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Teachings of God versus Sectarianism
After creating our planet and populating it with us, people, God did not forget about us at all. On the contrary, we are His major concern; we are His children, whom He cannot wait to see in His House. The whole Creation was created only for that purpose, so that after maturing here we could enter the House of God.
God teaches us in two ways: He gives us direct instructions concerning the way we should live, then He offers us a free will and teaches us how to fulfill these instructions in relationships with other living beings and with Him. Presenting us with the free will in choosing our ways of living and in making decisions in particular situations is the wise intention of His, which allows to clearly discern those who sincerely move to Him and those who move in the opposite direction.
We have a right to move in either direction as well as to stay where we are. Yes, He gave us this right and we are free to exercise it. But when we are moving to Him we really increase the amount of happiness and bliss in our lives. Otherwise, we are inevitably going to attract diseases, misfortunes, and sufferings. We even have a right to experience a nightmare of being among our likes in the diabolic eon. But do we need this? Is it not better to become humble and obedient to His Will? He wants good for us and gives it to us — all we need to do is to take it!
But why is there so much suffering on Earth then? Why are not people going to Him? Why are crime, darkness of primitivism, and absurdity of ignorance typical of both “believers” and atheists?
Is it not because people, especially those endowed with power, due to their ignorance or out of self-interest have been concealing and distorting the plain truths about the Path to God and to happiness? It is quite simple to secure power and money by declaring oneself, for instance, an intermediary between people and God. Someone puts on the “priest” clothes and declares solemnly: “Here, I am endowed with power to ask God to grant you well-being and with right to forgive your sins. Come to me, pay money, of course, or else… — you will be burning in hell forever…”
This is a typical sectarian version of a greedy lie.
This lie may be reinforced with the following scheme: “Our Church traces its history from Adam and Eve. All other churches are its illegitimate offsprings. So, who does God love more — His legitimate child or illegitimate one?”
But in reality, God loves all human children. But can sincere believers be capable of such an outrageous lie? This is a quite useful question for many Russian people!
Several sects emerged recently that sell “rights to talk to God” for enormous amounts of money: one needs to paint a certain symbol, they say (it is that symbol that they are selling), — then God will be responding to one’s requests and sending “Divine Energy” to one or through one… As if God is a sort of a slot machine operating on tokens!… But a lot of people believe this and similar kinds of lie. And they pay money for this kind of things!…
But however stupid it is, this is not that terrible as when “pastors”, wrapped in magnificent clothes, on behalf of God send members of their churches to hate, extirpate, and kill those who interfere with their (the “pastors’”) lying. As a result, coarse base passions flare up, the “righteous” wrath starts raging… — and the whole “congregation” ends up going to hell…
Anger and fear (especially the mystical fear — fear of devils, demons, sorcerers and vampires — which is a necessary attribute of intimidation and enslaving of “congregation” in the most cruel and ignorant sects; and this is so typical of Russia today) — these are the emotions, by cultivating which people destine themselves for going to hell. Woe to them who do not understand this, who follow this path and especially to those who instigate others to doing this way it! You are enemies of God!
… But God is Love. And He accepts in Himself only those who have become like Him.
Throughout the history of the humankind on Earth, God has been telling people about the Path to Himself through His prophets and Messengers — Messiahs (Christs, Avatars). We know the names of only a few of Them. Huang Di incarnated many times since the Stone Age on the territory of the China. Everybody knows about Jesus Christ. The name of Babaji is also widely known. Now Sathya Sai Baba lives and preaches in India. David Copperfield currently demonstrates Divine abilities to control solid matter to the people of the “Western” world. All of them have always taught and continue to teach people the same things:
1) The correct understanding of what man, God, the Evolution, and the Path to God are, and
2) Love as the main quality that brings us closer to God, to our own happiness and to the participation in His Evolution.
But what about sectarians? What is their reaction to appearance of Living God on Earth? Let us remember how much mud and hate they threw at David Copperfield before his tour in Russia! Both newspapers and the TV were involved! This is the culmination of widest ignorance and of human degradation!
When my book about Sathya Sai Baba was published — sectarians started blackmailing me over the phone. First, a deep male voice using KGB jargon promised to send his “boys” to punish me if at least one book of mine appears in bookstores — a book about God! He did not wait for my response and hanged up. But I could have replied to him that I serve God and I know both God and death and that I am not afraid of death. And that, although I wish I had time to do more on Earth, I totally rely on the WiIl of God in this matter. But I renounced cooperation with devil and his deeds when I accepted Christian baptism at the age of 27 — guided by my sincere faith!
After one month, another person that introduced himself over the phone as major Sytin threatens to put me in jail immediately. I ask: “What exactly do you want me to stop doing?” He has nothing to say: since, if he is an internal affairs officer, he is supposed to stay within the framework of the law. But I was not breaking the law in any way.
Did I get frightened? Am I capable of being afraid? These are the questions that God raised before me by tolerating those attacks. But no: I am serving you, Lord! And now I know that after the death of my body my abode will be in You! I have already got myself accustomed to it! And you already showed me my death — with the help of scoundrels that belonged to other sect. You have already accepted me in Yourself by that time, and I managed to do much more over the past years.
It is interesting that sometimes atheists become members of religious sects. Once I saw a burly man with a splendid beard agitating to vote for communists at the elections. He really impressed the women that gathered around with his priest vestments. We got into a conversation with him. It turned out that he was a former KGB officer that was ousted from this organization for fascist activity during the Perestroika. He did not want to know whether there is God or not. But he was willing to serve the Orthodox Church, since it was the only organization, he said, that was able to unite Russian people in fighting against “non-indigenous” population of Russia…
I tried to explain to him that preaching hate is a way in the direction opposite from God, that by preaching fascism he aggravates his destiny… He responded by saying that he was willing to sacrifice himself and to suffer for the sake of freeing Russia of “domination of Jews” (?)… I tried to say that he was harming other people, driving them to hell through his misanthropic sermons. I told him that God does not divide people according to races and nationalities — He said this through Jesus Christ and through other Messiahs; He loves all people as His children… At that moment he stopped listening to me.
Who are they who were torturing and killing Jesus Christ, who were beating and expelling the prophet Muhammad who heralded that God is One for all people of Earth, and later persecuted the founders of Bahaism. Who are they who now hate the new Messiahs of the present times — Sathya Sai Baba and David Copperfield, who dream of getting rid of me, because I am talking about Them and from Them? Who are they? Do they sincerely believe in God? No — those who sincerely believe are happy to hear any word about God, about any opportunity to become better in the Face of God and about new methods of self-perfection that would allow them to cognize Him. But these sectarians, for whom their personal pathological passions and self-interest are much dearer than God, they hate Him, His Messengers and His preachers.
… God always teaches us through all Messiahs and true prophets only one thing. He only says this using different words and stressing different aspects for different people. These Teachings of God is His Eternal Law — Sanatana Dharma. It holds that we should strive to cognize Him, to Merge with Him in Love and serve Him, that we should love people and help them, love all creatures, develop ourselves for the sake of ultimate spiritual self-realization.
What on earth prevents us from accepting this Law and from turning our back on all those who distort this Will and Law of God?
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