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To Understand God/Is it Right to Give Flowers to One’s Beloved?

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Is it Right to Give Flowers to One’s Beloved?

Once, we were invited to a new home by its hostess; this house was built in a neighborhood of one of the southern towns.

It was in May, and tulips and other flowers had bloomed everywhere around and were shining with their gentle beauty.

The day before our arrival, the hostess had a birthday. She had not made any plans for celebrating it, and guests were not invited.

Nevertheless, visitors came by themselves, without an invitation, and each of them brought a large bouquet of cut flowers.

The son of the hostess collected all those bouquets into one huge tank of water. The flowers could barely even fit!

… After we had arrived, the hostess asked me to evaluate the energetic state of the house.

I switched to the appropriate perception and began to explore the house room by room. Everywhere, everything was fine! But only in one small room, the door of which was closed, was the situation alarming: an intense energy of suffering and death flew through the closed door. What is it? Was someone dying in there?

I insisted to open the door. The hostess, knowing my spiritual beliefs, reluctantly complied with my request.

There, on the table, a bunch of beautiful dying plants stood in the huge tank…

… I invited all those present to slowly and carefully analyze the energy of the room. Everyone became convinced that the intense negative field was produced precisely by this huge bouquet. We even tried to move it to other places in the house. But these experiments only further confirmed that an energetic power of suffering and death, which was harmful for people, came from it.

And these were intended to be “little presents”!

Small bouquets or single flowers do not produce a very noticeable injurious effect; but from large bouquets — a much more damaging effect is very noticeable. And those people, to whom such flowers “are bestowed”, then correspondingly suffer either greatly or slightly…

… Of course, I already knew that plants suffer from injuries and premature (i.e. before their natural term) dying. They are — animate beings! In their bodies, too, as in ours, souls live and grow. Typically, those souls are younger than animals and humans. Nevertheless, there exist rare exceptions.

It is possible to communicate with some plants by using emotions and simple thoughts. Trees accustomed to communicating with non-evil people, who are healthy and growing with sufficient illumination, are willing to engage in such emotional connections. You give them your heart love — and they respond with their love, and, sometimes — as was the case in the early years of the beginning of my own spiritual formation — they give a much stronger love back!

Such plants can become good friends, and even teachers. You can learn to attune to their subtle harmony, filling — with oneself-soul — their material bodies and “cocoons”. By this, we can enlarge ourselves in the beginning of the Path.

… Their suffering from wounds can be most easily observed, too, namely in large trees. It is possible, in particular, to see depressions of the boundaries and a reduction of the density of energetic fields in their energetic “cocoons”. Pine trees that were wounded by axes sometimes asked me to “finish” them: such a life of suffering was unbearable for them… But I… could not raise a hand to do this…

Small plants — also suffer, although their bio-fields of pain and death are weaker and therefore hardly noticeable for us. Only when — as in the case discussed in the beginning of this article — simultaneously dying plants are gathered in a huge bouquet, does the total bio-field of suffering become quite clear and obvious.

Pain may be different. It is clear that the intensity of the experience of pain in plants — is much weaker than in animals and humans.

By the way, those plants, which die of natural old age, do not suffer and neither do annual plants when the winter cold comes.

… We cannot live without killing plants for nourishment, for construction, and for the clearance of land for planting other plants, which are more important for our needs, etc.

But we need to treat all plants with love-compassion! We have to respect their lives and well-being! From an ethical standpoint — it is unacceptable to damage plants in vain!

Moreover, it must be remembered that in plant bodies, as well as in our own, the process of development of souls is occurring. Plants and animals are our younger brothers and sisters in the One Universal Process of Evolution of the Consciousness. Sometime later, they will be embodied in human bodies, and will be people…

And, a very long time ago, each of us was incarnated in bodies of plants, and was one species of plant or another, and perhaps suffered from pain caused by immoral people…

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Any vain infliction of pain to any embodied being results in the accumulation of “return addresses” which fall into the offender’s own destiny. We are paying with our own pain — for every pain caused in vain to others! That's how God is trying to wean people from frivolous attitudes toward others' pain and death!

Just look at the mass murder in vain of “Christmas trees”!...

Those children who have come into these lives, being good, — cry and protest: they feel sorry for these beautiful plants with such a fragrant delicate aroma! But cruel adults insist: this is accepted, so do it! Do not wail, enjoy it!

To enjoy other’s pain?…

And fish, adults say, do not die in agony by suffocation, but “fall asleep”…

And if you will not eat meat — then everyone will point fingers at you and tease you, calling you a “sissy”!

In this way, children form in themselves a contempt for others' pain. Likewise, adults ruin the fates of these children, dooming them to diseases and slowing their evolutionary development.

But, conversely, it could be possible to teach children to love emotionally — including through communication with flowers and trees! And — not with dying plants, but with plants growing in the wild, in their natural habitat! And it will bring a lot of positive things into the fates of these children!

Above all, God expects ethical purity from each one of us! It is precisely from the mastering of this stage of spiritual development that further progress on a large spiritual Path can start for each individual!

We are embodied by God in our material bodies not only to eat and reproduce, but to gradually approach the spiritual Perfection and — eventually — to merge into Him for enriching Him with ourselves!