Chapter Six:
Freedom from the Body
When Rada and Alexey were already on their way back, one more significant event happened.
They walked along the river bank, since only along the riverbed was there a slightly noticeable path.
Alexey asked:
“Why can’t I remain in that Oneness with God, which a few hours ago seemed unshakable and forever achieved?”
“Do not be upset, it’s natural! The soul is gradually overcoming its path to Divinity! For you — it is happening very quickly, you do not even realize yet, how quickly it is!”
… Suddenly, around the turn, three strangers appeared.
These three men, it seemed, were frightened that they were noticed, and this made them very aggressive.
Alexey began to think that this encounter does not bode well. For a few seconds, he tensed internally, searching for a way how he could protect Rada in the event of an attack by these people.
But Rada, on the contrary, seemed to start filling the space with a soft, gentle, and dense calm.
She took Alexey by the hand. Her calm filled Alexey with the confidence that everything would end in peace.
Rada bowed to the strangers with an earthly bow.
Alexey followed suit.
She continued to envelop the space with caress and calm.
She said a greeting:
“Peace to you, good people! Health to you and good fortune!”
… The strangers stopped in hesitation.
“And to you, then — peace too! We are miners, we got a little lost,” — one of them answered for the three.
Alexey examined these people more attentively. They looked like runaway convicts: unwashed, in tattered clothes, with traces of beatings. What they said of themselves was clearly not true…
But Rada listened calmly and benevolently to those words. Then she drew a map in the sand using a twig, showing: how the river flows, where the paths and the roads are, and where the outposts are — everything was told in detail. She also explained to them which landmarks to go to, if they wanted to be unseen.
“If you go here, and then walk for three days — you will find a hunting lodge. The people, who are there, always leave a small supply of food and clothing. And further to the north — there are places which are untrodden and wild.
“Maybe you’ll find some ores there…”
… Then she tore off some meadowsweet leaves and gave it to the one who listened most confidently, and said:
“These leaves — treat wounds, and remove inflammations. You should brew them — and drink them for three days. They can also be applied to wounds: and the wounds will then heal faster!”
“But in what do we make the decoction?”
… Rada opened their canvas bag and took out the clay pot, in which she had cooked food with Alexey, and gave it to them.
“If you put it on hot coals, but not on a hot flame, — then it will last a long time, and it will not burst!”
… They then parted ways…
The strangers disappeared from sight…
* * *
After a while, Rada said, as if apologizing:
“I was in disarray: I did not notice their approach…
“They are not robbers! They are miners! They have run from the mine. From the Demidovs’ or from a government factory… The labor there is worse than the hard labor of servitude. Did you notice that ore was absorbed into their skin — and that it can never be washed out? They hide themselves from everyone…
“They could have killed us, of course. These people are waiting for only evil and misfortune from everything and from all around!
“And they were almost ready to pour the power of themselves-souls — into hatred!…
“But they still did not want to enter onto the path of evil.
“So I tried — to use peace… It seems, it was successful.”
“Yes… You are great in this! You can understand everything about every person at first sight!”
“It’s because I’m looking with the soul together with God. Then — the other person is as if seen in all completeness, with all the bad and good that is in him or her.”
“But I can only do this sometimes: when I clearly perceive God in myself.
“But today…
“I have never had fear for my life.
“But now — I’m afraid for you! Not that I’m afraid, but that for a few moments a fear began to arise that I could not protect you. How to deal with this?”
“It’s not easy! That is why, probably, people had invented monasticism, so as not to be bound by bonds with other people. And many of the Magi in earlier times in Russia did not form families, so that personal things could not interfere with the Divine in them.
“But I would not like to give up everything that I have with you now… How long we will be together with bodies on the Earth — only God knows! But this love of ours — it is for the good! I know it! I feel it in my heart!
“And we should not be afraid for our bodies! We must do everything that depends on us to protect our beloved ones. But, if we cannot, then we must be able to accept the death of bodies: both our own and of those whom we love with our hearts.
“It is not simple! I thought about this a lot. I looked at my grandfather and saw, how sad he was about my father’s departure…, although he knew that papa was now in the world of God!
