Once I myself was a man of vice: I did not think about God, killed animals — both for “scientific” purposes and as a hunter and a fisherman [4,8]. Then — I sharply broke with that tradition of evil-doing, gave up smoking and drinking alcohol. This occurred when I suddenly saw the light: I realized why we live and why live all evolving beings. And I knew now that I would not kill an animal and would not use the body of a killed one — even if I would be starving to death.
When this dawned on me — the very communication with wild animals in the forest became so touchingly-blissful!
… Once when I was picking mushrooms in Karelian forest I woke a hare. He stood on his back paws, stretched himself, yawning, like a little puppy, cast a discontent sidelong look at me, and very slowly , not having quite awakened, toddled away…
I would have killed him before — my sweet forest friend…
But by that time I already knew that every killing of an innocent living being (or participation in such) is a transgression against the Evolution, against God.
… Now we are traveling to the wildlife areas in order to learn to love nature in its living beauty: to learn to love evolving Life — in the bodies of fish, frogs, ants, beasts, plants…
When we now work at “power places” on expanding and refining of our spiritual hearts, inhabitants of the forest cling to us, they are delighted in just being close to us.
Woodpeckers start to sing their spring courtship songs — not in the spring or in the summer, but in November and December…
Robins redbreasts perch on the branches as close to us as they can. Then they start flitting among our standing bodies, flying next to the ground between our legs… They do not beg for food: human food does not appeal to them. They just take delight in being among people of Love, among people of Good.
But tomtits do eat both bread and cheese. They sometimes perch on our shoulders and heads, fly in circles over our bodies, hang poised in mid-air, like bees, against our faces when we eat, snatch out food from our hands, catch cheese from sandwiches while they are on the way to the mouths…
Laughter, shared joy, tenderness — this is the background which the Creator uses to explain one how one can make this love universal in size. For this is what Love of the Creator is like.
… Once we were sitting at the dawn at the edge of the forest, when a big hare came close to us. One of us, already an elderly woman, who had never seen a hare before, though, cried out:
— Hey! Look! A nanny goat came to us! What a sweetie!
The hare ran off at a twenty meter distance and sat, staggering, moving his ears. A mute question was reading in his eyes:
— Why — a nanny goat?!
… In order not to offend hares and other animals anymore, I now prepare my friends to encounters like that: I show them traces of hares, foxes, beavers, and mice on the snow in winter… tell them what they eat, where they sleep, etc. In spring we travel to the mating grounds to listen to the singing of woodcocks, black grouses, sky-larks, lapwings, and curlews.
There we learn to embrace God with the hands of consciousness, stretched from our refined and expanded spiritual hearts.
At that time Sathya Sai Baba comes to us in His Divine Fiery Form. Jesus, Krishna, Babaji, Huang-Di, and other Divine Teachers often visit us then. Beautiful Surya illumines us like the sun with Her wonderful Divine Light during an overcast weather. Now mighty, Elizabeth Haich — a former daughter of a Egyptian pharaoh — gives us freely Her Divine Tenderness. Don Juan raises his hat in a greeting, while Genaro, David Copperfield, apostle Philip, Ptahotep, and Those, Whose names we do not know yet, smile shiningly at us…
We love Them all — and They love us, paving the Path to Their common Abode for us — the Abode of Universal God-the-Father.
You are welcome to come there also! It is beautiful there! And there is enough room for everyone!
It is more than paradise!
