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by Maxim Shafeyev
Polus, 2002
ISBN 5-89455-007-6
© Antonov V.V., 2002
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In this book the author expounds a system of practical methods of the spiritual self-development: starting from the entry level up to the highest ones, which lead to the complete spiritual Self-Realization through cognizing God in His Abode and Merging with Him.
The book is addressed to those who want to know and to realize the meaning of their lives, to attain ultimate happiness, to find God, and to immerse themselves in the Embrace of His Love.
A person who started walking religious Path can go through the following seven stages of it:
1. Acquiring the correct understanding of his highest Goal and the ways of its attainment.
2. Initial ethic self-correction in accordance with the intention of God through elimination of ethic imperfections as well as through development of required qualities, of which Love is the principal one.
3. Refinement of himself as a consciousness in order to get into the highest planes (eons or lokas) of the multidimensional space, of which the Abode of the Primordial Universal Consciousness — God-the-Father, the Creator — is the subtlest.
4. Quantitative development of his refined consciousness.
5. Mastering methods of Merging with God.
6. Consolidation of his Mergence with God.
7. Acquiring Divine powers.
For the majority of the readers, deceived by the atheistic and sectarian propaganda, this may sound surprising and even implausible. But this is exactly what God has always taught people throughout the entire history of mankind — through prophets or Himself, appearing before people in human bodies of Messiahs, Avatars, and Christs* [7-18].
The meaning of our lives consists in the development of ourselves as consciousnesses, first within our temporary abodes — our bodies, and then beyond them — in the boundless multidimensional universe.
This development has two major directions: qualitative and quantitative. The former consists of the following three components: intellectual and ethic perfection and refinement of consciousness. The quantitative aspect implies a direct increase of the amount of the energy of the individual consciousness, which subsequently — using special meditative techniques — infuses into the Ocean of the Universal Consciousness of God, Whose name sounds differently in different languages: God-the-Father, Jehovah, Allah, Tao, Ishvara, Primordial Consciousness, Adibuddha, etc.
The book [14] contains various examples of what God has been saying about this; necessary commentaries are also provided there. In this training aid, we will not go beyond short theoretical overview, and then get down to description of techniques, which facilitate the attainment of the Goal.
The universe is multidimensional. This is not just mathematical reasoning, but reality, which can be experienced by man. Spatial dimensions have been known to religious practicians from time immemorial. They were called eons in Greek and lokas in Sanskrit; in Agni Yoga the term “layers” was used to refer to them (see [10-12,15-17] for details).
The highest, primary spatial dimension is the Abode of the Primordial Universal Consciousness, Which, as it was described in the Bhagavad Gita [14], periodically creates the “manifested” world by condensing diffused cosmic energy (protoprakriti) to the material state. Those “islets” of solid matter get inhabited by small parts of another kind of previously diffused energy — protopurusha — which will have to evolve up to the Divine state by means of multiple incarnations into organic bodies and then to infuse themselves into the Primordial Consciousness, thus enriching It with themselves.
This process of the soul development starts with initial forming of lumps of energy on crystalline lattices. Then follow incarnations into vegetative, animal and finally into human bodies. The task of a human being — as the final stage of the development of an individual soul — is to make efforts on bringing himself as soon as possible to the Divinity and to Merge with the Creator.
“Creation of the world” is not a phenomenon of the all-universal scale. Astronomers periodically observe birth of new stars and planets. Other star systems get destroyed in so-called “black holes”, created by God [14,28]. This is what constitutes their “end of the world”. All souls that did not attain Divinity by that moment get disintegrated down to the protopurusha state. The material component of the “islets” of matter and material bodies turns back into protoprakriti, becoming construction material for new worlds.
Protoprakriti and protopurusha are collectively called “akasha”*. Physicists know the energy of akasha as some types of neutrino.
We were describing the multidimensional structure of the universe almost in every previous publication. Here I will only say that it is like radio waves of different frequency ranges that coexist within the same volume without interfering and with little or no interaction with one another. And all of them are in the multidimensional depth under the material world, including the matter of our bodies, we are being unable to perceive them under regular conditions.
In the same manner spirits that inhabit coarser eons cannot see what is going on in the deeper and subtler eons, although they are supervised from there.
One can move into subtler eons only while being in the incarnate state — by making spiritual efforts. The transformation (“transmutation”) of the energy of consciousness can take place only in the human body — a specialized “transmutation factory” capable of assimilating the energy derived from ordinary food and of using it among other purposes for growth of the “lump” of energy of consciousness.
From this, it becomes clear that neither someone’s prayers nor “solicitations” have the power to resettle souls from hell eons to those of paradise. The legend about Jesus Christ releasing sinners from hell contains distorted information: He was not saving non-embodied sinners, but embodied ones — by giving them the Teachings of God, by following which they could free themselves from sufferings by means of refinement of consciousness — through love-tenderness, forgiveness, compassion, eliminating anger and all kinds of rudeness, as well as egocentrism.
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In esoteric literature one may encounter inadequate usage of the term “fourth dimension”. This is the case even with “The Book of Jesus” [28], in which Jesus uses this term when talking to Ben Cullen “in his own language”, i.e. using the words His interlocutor uses and those meanings of them that he knows. In this book the term “fourth dimension” was used even in two inadequate interpretations: as The Abode of God-the-Father and as the aggregate of non-material eons.
But in reality, by the logic of the term “fourth dimension” itself, — it should denote the material world, existence of which is determined not by three, but by four “dimensions”: length, width, height and time.
However, time (different on each planet) exists and conditions the whole Creation, including even the Holy Spirit Who lives at each planet.
“Inhabitation” of any new “islet of Creation” begins with the Spirits Who achieved the state of the Holy Spirit (Brahman) in the course of Their evolution on other “islets”. They become “Constructors” and “Supervisors” of the evolution of life on the newly created planets. Later on They are joined by Those Who attain these evolutionary heights in the course of incarnating on that particular “islet”.
The whole space inside and around our planet is filled with huge Consciousnesses merged in one or manifesting Themselves individually, Who are collectively called the Holy Spirit.
In other words, as it must already be clear, the Holy Spirit is not at all a “radiation” of God-the-Father or of God-the-Son. No! The Holy Spirit is Living Consciousness — subtle and loving, Who is teaching us and is constantly present inside and outside our bodies. He is extremely glad every time we lovingly direct our attention towards Him, willing to accept His help in order to get closer to Him — to His state.
The same can be said about the Consciousness of the Creator. Only He is even deeper in the multidimensional space and incomparably larger — He is boundless. The Consciousness of the Creator, just like the Consciousness of the Holy Spirit, exists deep inside under every cell of our bodies. The distance between us and Him is not greater than thickness of a sheet of thin paper, as Jesus Christ perfectly formulated it [14,28].
And one should not fly anywhere or travel too far in search of God: He is right here and right now — inside us. Only in another eon. And the only thing that separates us from Him is our coarseness, which is a consequence of our religious ignorance and lack of love.
We have to find God inside, in the depth of our own spiritual hearts. This well-known postulate is not just a nice metaphor, but a quite concrete instruction on where we should direct our efforts. And the primary reason for the almost total spiritual degradation of tremendous masses of people that we currently observe is that they do not have true spiritual knowledge. And not only criminal politicians are to blame for that, but also leaders of false mass religious organizations who teach their “flock” to hate, to kill, to drink hard, to worship not God, but fictitious “gods”, to endlessly perform allegedly “saving” bodily movements and to repeat “prayers” that often program people to hell — instead of cultivating Love and refinement of souls.
Apart from the highest eons there exist many others that differ by the level of coarseness-subtlety. The subtlest of them are called paradise. The coarsest ones are called hell.
If we want to save ourselves from going to live in hell after the death of the body — then we have to learn to live steadfastly in light, pure and subtle state of consciousness (soul) while we are still embodied.
Since, upon parting with the physical body, we will live in the state, which became usual for us during our life in this body. And, according to this, we will find ourselves in the eon inhabited by beings similar to us: either evil, furious, irritated, anxious and deceitful — or affectionate, calm, tenderly loving and caring.
But our Love for God, if we have this Love and know what God is and how we should go to Him — should guide us not towards attainment of paradise, but towards reaching even greater spiritual heights — towards Merging with the Creator in His highest eon. This is what He expects us to accomplish, because this constitutes His Evolution, His very Life. And if we love Him — we should do this.
It would be better if we could really fall in Love with God — to such a degree that we would long for Him, being unable to find any peace without Him. Being in Love with God should become similar to being passionately in love with another person. It implies longing for the real Mergence — the Mergence of consciousnesses, just like human souls flaming with love for each other, merge.
In order to fall in Love with God like that one has to know about Him as much as possible.
He can be cognized in reality, not only intellectually.
But He becomes audible, visible and tangible only for him who has reached the Godlike state of the soul.
God is Love. And only that person who has also become large, refined and strong Love can perceive Him like this. And the Mergence with God for him becomes not just mere words, but his very own experience.
Those who attained mergence with the Creator become integral Parts of Him, forever. But, when necessary, in order to accomplish Their Missions on Earth or other planets, for example, — They can separate a part of Themselves without losing oneness with Him.
Jesus described this, using an image of a vine (John 15): out of the “Soil” of Consciousness of Universal God-the-Father comes the “Stem” — the Consciousness of a Divine Teacher (Whom Jesus Christ was Himself); “branches” on that “stem” are closest disciples — Apostles (see also [14]).
It is as these “Stems” that Divine Teachers manifest Themselves for embodied people. At that, They can either have physical bodies (be embodied) or not. But Those Who have bodies at the same time can work with other parts of Consciousness in any other part of the planet. They (as Consciousnesses) are incomparably greater than our planet; They place only very small parts of Themselves in Their bodies.
