. This can be the sharing spiritual knowledge with them or teaching them reading and writing, working in scientific, pedagogic, or medicine field, practicing art or buildings homes, manufacturing clothing or producing food, trading or protecting people from various criminal scum — the dregs of the Evolution. What is important about this is that every kind of activity should be performed not for reward, not selfishly, but for the sake of helping people to advance in the direction of Perfection, including supporting their existence on Earth, in this School of God.

This principle of karma yoga does not necessarily imply that work should be unpaid — this would be absurd. But those who received help as a gift must think about giving something back. People who do not respond to gifts with gifts are considered thieves [10].

It should be noted here that activities that cause harm to people are not karma yoga and cannot be considered righteous. These are, for example, production and distribution of alcoholic drinks, tobacco products and other psychedelic substances, taking part in aggressive wars, preaching any type of hate and aggressiveness, promoting fear, killing animals for using their bodies for food or for utilizing the skin torn of their bodies, unnecessary destruction of plants, etc. In other words, karma yoga implies helping people only in what is good.

Love for Nature

Contacts with living nature are essential for spiritual growth. Retreats to the forest or to other natural landscapes are one of the important ways of “exposing” oneself to God so that He could teach us more effectively. “In forests seek My instructions!” [20: Leaves of the Moria’s Garden. Call]. This is where one can expand oneself as consciousness over the harmony of the environment — in contrast to “sitting” in one’s head chakras while living in the city, “feeding” oneself with information about people’s worldly desires and getting polluted by energies of their negative emotions^*.

Although cities, being big cultural centers, are also necessary: there are libraries, as well as other excellent opportunities for intellectual development. It is also easier to find like-minded people and partners on the spiritual Path there.

It is also beneficial to expose one’s body to sunlight, especially in the morning when it is particularly tender. This light exists not only on the material plane, but also penetrates other — the subtlest — dimensions inside our multidimensional organisms, reviving them, filling them with its pure power.

It is good for people who live at high latitudes to have “artificial suns” — quartz lamp — and to have periodic sun-baths at home. This is also a wonderful remedy for various diseases. For example, exposure to the ultra-violet radiation can easily cure catarrhal infections, if performed right after appearing of their first symptoms. Light burns on the chest and the back made with a quartz lamp — where mustard plasters are usually applied — make cough go away quickly.

Summer and autumn is the time for collection and storing of mushrooms and wild berries, which are very important components of pure nutrition.

Any time of the year meditations can be performed at special places of power — zones that have significant energetic impact on human beings. They are very different and can be used depending on this for healing oneself, for talking to God, for refining the consciousness, for increasing personal psychoenergetic power or for dissolving oneself in God and Merging with Him.

…Early spring morning is the time when nature confers on us the greatest harmony and bliss — when birds start singing even before dawn and the entire space around us gets saturated with the energy of their love. Attuning to their state allows us to get closer to God and constitutes attainment of a certain level of refinement of consciousness.

Those who like to sleep until late have much fewer opportunities for spiritual advancement.

… Sunset time in spring also provides a wide variety of the subtlest impressions. During this time the singing of birds gets superimposed against the background of sublime silence and harmony. The energy of consciousness “spills” out from the body by itself and expands over the forest saturated with bliss, filling it and merging with it. In this way the consciousness becomes more mobile, more fluid and established in harmony and inner purity.

… But at any other time of the year a morning or an evening spent in the forest or by the water reminds us of the spring dawn or dusk times. They are very important for those who have learned to deeply feel the beauty of spring.

… Nature also consists of a multitude of living beings: animals, plants, which, as a rule, are more refined as consciousness and enjoy incomparably greater inner peace than most people. Average modern person has to come a long way in order to attain their level of Love and Peace before he can say that he started to develop spiritually.

Moreover, only at open natural landscapes — in contrast to “boxes” of city apartments and “corridors” of streets — is it possible to expand, to open wide refined consciousness in order to literally grow its size.

… Let me repeat that emotions are states of consciousness. And consciousness is what we are. Depending on what states of consciousness we experience — we can be closer or farther from the Creator. God in the aspect of the Creator is the highest degree of refinement of energy of consciousness. Is it clear to us now, which direction we should move regarding development of our emotional sphere?

… Very few people have witnessed what is going on at a display ground of black-grouse in spring, when pre-dawn mist gets filled with loud ecstatic singing of those big, beautiful, and passionate birds. But the majority of those, who have been there, were cutting short those beautiful songs of love with gunshots, pain, blood, and death… And enjoying themselves with voluptuousness of sadist-murderers.

