Maitreya:
Welcome, everyone, to the room of the Mission of Maitreya,
Eternal Divine Path. We welcome you to our room.
I hope that you are here to hear the
latest Revelation from God to humanity and the calling to
unification. All the religions of the world are unified.
All the prophecies are fulfilled. In this last Revelation, God
reveals how He has sent all these religions and teachings to all the
humans on earth and how we can put them all together and unify them
under one teaching, which is called the Eternal Divine Path,
based on The Greatest Sign.
If you go to our website,
www.maitreya.org, the first
thing you see is The Greatest Sign. It is animated to
show how it has formed.
The very beginning, of course, was the
universe in the state of Pure Consciousness, or no manifestation.
Then you can see a dot. That is the beginning of the creation,
what scientists call the “Big Bang.” When the equilibrium of
the universe was disturbed, the rotation of the I-Ching eventually
came to the expansion of the Lotustica, which is the lotus with the
I-Ching and the Lotustica together. It shows the beginning of
the creation of the manifested world.
Of course, as we see in the Bible,
it says, “There was darkness, and the Spirit of God moved over the
darkness.” That is when God sent His Spirit to the darkness
and chaos, to help the chaos and darkness to come back to the
Godhood, to bring everything back to the equilibrium. The
Spirit of God went through the Path. That is, it started
knowing itself, meditating, awakening his spiritual forces, and
realizing who he is.
Eventually, he realized that he and God
are one. As it says, “Know thyself to know God.” So, the
process of meditation is to know yourself. It is the process
of awakening your spiritual forces and realizing that you are in the
image of God. That is why He said, “Be still and know that I
am God.” Be still means to meditate, to know thyself.
The second step is to realize that many
other souls are lost around Him, and in order to help them, creation
of an environment that is conducive to the meditative process and
spiritual progress is necessary. That is why He realized that
the Communities of Light, the communities based on the
Eternal Divine Path, are necessary, and that is the
second step.
The first step is the awakening of the
spiritual forces, the Mystical Paths, which covers Hinduism,
Buddhism, Cabbala, saints in Christianity, Sufism in Islam, and all
the teachings that teach “Know thyself, meditate, awaken your
spiritual forces, and realize who you are.” It also covers
psychology and the teaching of the subconscious mind, the conscious
mind, how you know yourself, or how your dreams have a relationship
with spiritual messages, and all that. So, it covers a
spectrum of techniques and ways to know thyself.
The second is Communities Of Light.
We realize that Communities of Light are necessary.
That is what the Old Testament is based on. God is
trying to find a people, or the Hebrews, or the Children of Light,
to come together and accept Him as King and His Laws as the Laws of
their community, and create an environment where God is number one.
Of course, that sounds like God needs
us to make Him number one. But that is not really what He
wants. But making Him number one and by concentrating on Him,
we overcome a lot of attraction of the external world, and we are
free from a lot of the problems of ego trips and all the problems
related with it. So, we are not creating big egos, and we
release ourselves from the external world and Maya, and we go toward
the salvation, which is the unification with the Godhood.
Such an environment is necessary to
help people to be able to meditate, to take the pressure of the
external world off them, and to make them calm and ready to go
toward the spiritual progress. Therefore, the whole Old
Testament is the symbol of the creation of the Communities of
Light. God is trying to find a people, a tribe, the Twelve
Tribes of Israel, to become His Children, and that is what the
Communities of Light are.
So the awakening of your spiritual
forces is the first step. You meditate, then direct that
energy toward the creation of the Communities of Light.
But to create the Communities of
Light, sacrifice is necessary. If everyone in a community,
everyone in a city, everyone in a country, and everyone on the earth
says, “What is in it for me,” and tries to have only for themselves,
they create a lot of discrepancy between those who have and those
who have not, and that brings great suffering and destruction.
We can see that that is what is
happening right now on the earth because some people feel that they
do not have enough, and some people think it is their right to have
as much as they have.
That is where the concept of sharing
comes in. Sharing, sharing our resources together, helping
each other to come to a closer way of living, and also reaching to
the universe and space, will bring a greater standard of living to
everyone and a lot of problems we have on earth will be resolved.
Some people say that sharing is a good
idea. Sharing is not just a good idea, it is a Law.
Humanity has to learn to share with one another in order to create
the peace on Earth.
So that is what Communities of Light
are, to bring an environment where people learn how to share and
live in a more peaceful and less pressured way of living. In
these communities, of course, sacrifice is necessary.
That is the symbol of Christianity.
Christ put the symbol of sacrifice for humanity. He went all
the way to the cross and sacrificed himself for his ideal. Of
course, we do not have to go to the cross. But the idea is to
overcome selfishness and self-centeredness, and become more
God-centered and other people centered, to be able to share and give
of ourselves to others. Not as, “I am a good person. I
am doing it,” but because it is a Law. You have to do it in
order to create peace on Earth.