Among Those of Them Who currently have bodies is the Divine Teacher Sathya Sai Baba [8,14,15,35]. He is assisting worthy disciples of God in cooperation with Jesus, Krishna, Babaji, Huang-Di, Chaitanya, Assyris, Juan Matus, Genaro, Ngomo, Maenuel (also known as Alexander Svirskiy), Apostles Philip, Andrew, John and Mark, as well as many Others [15].
… Let me dwell on it some more to clarify the difference between pagan “deities” and personal manifestations of God-the-Father. Confusion regarding this issue is primarily due to the fact that almost all religious people do not know about multidimensionality of the space.
The criterion here is the following: only Those are Part of the Creator Who live in the state of Mergence with the Primordial Universal Consciousness, Which abides in the highest, primordial eon, which is one for the whole boundless universe and is located on the other side of the cosmic “Mirror” — relatively to the entire manifested Creation, including even the Holy Spirit (Brahman).
But all pagan “deities” are either fictitious folklore characters or real spirits of a certain (but not the highest) level of evolutionary advancement.
God in the aspects of the Creator, the Highest Teacher and the Ultimate Goal for all of us, is only One, although He consists of a multitude of Perfect Consciousnesses merged in one. What They have in common is that all of Them live in the Abode of the Subtlest Consciousness and act on various “islets” of the Creation by coming out of it.
It is clear now, is it not?
All that remains to do is to get into There and to establish ourselves in the Mergence with the Creator.
The most fundamental landmark in the beginning of the spiritual Path is realization of functions of the spiritual heart (the energy of the anahata chakra, or the middle dantyan). This energy structure of the human organism is the organ that is responsible for producing emotions of love.
Very few people have a developed anahata chakra “from birth” (i.e. from the previous incarnation). Some women succeed in “opening up” of this organ in harmonious marriage, since the female organism with its typical hormones and erogenous mammary glands, directly connected to the anahata, and which also provides a possibility to perfect one’s love by taking care of children, gives the souls incarnated into female bodies a matchless advantage over the “stronger” (in coarseness and violence) sex.
For the rest of people, use of special psychic techniques, which have been developed by spiritual schools of Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and other religious traditions remains the only possibility to change themselves dramatically. (In the next chapters of this book you will find a sequence of methods developed by our school that gives, in our opinion, the optimal effect in terms of speed and efficiency).
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God is Love. He asserts this Himself [7-9,14]. Everyone who has really cognized God can also confirm this. And in order to become Godlike we have to become Love in the literal sense of this word.
One begins to accomplish this with accustoming oneself to living permanently with concentration of consciousness in one’s anahata chakra. That brings the energy of consciousness into the state of emotional love. After that, one gradually expands in this state so as to become significantly larger than one’s body and then to encompass the whole Earth with one’s anahata, and later to embrace God with oneself turned into Love… In this way one can become a “universal anahata” and infuse oneself into the Ocean of the Universal Creator.
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But in order realize this simple scheme, one has to perform a big amount of work. The problem is that God does not admit the unworthy.
And now we will start to talk about realization of this scheme — gradually, from the very beginning, — in order to help the unworthy become worthy of complete spiritual Self-Realization even in this incarnation.
We have already examined all stages of the spiritual Path in the terms of Patanjali’s scheme [11]. Now let us discuss the same problem using analysis of the formula of spiritual development, suggested by the Avatar Babaji [14-16,18,37]. This formula sounds as follows: “Truth — Simplicity — Love — Karma Yoga (Service to humanity) — Abandonment of the lower self for the sake of merging with the Higher Self of God”.
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The advent of Jesus Christ — the Messenger of God-the-Father — had been prophesied by numerous Jewish prophets. But when Jesus did come — only some of the Jews acknowledged Him as Christ; those were the people who became His first disciples and spreaders of the Teachings of God, which were new for that region of Earth. But the official Synagogue never accepted Jesus as a Messenger of God-the-Father and… for more almost two thousand years has been waiting for another Christ (see [29], for example).
Similar phenomenon can be observed today in all mass organizations that call themselves Christian: they also do not see God Who appears before people of Earth in human form.
Jesus Christ Himself prophesied: “When you see One Who was not born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That One is your Father” (Gospel of Thomas, 16; see [6,14]). But in 1970 Avatar Babaji came to Earth exactly in this way [14-16,18,37] — but “Christians” did not recognize Him.
(Now another Avatar — Sathya Sai Baba [8,14] — works on Earth, preaching the same Eternal Universal Teachings of God-the-Father — and again hierarchs of all mass Christian confessions refuse to recognize Him!).
God became a competitor for many religious organizations: for He can “entice away” their “flock” to Himself. Who would then support all those for whom churches are a source of income? This is why the Russian Orthodox Church intimidates its congregation: “everything that comes from East — is of Satan”, or “if you do not stick to us, you will surely go to hell”…
But Jesus Christ incarnated in the Middle East — in Judaea. Krishna, Babaji and Sathya Sai Baba — all of Them are from East. So, is God — “from East”?
But this kind of “Christianity” was brought to Russia from West — from Greece…
Is not it the time for us to revise our concepts?
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Babaji is One of the Representatives of God-the-Father, a Part of Him. He periodically embodies on Earth as an Avatar in order to help people. One of His incarnations took place at the end of 19th century; it was described by Yogananda [25]. The next one was from 1970 to 1984 — again in Northern India, where He appeared before people by materializing a body of a young man for Himself, in which He lived for 14 years.
Now Babaji, together with Jesus Christ, Sathya Sai Baba, Krishna, and other Divine Teachers, Who are Manifestations of God-the-Father, keeps on helping worthy disciples of God — but this time from the non-embodied state.
From His last incarnation on Earth Babaji left people a concise and brilliant version of the Teachings of God, the “core” of which is the mentioned above short and exhaustive list of what we, people, have to accomplish. The main thing for us now is to try to correctly understand what these words mean and then to fulfill all this.
This part of the “Babaji’s formula” implies understanding what God and the Evolution of Universal Consciousness are, what our place in it is, and what exactly we have to do. Today almost everyone lacks this understanding.
In “Christian” world people sincerely believe that their God is Jesus Christ and that Muslims have another God — false, of course, — Allah. Although Allah is simply a literal translation of the term “God-the-Father” into Arabian language. And it is Love for Him and aspiration towards Him that Jesus Christ preached.
Holding on to Jewish Bible (the Old Testament), which in fact “legitimized” aggressive and predatory wars, murder, violence, and cruelty, as well as on the heavily trimmed version of the Teachings of Jesus Christ presented in the New Testament (see [14]), the majority of “Christians” have forgotten both God-the-Father (Who was the main figure in the Jesus Christ’s preachings) and Love. They substituted Them with typically pagan “deification” in the form of the cult of “Heavenly Queen” Mary — the mother of Jesus, “official” damning of other confessions, Muslims and all Jews (although this is a real paradox — since Jesus, His parents, His Apostles, and all the first Christians were Jews!), wars under the sign of cross, tortures, forcing of Satan, demons, sorcerers and vampires into the center of attention of believers, as well as with promotion of alcoholism in their congregation and aggressive expansionism…
Among other things, this “Christianity” destroyed pure and spiritual traditions of our remote Russian ancestors, not all of whom were pagans, i.e. worshippers of spirits and fictitious “gods”; many of them were direct disciples of God-the-Father.
In particular, one of the Divine Teachers Who worked on the territory of Russia at that time was Assyris (not Osiris of Egypt). One of the strong spiritual schools of Assyris was in the North of Novogorod Russia. (I was honored to have helped one of His advanced disciples from that time, who is currently incarnated in the female body, enter the Abode of the Creator. Assyris is now working on the territory of Russia (and other countries) in the embodied state and helping worthy disciples of God.)
For many centuries following the “Christening” of Russia, among the favorite methods of capital punishment of the “Christian” rulers of our “Christian” state were impalement and burning alive. The times of establishment of the Orthodox faith in Russia, followed by extirpation of the “Old Believers” who disagreed with reforms of the Patriarch Nikon, were the darkest pages in the history of the Russian Orthodoxy.
And today, few people realized that the attempt of Chechen people led by general Dudaev to unyoke themselves from the Russian domination was a reaction to the expansion of Orthodoxy into a country with ancient Moslem traditions.
The author of this book started his breakaway from atheistic primitivism and obtained his first mystical experience with the help of the Russian Orthodox Church and knows it quite well “on the inside”. He is very grateful to it and is sure that despite all its defects it can help people wake up spiritually, which happened to him and happens to many other people. He has also met many honest priests, who sincerely believe and strive to become better and to help others… But their voices do not get heard: they are forced to keep silent by aggressive moneymakers working in the religious field.
In philosophical respect, the main destroyers of the Christ’s Teachings in Russia are so-called “Bryanchyaninovtsy” — an anti-Christian sect represented by followers of the demoniac bishop Ignatiy Bryanchyaninov, which currently dominates within Russian Orthodox Church and which has, in fact, “ousted” God from the world outlook of its followers and replaced Him with devil. This sect is hard at work attuning people to hell inhabitants, preaching not refined love, but despondency, constant self-flagellation, despair, and hate…
This is why any intelligent person has to learn to see the difference between true Christianity as the Teachings of Jesus Christ and those interpretations of them that exist under the same name. And among the latter, one may single out various degrees of distortion up to its absolute perversion, to its antithesis.
… In Buddhism, there have also emerged many sects, in the philosophy of which there was no place for God left anymore. And what gets brought to the forefront there is, of course, fear: fear of demons, vampires and so on. Various methods of “bioenergetic” defense against them are being developed within those sects…
I have already given an example [8] of the training, where people were taught — for hefty sums of money, of course, — to plug the posterior openings of their bodies with quite material corks, on the grounds that those who do not use this method can fall into hell through those openings… Such trainings, which are conducted in earnest, originated in those degraded Buddhist sects. Killing of animals and using their bodies for food is not considered a crime there as well. Although the Founder of Buddhism, as well as the Founder of Christianity [7,14], taught the opposite.
