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The Master/Let Us Clear Our Path to God!

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Let Us Clear Our Path to God!

Interaction with God, which gradually becomes (and should become!) almost continuous, is the best way to learn His Wisdom. But in the meantime, while there is still no strong connection with Him, our own mistakes become our “teachers”. In my case, this is exactly what happened.

Talking about my mistakes seems important to me. Perhaps this will help some of the readers to not make the same ones. Although I myself have read and heard about many of them many times, I still have not been able to avoid them. Why? I found the answer from the Master:

“One of the typical mistakes in the ethical work of beginners is that the reader agrees with everything written, but does not attribute this to oneself. And then, this person makes exactly the same mistakes that he or she read about, and which they saw in others, but did not think about the possibility of making themselves.” (V.Antonov. “How to Merge with God?”/“Life for God”, 2014)

Once, I received the following advice from God: “Look at the person — together with Me, through My eyes! And then you will understand that person!”

At the very beginning of the Path, I did not know this. Therefore, I really didn’t understand even myself, not to mention other people.

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My life back then was not holistic. It was, as it were, broken up into separate components that were almost completely unconnected.

Most of it was dedicated to my own development through meditation, reading books, and ethical self-correction.

I also had a job both in order to have a livelihood, and for the realization of the personal ambitions and aspirations that I still had back then. For example, it has always been important for me that my activities benefit people. For, in this case, I feel as if I “do not live in vain on the Earth”…

But did I understand what was actually beneficial for these people?

I tried to find a way to “incorporate God” into my professional career. However, I did not come up with anything better than — regardless of the situation — to tell almost everyone about the methodology of understanding God. And I did this without taking into account the willingness of people to perceive this information. It took me a while to learn discretion. That is, it is inappropriate, and sometimes even dangerous, to reveal the features of one’s life to certain people. In addition, one can harm someone if, before the right time, one “brings down” upon him or her knowledge that is overwhelming and not yet needed. This can cause such a person to turn away from their own future search for Truth.

However, one way in which it is possible to appropriately share the knowledge that one is cognizing is to every day come on time to work and fulfill one’s duties while being in a state of love. Truly, wouldn’t doing this be enough? After all, anyone who has experience working with children understands how difficult it can be to maintain an appropriate emotional state…

And in order to tell people about how to cognize God — besides first determining whether or not such an action is appropriate in each particular case — one needs to have the right to do so. After all, if one’s own life still does not correspond with what is being taught, does one even have the right to teach? In such cases, it would be better to remain silent.

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Anything that does not help one, who aspires to God, is a hindrance, a delay, and can even make one fall off the Path. This applies to everything: life, social environment, and lifestyle. To “ordinary” people, this approach may seem unreasonably radical. But the seeker of the Truth sooner or later understands the significance of this rule, having once seen how serious the consequences of its violation can be.

For me, the “revision” of life began with my everyday life. I never aspired to either excessive comfort or the accumulation of things that are usually of great importance to people. But even so, it turned out that the whole space in which I lived was littered with excess! A mountain of unnecessary clothes and utensils, household appliances that I never even turned on, books I had read long ago, home plants, and, for some reason, an aquarium with fish and much, much more. All of this took up space not only in my house, but in my life!

A lot of time and energy is wasted in dusting, watering, feeding, treating, and transferring something from one shelf to another for the thousandth time with the thought that someday it might come in handy. Indeed, the implementation of all these actions requires a lot of time that could be spent on work for God!

And to water the flowers on one’s windowsill is important: these are living beings, for which one is responsible. However, for a spiritual seeker, isn’t it more important, for example, to read something useful, to master a new meditation, to gain a foothold in what has already been completed, or to help someone? It is important to ask oneself, “How am I spending my time?”

And where to put all these items of “wealth”? There will always be people who can benefit from something that one no longer uses. There are many charitable organizations that will gladly accept this. As for pets, including plants, one can find new suitable owners.

When finally, at my disposal, only the essentials (those things which one really cannot do without) remained, it seemed that even breathing in at home became easier! This kind of order in one’s environment helps to clean up one’s thoughts! It also helps one to no longer be distracted from the Main Aim!