Of course, the greatest overcoming is
the overcoming of ego-centeredness, and that is really what
Christianity is about. That is the message of Christianity.
It is sacrifice, not being self-centered.
However, Christ did more than that, he
also released The Grace to humanity. The Grace that was taken
away at the time of the Garden of Eden was released back to
humanity. Now Grace is available to everyone who believes what
Christ came for and what our teaching is all about.
You sacrifice, you try to create the
Communities of Light, you meditate, and the
Communities of Light
are not happening. You become very upset. You become
discouraged, and you become very depressed, “Why is this thing not
happening? I am putting so much effort into it.”
That is when the concept of
surrendering came to him in that state of development. He
realized that he should just surrender the result to God, and say,
“OK, I have done my best. I have done my work; I have tried my
best. Now I surrender the result to God.”
So, we awaken our spiritual forces, we
try to create the Communities of Light, we sacrifice for
them, and we do our best to create the Communities of Light.
Then we surrender the result to God and say, “I am not attached to
the result,” because the depression and being unhappy is based on
our expectations for the results of our actions.
Of course, later on he realized in a
greater degree that surrendering is not enough, still you
surrender the result of your actions to God. Still an
“I” separate from God exists. So, he realized that submission
is even greater than that. That means that God does the great
work toward the creation of the
Communities Of Light through you. So when God does it
through you, you and God are one.
That is the highest spiritual
achievement, when you and the Father are One and when God does the
work through you. You have not done anything, therefore, the
result is also God’s. That completely frees you from any
attachment to the result of your actions. You go on and do
your work, and you know that God is doing it through you. And
because God always does a perfect job, your work will become
perfect. If it is not perfect, probably it is not God doing it
through you because God is perfect.
With all these four steps, still you
might become attached to a very small part of the universe, “Just my
household, just my community, just my city, just my state, just my
nation, just earth.” That is not good enough. You have
to become a universalist. You have to realize that God is your
Father, He is your Mother, and the universe is your home, because
God is Everything.
You cannot separate God into different
portions and say, “This part is greater than that part.” God
is everything. Therefore, any person, any teaching, any
realization, and any religion that separates any part of the
universe from another part of the universe, is not from God.
That is where the universalism comes
in. That is the teaching of Bab and Baha’u’llah, who brought
it as the Baha’i teaching to us.
So he went through these five steps.
He awakened his spiritual forces. He tried to create the
Communities of Light. He sacrificed. He surrendered
and submitted himself to God. And he became a universalist.
Suddenly, he realized that he had
overcome all the pitfalls of the spiritual path. He meditated.
He started knowing himself or herself. He realized that he had
to create the Communities of Light, therefore, he had a goal.
He had something to work for in a greater degree and create an
environment for everyone to progress.
He sacrificed, therefore, he overcame
being self-centered, which is the base of unhappiness and not being
realized, and the problems on earth. He surrendered and
submitted to God, therefore, he was not attached to the result of
his actions. He became a universalist, which shatters all
narrowness of the mind.
The problems on earth and of humanity
come from narrow-ness of the mind, selfishness, and attachment to
the titles and to the worldly-made things that makes people think,
“Oh, I am great.”
Actually, most of the people want to be
God. They are not looking for God but they want to be God
themselves, and they do not want to accept His Word and Scripture.
So, with these five steps he shattered
selfishness, he shattered being attached to the result of his
action, and he shattered the narrowness of the mind. He became
an Elect.
That is what we call, Paravipra.
An Elect is a person who goes through the first five steps of the
Eternal Divine Path. That is what all the Scriptures talk
about, “My Elect,” the people who have overcome, “My sons, my
Children, the Children of Light.” These are the real
Israelites, the Children of Light, those who have gone through the
first five steps in the Eternal Divine Path.
By becoming an Elect, he realized that
he can help everyone to come to God, and he reached Pure
Consciousness or Light. That is when the Bible says,
“And there was light.” And God likes that light. That
person reached the light of the oneness with God.
When he reached the light (you can see
in that graphic in the website), for the first time a triangle
upward is created. So he became the top of the hierarchy or
the First Begotten Son of God. And the hierarchy was created,
which many sons were created.
We can see that the triangle downward
is when the Spirit of God comes to earth. The triangle upward
is the hierarchy, which at the very top is the First Begotten Son.
The triangle downward and the triangle
upward at the very center of The Greatest Sign is the sign of
the Kingdom Of Heaven In Heaven. So, that is established, and
God already has the Kingdom Of Heaven In Heaven established.