Nevertheless, we should understand that this primitivism does not have anything to do with true Buddhism: practices of sound Buddhist schools aim at penetration with purified consciousness into the subtlest lokas and the mergence in the Primordial Consciousness (also called Adibuddha — the First Buddha).
… And the mass Islam — while attention of believers there is correctly directed towards the Creator — lacks an expressed tendency towards mastering Love and Refinement of consciousness. On the contrary, violence and cruelty are characteristic features of the Islamic “fundamentalism”, i.e. an attempt to forcefully instill into modern-day life the customs, which existed at the time of establishment of Islam… (Although the “fundamentalism” is typical only of some Islamic countries).
It appears that deliberate cultivation of Love and Refinement of consciousness, which is the only practice that enables one to get closer to God and to cognize Him, takes place only in sound Sufi schools of Islam [14].
… Another pseudo-religious fashion in Russia is astrology. Although astrologers do mention God sometimes — in fact, God in astrology became just an empty phrase… He — the Creator, the Master and the Goal for every living being — has been turned into an abstract symbol, which does not really mean anything. In fact, He has been crowded out by… planets and stars, as if it is not him Who, being in the immediate vicinity of every part of our bodies and souls, directly or through the Holy Spirit and other spirits, teaches us constantly on the “pastures” of Earth according to the ethically important decisions that we make — but… it is distant planets and stars that do this…
… Other people go even further and following current Russian fashion, with religious zeal drink their own urine in large quantities, intoxicating their brains and thus degenerate and go insane in a very short time.
… The religious atmosphere that currently prevails in Russia can only repel intelligent people from religion and make perish those whose intellect is not developed enough to discriminate between what is true and what is not true.
It would be good if psychiatrists prepared and presented to the government a description of the mental disorder of schizophrenia type, which is so typical among Russian “believers” (although they do not go to doctors, as a rule, hopelessly seeking help from those who maimed them). Its symptoms are absolutely identical in all patients — be they victims of “Bryanchyaninovtsy”, pseudo-Buddhists or just ignorant “psychics” or “sorcerers”. Those miserable ones who have gotten convinced that one should learn not how to love and develop oneself by serving people in everything that is good, which actually is what service to God consists in — but to fear devil, demons, sorcerers and vampires, defend oneself from them using “guard magic” techniques (conjurations, wearing special “protective” belts, making “the sign of the cross” over everything that one touches, etc.) — these people accustom themselves to living in fear, anxiety, and hate towards “enemies”. Such coarsest emotional states make real inhabitants of hell out of them, all kinds of non-embodied evil spirits that live in those eons become perceivable to them, they scare them even worse and thus obsessions with the well-known symptoms of inadequate behavior start developing…
In this way the perversion of the Teachings of God to its exact antithesis leads great masses of people straight to hell, and, since this phenomenon, so widespread in Russia, is gaining momentum, the prospects of accelerated degeneration of the entire nation become increasingly realistic.
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Some readers may think: the author is criticizing everybody — maybe he wants to present himself as a “Savior”?
No, not myself I want to present as a Savior, but God. I need neither fame nor popularity, I chose a modest and quiet monastic life for myself. I want to help people. And I serve God.
… People tend to ignore God and to fall for magnificent clothes, well-trained voices and arrogant manners of various leaders, often criminal and ignorant, who act solely for the sake of gaining personal glory and money. Although even in the Old Testament God advised people not to rely on spiritual guidance from men, but to seek advice from God!
And I am speaking only about this, although I have already attracted a lot of hate and slander and listened to threats of punishment from “Bryanchyaninovtsy”.
I know God. But they know only their sects. And this is the fundamental difference between us in the Face of God. And we go in the opposite directions with them: to God and to hell.
… Indeed, God does not lead infidels to Himself by the Straight Path. These are the words from the Quran.
And the Straight Path to Him is the Path of Love: love for people, for all living beings, for the Creation and the Creator. This is the Path to Him as the correctly understood Goal. This is the Path of purging oneself as a soul of everything that is not Divine: including coarseness, violence and all kinds of egocentrism — and of replacing self-centeredness with God-centeredness. And all of this is real.
… If only you could embrace non-embodied Jesus Christ Who appears in the human-like form and feel His Divine love, Subtlety and Tenderness — combined with unlimited Power, resulting from Unity with the Universal Consciousness of the highest eon, and Divine Wisdom — then you would realize right away what God appreciates in people and what He wants us to be like.
But in order for us to be honored with such Embrace, we have to get closer to Him — not physically, but by the characteristics of souls.
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… One of the ways to answer the question “What is the Truth?” is: “There is Evolution going on Within the Body of the Absolute.* Our Goal is the Creator. Our task is to transform ourselves from the part of the Absolute into the part of the Creator, to enrich Him with ourselves. In order to fulfill this task we have to become Love — strong, wise and refined to the level of the Primordial Consciousness.”
Simplicity means sensible naturalness of the way of life and behavior, as well as modesty and lack of arrogance and self-importance. Simplicity is a pre-requisite of Love. It is also the indispensable tool of spiritual warriors, which God wants us to be.
The best way to develop simplicity is to keep close to nature and to learn how to attune to its harmony. Here, in the solitude of forests, fields and lakes, without make-up on the face, earrings, fancy synthetic clothes or even with no clothes at all — we can love the beauty of the Creation and the Creator, accepting help from God in the optimal way, expanding with consciousness in the beauty of the Creation and in the Holy Spirit.
Simplicity is also beautiful in expressing one’s love for other people: in a smile, friendliness, tenderness and openness with friends.
But it is important to always know the limits. For instance, walking naked among those who do not understand you and propagating your understanding of “simplicity” in this way — this can only be called tactlessness; this cannot be called a harmonious and spiritual action.
The same principle can be applied to sexual relationships: the “simplicity” that leads to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies, as well as that, which is connected with violence and selfishness — is not what God wants from us.
“Spontaneity” in expressing and realizing all of one’s whims, needs and desires, which is encouraged in some modern pseudo-spiritual sects and other organizations, also does not have anything to do with the true Simplicity.
Only the Simplicity of intelligent people who belong to the sattva* guna and of those who have reached even higher spiritual heights is the true Simplicity.
People of the tamas guna under simplicity will understand either sugariness, or violence, rudeness, scuffle and lying drunk in the mud.
The true Simplicity is one of the elements of the “training for God”. It is not for those who are far from Him.
Love is the major quality of God. In order to merge with Him (or even to escape hell, to begin with) we have to learn to feel emotions of love and to perform deeds of love, to eliminate all the opposite states and actions, whatever circumstances we may live in.
Love is the main thing that God wants from us. And we do not have any other possibility to cognize Him and to merge with Him, unless we transform ourselves into Love.
Love is special emotional states; in other words — this is a state of the energy of consciousness. And consciousness (a soul) is what every one of us is in reality.
Every time we exit from the state of love, we alienate ourselves from God. “Every exit from the state of love leads to accumulation of bad karma” — this is what God told me once [4,11,14,16].
People blame their misfortunes and diseases on anyone but themselves. Although it is always themselves who are to blame. I illustrated this with examples from my own life in the book [16].
It is of paramount importance for us to understand that the stable and confident state of love can only be achieved through practicing special psychic self-regulation techniques that should include working with chakras, primarily with the anahata chakra. (We will describe these methods in the following chapters of this book).
In the ancient Christianity a special method of “opening up” the spiritual heart was developed, which got named “the Jesus prayer”. Adepts had to constantly repeat a special prayerful appeal to Jesus, and after years of practice some of them succeeded in making the prayer “break through” into their spiritual hearts — and this made them realize what Love really was. After that had happened the whole life of the person dramatically changed (see [16] for details).
Later, when Bryanchyaninov-type demonism acquired dominating positions in the Russian Orthodoxy, they started to talk that the “secrets of “the Jesus prayer” had been lost”…
… Once God, seeing my sincere aspiration towards Him and my strong desire to help people, helped me create tremendously efficient system of methods of “opening up” and development of the spiritual heart. Some of these methods were described in several books of mine [11,13,15,16] and were widely taught in Russia and some other countries some time ago.
However, I need to mention that out of thousands of students, only few were able to attain the actual and quite complete cognition of God-the-Father. What was the reason for “dropping out” of the rest? It was their inability to thoroughly comprehend the points of the “Babaji’s formula”.
The overwhelming majority of the students were lacking that intensive aspiration towards cognition of God, which could allow them to switch their attention to Him from the objects of the material world. Other gave in to the threats of Bryanchyaninov’s sectarians.
The psychic techniques per se are incapable of making a person attain God; they can only play the role of wonderful and necessary aids. But the main prerequisite of success is the ability of the spiritual seeker to comprehend with his developed intellect the entirety of the Truth and to build a steadfast loving aspiration towards the main Goal, in other words — to fall in love with the Creator.
True spiritual Path necessarily implies complex development of a person. It should include intellectual, ethic and psycho-energetic components.
A person also cannot successfully cultivate real love only by performing exercises with the anahata chakra during the meditation classes. Developing love should fill the whole life of a person and to pervade all his activities.
It should be manifested in constantly staying with concentration of consciousness in the anahata chakra, in sincere respectful and tactful attitude towards every person, whether one knows them or not, in the ability to forgive and forget insults quickly, without taking revenge, as well as in behavior that excludes any possibility to offend or aggrieve someone wrongly.
Love should have a sacrificial component of willingness to help others even if it goes to one’s own detriment, interests of those who deserve this help should be given a higher priority than one’s own.