Another factor that distracts from this Goal is idle communication with people who for years have remained in our lives by inertia, and not because of common interests or spiritual affinity. When I critically looked at my surroundings, I realized that none of these people (and I considered them to be “close”!) were really my friends. After all, they did not choose God as their friend! So, why were we spending time together? What to talk about? Gradually, only my closest companions on the spiritual Path have become my friends. And fellowship with those who need God, is one of life’s greatest joys.

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When false friends leave the life of a spiritual seeker, a place appears in it for the Faithful Friend — God, Who at the beginning is perceived as Holy Spirits. Communication with Him becomes an integral part of life. The very possibility of this may seem like a miracle for a beginner. But a person eventually gets used to this kind of communication… even taking it for granted that such communication was once deemed impossible for oneself.

Holy Spirits are non-embodied Representatives of the Creator, Who became One with Him during Their incarnation on the Earth. Maintaining Unity with God, such Holy Spirits (“the Holy Spirit” is Their collective denomination) come to the Creation with the goal of helping incarnate people to move towards the Perfection.

In order to be able to most effectively receive Their help, one must learn to see and hear Them. What does this mean? We are used to perceiving such words materially, i.e., to “see” with the eyes of the body, and “hear” with the ears. But there is sight and hearing of the soul. They can be developed in oneself. In this way, the ability to see the essence of what is happening inside and outside oneself is acquired.

God is omnipresent! And it is not difficult for Holy Spirits to manifest Themselves anywhere. But, in order to make it easier for us to perceive Them, especially at the beginning of the Path, They create special places on the surface of the Earth for meditative work and communication between us and Them. These are special places of power. One can learn to feel them with a developed consciousness.

Holy Spirits appear in such places, usually assuming an anthropomorphic form, with those traits that were inherent to Them during their last incarnation. The common name for such anthropomorphic forms is a Mahadouble.

But They can also take other forms: for example, a mountain, a volcano, a pyramid, or a dome. This depends on the meditative goal that the seeker faces in each particular place of power.

The work on places of power provides the richest opportunities for the development of the consciousness. It would be impossible to list all of them! However, to list a few, such places help one to: take on different forms by oneself-consciousness, develop various functional states of God (the Divine Light or the Divine Peace), refine and grow the consciousness, and gain gradual cognition of the structure of the Absolute. First, we learn to fill the Mahadouble of the Holy Spirit with ourselves as consciousness. And gradually, this Divine Teacher allows us to cognize the Depth from which He or She comes to us, manifesting Himself or Herself as a kind of Staircase that consists of increasingly subtle “steps” that can be “passed” according to the degree of one’s own refinement and development on the spiritual path.

Such work opens up a whole new world that needs to be studied. Gradually, this world becomes close, understandable, and familiar.

For me, the most interesting thing was to learn to distinguish and recognize the Divine Teachers by one or another of the qualities inherent in Each of Them. One might think now: what can be the differences between Them? After all, They are Love! Yes, this is true. However, Love has a huge number of different facets and shades, which are the qualities of the Perfect Beings of both sexes, who have become Parts of the One God, thereby enriching Him. These qualities became inherent in the Holy Spirits during Their life in earthly bodies. It makes sense to try to “attribute” Their Divine qualities onto oneself, as if “trying them on”; in this way, such qualities become our qualities too.

But how?

This happens gradually. As a soul, we can hug the Divine Teacher and, by doing this, we dissolve in Him or Her. Who, then, remains? Only He or She. And even if these states are short-lived at first, as a result of such meditations, they lead to the fact that the consciousness imprints and makes the Divine qualities of the Teacher one’s own. That is how a spiritual seeker, step by step, approaches God by the quality of the soul.

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To gain the ability to communicate with non-embodied Divine Souls and see Them is one of the most important achievements! At the same time, it makes it possible to perceive embodied people as “naked souls”, seeing all the good and bad that is within them. And that means to see their true essence. If people could just look at each other like this, and not at facial features or clothes, their attitude towards each other would change so much! Oh how the world would change!…