Therefore, this seven-step Path in
eternity, in the beginning of the creation, became the Eternal
Divine Path. In the last 12,000 years, especially the last
6,000 years, God was sending each seal as a religion to humanity.
The first came by Noah, which was after
the flood of Noah. He brought the teaching of awakening your
spiritual forces, which eventually came to humanity. The base
of his teaching is the Vedantas from the Hindu religion. That
talks about how atman or self is the same as Atman or God; atman
with a small “a” is the same as Atman with big “A.” Therefore,
we are in the image of God. We are created in his image.
Of course, God split man and woman from
that consciousness so we no longer are in His image until we merge
with our other part and we again become male and female as man was
in the beginning.
Then, of course, after Noah, came
Abraham. Abraham brought the Old Testament, which is
the message of the creation of the Communities of Light.
So, for humanity to create the Communities of Light is very
important.
Of course, the way to create the
Communities of Light is given in our teaching, in the website.
The very base of the Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth is based on these
communities. A great deal of that has been taught in our
teachings and in the Old Testament.
Of course, to create the Communities
of Light, sacrifice is necessary. That is what Christ
brought to humanity. He brought that teaching to us.
After that, there is surrendering and
submission to God, which frees us from the attachment of the result
of our action, and letting God come through. That is Islam.
Islam comes from the word Tasleim. Tasleim means to surrender
and submit to God.
Of course, then become a universalist,
which is the teaching of the Baha’is and Bab. Universalism
shatters all narrowness of the mind. You become an Elect, or
Paravipra, which is the teaching that came from a person in India by
the name of Baba. He brought the concept of Sadvipra. We
expanded on that and call the Elects, Paravipras.
“Para” means beyond. “Vipra”
means intellect, beyond intellect. So “Paravipra” means
reaching an intelligent and intuitional realization of self.
Such people are the people who we are looking for. They are
called the Elects.
They are people who realize, “If there
is a God, why are there so many religions?” “If there is only
One God, why do we have Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and
all the separation that exists right now?”
We have a great fight going on now
between two great religions of the world, because each of them says,
“We have the truth.” The comparison, as I always say, is like
the five blind men and the elephant. Each of them holds a part
of the elephant and says, “This is the truth.” One of them
holds the leg and says, “The elephant looks like a cylinder.”
Another one holds the ear and says, “No, it looks like a leaf.”
Another one holds the tail and says, “No. It is a snake.”
Each of them holds a part of it, and they cannot agree on what the
elephant looks like.
Than a man with sight came and said,
“All of you are correct. You have just a part of the elephant.
The whole elephant is greater than what each of you have.”
That is what the Mission of Maitreya
is all about. Of course, God already said in the Scriptures
that there are going to be Seven Seals sent to humanity. Each
seal is related to one religion or one seal in The Greatest Sign.
He also predicted the coming of the book sealed with the Seven Seals
in chapter five of The Revelation that no one can open but
the one who is chosen to open that.
And when that book is opened, that is
the only part in any of God’s Words, in any Scripture, that the
whole universe rejoiced. That is because by reading that book
all humanity will realize, “Yes, we are a part of God’s truth, and
all religions have a part of The Greatest Sign and the
Eternal Divine Path. Therefore, there is One God, One
Humanity, One Earth and that is what we should work toward.”
So, THOTH, or The
Holiest Of The Holies, The Last Testament, our
Scripture, is the only Revelation that, when it was written down and
came to humanity, the whole universe rejoiced, and that is our
miracle. That is what everyone should accept as the miracle of
the Mission.
In this book, we teach you how you heal
yourself. We are not going to heal you because it is not going
to work. Even Christ said that when he heals someone, that
spirit goes and brings seven more, and the state of the man becomes
worse than he was before. That is because the man himself did
not know how to heal himself. Therefore, he could not block
the unclean spirits, and they came back.
So in THOTH, you are
taught how to heal yourself. It is just like teaching you how
to fish. It is better to teach you how to fish than to just
give you a fish. I can heal you, but if you do not know how to
heal yourself, when I am gone, you are going to be worse than you
were before.
Therefore, do not ask for, “Oh, will
you heal us? Please heal us. Do this and that.” It
is not going to work. It did not work then.
Also miracles, do not make better
believers. Moses brought the Israelites from the one side of
the Red Sea to the other one. He opened the Red Sea.
When they went to the other side, they were arguing. They
started murmuring against him and said, “Why did you bring us out of
Egypt, at least we had food there that we could eat?” and all that.
Even in the time of Christ, he did a
lot of miracles. What did they do to him? They crucified
him. Was that the reward of healing people, or raising
Lazarus, and all that? Or, he even fed 6,000 people with the
three fish and two loaves of bread.