Love must be directed not only towards God and people, but also towards animals and plants; nobody may think that their love is developed if they are still able to kill or maim plants unnecessarily, if they allow themselves to eat bodies of animals for the sake of satisfying their gluttony. God has been repeatedly pointing at the necessity of pure “cruelty-free” nutrition: among Those Who were telling about this are Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ and Babaji; now this is being preached by Sathya Sai Baba [7-8,14]*.
But leaders of degenerated religious sects insist on the diametrically opposite — for the sake of preserving for themselves the “right” to sin and ensuring mass attendance of their churches — by those people, whom they deceive and who pay for living expenses of those false pastors.
Love should be irreproachable in relationships with children. It must express in being incapable of getting irritated. Although, being demanding in teaching children discipline and honesty should not be excluded — in the interests of the children, in the first place.
Everyone should analyze the characteristics of their love in the sexual sphere, since this is where human vices usually are manifested very vividly.
Any kinds of violence or constraint in sex — even in the verbal form or in thought — are examples of the behavior, which is opposite to love.
Carelessness of a man as to prevention of unwanted pregnancy is another example of the same type of behavior.
Passiveness of a woman during a sexual intercourse when she is not aiming to give her love to her male partner, but only selfishly expects satisfaction for herself, being able to resent him for doing something “wrong” — is a phenomenon of the same nature. (Since all people differ by features of their sexuality, and the new partner never knows in advance how to satisfy you better).
True sexuality is an art of giving oneself and one’s love to one’s partner through sexual relationships. And only a combination of sincere and giving love on the side of both partners can lead to harmony in sexual relationships.
I am sure that many women would benefit from reading the wonderful book of Barbara Keesling [27], which promotes the practice for women of giving their sexual love as a gift. Although I would not recommend doing everything that is written there. For example, practicing oral sex regularly increases the risk of transmitting infections dramatically. Also, sexual relationships with many partners are absolutely incompatible with serious spiritual Path: during a sexual intercourse an intensive energy exchange takes place between partners, which leads to taking on possible energetic coarseness, impurities and diseases of the partner [9,14,16,28].
I spent many years working in sexual psychology and physiology fields: at that time — during the atheistic period of my personal development — I wanted to make people happy by helping them reach harmony in marriage and raise healthy children.
But once I experienced consequences of a grotesque egotism of a woman who asked me for sexological help because of her inability to reach orgasm. Here I will tell this story in details since this will allow us to examine a wide range of the most important ethic issues. She had been sincerely grateful to me for that help, which was a difficult act of self-sacrifice on my side, for almost a year. After many months we met “accidentally” in a class, to which I had been invited. She did not want to perform exercises then, she wanted only to sit and cuddle up to my body. She was talking only about her sexual progress. I was shocked — and gave her an audiotape with my lecture on incompatibility of sexual amusements with the spiritual Path. She took offence that resulted in her revenging herself by accusing me… of raping her. And she invented a really disgusting story. Although I do not have a slightest sign of violence or excessive sexuality. What I did then, at her request, and with full consent and collaboration from her side, — I did not for myself, but only for her, carefully masking my dislike so that not to hurt her feelings.
With her slander, she infuriated a gang of primitives against me, which one of my ex-disciples who deviated from the path to God had formed. And they attacked me from an ambush and mortally injured my body thus dooming it to a slow and painful death.
Later, God returned me into the same body and helped to find ways to heal it [16]. I became better having come through this ordeal: in this way God released me from the attachment to the huge crowd of followers whose potential in the spiritual work for that time had already been exhausted, and I switched my attention exclusively to Him, became a true monk, and over a short period of time walked a large part of the homestretch of my Path to Him.
But the members of that gang, who were calling themselves a “spiritual group”, even when they found out that I had been slandered, never repented, never did anything in extenuation of their fault, despite the fact that I decided not to avenge myself and saved them from criminal prosecution for what they had done.
They just “visited church”, obtained “forgiveness of sins” — and that was it…
By the way, let us think: did that “priest” help them then — or did he do harm to them? What would be better for the killers: to be guided to deep repentance and making attempts to become better — or to leave having been comforted by lies and self-satisfied?…
… Everyone creates their destiny themselves, using the free will granted by God. Some people develop themselves in sacrificial love by helping others. Some cultivate freakish egotism, hate, rudeness and brutality. The former — by enduring and forgiving, not getting “mixed up” in conflicts and preserving themselves through this in love and longing for God — attain Him. The latter become “garbage of the Evolution”. The former can be called true Christians. But the latter, although they attend temples with crosses upon the domes… — what can one call them?
After that incident, some people were perplexed: why did I not “punish” those scums?
But what could the punishment be?
To provide the police with the names, telephone numbers and home addresses of the leader and one of the members of that gang? This would have been enough to get all of them “going down”. But the question that made me refuse this idea then was: would have they become better after “doing their time”? They would have not!
Or maybe, to beat them up, to cripple them — one at a time — would have been right? But this would not have made them better as well. Just like in the first revenge option, they would have only become worse from the evolutionary standpoint by becoming more established in their emotional coarseness. Since by using violence we can make a person stop doing something, at best. He may even apologize (not sincerely), but as a soul he is not going to lighten and he will not repent.
What would happen if I killed them? But it is only the body that can be killed. The man himself does not die. Moreover, he loses the opportunity to improve himself in this incarnation. Only atheists and “believers” of the same level of development as the members of that gang kill or cripple others when avenging themselves.
This is why I am one hundred percent sure that my decision was right: to give them an opportunity to purify themselves through repentance — perhaps in many years, when they mature. Maybe my books will help them also. But in case they do not repent — they have already programmed terrible lessons into their destinies… What punishment can be worse that that?
I recounted this story in order to clarify the objective meaning of the urgent recommendations of the true religion of God: we should not avenge ourselves [14].
But we may look at two more sides of this problem.
The first is that it was God Who created the whole situation of my murder. Just like He created situations of all murders and all crimes. And the point is that He did it for me. Who am I supposed to “revenge” myself on, then?…
I know that this sounds blasphemous for followers of primitive religious sects: they are sure that all “evil” is done by mighty devil, whom the feeble old man — good God — is unable to defeat…
But if we understand the truth that God-the-Father is the universal Ocean of Consciousness that always exists under each cell of our bodies and all devils and demons are just insignificantly small drops of primitive consciousnesses, absolutely dependent on that Ocean of Wisdom, Power and Love, and the plan of the Ocean is not to serve us on Earth, creating paradisiacal life conditions at any price, but to lead us to becoming Perfect and to merging into Him — only then the role of God-Teacher in the life of every one of us and the Wisdom and Might of His Perfect Love can become clear to us.
… And another side of this problem is that nothing must distract us in our aspiration towards God: neither new sexual adventures, nor accumulation of mundane wealth, nor earning respect of people, nor “enemies”. All these are traps for those who do not love God.
But those who really love God — they go to Him without distracting for anything unnecessary.
And revengefulness is a striking manifestation of a man’s lower self that is opposite to the Higher Self of God.
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… Our sexuality has been conceived by God not only as a means of reproduction, but also as a method of spiritual development. It facilitates the cultivation of such aspects of love as tenderness, care, self-giving, merging of two consciousnesses into one, which prepares one to the Mergence with the Consciousness of the Supreme Beloved — the Creator. Sexual love can directly contribute to the development of the spiritual heart, which we have already discussed. It also teaches us Peace (if everything is going alright), which is an indispensable component of Perfection, one of the qualities of God, which we need to master.
But all this relates only to the sattvic, pure sexuality of people who make real progress on the spiritual Path. In this case it does accelerate their advancement significantly.
But sexuality of coarse and egotistic people who do not possess developed spiritual hearts can be disgusting and lead them to hell.
Spreading of perverted “Christianity” that has lost love became a damnation for spiritual evolution of many people of Earth. Among other things, it pronounced anathema against sexual love and declared renunciation of it a “Christian feat”. It profaned all conceptions by calling them “defiled” as opposed to the “immaculate” (i.e. without a man) conception of the mother of Jesus Christ that allegedly took place. A real cult of the Blessed Virgin’s hymen was created. (She must be really upset to see all this fuss around the fabulous features of her genitals!) The human body itself, especially the female body, was declared shameful. “Decent” people felt shy even to say the word “legs”. The words that related to the sexual subject were declared “indecent” and transformed into cursing — means of defiling other people. In this way the language of the tamas guna — “mat” (Russian obscene language) was created.
And how could a pure attitude to sexuality form in people who regard it as an odious “vice”, who hate sexuality in themselves and especially in others. But without this pure attitude towards sexuality one can hardly succeed in refinement of consciousness, development of love and getting close to God.
People started to fear what in reality could help them to become better. Men called to hate women exactly for what women could help them with. Since women are, in general, significantly more refined than men, if for no other reason than their hormonal status. And by this characteristic they are closer to God.
Jesus Christ taught the same [7,14,23] in His addressing to men:
“Respect her, uphold her. In acting thus you will win her love and will find favor in the sight of God…
In the same way, love your wives and respect them…
Be lenient towards woman. Her love ennobles man, softens his hardened heart, tames the brute in him, and makes of him a lamb.
The wife and the mother are the inappreciable treasures given unto you by God. They are the fairest ornaments of existence….
Even as God separated the light from the darkness and the land from the waters, woman possesses the divine faculty of separating in a man good intentions from evil thoughts.
Therefore I say unto you, after God your best thoughts should belong to the women and the wives, woman being for you the temple wherein you will obtain the most easily perfect happiness. Imbue yourselves in this temple with moral strength. Here you will forget your sorrows and your failures, and you will recover the lost energy necessary to enable you to help your neighbor.
Do not expose her to humiliation. In acting thus you would humiliate yourselves and lose the sentiment of love, without which nothing exists here below.