Raised in tradition of having a “right” to kill animals, not having absolute inner taboo against inflicting any suffering on other living beings, atheists, as well as members of mass sects in our country, easily switch to mass killings of people. We still remember, for example, alcoholic and drug-addict Brezhnev with his convives-hunters, who launched aggressive military campaign in Afghanistan… Was it not a similar company of lovers of other’s pain and blood that with a blessing from the Orthodox Church started massacre during the first of two recent “Chechen” wars? Genocide of Chechen people was commenced just because those people did not resigned to Russian conquest and attempted to break free from the Russian yoke…

… In spring evenings, after the sunset, when twilight is enveloping the forest, male woodcocks fly smoothly over glades, forest openings and lakeshores overgrown with shrubs. Their song, consisting of beautiful, soul-touching tender “grunting”, sends to us waves of love emotions of those lovely birds. In the shrubs, over which the males fly, sit female woodcocks — choosing the one, who sings the best… Here — this one! She flashes to show herself to him… He rushes after her, seized by passion of bird’s love… And then they spend the night together. In the morning they fly apart, having become tired of each other… — to look for new adventures and new friends at the next sunset…

Mysterious beauty of a big curlew’s song, wafting to our ears from the nearest swamp, “celestial bleat” of a snipe, performing courtship ritual high in the sky with vibrating tail feathers, songs of robins and thrushes, all-night rumbling of frogs in puddles, flashing of spawning fish in the reeds, smell of a fire, swimming in a forest lake with first rays of the sun and then — puffs of steam coming from wet and blissful naked bodies, exultation of souls, “exploding” from overflowing with joy of love for God and for every living creature — this is the emotional base that God wants us to have so that we could develop faster and more effectively in His direction!

… Plants are living beings, too. Souls live in their bodies, like we do inside ours. Usually — these are the souls of vegetative, i.e. “rudimentary”, stage of development. Although I know of several humans-trees, which are quite developed, large and strong human souls. But those people did not attain the required degree of Peace during their past incarnations — and God, in order to help them become better, embodied them into trees: so that they could calm down, become quiet after several hundred years of living as a plant.

It is easy to communicate with such people-trees on the emotional and even on the mental level. They get strongly “attached” to people, who are capable of understanding them, they get sad if no one visits them for a long time. When someone comes to see them — these plants meet them with joy, which is sometimes mixed with pain…

… What is Peace then? Doing nothing? Living a lazy life? A sleepy inertia? No! Peace is the absence of emotional agitation and restless thoughts. It is possible to perform physical, mental or meditative work fast and for a long time while experiencing inner peace. It goes hand by hand with energetic way of living. Maintaining inner peace allows one not to waste one’s energy in vain. Every kind of activity performed with inner peace as a background is done more efficiently. But what is the most important is that it allows one to maintain contact with God, to be guided by Him and thus to avoid making many mistakes. In other words, it is conducive for positive evolution of man. But restlessness leads to increasing of one’s isolation from God and to cultivation of one’s lower self. This is a drag on progress.

… All ordinary plants are capable of perceiving human emotions. This was proven by many scientists of various countries, which discovered changes of electric parameters of plants in response to emotions of people (see [9] for more information).

Once, long after I switched to the cruelty-free diet, I was working in a forestry on sanitary thinning-out of woods. In the beginning of my work I thought about it as of something useful, in general, and even enjoyed cutting “superfluous” trees — so that the rest of them had more space for living. But at some point, when I attained greater sensitivity, feeling the pain of those creatures, being cut down by my axe, became unbearable to me and I quitted this job promptly.

Sure, we cannot live without eating plants. We inevitably use their bodies in construction and as firewood. And it does not make sense to wait until a tree grows old, falls down, and starts to decay; this is why it is “mature” trees that are cut down.

But one must not kill plants unnecessarily, or thrust a knife or an axe into a tree just for fun, or cut green branches without absolute necessity, or “mechanically” pluck and throw down leaves from trees, grass blades or flowers. Disrespectful attitude towards food is equally inadmissible: since food was made of bodies of living beings that died for our sake. Throwing out food — even when one eats only plants — is also a sin, it is a sin of unnecessary killing. And absolutely absurd from ethical standpoint are those “ritual” killings of millions of fir-trees and pine-trees before Christmas and New Year, as well as picking flowers in order to put them in a vase and then admire their dying…

It is important that the reader does not start trying to remember now: this is allowed and that is — not… What is important now is not “to learn by heart” certain “rules”, but to realize and accept the ethical principles of compassion for the others’ pain and respect for the others’ lives.

And those who do not understand or accept this — should not resent their own pain: through our pain God teaches us to understand the essence of the pain phenomenon: how unpleasant this sensation really is. In this way he teaches us to spare others and not to hurt them unnecessarily.

And even to a greater extent than to plants this principle of compassion should be applied to animals, since they can feel pain incomparably more acutely, than plants.

