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Love for People
Love can and should be expressed in both emotions and actions.
We talked about the emotional love already and will continue to
talk about it below. Here we will just reiterate, making a special emphasis,
that developing love in oneself is a major method of spiritual self-perfection.
This is the method by which we transform ourselves (as consciousness) into
Godlike Love first and then into Divine Love, uniting and merging with God.
This love should not be confused with lust — selfish sexual
passion. It is not the same as sugariness — a travesty of love, something, which
takes place when one is attempting to demonstrate love when one’s spiritual
heart is void of this emotion. Another sign of true love is a lack of elements
of violence and compulsion in it. Otherwise it is not love anymore, but
constraint, rape. Love is subtle, tender, and free from egotism and egocentrism.
It rests on caring about the other, not oneself. Maturing of love should be
based on the true knowledge of God and of the meaning of human life.
As this love accumulates knowledge and experience, it becomes
wise.
As it develops in helping others, including fighting for their
good, and also by means of practicing special meditative techniques — it becomes
strong.
Love, Wisdom and Power — these are three qualities of God. Those
who have mastered them up to the Divine level infuse easily into the
Consciousness of God-the-Father, thus completing their evolution in the human
form. After that they continue to exist in the capacity of an active Part of
God-the-Father.
But one cannot walk this Path to Divinity to the end just by
thinking about It. This is a long and difficult work on transforming oneself.
This work can be compared to the work of the athlete who spends many years in
persistent and exhausting trainings in order to bring his body to perfection.
But work with consciousness is much more difficult. In this work, just like in
athletics, the person, as a rule, cannot achieve serious results without the
help from an instructor. On the Spiritual Path this can be either an embodied
Guru — a person who has already walked the entire Path (or the most part of It)
and knows personally the Goal of the Path. Or God Himself may become one’s Guru,
like it was the case in my life.
Karma yoga is a universal method of self-development on the Path
to Perfection, which God constantly suggests to us. This is a way of perfecting
oneself trough service to God, which is carried out by helping people in their
evolution. This can be the sharing spiritual knowledge with them or teaching
them reading and writing, working in scientific, pedagogic, or medicine field,
practicing art or buildings homes, manufacturing clothing or producing food,
trading or protecting people from various criminal scum — the dregs of the
Evolution. What is important about this is that every kind of activity should be
performed not for reward, not selfishly, but for the sake of helping people to
advance in the direction of Perfection, including supporting their existence on
Earth, in this School of God.
This principle of karma yoga does not necessarily imply that
work should be unpaid — this would be absurd. But those who received help as a
gift must think about giving something back. People who do not respond to gifts
with gifts are considered thieves
It should be noted here that activities that cause harm to
people are not karma yoga and cannot be considered righteous. These are, for
example, production and distribution of alcoholic drinks, tobacco products and
other psychedelic substances, taking part in aggressive wars, preaching any type
of hate and aggressiveness, promoting fear, killing animals for using their
bodies for food or for utilizing the skin torn of their bodies, unnecessary
destruction of plants, etc. In other words, karma yoga implies helping people
only in what is good.
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