If miracles would have made better
believers, all of them should have been standing for Christ and
would not have let him be crucified. But, of course, it was
prophesied. So we see that miracles do not make better
believers.
You have to be prepared for this
Mission. You have to be an Elect. That is what we
said, “If you come to this
Mission, you realize you have no choice.” You already
knew a lot of the things that we talk about here, and you say, “Yes,
Yes, that makes sense, that makes sense, that makes sense.”
You say, “Yes, what you are saying is Truth because there is One
God, One Humanity, and One Earth, and there has to be an explanation
of why there are so many different religions on earth.”
So, this is our teaching. Now you
have received the explanation. We are done with you. You
have received the Message.
My job as a Messenger is to give the
Message to you and humanity. Now you are the person who has to
reach to humanity, give this Message, and bring everyone to realize
that there is One God, and all these Revelations have come from Him.
Become more and more unified, share this earth together, create the
Communities of Light
based on the Eternal Divine Path, and bring the unity on
earth and the Kingdom of God on earth together.
Now if there are any questions, you can
go ahead and ask. Please do not preach to us. This is
the Mission of Maitreya’s room. This is our church.
You are here, we are hoping, to learn about the Mission.
We know about all the other religions of the world. All our
members are encouraged to read our Scripture. They have read
the Upanishads. They have read the Bhagavad-Gita.
They have read all the Scriptures.
Of course, if you come here and say,
“In some of the books of the Bible, what was the name of,” an
obscure person that is buried in the many names or even make up a
name and say, “Do you know who he was?,” do not expect an answer.
Do not try to trick us with your tricky questions.
Come here to know our teachings.
We will be very open, and with open arms we accept your questions
and inquiries. We do not mind to discuss your religions,
compare them with what we teach here, and talk about why your
religion is a part of our teachings. But do not come here with
the preaching tendency or yelling at us that we are the anti-Christ
and all of that. We are not that interested in that either.
You are not the judge. God is the
judge. We take that judgment to God, and let God judge us who
is Christ, and who is anti-Christ, who has the truth and who does
not have the truth. You are not created to judge who we are or
who is correct and who is not correct. So please do not do
that.
But if you have a question about the
Mission, you want to know us, or you have something you want to
realize here, we are very glad to discuss it with you, and we are
very open to your questions.
Kakame, go ahead.
Kakame:
I was curious as to some of the prophecies I have read. What
is your connection with the Baha’i Faith?
Maitreya:
The very base of the Baha’i Faith is that all the religions of the
world are basically the same. The Baha’is teach that they have
come from the same God, and they are saying the same thing.
Therefore, we have to come together and become unified. It was
prophesied to come.
After Prophet Muhammed, many Moslems
were waiting for another great Prophet to come to humanity from the
lineage of Prophet Muhammed. Bab came as that Prophet. He was
from the lineage of Prophet Muhammed. He was a Sayyed. A
Sayyed means a person who has been born in the Prophet’s lineage.
Usually, if you go to the Islamic
countries, they have two colors of turbans. One is black and
one is green. It is believed that the people who wear the
black turban are from the lineage of Prophet Muhammed. Bab was
such a person. He came, and he brought a new teaching that he
called the Bayan.
Of course, it is very hard to find the
Bayan these days. We have been looking for it. We
cannot find it.
Then, of course, later on Baha’u’llah
came, and he tried to correct and perfect Bab’s teaching. But
we can see in the Scripture that it reveals that the Baha’i teaching
and Bab’s teaching is not perfect. You can read why. It
is in THOTH (The Holiest Of The Holies).
They were the twin Prophets that God predicted to come.
So they brought the concept of
universalism but in our teaching it is not the same as the Baha’i
teaching. Baha’is say that all the religions of the world,
basically, say the same thing. They talk about God and being
good and all of that.
We do not say that. We say we are
revealing the Seven Seals, and each religion of the world has one
specific message, therefore, they are different in that, and they
are not the same.
So the Baha’i teaching in our teaching
is the universalism. Universalism means to accept God as your
Father and Mother and the universe as your home. Therefore,
you shatter all the narrowness of the mind.
The Baha’i teaching in our teaching is
related to the shattering of the narrowness of the mind, realizing
that God is One, and all humanity and the universe are His children.
Go ahead, Bambinolocc.
Bambinolocc:
Hello. I have a question. The concept you have of Islam,
is it from the Shi’ite or from the Sunni prospective? I was
reading some of the stuff that you were saying about the djaal, but
you said it was the spirit of djaal. Because from the Sunni
prospective, the Prophet gave us a very good description of djaal.