The necessity of total adherence to the principle of compassion, in application to nutrition, in particular, has been taught by Huang Di, Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Babaji, and Sathya Sai Baba. God is Love. If we want to get closer to God — we have to totally accept the principle of Love. But what is Love without Compassion? Only a parody of it?

Let us realize, friends, that however persistently “pastors” of various sects teach us the opposite we will not be able to make any progress in our spiritual development without total acceptance of the Compassion principle and resolved switching to cruelty-free diet (i.e. the one that excludes bodies of animals: mammals, birds, fish and so on) — on ethical, rather than egotistic (for the sake of improving one’s personal health, for instance) motives!

… One can learn ethical lessons regarding plants not only in nutrition field. Tent pegs can be made not only out of green plants, but also out of dry sticks that are still strong. And a fire can be made on the place of an old fire or on a trail, etc. — and not right on green plants.

Another thing — a fire must not be made on dry peat: huge areas of forest can get burned out, thousands of plants and many animals will die in fire. Also, during dry periods a fire should not be made under tall fir-trees: thick perennial layer of fallen needles will smolder — the roots of the fir-tree and surrounding plants will get burned as a result. One should be extremely careful during the spring, when last-year’s grass catches fire very easily. When it happens, a lot of green plants, insects, birds’ nests with eggs or fledglings, as well as seeds get burned and die. And a great mass of the old grass that could serve as a natural fertilizer and enrich the soil is also wasted in fire.

Also, it looks like a wildly immoral act when someone intentionally, for fun, sets this old grass on fire, which very often becomes the cause of destruction of haystacks, homes and other constructions…

In the Orthodox temples people sing, trying to convince God that He is “forbearing and merciful”… But would it not be better if they give up this useless occupation and start living in accordance with God’s Principle of Love themselves? But this is impossible without Compassion for all people and every living creature, including ants, worms, plants, and many others…

God Is Love

Jesus Christ gave us this highest formula, the key for cognizing God. But why are there so few people who, considering themselves Christians, could make use of this Truth for their spiritual advancement? Why did not this formula inspire masses of materialists to accept faith?

Among the reasons is the distortion of the Teachings of Jesus Christ, which began as early as when the New Testament was compiled, which took place just several centuries after His Incarnation on Earth had completed [7].

His Teachings were deprived of the part where Jesus talked of man as of evolving consciousness, whose goal of development is attaining Godlike state and then Merging with God-the-Father. The description of God-the-Father was also taken out of His sermons. But included were irritated demands of Paul regarding what one should and should not wear, as well as which hairstyle is appropriate. Also the Apocalypse, devoid of love and common sense, overflowing with threats of seas of blood and bowls of pus. (And this is not only opinion of the author of this book; the attitude of Jesus is the same [21]).

The result of this warping of the Teachings of Jesus Christ was that the mass movement called “Christianity” almost from its very beginning ceased to be a religion of love — the love that God sent Jesus Christ to establish. We can recall inquisition, wars between the Orthodox and Catholics and crusades. In Russia we saw mass persecution of Old Believers, pogroms of Jews, as well as hate towards all non-Orthodox that is being cultivated by modern Russian Orthodoxy…

Outstanding Russian people — Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, and many others — although they acknowledged the existence of God, they did not accept Christianity in this form.

Questions got raised also by “simple” people, to which the Church could not give them any clear and perspicuous answers: how can one assert that God is Love, if He promised these things in the Apocalypse, if what we see around us are wars, violence, cruelty, diseases and sufferings? No, if He is omnipotent, but these things happen, if everything that surrounds us is evil, if I do not see any love anywhere, however I ask Him for it — then there is something wrong about this kind of faith and I do not need a God like this!

It is important for us to realize that the fathomless pit that has spread between masses of “Christians” and God and that isolated people from Him and that opposed God to them, making them beg various mercies from Him — instead of inspiring them to change themselves in accordance with His Will and merge with Him in Love — this abyss has not been created by Him, but by people, who warped His Teachings.

In reality God is not somewhere far and high in the sky, but, like Jesus says, the distance between Him and every one of us is not greater than thickness of a sheet of thin paper [10,21]…

But in order to travel such a small distance to His Embrace of Love we have to become the pure Love — like Him. And not anger or fear, or selfish desire…

Emotions are states of consciousness. This is a fundamentally important thing to realize. We are consciousness, the energy of consciousness. Not bodies and not minds. God is also Consciousness, although infinitely greater, than ours. And in order to fulfill what He wants from us we just need to learn to always live in the state of subtle and pure love and to never exit from it.