Protect your wife, in order that she may protect you and all your family. All that you do for your wife, your mother, for a widow or another woman in distress, you will have done unto your God.” /Life of Saint Issa, 12:13-21/.
But “Christianity” (and not only “Christianity”)… called woman “the source of sin” and prescribed to cover her body in any possible way. In Russia for many centuries women had to wear special long dresses when bathing and even to sleep in clothes. In Russian Bryanchyaninov-type monasteries they still keep a strict control over observing this rule: “What if you die in your sleep — you will appear before the Lord naked! What a shame it will be!”.
Another example of a similar kind of abomination is declaring some children “illegitimate” and holding up to shame the motherhood of those women to whom God entrusted the upbringing of those children.
… We need to understand that it is people of the tamas guna who are immersed in vice and who do not see anything except for it, while possessing aggressiveness, seize the “reins of government” in the originally holy religious movements and gradually turn them around into the opposite direction, warping the doctrine of God to its exact antithesis.
In the sexual aspect of life they — while belonging to hell themselves, obsessed with passion for violence, defilement and satisfaction of their egotistic lust — are unable to imagine that for other people, the sattvic ones, sexuality does not mean lust, but a way of sharing their love, giving it to other people as a gift. And that this may be their way of serving God!
… Monasteries were originally designed as spiritual schools. But in the Bryanchyaninov-type monasteries — both male and female — monks are not being taught anything good. These monasteries are just huge “communal flats”, where irritation and hostility boil up, where “killed food” is served even during official fasts and where people apart from monotonous standard prayers are busy performing just regular household activities.
They are allowed to wash their bodies once in two weeks. This is called “mortification of the flesh”. And their bodies do suffer from diseases, aggravating already grave states of the souls.
In addition to this many inhabitants of the monasteries “burn” with sexual passion, which they hate so much. While, maybe it is this passion that they are trying to hide from behind the walls of the monasteries?
With a rare exception, monks possess an outstanding coarseness of the souls — both men and elder women. “Bryanchyaninovtsy” accustom them to permanently living in negative emotions by teaching them to constantly fix their minds on hell, demons, their own total and hopeless depravity, which was transferred to them from Adam and Eve, who allegedly committed a deadly sin long time ago.
They, in fact, sink in hell, feel this hell and its inhabitants — and frighten other people with it, alluring them into fear of hell and spreading this mystical contagion around the world…
I am far from calling to “shut down” all monasteries: people do need them, really, — for many reasons. I myself benefited from them long time ago, when I lived, worked and prayed in them, confessing and making my communion every day. I am talking about spiritual sanation of not only monasteries, but the Orthodox Church as a whole — about purifying them of “Bryanchyaninov” Satanism and getting back to the Teachings of Jesus Christ.
Who would take the task of performing these “Herculean labors” for Russia?
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But getting obsessed with sex is also not good. The term “fornication” is valid not only for people, but also for God. It denotes both too many sexual contacts and sex with inadequate partners (those who are not at the same level of the spiritual advancement (for details see [14])). Sexually transmitted diseases are the mechanism that God uses for slowing down the tendencies for sexual amusements in people.
The truth here is that we should try to direct all our attention towards searching for God, without distracting excessively for anything else. (And sex is just one of such distractions).
Now is especially right time to talk about sexual “extremes”, since in many countries, including Russia, many pseudo-disciples of Rajneesh (Osho) — an Indian spiritual Master — expanded their activities. Calling themselves “enlightened” and “swamis” (monks), knowing nothing about God, obsessed with sex and sometimes with violence, energetically black inside and sick, making advertisement on the name of the Teacher, they make their living by propagating permissiveness in everything, including food, drugs and, of course, sex. It was a well-known instance when in one of such “ashrams”, all women who were allured there by advertisement were “initiated” through group raping.
I myself saw outbreaks of sexually transmitted diseases and rapidly progressing devilization (by energetic status of souls) among victims of such novations.
… So, in sex, like in everything else, everyone should find the golden mean between two extremes… Only in this case one will be able to achieve a sattvic state — a state of harmony and purity.
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Refinement of consciousness and true sattva, as a necessary stage of cognition of the Holy Spirit and God-the-Father, are impossible to achieve without accepting and understanding concepts of Beauty. “Beauty: Cosmos establishes Evolution on this formula” — this is what God taught us through Elena Roerich [14,22].
Spiritual beauty exists at two levels of the scale of gunas: rajas and sattva.
Rajas in this context means boldness, self-discipline and beauty of exploit. It is manifested in a spiritual warrior with unbending will. Rajas can be found in states of nature, it also can be expressed in dancing, music and fine art. Examples of the latter are paintings of Nicholas Roerich.
Sattva — spiritual purity and beauty, refined and saturated with tender love — is the last step on the ladder leading to cognition of the Holy Spirit.
In the nature we can find sattvic states in the purity of sunlight at dawn, in singing of spring birds, in charming silence of a tranquil evening, etc.
Among the most vivid examples of highly sattvic music are some compositions of Anand Shankar. Also, several vocal compositions created by members of the “Society for Krishna Consciousness” deserve the highest appraisal. I know marvelously sounding Orthodox tunes and chimes.
Sattvic beauty of harmonious human body is also spiritual and can attune the one who observes it to tenderness, tranquility and peace, which so many of us are lacking.
Sattva came to Russian cities with Gorbachev’s Perestroika primarily in the form of posters with tender beauty of naked female bodies. This was undoubtedly a spiritual breakthrough.
But businessmen of the tamas guna started to defile this subject almost immediately by filling the market with low-grade photos featuring protruding buttocks…
This is how different gunas manifest in the same genre of art. The sattva guna promotes beauty of love, while the tamas guna defiles it.
… Let everyone ask themselves — which guna do they belong? And what should they do in this connection?
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And another addition to the subject of Love.
One day I was traveling by train, perfecting humble thinking of myself and studying the situation: among my fellow travelers were a mother and a son. She had a huge body and was very rude. Her son — a military cadet — was about fifteen years old. All the way she constantly shouted. About what? It… was just her regular manner of talking to her son, shouting everything what was coming to her mind — all her thoughts. For example: “Darling! I am going to go to the toilet and throw out the apple core!… Why don’t you answer, when your mother is talking to you???!!!” And her exhausted son was looking in the window with a dull expression on his face being able only to nod listlessly…
How can the behavior of this “mommy”, who sincerely loved her child, be characterized?
Was it violent? — Yes, it was. Was it tactless? — Yes, it was. One can name some more of her traits… But what is important to stress now is that her love lacked Peace.
An ability to feel deep inner Peace, especially when there is no need to perform energetic actions is a very important and valuable quality. It is a fundamental prerequisite of true Love.
And attempts to love without this inner Peace sometimes turn into what I have just described. Such “love” can only cripple its victims. It induces in them only an urgent need to escape. If there is a place to escape to…
… The state of God-the-Father in His Abode can be described as Tender Peace. Let us learn this from Him when preparing ourselves to meeting with the Creator.
But the true Peace is not something opposite to a sound Drive and Energy, but matches them harmoniously. Let us analyze this postulate and apply it to our lives.
Apart from the recommendations that you may see in this book you may find it helpful to study the best spiritual experience accumulated in traditions of Zen- and Chan-Buddhism and concrete methods that were created in these schools: “tea ceremonies”, “stone gardens”, “meditative landscapes”, the best methods of Samurai’s training, etc. [16,30,36,38]
The term “karma yoga” means “Path to Mergence with God through performing selfless service”.
What is service to God?
An incompetent reader may start to recall: “I know the term “Divine service”… What is it? Prayers… And what are prayers? “Lord, give me this! Lord, give me that!”…
Yes, for the majority of believers who consider themselves Christians, praying means begging something from God. And, paradoxically enough, they see in this their duty and their “service” to God…
But God does not need our panhandling. He does not listen to this. Otherwise it would “make Him sick” to hear all the nonsense that people invented, their addressing Him as a servant who is allegedly supposed to supply whatever He is asked for.
He needs our efforts on self-perfection and our help to other people in this. He wants us — every one of us! — to take an active part in His Evolution. And not to whine passively and expect “grace” from Heaven.
Helping other people on this Path — this is what service to God is! He declared this through Babaji and Sathya Sai Baba; Apostle Paul said many wonderful words about this as well [7,14].
But one should not interpret this kind of help too narrowly: only as preaching, conducting religious classes or writing religious books. No. In order to live on Earth fruitfully and to evolve people also need housing, food, clothing, fuel, transport, safety, medical help, education and many other things. Therefore, karma yoga means helping other people in everything that is good.
But what does harm to people is not karma yoga, not a service to God, but a service to forces of the devilish eon. This applies to production and distribution of alcohol, tobacco and other toxic substances, killing animals and feeding people with their dead bodies, promotion of hatred of mankind and aggressive wars…
The most important characteristic of karma yoga is the right motivation: one should not act for gain or reward, even in the form of a salary. One should perform actions for the sake of helping other people, as acts of selfless giving. This does not imply, however, an unpaid work. But it is up to those whom we help and to God to take care of the material welfare of the giver.
In other words, the essence of “mutual settlements” of worthy people who help one another is exchange of gifts. All necessary details of the “gift theory” (or the “theory of giving”) are set out by God in Chapter 17 of the Bhagavad Gita [14]. The essence of it is that God regards only those gifts as sattvic, i.e. true and pure, that one gives to the worthy person at the right time and in the right place.
So, the short definition of the term “karma yoga” sounds like this — “selfless help to all worthy people in everything good”.
It is very important to emphasize that a person develops correctly not through parasitism, panhandling or endless repetition of prayers or making ritual bodily movements — but through creative work and active love for other evolving beings, which is expressed in actions for their good.