That he would have an imperfection in his right eye. These
were physical descriptions. Now could you tell me… When
you said they had a spirit of djaal…
Maitreya:
The two main branches of Islam are Sunni and Shi’ite. The
reason for the separation of these two branches was that after
Prophet Muhammed left his body, there was a problem of the
succession. Some people believed that after him, Ali, his
son-in-law, should have become the Calipha or the head of the
Islamic body. Other people said, “No. We will go with
the tradition of the Arabs,” which was choosing a successor by vote
from the community.
Ali also was a young man. In the
Arabic culture, they do not trust young people very much to become
leaders. They trust older people to be more acceptable in that
sense. Therefore, they chose another person by the name of Abu
Baker who was the first believer in Islam and who spent most of his
wealth to support Prophet Muhammed and his revelation.
After that was another person by the
name of Omar and _____. So after three persons came, by that
time Ali was old enough and the community accepted him as the
Calipha or their leader. But the Shi’ites said, “No, from the
very beginning Ali should have become the Calipha or their leader.”
So, this is really the reason the two branches were split.
Of course, in order for the Shi’ites
and Sunnis to separate themselves in those concepts, they made
themselves distinguished. They created different branches.
But all in all the belief basically is the same.
Of course, when Ali was accepted, they
accepted him as their Imam, or leader, and then his children.
Then there were other branches that came. There were five
Imammies. There were seven Imammies, twelve Imammies, and
Shi’ites are the twelfth Imammies, and they believe that the twelfth
Imam disappeared.
It is just like the Christians are
waiting for Christ to come from the sky, and bring the Kingdom of
God on earth and make everyone Christian. Similarly, the
Moslems believe that when the Imam comes, he is going to do the same
thing and make everyone Moslem. So, that is why the concept of
Imam in Shia is so powerful.
You can see that when Komeni came, they
called him Imam. They thought he was the person who was going
to make everyone on earth a Moslem. So there is the same
similar concept there came in Islam.
Of course, there is a belief or
concept, which is now again just like anti-Christ, of “djaal” in
Islam. He is supposed to come and everyone starts following
him and they become very materialistic and all of that. It is
the same idea as the anti-Christ. It is really the concept of
attraction to the external world.
It is not a person. It is not a
being. It is the attraction to the external world, which makes
people go away from God. In that sense it is the same concept
as anti-Christ.
Even John said that he is even here
now. He did not say that he is going to come in the future.
He was there. He is always there. That is the attraction
to the external world, or Maya. Anti-Christ is being against
Christ.
Christ is from God. He is the
First Begotten Son of God. Anti-Christ is the attraction to
the external world. If you are going toward the external
world, you are following the anti-Christ. If you turn around
and go toward God, you are going to be baptized and you are going to
follow Christ.
So those concepts, again, are the
things that are man-made and God’s ways of explaining them are in
The Holiest Of The Holies, or THOTH, or
The Last Testament.
Kakame, go ahead.
Kakame: Thank you for giving me the microphone. I
guess I was asking specifically your relationship to the Baha’i
Faith and to the Baha’i writings, and not necessarily information
about the Baha’i Faith, but just simply your relationship to it.
Maitreya: It is a little hard for us to understand
exactly what you are asking. What is our relationship with the
Baha’is in the external world? In this world, really we do not
have any relationship in the sense of being connected to their
organization.
We have informed them of this Revelation. There are Baha’is in
the Mission who have sent e-mails and letters to the
organization and have told them, “He who will be manifested has been
manifested. It is based on the revelations, expectations, and
prophecies based on what Bab, Baha’u’llah, Abdu’l Baha, and Shoghi
Effendi said and revealed. And now these prophecies are
fulfilled. Therefore, come and join us.”
We have sent that to every religion on
earth, that your expectation is now fulfilled and, therefore, you do
not have to wait for anyone to come because he has already come.
All the religions of the world are unified. The prophecies are
fulfilled.
In that sense our relationship with all
other religions is to call them to come to see, to join and to
become unified under these teachings. Of course, as history
has revealed, no religion in the past accepted, at least not the
organizations, the heads, and the leaders of those religions
accepted the new revelation.
As we can see, the Jews did not accept
Christianity. Most of them. The Christians did not
accept Islam. Islam did not accept the Baha’is. And the
Baha’is probably are not going to accept ours. We are hoping
they will. We pray they will.
Therefore, we are reaching to the
individuals who have been called for this Mission so that
they can come and join us. They are the ones who are the
Elects. But if they came, if the Baha’i people came tomorrow
and the organization said, “Yes, we believe what you are saying
makes sense and we are a part of you. We want to be a part of
the unification of all religions and, therefore, we will become
one,” they would be welcome.
If tomorrow the Christians and the
Moslems come and they say, “Yes, what you say makes sense. We
believe in you,” then we would not have the war in Afghanistan.