God is Love. He compassionates to us. He is willing to help us, guiding us all the time to the Path to Himself, to His Abode, to our ultimate happiness…

But we are not going to Him. Instead we are squabbling for the material welfare of this world, exhausting ourselves by hating other people because they get dressed, have haircuts, etc. in a different way, or because they perform “different” from ours prayer bodily movements, or because their skin is of different color or their nationality differs from ours…

And not only criminal political leaders provoke us to doing this, but also equally criminal “pastors” of religious sects!

… But God wants us to establish ourselves in the emotional state of love. And then — we can get in!

“Every Instance of Leaving the State of Love…”

“Every instance of leaving the state of love results in accumulation of bad karma…” God told me this once many years ago. This statement can be put as a second point right after God is Love.

What is meant here? Is this just another threat? Will He punish me? Will He send a dangerous illness on me? Or will He cause me to suffer during my next incarnation?

No, this way of thinking is incorrect.

God never punishes anyone. He teaches us. But our destinies we build ourselves. For example, we ourselves postpone the happiness of meeting Him. And we will continue suffering from our separateness from Him as long as we do not have love within ourselves. Various misfortunes are what we attract to us ourselves, but this is not God punishing us.

I will give a couple of striking examples from my own life.

Once I saw another illegal publication of my book about David Copperfield, which was made not only without my consent and financial calculations, but this time its content was distorted — it contained some preposterous scheme inserted in the middle on my behalf.

This exhausted my patience: I exited the state of love and disposed myself to hard conversation with the delinquent publisher… And in the evening of the same day I got inflammation of the gullet — esophagus: spasms were so bad, that I could hardly swallow…

In the morning I could see a big black spirit, which grasped my throat, stuck to it and would not let go, trying to strangle. I rush into the Abode of the Creator, returning to the state of love — instantly recalling: Every exit from the state of love… And the spirit disappeared — the inflammatory process was gone almost immediately.

The mechanism here is following. When we are in subtle states of consciousness — we are out of reach of evil spirits: they are not capable of entering subtle eons. If we coarsen emotionally — then we immediately get closer to their state and become easy targets for their aggressive attacks.

Several years ago I had much more dramatic experience. I discovered that my colleagues in Moscow in their activity suddenly started to twist into different direction behind my back. I regarded this as a betrayal of God’s work by them. He Himself then ordered to immediately close the spiritual center that had been created in Moscow. And that was actually all that I had to do in this situation. But I fell into a lingering state of anger towards them. And I immediately attracted devilish powers: without any obvious occasion I was attacked by a gang. After that I was on the verge of death of the body for a long time, suffering from severe pain. I experienced clinical death twice and ended up physically disabled for several years. Only a “burning-through” of destructed spine bones with the kundalini energy, which I learned later, ensured an almost complete healing.

… In the same way, every one of us attracts either happiness or sufferings himself: if we enter the state of Divine Love — we get closer to God, if we take on devilish states — then devils and demons “stick” onto our bodies and we become sick and suffer. This is how we punish ourselves for not complying with God’s Will.

But Jesus Christ expressed this Will very clearly: love God and love each other — regardless of anything! [10].

The opinion that God allegedly has to provide us with material welfare of various kinds is absolutely erroneous. He never promised to do this for all people… He is not a slave to us at all. He is — the Lord, the Master. We are — infinitesimally small compared to His Universal Greatness.

He loves us and tries to help us. But to help not in procuring earthly comfort, not in satisfying our selfish desires.

His Love is manifested in His guiding us to our ultimate happiness in Unity with Him.

He is — the Master, the Absolute Lord. There is no point in grumbling at Him — at the Universal Ocean: what sense does it make? We need to accept His Will and His Law. In this case we will live in harmony with Him. This Law is: the Way to Mergence with God is steadfast Love, and whoever abandons it loses protection of God and falls a prey of hell-beings.

Let us obey His Will: this is in our interests — to go to God, having accepted his Law!

He created the entire Creation and every one of us — not for our sake. This constitutes His Evolution and His Life. And He is going to firmly implement His Will: if man wants to go to Him — he is sure to live in love and to be happy, if not — he is going to suffer in his separateness from Him!

Self-Centeredness versus God-Centeredness

It is clear that the God-centered outlook cannot become the ideology of every one of us right away, for example, just as a result of reading this book. What will be necessary is not just to think this concept over, but also to really feel God — only then we will be able to learn to look at earthly situations with His eyes, from His standpoint. But what we can do right now is to set attainment of God-centrism as our goal. And we need to prepare ourselves to this by fighting against our egocentrism.

Voluntary renunciation of personal pleasures for the good of other people along with elimination of arrogance — this is the beginning of the struggle against one’s egocentrism. An alternative to egocentrism is the true caring attention — that which is sensible and free from violence and rudeness. Interests of others should be given higher priority over one’s personal interests. Taking responsibility for the well being of others — in a family or in any other group — is an opportunity for developing needed qualities. The leader’s feeling of “I” should disappear and give place to the feeling of “we”, where there is no his personal interest left whatsoever.

