Whatever politicians decide and no matter what the situation turns out to be, — everyone must start with transforming themselves.
At first, you must accept the main ideas that are expounded in the books cited here: they integrate the most important information that God has given people and what the best people of Earth have said about God.
After that you must gradually get rid of all bad habits: smoking, drinking alcohol, using drugs, eating “killed” food (i.e. the food made of bodies of killed animals; eggs of chicken and other birds are not “killed” food; see [4-8,10,17,25,62,88] for more detailed nutritional recommendations). You should also stop wearing synthetic clothes, in the beginning at least those, which have the immediate contact with the skin. Try to wash your entire body with soap (preferably in the morning). All this will result in a quick and noticeable enhancement of your health.
You should analyze the mistakes you made in your past and sincerely repent of those your actions that caused pain or trouble to others or situations when you did not help someone when you should have. This will be your repentance before God. Its purpose is to learn not to sin anymore. Try to understand that God knows every thought of every person. And in order to pass it to God — one needs neither middlemen nor rituals (nor “sacraments”!). (You may find more details about this in [3-9]).
Start accustoming yourself to making the “eyes of the soul” look at God. This can be achieved by thinking about God and by prayer.
Which prayers should you use? — Of course, not the Orthodox ones, which drive a person through despondency into hell. In other words, not those that convince in hopeless sinfulness and tell about “mortal sins”.
Long time ago God gave us a prayer-meditation, which used to help us a lot in the early stages of practice. Here it is:
Lord! Unite our hearts in You!
Radiate us with Your light, permeating the darkness of our passions!
May all-consuming love expand
And fill our souls with Your exultation!
Oh, spread and grow in us, the seed of Lord!
Filling our hearts with the light of wisdom
and knowledge!
May we always aspire towards You!
Amen.
The large part of meditative hymns used by Evangelist Christians-Baptists is also beautiful [66] (see also [68,80]).
You may also use the prayer “The Heavenly Tsar”: an address to the Holy Spirit.
But it will do no good to you, if you just mechanically recite or mumble the prayers-meditations. In this manner, which is popular in Orthodoxy, the prayers do not work. Let us understand that each line of these verses is a meditation. Uttering them slowly, with the profound understanding of their meaning, we change the state of ourselves as consciousness with each phrase by attuning to God and cultivating needed qualities in ourselves.
If you have a need to visit temples to take part in collective prayers — it is perfectly all right, unless there is a risk of becoming a victim of the sectarian terror there. Temples, rituals, icons, and other objects of the religious cult — are like toys for the beginners in religion. When people mature — the need for toys falls off naturally (except for some clinical cases). If you have a healthy personality, you may well grow out of the temples in the direct meaning of this word. When consciousness becomes large enough — a person feels all temples in himself; at this stage it becomes absurd for him to be in any temple physically.
The people who develop successfully must find God not in temples, but in the universe. And the “entrance” into His Abode is in their spiritual hearts.
Try to understand also the following: virtually all people who fell under the influence of the Bible formed an opinion, based on the Old Testamental absurdity regarding the “creation of man”, which is extremely harmful for the understanding the most important fact about themselves. It consists in the contraposition of man — versus his soul (or “I — versus my soul”).
While in reality man is a soul.
True opposition would be the following: “man — versus his body” (or “I — versus my body”).
“I — am (so far) “my soul””!
If you are unable to accustom yourself to this way of thinking of yourself yet — you should not practice spiritual disciplines other than love to nature and opening up the spiritual heart: it will be dangerous for you.
And now — you are welcome to start gradually mastering psycho-physical exercises, methods of cleansing and development of the spiritual heart, as well as looking from it, as it is described in the book [10].
More advanced meditative techniques are described in the book [11].
But I will rather not be describing the methods that bring one up to the higher level of consciousness: everyone will be able to receive them from God personally, when one accomplishes all the previous stages.
Although… here is the subject for meditative attunement with God for those, who approached the end of the Path:
I am — subtler that the subtlest, I am — the Essence of Being.
Everything comes out from Me and returns back to Me.
I am — everything that exists in Eternity, and all that is beyond it.
I permeate the essence of all things.
I am — in the hidden meaning of words, in the brightness of fire,
I am — in each breath of life, everything is a part of Me.
I am — in everything, by nothing is what I am.
Realize Me! I am — the eternal Peace!
(Transcribed by Anna Zubkova,
November 1998)
A person can achieve success on the spiritual Path only if he implicitly fulfils all the pre-conditions listed above. One may not practice psychic techniques without complying with all of them. Otherwise — there will be no result, except for trouble: since God supervises the development of each person. And the more a person receives, — the more he will be responsible for.
I will just give here the following example (I gave other ones in my other books):
… Once I had a contact with a certain group of people who were willing to walk the spiritual Path. They called themselves “Children of Sun” — very beautiful name for a spiritual group.
We got to know each other more closely. It turned out that all of them (except the woman who was their leader) smoked a lot. Their “spiritual activity” consisted in regular meeting, at which they drank a lot of coffee, smoked constantly, and delved in the meanings of “Buddhist” terms…
Their leader did not smoke, but her car produced so much exhaust that I had never seen before with any car.
The name “Children of Sun”, as it turned out, originated not from their love to nature, but from the fact that the windows of their leader’s apartment looked out to the east, which enabled her to see the rising sun without getting out of her bed.
I attempted to talk to them about the harm of smoking, the pollution of the environment, the communication with living nature. Once we even went to see the flight of woodcocks in mating season…
But all of it turned out to be useless — none of them wanted to make a slightest effort on self-transformation.
Then I reminded the leader of the group about the existence of God. And that she was bearing her portion of responsibility for the destinies of people, whom she set about leading somewhere..., while all of them are just wasting their lives. And that if nothing changes, — there may be serious “hints” from God: both regarding her excessively emitting smoke car and with the apartment where they smoke themselves…
It also did not have any impact.
When I saw that my further association with them is just a waste of time, I told them everything I thought about them at parting. I told them that the name “Children of Sun” does not exactly reflects the reality. That I agreed with the “children” part, but they cloud Sun with the smoke of their cigarettes and exhausts of the car, therefore this word should be removed from this name. Their main feature as a “spiritual group” — was their uninterrupted smoking. Therefore this fact must be reflected in the name. What they should be called then is “The Smoking Children”.
But even this “move” of mine did not produce a positive effect. And then the following events started to unfold immediately: her car that she left near the porch for the night got burgled by some hooligans who damaged it severely with craw-bars; the municipal authorities sued her to expropriate her apartment because the previous owner from whom she inherited it had died without paying some tiny amount for certain registration procedures…
What it all ended with — that I did not care to find out: she began to dread me, having believed that it was me who had inflicted all these misfortunes on her. Although I never had anything like that either in thoughts or in emotions. It was just that God was warning her through me. But she would not listen…
… I hope, my friends, nothing like that will happen to you. I wish you only success in your self-perfection and happiness of cognition of God.