Sathya Sai Baba clarifies the idea of karma yoga by the following illustrative example. He says that if you are members of one family you do not ask the head of the family for payment for each kind of work you perform around the house — it is outside people that work for money, but not the “own” ones. So you, if you feel that God is your Father, you must not engage in bargaining with Him, but on the contrary — you must act in the interests of His Plan, for Him, for the Evolution and not for your personal gain [7-8,14-16,35].
This kind of activity is the background, against which God allows us to develop intellectually, in love and in power.
This is the final part of the Teachings. It includes Mergence of an individual consciousness of the man who reached the highest eon with the Consciousness of the Creator. At that, the person’s self-awareness dissolves in the Ocean of His Universal Consciousness.
Attempts of the leaders of some sects to either fully destroy self-awareness of their disciples without providing them with a new substrate for self-identification* or to convince them that they are already God should be regarded as extremely harmful. Self-awareness of a person should not be destroyed but transferred. And cognition of God and Mergence with Him are not performed through being convinced or convincing oneself, but by means of stage-by-stage penetration with correctly developing consciousness into more subtle eons, their exploration, establishing in them, learning to Merge with the Consciousness of the Holy Spirit first and then with the Consciousness of the Creator. All other directions prove to be dead-end and lead to either delays in a person’s development or to cultivation of gross vices and turning to the direction opposite from God, which is fraught with devilization and insanity.
Work on this part of the “Babaji’s formula” should begin with elementary correction of one’s behavior in communicating with other people. Tendency of many people to dominate over others, to behave as if they are the “boss”, to look “important”, look comical from the standpoint of spiritual growth. Violence, resentfulness, jealousy, revengefulness, wrathfulness, desire to own people and things (except for essential ones), sexual desire (lust), like any intensive wanting something from people or from God, — all of these are vicious manifestations of the lower self. They must be eliminated.
Jesus Christ and His Apostles left many invaluable formulas-precepts for us: do not sit at the high place, if you want to grow spiritually — become a servant to other people, never resent or revenge yourself, regard others as higher than yourself, etc. [7,14].
Lao Tse and Juan Matus were telling about exactly the same in a very straightforward and concise way [14]*.
For me personally, the following formula that God gave me once proved very helpful: “Realize how trifling your earthly affairs are compared to the greatness of Universal God” [4,14,16].
It takes deep self-analysis and hard work on repentance in order to get rid of manifestations of one’s “protruding” lower self.
But regularly, Orthodox or Catholic churches do not provide one with the optimal method of dealing with this task. The thing is that there is no such phenomenon as “forgiveness of sins” in reality: God does not have such a concept.
The purpose of repentance is not obtaining forgiveness for concrete acts that we have done, but getting rid of vices.
“Sins”, i.e. our mistakes, are either consequences of our lack of experience and knowledge or specific manifestations of those qualities of our souls that are called vices.
I have already given the example of my killers who never repented, but just went to church, received “forgiveness of sins” from a “priest” and were sure that their conscience was clear. But there are a great number of people who have been deceived just like these poor fellows. Because religious pseudo-pastors convince them that preserving vices and their manifestations in the form of the most terrible sins is a perfectly acceptable thing — provided that after “sinning” they come to church for confession, after which everything will be fine, everything is going to be all-right…
But it is not going to be all-right.
… The true mechanisms of deliverance from vices are self-analysis, repentance, and strict self-control.
If it is not possible to eliminate the vice that has been discovered and realized right away, one should recall the entire line of its manifestations — starting from one’s childhood (and sometimes from one’s previous incarnations). And one has to re-experience anew in one’s mind all situations, which one previously resolved incorrectly, but this time in the right way. Moreover, it makes sense to “play over” in advance all possible future situations when this vice can manifest again.
It is also important to try, if possible, “to redress the wrong” to those whom we harmed — be they people, animals or plants. Even if they are not currently “alive” on Earth — we should address them as non-embodied souls. And let us remember that God really accepts such our efforts on getting rid of our vices.
We need to repent of all the instances when our non-love for other people and for God was manifested, as well as of all our egotistic actions and emotions.
Many dully-egotistic persons try to push their bodies into a subway train car as soon as the doors open without letting the people to get out first.
Or, while waiting for a bus or a tram, they block the sidewalk with their bodies, instead of standing on the side so that not to hinder anyone from passing by, thus showing care for other people.
Or, entering the subway station hall some people hold the spring door behind them to help the following person get in, while others let the door go, crashing their “neighbor” with it.
Even when they get into a sound spiritual school, egotistic primitive people behave in the same manner. As long as the course is conducted, they feel good, they are happy and filled with bliss. But once the course is over — they start to feel bad: they have already gotten used to the situation when someone is making them feel good; and suddenly it stops… And since they do not feel good anymore they start to experience increasing negative emotions towards the instructor and the school…
Egotistic person knows only his selfish interest and resents when an obstacle in the form of someone else’s need gets in the way of his satisfaction.
Moreover, when a person strongly wants something from anyone, it is an indication of the viciously protruding lower self of the one who wants. This can trigger the mechanism of bio-energetic “vampirism” and become the cause of diseases of those, from whom a person wants something [16], and of “aggravation” of destiny of the one who wants.
But a loving person is always being attentive: he cares not to hinder anyone in anything, but, on the contrary, uses any possibility to help everybody, giving the interests of other people a higher priority than his own.
He is always polite and benevolent, he strives never to offend anyone without a reason, even with his own not the best states, being sick or tired, for instance.
In sexual relationships he will never obtrude himself, but will wait for the moment when his desire will become reciprocal.
… In this kind of self-analysis detailed recommendations by Sathya Sai Baba can be of great help [8,14].
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Once I was riding on a dirt road in a goods wagon crammed with people. I was the last to climb into it, having let everybody in first. My backpack was protruding outside. Along the way, the truck turned over. My body rolled out without even getting hit. What happened to those who rushed to take their seats first… — it would take too long to list their injuries here.
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Deliverance from coarse emotional states and the ability to attune to sattvic phenomena of life that we can achieve enable us to begin with meditations of “dissolving” ourselves in harmony of the surrounding space. Especially effective such meditations can be in quiet evenings, at dusk — in the forest, prairies, at lakesides, seashores or near other water reservoirs. The meditation should be performed using the following formula: “There is only harmony of the surroundings: forest, lake, — but myself is not there”. At that, consciousness expands from the anahata chakra and attunes to the subtlety and purity of nature.
The next fundamental stage will be mergence with the Holy Spirit in “Pranava” meditation (see below), and then stage-by-stage mastering of the “total reciprocity” (Nirodhi) in the eons of the Holy Spirit and God-the-Father.
This is how man completes his individual evolution forever, becoming a Part of the Primordial Consciousness, a Part of the Creator. After that he continues to live creatively — not as a separate being, but as Him.
The doctrine of the Straight Path was not invented by people. No, it has been suggested by God. This doctrine was set out in details by Krishna and then repeated by Jesus Christ, Babaji and Sathya Sai. Quran and Buddhist scriptures contain the same description of it and even use the same term [14].
This doctrine may be summarized in short in the following three points:
1. There is God — One Universal Consciousness of the Creator, Who lives in the highest eon of multidimensional space.
2. He is Love.
3. We have to become one with Him through transforming ourselves into Love, into a “universal spiritual heart”. And understanding and accomplishment of this are the only things it makes sense to spend one’s life for.
Now we will describe specific methods of advancing on this Path.
They can be divided into several groups depending on their level of difficulty: preliminary, intermediate and highest.
Preliminary methods help one develop faith. And faith is essential for emergence of the incentive for making spiritual efforts.
But what is faith? This is a rather multi-level concept.
Some say about their faith: “Well, I know there is something out there…: cosmic intellect, UFO…”
Others will assert with confidence: “Yes, I believe in God!” And they will even make a “sign of the cross”. But they do not make slightest spiritual efforts — even to find out what God wants from us, let alone to transform themselves in accordance with His Will. On the contrary, they will be drinking hard, stealing, hating, killing, and only occasionally thinking: “What if God might not like this? Oh, well — all this is not going to be soon!”. Just like I would not be interested to hear about methods of manufacturing golden jewelry or faceting diamonds — they are not interested to hear anything about God.
Once I was talking to a former head of an Orthodox parish. He was telling me that he was working on his dissertation. I said to him: “But we are already in the age when it is time to think about using the time left to make as much as possible in the monastic pursuit and not in acquiring earthly titles… Will God need your degree?” He replied: “Well, God — it is not known if He exists or not, but the Ph.D. degree is almost mine!”…
Faith acquires a real value only when it is characterized by love for God. Because only love can make a person want to transform himself sincerely, willing to become what his Beloved wants to see him. And later it may even grow into a passion, which will make one give up everything that stands in the Way to the wide-open Embrace of the Creator… This is when one comes to a true monasticism: to being one-to-one with God…
So, helping people strengthen their faith is the sole purpose of such techniques as making standard ritual bodily movements, repeating prayers, singing mantras, performing ritual dances and worshiping images of God and “saints” on icons or in the form of idols. But these methods look totally absurd to those who have mastered these stages long ago.
It is only on this stage of development that some primitive views “work”, like that “consecration” is a means of transferring special mystic power or that belonging to a “Parampara” — a succession of teachers originating from an Incarnation of God — is something essential. Although in reality, there are many energetically devilized aggressive primitive people among “consecrated” priests, and disciples of spiritual Masters often warp Their Teachings grossly even in the “first generation” of the continuity chain.
But with all seeming absurdity of playing rites, initiations, common and individual mantras games, etc. — God “adjusts” to these games that people play and helps sincere seekers overcome difficult first steps of the great Path against this background.
Although the true baptism of the Holy Spirit (which was described by apostle Philip, in particular, [14]) in no way resembles the corresponding rite of any church that is known under the same name, God accepts this act from sincere neophytes, if they perform it as a vow to Him that they have an unwavering resolution to seek and to find Him as their Goal.