Sexual relationships are the sphere, where egocentrism as well as the absence of it can manifest themselves in a very pronounced way. “Do I act in my sexual relationships out of my personal interests or out of those of my partner?” — this is the fundamental question that everyone should ask themselves as a part of self-analysis and self-control. Any type of violence and constraint in sexual relationships is a manifestation of disgusting personal qualities. A similar situation is when a man does not take care of prevention of unwanted pregnancy of his female partner. Another example is when after a defloration a man proceeds with the sexual intercourse for the sake of his personal satisfaction, ignoring the pain that his “beloved” is experiencing. Many more examples can be given here. The behavior of many women is no less disgusting than that of many men.

Or let us look at the nutritional habits. The overwhelming majority of people eat things made of corpses of animals without even bothering to think that they experienced pain and suffered, dying just for the sake of satisfaction of our cruel gustatory habits, for our pleasure. People do not necessarily have to eat “killed” food (one that is made from meat or fish): we can get all essential nutritional elements out of plants, milk products, and eggs. Eating “killed” food just leads to contamination of our organisms with salts of uric acid (which causes various kinds of gout) and with coarse energies that remain in the animal corpses as a result of fear and pain that the animals experienced when dying.

Eating corpses of animals is incompatible with any spiritual progress — for the ethical reasons, first of all. God was telling about this through Huang Di, Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Sathya Sai Baba, Babaji, and many prophets [5,7,10]. But now we are seeing that eating dead bodies of animals is what multiple religious pseudo-pastors demand from their followers — otherwise, they say, people can grow proud!

They should stop and realize that by doing this they act against God and against the Evolution, that they cripple the souls of people who trust them.

For, what God wants us to possess is Love.

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Using special meditative techniques can be of paramount importance in one’s attempts to free oneself from the egocentric lower self. I am talking about the step-by-step mastering of the total reciprocity meditation. Its essence consists in actively shifting the consciousness into the state of non-I, distributing it beyond the body, outside of it, with vectors of attention directed towards the body.

This is how just another break of egocentrism takes place and a fundamental step is taken towards Mergence with God and ability to see the earthly situations from His standpoint — with His eyes, as it were.

This is the meditative technique that allows one to attain complete Mergence with Him in His Abode.

Love for God

For those who move boldly and in the right direction, the Spiritual Path is the Path of increasing bliss, joy, and happiness. But why do so few people walk this Path? And why are such a great number of people quite content with performing pseudo-religious acts like coloring Easter eggs, drinking heavily on holidays and ritual killing of animals and plants? Is it only lack of intelligence that makes them do these substitutive actions, which are often nothing but crime in the face of God? Or maybe the reason is that they lack love for God?

Love for God does not imply performing rites “just in case”: what if He really exists and will punish us. Love for God is being lovingly attracted to Him: to cognizing and to Merging with Him. It is like sexual passion: those who are in love with Him miss Him and get saturated with bliss at times of rendezvous — successfully performed meditations.

In order to love God like this one has to already know what it is like to fall in love. For those who cannot love God is unreachable. Jesus was telling about this: learn to love each other first — then you will be able to direct your already developed love towards God-the-Father.

But one does not have to spend one’s entire incarnation learning hard and long the art of earthly love. One may speed up one’s studying significantly by using special methods of developing the organ of love — the anahata chakra. It is also important to understand who God really is: fairy-tale characters that “pastors” of various degenerated religious schools propose to worship cannot inspire serious people for love, can they?!

God-the-Father can be cognized by man only if he lives a monastic life. But monasticism means not just wearing a uniform of some color — black, white or orange… As well as not proudly assuming a new — most often foreign — name. All of this is just childish games of grown up people playing “religion”. True monasticism also must not necessarily call for living in a monastery. As well as giving up caring about one’s family or social service. Or a strict celibate or mortification of the flesh by rejecting elementary hygienic routines, with wearing chains and enduring diseases. (For more details on this see [8]).

True monasticism is a state of being connected with one’s indriyas to God, but not objects of material plane. This is a result of a soul’s being in love with God, which has been developed through meditative trainings.

A monk — in the true meaning of this word, which God assigns to it [8,10] — is a person who lives in a permanent alertness, in the state of “total war” with his vices and shortcomings. This spiritual warrior also fights for the well being of his partners on the Spiritual Path.

Important attributes of a spiritual warrior are possessing a cell: a room or a house, where he can sleep and spend most of his time alone with God, and also the possibility to seclude close to nature for meditative work.

It is also very important to have the possibility to wash one’s body with soap every day (and not once in two weeks, like in Orthodox monasteries). Maintaining an external cleanliness of the body promotes good health, freshness of feelings, and subtlety of emotions.