“I thought much about you and myself: how to behave, if not I, but you, that is, your body, were to be threatened by death, and I could not prevent it…
“For this reason, apparently, these people met us: so that we would talk about this…
“Yes, the freedom of the soul from a living body is possible! This is the great Freedom in the Mergence of the human soul — with God! You’ve experienced it more than once, you know this Great Glory! But it’s possible to learn living in this Unity always and to not lose it, even if danger threatens the body!
“If it is necessary, you can simply leave the body…, of course, if God will allow it, and — to enter the Unity with the Divine world forever!”
… Rada was silent for a long time, then continued:
“Now I’ll show you one exercise that my grandfather already taught me. It allows one to gradually change the state of that part of the soul, which is firmly connected with the body from birth. In this way, you can gradually remove the ‘lower human nature’, for which the fear of the body’s safety, hunger, thirst, and much more — are necessary for the body to survive in this world.
“In order not to lose the Unity with God in different situations, a person, who has already learned the Unification with the Divine world, can learn to completely subordinate the body and mind — to the unified will of the soul and the Will of God, which are in indissoluble Mergence.”
… They went out into an open space, from which the river, meadows, and the forest were seen far away…
“You are now looking at these beautiful expanses. Choose something noticeable in the distance.
“Now see how the power of attention directs the awareness of yourself-soul — through the eyes of the body. It’s like an invisible transparent part of you rushes to where you intentionally have fixed your eyes.
“And now do the opposite — send the look of the soul into those Depths of Light, which have been cognized by you in recent days…
“Feel: how little the body is, and how, on the other hand, the Divine world is great, unlimited, and filled with the feeling of Love and Unity! Feel the complete dissolution, the disappearance of the isolation of oneself-soul in the Creator of everything! Let there be only the Oneness with Him, only He!
“In Him, the eternal life is! In Him, the Freedom, Joy, and Bliss are! In Him — it becomes clear that the soul and God are One!
“And now many times follow the path that the soul makes when the attention is shifted back and forth between the dense world and the Divine world. In the body, a clear passage is revealed — from one world to the other. Spill over through it, not connecting with the body, but just passing through it!
“Then you can learn to ‘flow’ through all the important energy centers in the body, and in any direction in relation to the body. It cannot be accomplished immediately, but gradually…
“The vast expanse of Divine Love — is everywhere: upwards from the body, and downwards, and in all other directions!”
… It was very interesting for the perception of Alexey! He — as a soul — “floated” through the body, remaining free from it…
… Rada continued:
“Yes, you do it correctly! It’s necessary to rise from the Depths, without ‘condensing’, without leaving the subtlety of the Divine Love!
“Feel that, when there is no more of the ‘former you’ in the body, then God can look through your eyes and shed His Divine Love-Tenderness through the realm of your spiritual heart — into this visible world, and also — that He can pass the Light-Power through your material hands…
“It needs to be mastered! Then — it will be possible to have a body, through which God can manifest Himself in all fullness, when it is necessary to Him.
“My grandfather told me that, if one manages to learn all this, one — as a soul — can leave the body, so that the body, for example, does not feel pain… And if the body needs to die: that is, if the time has come — then you can, without pain and without fear, leave it, like unnecessary clothes, and never return to it…
“You must know that if it is necessary, I will be able to do this, and no torturers on the Earth can prevent it!
“Like this, my father left the body — and entered the Divine Unity.
“Now, I also have to teach you that! Then it will be easier to pass those tests, without which — in the life on the Earth — usually one does not live.
“Yes…, now it seems easy to me… But if I were in a prison cell or before the executioners… — I’m not so sure if it will be… It would be nice if neither you nor I have to go through this…
“But something else is important! Behind all the hardships and sufferings of this world, there is — on the other side of the world of matter — the Great Rest, the Calm of God, His Eternal Bliss, and the Unity with the Creative Power!
“And you and I already know that!
“And yet — from such a Mergence, the Divine Co-Creation is possible. So —you will write the book, so that, through it, God can say what people need to know now!
“So — in this Great Mergence — we — as souls — can always be together, even if our bodies are separated…”
… Rada suddenly stopped, as if she saw something in the distance.
Alexey embraced her caringly and gently, as if trying to protect her from any misfortune by that new state of himself-soul that he had cognized.
“Did you see something?”
“No, it seems… I talked about a separation — and have scared myself…”
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