But when companies of murderers accept baptism before setting off for their bloody crimes, like it was, for example, during the Chechen war, — does not it look like a abominable desecration of the Teachings and the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ for us?
The same can be said about christening of children: does not common everyday experience tell us that it is a completely useless act? One may have seen both christened and-non-christened children get sick, die, become drunkards or criminals when they grow up.
Christening is an oath of devotion to God, and not at all an act of “guard magic”. And only an experienced and mature person can give such an oath, and he must do it himself, but not “godparents” for him.
… But strings with crosses that people put on the children’s necks sometimes turn out to be slip-knots for little babies. Sometimes they get entangled in those strings that strangle their necks…
Crosses worn around the necks were used by executioners during the compulsory christening of Russians to mark those who had already been christened so that it would be easier for them to catch and subject to tortures or to kill those people who tried to evade this [32]. But why do people wear crosses now? Do they really think that God needs them to? But it is enough for God if there is a sign of christening in a sincere Christian’s soul.
… But on the other hand — prayers before meal, icons in one’s house, attendance of churches, participation in rituals, repetition of mantras and feeling a cross on one’s chest — all of this can strengthen one’s faith by reminding one about God. And God gives the worthy seekers confirmations of correctness of their initial efforts by affecting their emotional sphere: He grants them an experience of bliss by creating flows of grace.
… But there are no “saving” rituals, nonetheless. And upon acquiring loving faith a person should start studying the Will of God, as opposed to canons of the organization, in which he started his Path. And he also should make real efforts on self-transformation — transformation of himself as a soul, as a consciousness.
As we can see, there is nothing wrong in getting involved in ritual forms of religious practice at a certain stage of one’s development. This has been typical of all times, countries and religion forms. And it does not make sense to try to figure out which ritual forms are better and which worse. The Orthodox ones, for example, are beautiful. Others are wonderful, too. The more peace, harmony, pure and tranquil joy, bliss and love they carry, the better. These are exactly the qualities that religious rites should help believers cultivate.
The main issue is not the form of ritual practices, but the ideology that is preached by the organizations that provide these practices. We have already discussed this in the previous chapters.
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All people differ by their psychogenetic age, i.e. by the age of the soul. The age of the body (the ontogenetic age) is a different thing. In his next incarnation each person can quite quickly and easily realize what he developed in his previous incarnations. This relates to his intellectual potential, level of development of the chakras, amount of the mass of consciousness, inclinations in professional field, intensity of certain psychic traits.
This is why it is perfectly normal that we can meet grown-up people that possess dramatically different abilities to comprehend religious issues. It is also normal that a huge number of believers along with their leaders remain on the preliminary stage of spiritual work until the end of their current incarnations: in their next lives they will have a chance to continue their Path.
But they do need to be informed that this stage is just a preliminary one. This will help those of them who can go wake up and move further.
People who are still at the previous stage of mastering their religiosity believe that the faith in the ideological concept and rituals of the organization of their choice is a sufficient condition for their “salvation” (Russian Orthodoxy separated some of its rituals for greater show to a special group of “sacraments”). These people are not yet capable of comprehending words of God, not even those of them that are written in the Holy Scriptures. Opinions and orders of their earthly “pastors” are much dearer and more valuable to them.
For example, despite the fact that God told people not to kill, “Christians” “became famous” for so many terrifying atrocities throughout the history of Christianity on Earth!* So many wars, murders, tortures and other crimes they have committed! As for killing of animals — scarcely 0.001% of “Christians” obey the Will of God in this respect. Where is the place for Christian love?! There is no sight of you among “Christians”! This is because those “Christians” are not true ones!
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But the initial stage of spiritual advancement implies making real efforts on self-transformation.
And the first thing that the aspirant has to do is accepting the principle of Love. He must not accept it as just a nice phrase, acknowledging the beauty of it, but as a strict rule of conduct. And no practical methods — be they exercises of hatha yoga, work with chakras and meridians, winter swimming, etc. — will bring us closer to God (in fact, they can even lead us astray, sometimes), if we do not follow commandments of God regarding Love in reality.
Let us look at the nutrition, for example. If we contaminate our bodies with coarse energies of dead bodies of animals, this will not allow us to attain the required degree of refinement of consciousness for getting closer to the Abode of the Creator; on the contrary, it will drag us towards hell and create for us a bad karma, which will have to be redeemed in our next incarnations.
We have thoroughly discussed the subject of correct nutrition in the books [9,11,16]. Here I will only say that a human organism has to be provided, as a rule, with sufficient amount of proteins that contain all necessary amino acids. The proteins of this kind are supplied with eggs and milk products. There are also great amounts of protein in mushrooms, nuts, soybeans and some other foodstuffs. Therefore, there is no necessity to kill animals from healthy nutrition perspective*. After all, a human being as biological species does not belong to the class of predators and the anatomy and biochemistry of the human organism are not fit for eating bodies of animals — this is the reason why it suffers of this kind of nutrition [2,19].
But health and karma considerations are not principal here. The main point is that God is Love. And He allows us to get close to Him only if we become Love.
But material substances are not the only food that we consume. As “food” we, as souls, also use impressions (Russian religious psychologist George Gurdjieff was among those who talked about it in these terms in the beginning of the 20th century [16,34]). And if we want to “turn away from what is evil and cling to what is good” we need to take any opportunity to use the “food” of this kind — in nature, art, communicating with spiritual people, etc. and attuning to the subtle and harmonious phenomena. At the same time we need to keep away from coarse impressions, which are primarily created by people of the tamas guna. This was taught by Jesus Christ, Babaji, and Sathya Sai Baba: Their opinions regarding this issue are presented in the book [14].
Avoiding external coarseness is just one of the methods. But the main task for us is to eliminate internal coarseness, including that which comes out of us. This can be attained by controlling emotions, which are states of us as consciousnesses.
Each emotion emanates beyond the body, affecting surrounding people and other living beings. And the more intensive it is the further from the body it emanates.
Solving of the task of controlling one’s emotions radically will be possible only at the next, higher stages of work. But if we do not set this goal right now and start to accustom ourselves to self-control, we can hardly expect ourselves to achieve any success in the future.
For now, an effective method of struggling with bursts of coarse emotions and various manifestations of egotism will be repentance work, which we have discussed in detail above.
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We have discussed this extensively in other books [9-17]. Now I will stress that a superficial and shallow attitude towards ethic issues can sometimes produce an opposite effect compared to what was expected.
For example, we discussed acceptance of the Compassion principle as one of the first steps towards Love. But does everyone clearly realize that compassion does not have anything to do with plunging into onerous emotional states of “worrying about” someone?… People who fall into states like that become unbearable for others, especially for those whom they “worry about”. Bioenergetic impact of the fields with such characteristics sometimes can be the “final blow” for those wounded or sick people who become subject to such “worrying”. The victims may feel a desperate need to get rid of this “compassionate” monster who overwhelms them with such a state — to get rid by all means, at the level of the deepest instinct of self-preservation, which is beyond control of the intellect…
Such “compassion”, just like bioenergetic vampirism [16], ruins loving relationships between people, destroys families…
No, compassion does not at all mean “heavy” emotions, but overall pure and careful attitude towards all manifestations of life, if possible, avoiding causing any unnecessary harm to anyone, as well as willingness to help everyone in what is good.
The initial stage of spiritual work is not sattva yet. It is still rajas. And among the most important factors that determine success at this stage are energy and self-discipline, cultivating the ability to make efforts and super-efforts on the spiritual Path.
These qualities can be perfectly developed by engaging oneself in various dynamic sport activities, of which especially great are those that connect one with living nature (hiking, mountain climbing, etc.). Practicing oriental martial arts would also be very good for that purpose. But it is important to emphasize, that this practice should in no way lead to growth of aggressiveness, brutality and rudeness. Another important thing to understand is that the techniques of martial arts per se cannot lead the seeker to spiritual heights: this can be achieved only by working with chakras and through mastering the art of meditation, which are integral parts of the training in the best schools of this orientation.
In any specific kind of study at this stage — be it karate, hiking, or something else — both instructors and students should pay their principal attention to increasing the level of their morality, which is based on causing no unnecessary harm to any living beings (see [7-17] for details).
It would be appropriate for everyone to start thinking about and to make right decisions regarding their service according to karma yoga principles and change professional occupation, if necessary, or start studying in order to acquire a new profession.
Of the variety of hygienic recommendations the following four should be accepted at this stage:
Washing the body with soap daily, if possible, preferably in the morning.
Getting up early and going to bed early.
Not wearing clothes made of synthetic fabrics, especially those that have close contact with the skin.
Exposing the entire body to sunlight: it brings health, which is quite necessary. In winter, one should periodically expose the body to the light of “quartz” lamps, especially in case of ailments (those of catarrhal type, in particular).
Other hygienic recommendations as well as advice on healing oneself of common diseases can be found in the book [11].
The people with unstable emotional sphere as well as those who cannot concentrate or have unpleasant obsessive thoughts will benefit from taking a course of hatha yoga lessons. Exercises of this stage were developed in ancient India, and their performance teaches one concentration of consciousness in various parts of the body, as well as relaxation of body and mind; they also contribute to elimination of many bioenergetic defects within the body and can heal one of some chronic diseases.