We would bring the peace to the two camps right away if the
Palestinians and the Jews come and say, “Yes, we both believe in
you.” We will say, “You have to get along. You have to
live together in peace. You should not kill one another.”
And, therefore, the peace will come to them.
But the question is, if they will.
That is the question, if they would listen to this new Revelation
and realize the unity that has come to them from God.
So the answer is here. The way is
given. Humanity is called to come and join this unification,
but according to the history that we know, and according to the
Scriptures, unfortunately, we have to go through a period of
tribulation, which has already started.
We can see that there are two camps
that have been posed against each other. Apparently, it seems
that the West has the coalition and a lot of support, but I can tell
you that this support will not last long. The coalition is
going to fall apart and a very, very bad situation is going to come
to humanity for the next ten, twelve, or fifteen years.
By the year 2017 humanity will
eventually realize that they have no choice but to see that this
Revelation is the unification. By 2017, hopefully, humanity
will realize this Revelation and our teaching, and come and be
unified.
So to answer your question, we do not
have any relationship with the Baha’is. We do not have any
relationship with the Moslems. We do not have any relationship
with the Christians. We do not have any relationship with the
Buddhists, or the Hindus.
Really, what we are trying to do is to
gather the Elects, gather those who have been called, and then reach
to all these religions and, hopefully, eventually, guide them to
come.
It is just like the Temple that we are
going to build. There is a door for each religion in the
Temple. Every person can come into the Temple from their own
door. If you are a Christian, you can come in from the third
seal. If you are a Hindu or a Buddhist, you can go through the
first seal door. Or, the Jews can go to the second seal door.
But all of them are going to end up in the center of the Temple and
mix together and become one.
That is the whole idea, to call the
Elects and eventually call all these religions and bring them to the
Mission. After they are in the Mission, they no
longer are a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, or a Buddhist. They
are Divines.
So no, we do not have any relationship
with any of the religions in the physical sense.
Go ahead, Bambinolocc.
Bambinolocc:
I was not quite clear, are you saying that djaal is not an actual
person?
The reason why I ask is because the
Prophet said that he would either be disfigured or his right eye
would look like a grape or whatever, and that he would be blind in
his right eye, and that he would have something between his eyes.
What he would make seem like the truth was actually false, and what
he made seem false was actually the truth.
He also said that the djaal would be
followed by 70,000 Jews and would be dressed in robes of green
colored satin.
So I am just curious. You do not
think that the djaal is real? Like the Prophet said before the
appearance of the djaal that certain things would happen. He
said that there would be three years of famine. The first year
there would be one third less rain, the second year there would be
two thirds less rain, and the third year there would be no rain at
all.
So this is what is going on in
Afghanistan. Afghanistan is in a three year drought.
Also they said there would be mass exodus. Four million people
have left Afghanistan. You know, so there are four million
people who have left. Also Afghanistan has been in war for a
long time. They said there would be a ruler whose way is
unstable. You know the Taliban is in the middle of the Civil
War. And also the Prophet said that there would be military
budget or whatever, and that the last Calipha would have so much
money that he would be spending money without even counting it.
Also you know that Osama Bin Laden is a very rich man. He has
been spending money without even thinking about it, buying military
equipment out of his own money and stuff.
So all this stuff has to happen before
the appearance of the djaal.
Maitreya:
OK, please keep your questions short.
You are talking about someone said
this, and someone said that. If you want to know the truth, go
to the Scriptures. Do not listen to someone or something, or
somewhere, or a guru, or a teacher, or a Mullah, or a predictor, or
a psychic, or whatever. You go ahead and read the Scriptures.
According to the Scriptures, there is
going to be the coming of this Revelation, the Seventh Seal will be
opened, the book sealed with the Seven Seals will come to humanity,
and the person who will bring this teaching will fulfill all the
prophecies. That is how we will know who he is.
The djaal, or the anti-Christ, are the
concepts that are created in each religion, and that meant the
forces or the powers, which are against God and against God’s
Revelation. And that has been with us all along.
There has never been that there has not
been Maya, or the attraction to the external world. Bringing
that to a concept of a person is a man made concept. There is
no such thing.
All these concepts of djaal and
anti-Christ are a very small part of the Scriptures. The only
place in the New Testament that it talks about the
anti-Christ is in the books written by John and some other places.
But Christ talks about the forces that take you from God. That
is Maya, and that is what is the most important part about the
anti-Christ, or as not being from God.
So, do not listen to people. Do
not listen to things that try to explain what is happening on earth.
These are the tribulations that God has predicted to come to
humanity, and the only salvation from it is the teaching that comes
from God at this time, at the time of the end of the time, which is
the end of the old era and the beginning of the Golden Age, which
will come for the next 12,000 years.