It is also good to have a quartz lamp, especially if one lives in the northern latitudes — so that one could sunbathe all year round. Sunrays — not only “living”, but also artificial — confer good health on us; they are very favorable for the well-being of our bodies and souls.

In addition to this in the life of a monk-warrior there should be spiritual books, friends on the Spiritual Path, and — what is the most important — God as the constantly present Teacher and Advisor, tender and caring, but inexorable to our deviations from the Path to Him Universal Father and Mother.

Criterion of the spiritual warrior’s success would be the disappearance of his egocentrism (which is manifested in one’s susceptibility to the offence an in the desire to obtain something “for oneself”) and gradual increase of God-centrism.

The latter does not imply mere intellectual acknowledgement that there is God, but a real feeling that He is everywhere, in everything, that He is Everything. Feeling of “I” disappears: one’s lower self — due to “concretion” with God with one’s indriyas — gradually dissolves in Him. This fundamentally changes ecological status of a person, does it not?

God-the-Father allows the spiritual warriors, who are ardently in love with Him and who do not see the meaning of their lives other than Merging with Him in Love and helping others with it, to enter into His Abode, into Himself. Having placed oneself there as the spiritual heart, one can for the first time really embrace with the arms of consciousness one’s main Beloved, Who lives there, on the other side of the Mirror.

The subsequent consolidation of the Mergence with Him allows one to start acting from the other side of the Mirror, perceiving oneself as a part of the Creator — in order to help embodied souls to find their true Higher Self there — in the Abode of God-the-Father. This is the complete spiritual self-realization, the ultimate Liberation, the highest Nirvana, the completion of one’s personal evolution as a human being, the total cognizing of God and of oneself and Merging with Him into One.

Sexual Aspect of Love

Every one of us, as well as actually all embodied people, appeared in the material world owing to sex. Is it not absurd to deny sex then?

But sex is not only a means of reproduction, but also a way of developing one’s emotional sphere in the required direction, a method of attaining refinement of consciousness, tenderness, and caring attention — which are the most important qualities on the Path to God.^*

Various taboos against sex and defilement of it in some religious sects are indications of perversity of those sects and their being engrossed in the tamas guna [9,10].

But on the other hand, God does not approve of being obsessed with sex, when finding new sexual adventure becomes the main purpose of one’s life. God points those people at their being deluded by, for example, sending them various diseases.

Sex plays a socializing role in any healthy person’s ontogenesis (development in the current incarnation) starting from pubescence (and this has been demonstrated also in experiments on animals; see [9]). Sex hormones generated in the body make people attract to each other, start studying features of other people and ways of communicating with them.

Sexual relationships highlight sometimes diametrically opposite personal qualities of people. Some people give themselves and their love for their partners; they care for them. People of the opposite end demand pleasures for themselves, express selfishness accompanied by violence, contempt and even hate for their sexual partners. This is how people express and develop qualities of one of the gunas and proceed either in the direction of God or to hell.

God controls all of us to a significant extent. Among other things He does — He throws us together with our sexual partners. He does it in order to provide people with learning situations, in which they would have to make their own decisions — right or wrong. This is how people improve or worsen their destinies.

And if a person has problems in sexual life — he needs to look for his mistakes here taking into account that in all situations God guides him. He needs to find his mistakes and draw conclusions for the future.

Sometimes we find ourselves in a tight corner because of the mistakes we made in our past incarnations. This means that sometime in the past I did to somebody what I have to experience now. It is the law of karma that manifested itself — God showed me what victims of my past transgressions felt. Let us draw the right conclusions!

How should we behave in our sexual relationships in order to advance to God through them, instead of moving in the opposite direction?

The main rule here is that no constraint should be used — large or small, not even in one’s thoughts. Everyone should be absolutely free in giving their love, willing to fill and to saturate their partner with it.

One cannot ignore psychological differences between people of the opposite sex. And those differences are significant. For example, a man feels like having a sexual contact with the particular woman as a result of a predominantly visual perception, whereas for a woman it is her tactile sensing, responding to tender touching and fondling, that plays primary role here.

We all should try to always be tender and caring with each other. Tender words, a sincere smile of love, a touch with a hand or with lips — these are the ways we can express our caress. (One’s lips should be relaxed and not wet when one is kissing somebody. One should also keep them closed. “Slobbery” kisses arouse only a dislike for the one who gives them).

During a sexual intercourse an intensive energy exchange between the partners takes place. Especially powerful energy emission occurs during the orgasm; the feeling of bliss that accompanies such emission is what orgasm actually is.

These kinds of energy are very important for the proper functioning of the human organism, as well as for spiritual work. This is why everyone should try to give their energy to their partner; this is a very valuable gift, of course provided that the energy is pure and subtle.