The mechanism that is at work here is as follows: maintaining postures of hatha yoga for a long time causes accumulation and redistribution of energy in the energy structures of the organism, which leads to their development. The following dynamics of sensations is typical when mastering new asanas. For the first few days of practice one may not feel anything out of ordinary, only regular adaptation of the body takes place. During the next few days appears absolutely new “mysterious” and pleasant sensation of energies “flowing” inside the body, which “flow” in meridians like streams of a liquid; one may even hear a babbling sound at times. But in one or two weeks they suddenly disappear, to one’s regret, which in fact means that the asana has fulfilled its role at the current stage. But what was taking place is the following. As a result of doing the asana, the corresponding meridian started to function. While its conductivity was still low, one had interesting murmur-like sensations. When the meridian opened fully, the energy started to move freely inside of it and the “murmuring” stopped.
At the initial stages of mastering exercises of hatha yoga the necessary condition for doing asanas is performing shavasana after the whole set or after particular asanas, which are performed separately (except for relaxation ones). This is needed for the leveling of energetic strains that may develop due to the low conductivity of meridians. If this condition is not fulfilled, neurotic symptoms (lability of mood, sleep disturbances and many others) and even visual impairments or disorders of other systems of the organism may develop.
Description of relaxation asanas will be given below. Other exercises are described in specialized literature.
Practicing hatha yoga without switching to “cruelty-free” diet always leads to the coarsening of consciousness of the students. Subjectively it is perceived as attainment of power. But it turns out to be a terrible trap: possessing coarse power of consciousness we program ourselves for living in hell.
Apart from exercises of Indian hatha yoga some systems of Chinese dynamic gymnastics can be used for the same purpose, for example, those, where development of meridians with images of light (small sun, etc.) is performed during smooth and slow “roll-overs” from one foot to another.
Hatha yoga practice (or other trainings) can be supplemented by exercises, which develop an ability to create clear visual images. This will prepare one for mastering the highest forms of meditation as well as create prerequisites for attainment of clairvoyance.
We can start with simple things: let us imagine a tomato, an apple, a juicy pear, then let us imagine that we examine them, smell them, bite them, enjoy their flavor and swallow them with great pleasure…
Let us get carried to the morning silence of a lake: in a boat, surrounded by wet reeds… Small tender dew-drops are hanging from every leaflet… Fish splashing, whistling of duck wings… Reed warblers start singing their songs…
Or we may imagine that we are lying on the beach in the morning sunlight… Warm and tender light pervades our entire body and soul, saturating them with bliss…
Or let us visualize ourselves picking mushrooms: cutting and plucking black slimy milk mushrooms out of wet autumn foliage…, admiring a big and solid sep…
We may visualize numerous similar images. They must attune us to subtlety, beauty and bliss. They must teach us sattva.
Later on we may complicate the training in the following way: we may imagine ourselves to actually be some imaginary sattvic object — a sweet juicy pear, a strawberry, a tender fragrant flower, or a caressing sun. We may learn to place these images filled with our own consciousness, with our self-awareness, into the chest — into the anahata chakra.
When this ability is well developed it will not be difficult for us to invite an image of our beloved Divine Teacher, which we know very well from photographs, into anahata… And He will “come alive” there: He will start smiling and speaking… But it will become possible only if we deserve it: if we lead an impeccable life, established in sattva, study the Teachings of God intensively, and transform ourselves in accordance with them.
Work with images has another name — “visualization”, which was borrowed from Buddhism. But it is important to warn the reader from non-critical attitude towards specific recommendations for “visualization” that he or she may find in literature or lectures of some ignorant Buddhist specialists: as we have also discussed there is a great number of sects and schools within Buddhism that deviated from the true Path.
Some authors recommend surrounding one’s body with images of “wrathful gods”, i.e. devils and demons, for “guard magic” purposes. And those images also “come alive” by getting filled with corresponding hell beings.
A once famous mystic and doctor from Saint Petersburg who was not “overburdened with intellect” and possessed grossest ethic vices, while being a good extrasensory diagnostician, started to study these “black magic” methods with a group of his students. The effect was that people were getting sick after just talking to him. And when that entire gang visited other esoteric groups to stare at people practicing — students were fainting there.
Coarsening of him as a consciousness reached a tremendous level, and he turned into a devil in the flesh, but he continued to teach extrasensory healing and to “heal”. Although it is clear that people like this cannot really heal anyone, they can only do harm by “putting an evil eye” on people.
He ended up becoming a knife-victim, murdered in his own bathroom. It was most likely one of the victims of his “healing” or some of his or her friends.
But hell is not what we need! We prepare ourselves to becoming God, not devils! Therefore, seeing this sad example of spiritual degradation as someone else’s tragic experience, let us turn away from it and go to the abodes of Purity, Light, Tenderness, and Love — in order to attune to them and to become one with them.
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If you already possess some skills, which could be of use to other people, — gather some of your friends and teach them what you know. Your knowledge, abilities, and efforts will combine, and you all will grow together, preparing yourself to the next stages of spiritual growth.
Basic methods are those which allow one to attain such level of purification and of energy structures’ development of the organism, which would enable one to feel God, to learn how to attain Samadhi (the emotional states that occur during contacts with Consciousness of God in His Divine Fire aspect) and to grow one’s refined consciousness further by developing its power — in order to come at the subsequent highest stages of work to the complete Victory of Mergence with the Creator in His Abode.
In Hindu and Buddhist traditions these methods are known as “Raja yoga”. Their variations were developed in Chinese Taoism and Muslim Sufism. They existed on the territory of Russia before its “christening”, which is clear judging by the high spiritual status of those who are incarnated here now. But the only spiritual practice of this level that is known in Christianity is the “Jesus prayer”*.
Raja yoga is based on working with chakras, main meridians and the “cocoon”. The purpose of this work is to “cleanse” them to transparency and also to develop them — in order to attain through them the Divine level of subtlety.
Hence it becomes obvious that techniques of “coloring” chakras practiced in some schools are harmful, and using them is a consequence of tremendous spiritual incompetence of the leaders of those schools. For tender white is the subtlest color, and any other is obviously farther from the level of subtlety of the Creator.
Another typical mistake that people may make when working with chakras is placing the emphasis on development of the ajna chakra and its “window” (trikuta), which ostensibly leads to attainment of clairvoyance. This tendency has a long history and originates in the incorrect interpretation of Krishna’s words in the Bhagavad Gita [14] (8:10), where He recommends channeling energy through trikuta. But from reading the next verses of Gita (8:12) it is clear that He is talking about the energy of Atman (see also [15]). But in numerous schools, whose leaders have not cognized Atman yet, attempts are made to perform this with regular bioenergies, which leads to activation of one of the coarsest (originally) chakras and as a consequence to coarsening of the entire consciousness. Such people develop, in particular, a “piercing”, sharp and unpleasant gaze. A tendency like this halts them for a long time in their spiritual development.
But the clairvoyance, which some seekers gain as a result of such practice, is of no real value, because it enables them to see only emotional auras around the heads of other people and is good only for “spying” upon their emotional states.
But the true clairvoyance is exercised by structures of the lower “bubble of perception” (see below). Possessing it enables one to see energies of different levels of subtlety-coarseness scale in multidimensional space. As a result of gaining this kind of clairvoyance one becomes able to directly observe various subtlest Manifestations of the non-incarnate Consciousness of God.
Work on development of chakras and other fine structures of organism is incompatible with taking alcohol (even in the form of kvas or alcohol-containing milk products) and other psychedelics, since these substances destroy those subtle structures. Breaking this rule causes serious diseases.
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Work with fine energy structures as well as meditative trainings cannot be effective if the room in which they are performed is illumined with fluorescent lighting, since it produces a coarse energetic impact on the organism.
One also must not wear synthetic clothes, because they block a significant part of the spectrum of bioenergies and distorts energy processes inside the body. (The latter instruction does not relate to raincoats, which we put on only in case of rain).
Watches and other metal objects should be taken off during the classes: bioenergetic work makes watches magnetize and go out of order, while all metal objects create energetic interference.
We have already talked about incompatibility of psycho-energetic trainings with eating “killed” food. If this rule is not obeyed the energy structures of the organism get constructed of coarse energies.
Practice at this stage of work is better performed in a group. The size of the practice room should correspond to the size of the group: too big of a hall would be unfavorable since the group energy will get dissipated in it.
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First serious information (of that which is known to us) about the role and functioning of chakras and about methods of working with them was presented in books [11,13,15,16]. The fantasies of Aurobindo Ghosh regarding this that were set out in his books are completely baseless; they have only deceived many readers while there was a shortage of written esoteric information in Russia before Perestroika.
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Let us get down to specific information about work at this stage of spiritual advancement. The suggested exercises have been published several times. They have been tested by many years of teaching them to great numbers of people and proved to be highly effective.
It is good to start each practice session with emotional attunement and purification of the energy of the surrounding space. For this purpose there exists a wonderful technique, known as the “Cross of Buddha”. It is performed in the following way.
For the best performance of this exercise we should accept the so-called “student posture”: we should sit down on the heels holding the spine straight, toes looking backwards and palms of hands resting upon the thighs. Then we send waves of our benevolence and love from the chest forward, saying mentally: “May all beings have peace! May all beings be calm! May all beings feel bliss!” We produce each of these three states inside the chest first and then radiate them forward. Then we repeat this to the right, to the left, backwards, up, and down. This is a powerful technique that allows us to bring harmony to ourselves, to the surrounding space, and to the living beings around us.
After this, especially at the first few sessions, a very important element of practice would be a physical warm-up, which not only allows one to “cheer up” the energies within the body and to get rid of unnecessary mental dominants, but also teaches one to concentrate as a consciousness in the working parts of the body. The latter will come in handy in the future when we will be working with chakras.
Stand up. By making paddy movements with the legs and the trunk swing both arms back and forth, then rotate them simultaneously. Concentrate in the shoulder joints. Visualize light emerging and growing brighter inside the joints.
Tense the muscles of the arms. Bend and unbend the arms repeatedly in the elbow joints. Watch white light gathering from the entire body to the working muscles.
Extend the arms in front of the body. Mo