So, go to the Scriptures. Listen
to God’s Words. Do not let any man tell you what are God’s
Words.
That is another thing that the
Mission of Maitreya does, it connects you to God. I do not
even want you to be connected to me, take me as God, and worship me.
I want you to go directly to God because you can. God and you
are One. There is no separation between you.
You do not need the preacher, you do
not need the teacher, you do not need the guru, you do not need the
Rabbi, you do not need the priest, and you do not need the Mullah.
You do not need anyone to tell you how to contact God.
Just close your eyes and worship God in
Spirit as Christ said, “There will be a day that you will worship
God in Spirit.” You do not need to go to Jerusalem, or any
mosque, or any Hijah, or any place. You can worship Him right
where you are.
Just sit down somewhere comfortably,
keep your back straight, keep your head straight, close your eyes,
and concentrate on breathing. Breathe in, Haree Om Shrii
Hung. It means that The Goal Of The Life Is To Be(Come)
Divine. Breath out
Om Nam Kavalem. That means, That Divinity (God) Is
Everything.
There is no separation. There is
nowhere in the universe that God is not. Therefore, you do not
need them. Do not listen to humans. Do not listen to
teachers. Do not listen to anyone but God’s Words and the
person who God has predicted to come. Anyone else does not
have the whole truth, and they will misguide you.
So please keep your questions very
short and sweet, and also realize that you have to go to God.
OK, Kakame, go ahead.
Kakame:
I have something to add to what you were suggesting and went to the
Baha’i site and tried to find out about the prophecy that you are
saying that according to the Baha’i prophecies that you are the
Messiah or the Madhi.
The Baha’i prophecy says, “The
dispensation of Baha’u’llah will last for at least 1,000 years.”
His cycle will extend so far into the future that it relates to your
claim of Prophethood according to the Baha’u’llah’s prophecy.
Yes, it was written by Shoghi Effendi. That is true.
Maitreya:
Alright. I will let John1981 answer that question. I did
not write down the prophecies. Other people found those
prophecies that are fulfilled through this vessel. Therefore,
they know about those prophecies much more than I do. John,
are you there? Do you want to go ahead and answer that
question?
Of course, you can find the answer in
the website. John has already answered that. He was a
Baha’i himself, and later on he realized that our teaching is even
greater. The coming of this teaching has been prophesied even
in the Baha’i teaching.
John:
Sal-OM, Maitreya. I hope everyone can hear me. I
would be glad to answer that question. As Maitreya
said, I was a Baha’i for quite some time.
It does say that in the dispensation of
Baha’u’llah [John was cut off] a book written by Shoghi Effendi.
Actually, it was not a book written by him, it was just parts of
different I
believe [this is really broken up so that only a word here and
there comes through]
Shoghi Effendi followed a lot of his
own whims and ideas. But as you can see on our website, at the
end of Shoghi Effendi’s life, he did clearly say to his wife,
Ruhiyyih Khanum I believe, that the next Messiah was coming.
She wrote about it in Baha’i News.
Also, of course, we can see throughout
our website, through the Bab, Baha’u’llah, and Abdu’l Baha, the
three most authoritative figures in the Baha’i Faith, that
Maitreya is predicted to follow in the ranks (can’t hear
this again) You, of course, can verify that… Of course,
you can go and verify these on the website.
He was predicted by his birth name, his
birth place, his birth date, what he is going to do, what Revelation
he will bring, where he will go to, and where his dispensation will
begin. So it is broken down into every little detail of
Maitreya’s life.
The prophecies are fulfilled and I
request that you go to maitreya.org. There we have two entire
sites devoted just to the prophecies of the Baha’i Faith.
I hope that makes sense, Kakame.
I hope that is the correct pronunciation.
Sal-OM and thank you, Maitreya.
Maitreya:
I hope that answered your question, Kakame. Of course, you can
go to our website as John mentioned:
www.maitreya.org. They
are all there, all the prophecies. I did not write them.
Other people found them and gave them to us. So, I hope you
can find your answers there easily.
Bambinolocc, please go ahead but do not
make it very long. Make it short, and do not bring who said
what. If you want to know more about those things, go to our
website also and you will find a lot of information there.
Your questions are going to be answered.
Actually, the answer to every
conceivable question has been given there. Go ahead,
Bambinolocc.
Bambinolocc:
Maitreya, with all due respect, I was saying the Prophet
Muhammed, I was not just saying like a dude here or whatever.
I was just curious though, have you ever seen the unity, the true
unity of Islam, by going to the hijah in Mecca? Or, have you
ever been to the city of Medina to the Prophet’s Mosque just to see
the unity of Islam? I am just curious.
Maitreya:
OK. Can you tell us where in the Koran Prophet Muhammed
said those things?