… The problem of saving energy for meditative work does exist. We certainly should try to get rid of everything that is unnecessary, of everything that interferes with our spiritual growth (acts of service according to karma yoga principles are necessary). Sex with inadequate partners is a typical example of energy squandering. One is really wasting energy when having sex in such a way.

But who are those — the inadequate partners? And who are the adequate ones? The adequate partners are the people whose level of energetic purity is similar to ours and who are at about the same level of spiritual advancement, including the level of refinement and the size of consciousness, as we are. But those, who are at fundamentally lower stages of their evolution for the time being, who are still energetically impure and who lead a non-spiritual way of life, possessing gross ethical vices — those are inadequate.

Sexual relationships of adequate partners does not lead to squandering of energy but to exchange of energetic purity and to activation of both partners’ psychic energy, as well as to its growth. They also create a greater energetic stability of both spouses.

Sex has been granted to us, people not only so that we could use it for reproduction. But it is also supposed to contribute to the spiritual progress of those, who are capable of such progress. Through sex we learn to love another person emotionally, develop structures of our emotional sphere, learn to care for the other and get to know the states of peace and bliss. We also develop these states in ourselves, thus preparing ourselves to Great Peace and Supreme Bliss in the Abode of the Creator.

Spouses can use sex as a meditative training. For example: both partners may look at each other from their anahatas, then merge with spiritual hearts into one with each other — and with God.

I will mention that in a low-grade literature on “spiritual sex” one can find recommendations to avoid own orgasms. This, they say, allows one to accumulate energy in on one’s body and tremendously contributes to one’s spiritual growth… But in reality any attempts to improve one’s well being at the expense and to the detriment of others have nothing in common with spirituality. This is propaganda of a variation of an energy vampirism. This is a disgusting manifestation of egotism. God can in no way call this love and this has nothing to do with the Path to God.

And the last thing: who can become a spouse of a spiritual warrior? What is marriage for this kind of people? And what is adultery and fornication for them?

General rules here are the following:

Marriage is a rather stable union of two people, who walk together the Spiritual Path, sexual relationships being one of the components of their communication.

And on the contrary, “any (sexual) connection of dissimilar people is adultery,” [10] — this is what Jesus Christ taught His closest disciples and this is what apostle Philip wrote in his Gospel. Dissimilar are people who significantly differ from each other in the level of their spiritual advancement. Among the dissimilarities are their psychoenergetic characteristics: the purer and subtler one’s energy is — the closer one is to one’s Goal, to God. During a sexual intercourse an intensive exchange of energies between the partners takes place. Therefore, marriage with spiritually inadequate partner hinders the progress of the more advanced one and this marriage is not pleasing to God.

God also considers it as fornication if someone is excessively keen on sex, which is expressed in searching for new sexual contacts. Tendencies like this distract one’s attention from God and lead one away from the Path.

We see that both adultery and fornication may take place only when speaking of religious people. These terms may not apply to worldly people who live just by satisfying their bodily needs, thus the rules for them are different.

God throws people together in marital relationships Himself. He did not delegate this function to any earthly “pastors”. State registration of marriage makes sense only in regard to solving any proprietary issues and children-related problems.

It is also necessary to mention that demands of various religious sects (and sometimes, those of mundane morality) that people get married “blindly”, without getting to know each other from the sexual standpoint, are invalid^*.

So, marital relationships are important lessons in the School of God. Let us be sensitive to His Will and comply with it!

In conclusion I will cite the Gospel of Philip: “Get to know pure marriage — for it possesses a tremendous power!” [10].

Upbringing Children

God embodies man on Earth so that he could learn Divinity here — in this School called Earth, where God is the Teacher. This study is threefold: man studies Love, Wisdom, and Power. This is what we study here under His guidance — invisible in the beginning, which later becomes evident.

There are theoretical and practical lessons in this School. The theoretical ones consist in studying the Will of God through reading books and by other means. The upbringing of children is one of the practical subjects.

In the beginning, a child needs to be taught elementary things: speaking, walking, rejoicing, etc. But when he grows up — parents should try to teach him as many skills and to make him as broad-minded as possible. They should teach him how to ride a bicycle, how to run, how to swim, how to pitch a tent, how to make a fire, how to sing, how to draw, how to play various games, and so on. Let him watch TV so that he could get to know people in different parts of the planet and the diversity of their religious quests… All this will prove useful to him in the future and will allow him to solve problems of the grown-up life.

One can work for the Evolution of the Universal Consciousness by upbringing not only children from one’s flesh and blood, but also many other children. We are all — children of One God. We are all — one family [10]. One should learn to treat other people’s children as one’s own. By living this way we will learn to expand our love and to treat people the way God does, we will learn Divine Love.

Advices on Nutrition

God once gave people principles of nutrition through a prophet: “…See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food…” This commandment was written in the Jewish Bible (Genesis 1:29). After some time He added through another prophet: you may eat everything, “…only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood” (Genesis 9:1-4). What did He mean in this phrase? He was talking about the killing-free diet: you may eat any edible plants, use milk, eggs but do not kill for food those creatures, in whose bodies you see blood.

But what did sly and gluttonous Jews, that received this commandment, contrive? They started to let the blood of animals that they were killing flow out into the ground and to eat their meat after that… — yes, without blood. They pretended to have understood that the animal’s soul is its blood… Later gluttonous “Christians” began using the same way of fooling God. And… they simply did not include the protests of Jesus Christ against this in the New Testament [10]…

But true Christianity is Teachings of Love. Is it possible to call those people Christians, who are capable of causing other creatures to suffer just for satisfying their own sensory cravings?

True Christians are not those who have been formally baptized, but were not going to follow the Teachings of Jesus Christ. And especially not those who were baptized at a very young age. Or those who wear crucifix around their necks. It was crusaders who wore crucifixes, was it not?

True Christians are the people who follow the Teachings of God that He has been giving to us through Jesus Christ and other Messiahs, Avatars and Christs. The essence of these Teachings can be expressed in short in three phrases:

— God is Love;

— We have to infuse into Him for the sake of enriching Him with ourselves;

— In order to do this we need to become Love, like Him.

Those who do not follow these Teachings do not have a right to call themselves Christians. They are simply perverts: “Christians” in quotation marks.

… In this incarnation I was born and grew up in a family of communists and atheists. Nobody thought about sin and compassion there, as almost in every “soviet” family. And I, too, ate meat and fish since my childhood: this was widely accepted. I even became a hunter and a fisherman — and I tortured and killed animals without even thinking that somebody other that myself could feel pain.

Only when I became a senior research assistant I started to question my right to kill animals. But I immediately came up with a justification for myself: we cannot live without eating meat and fish, therefore I have the objective right to procure this kind of “food” for myself without any assistance from anyone else — since I can and know how to do it.

But then there was this incident. Once I came up to a lakeside and flushed a duck family: a mother-duck and about ten ducklings, which could not fly yet. They swam away from the shore heading towards an island fifty meters away — they swam in a tight group close to one another. But an unknown hunter was hiding on that island. And when the duck family swam up to the island he shot them all down with two gunshots…

This was the first time when I took the death of the victims of this cruel entertainment — hunting — as a drama. My confusion was aggravated by the fact that I became the cause of their death. And right after this I saw a contradiction: I would not get upset if I were the hunter who killed them! On the contrary — I would rejoice at such luck of getting a great hunting trophy!…

Later I happened to ride on a bus in Karelia with workers of a forestry. They drank vodka after work and were going night fishing — to spear fish with a fish-fork in a beam of light. But one of them got “deeply moved” and started to think aloud: “How is it possible: to spear live fish with a fork?! It is live, don’t you see! With a fork!…” He repeated these phrases many times in a heartfelt way, addressing these questions both to himself and to his friends. It was obvious that he was on the verge of illumination, of awakening…

But his friends just smiled at him slightly without saying anything: this happens if one has drunk a bit too much…

Then, seeing no support from his friends he suddenly felt ashamed of his “weakness” and exclaimed: “Yes! We are going to spear live fish with a fork!”

And the issue was removed from the agenda…

Once I was hunting ducks. I wounded one. I was shooting again and again trying to kill her off, but the duck saw me firing and managed to plunge every time before the shot reached her. Then I resorted to cunning and, steering my boat, drove the duck to a shallow place, where she could not plunge. And she realized it — and gave up. I was shooting at her again and again and every time her little body got pierced with the leaden hail. Severely wounded, with her wings broken, she cried from terror and pain, unable to escape. Her screams, as perhaps, the screams of all those guiltless creatures, which get cruelly killed, sounded like this: “What for?! I did not do anything bad to you or to anybody else! Have mercy! Why are you causing me such a terrible pain?!” But I rowed up closer and closer and kept aiming and shooting…, but she just would not die. And only after I got next to her I shot her head off.

We ate her body, riddled with shot, afterwards, but somehow I could not enjoy it then…

My last hunt was an elk one. The beaters drove an elk-cow to the shooters’ line. The hunters started shooting and wounded her. She dashed back to the beaters’ line, but they opened fire, too. Two of my bullets broke her spine. Other hunters kept shooting. I recall that the chasseur got into ecstasy over the sound of many shots and was screaming rapturously: “Here’s what I call music!!!” She fell down, eventually.

By the time I came up to her she already did not breathe. But the hunters told me th