Bambinolocc:
The Koran is only half of the religion of Islam. In the
Koran
it does say that anything that has been sent down by Allah, or by
the Prophet, has to be followed, and that anything that is not
followed is not the straight path. So any of the examples that
he set, or anything that he said, that you have to do.
And, as you know, the hijah, or
pilgrimage is one of the five pillars of Islam. So everyone
knows this. Like I said, any matter that was decreed by Allah
or the Prophet has to be followed. If he said it in the
Hadiths or in the actions of the Prophet, the scholars verify these
to be authentic and they have to be followed.
Maitreya:
Islam is probably the religion I am most familiar with. I was
born into it, OK? You are talking about the Hadiths and the
things that the people brought from Prophet Muhammed. Which
Hadiths are you talking about? Which one is the correct one?
There are many people following
different Hadiths, and they are each saying that is the correct one.
Even the
Koran itself was lost, and there were two versions of it.
Many of the people who knew the Koran by heart were killed.
There were two versions of the Koran and there was a great
upheaval, so which one was correct?
Prophet Muhammed himself said he has
not revealed the whole truth, he revealed only a part of The Holy
Tablet. How can he be the last Prophet if he had only given a
portion of The Holy Tablet?
Now do not be dogmatic about your
religion. If you want to yell and be dogmatic, we are going to
have dogmatic Christians, dogmatic Jews, dogmatic Hindus, dogmatic
Buddhists, and each of them are going to tell you that they are the
correct one, that is the only way, if you go any other way…
Even dogmatic Baha’is, they are going
to come to you and say, “Well, no, you are not the one.”
That is fine. You can keep your
dogmas for yourself, and do not believe us. We do not care.
Go your way, and we will go our way, and we will see who is the
truthful eventually.
So there is a lot of controversy about
those Hadiths, those things about Prophet Muhammed. Many
people follow different Hadiths. Some of them are accepted.
Some of them are not accepted. They has been discussed.
They has been reputed, many of them are not authentic.
Even here in this Mission that I
have been giving twenty years of teaching, still some of my
disciples say things that are not my words. I have to correct
them, and we have to discuss it together and see what is truthful.
Then Prophet Muhammed did not even
write his book down. At least THOTH is written
down here and has been put in the Internet and been corrected.
I am still here, and I am not letting anyone change it. And
believe me, a lot of people wanted to change it. We had many
people, even my own disciples, who wanted to change it.
So there were a lot of things that
happened after Prophet Muhammed left, and he never wrote these
things down. No one wrote these things down. There was
only one version that was written down that one person kept
underneath his bed, and then that was lost.
So, you can see that you cannot rely on
those Hadiths, you cannot rely on everything you hear. Also
there have been two versions of the Koran, and they were not
written exactly the same.
Even the Koran Itself says that,
“I did not bring the whole Holy Tablet but I brought a portion.”
So those things you are telling me are dogmas.
Go ahead, Unity19.
Unity19:
This is not the Baha’i teachings but would be considered those of
“covenant breakers.” Why doesn’t Maitreya answer it?
Maitreya:
Well, to be a “covenant breaker,” you have to be a Baha’i before you
can become a covenant breaker. If you are not a Baha’i, how
can you be a covenant breaker?
I have never been a Baha’i. So I
cannot be a covenant breaker. Also the term “covenant breaker”
came from whom? They are the words of Abdu’l Baha, at the time
that the first person was opposing him, who was his own brother, and
they were having a problem of who was going to become the leader of
the Baha’is.
We can see that every time the Baha’i
leaders died there was a great upheaval, destruction, and split in
the Baha’i people. Even Baha’u’llah himself said, “It is
impossible having a Baha’i system without a guardian. They do
not have any guardian.
You said that they do not need it
anymore. According to the very words of Baha’u’llah, your
religion is finished, because He said that without the guardian you
cannot have a Baha’i Religion.
Therefore, that is another sign right
in our faces that is saying, there is no guardian, there is no
Baha’i teaching, and there is no Baha’u’llah’s teaching.
Therefore, you cannot have Baha’is continue in their belief because
he already said that you need that guardian.
OK, go ahead, John.
John:
Sal-OM, Maitreya, I did have a question from Paula but I can
get to that.
To answer the question, Shoghi Effendi
himself did say several times in his writings that if the
institution of guardianship was taken away from the Baha’i Faith,
that it would be rendered amute, that it would be permanently
injured from bringing God’s Kingdom on earth. It is in Shoghi
Effendi’s own words. This is also on our website.
So Maitreya is absolutely right.
If we look through the Scriptures discriminately, we can see that
another Prophet shall come, that he will not be a covenant breaker
because the Baha’i Faith will lose its guardian, which it did, and
it would be rendered powerless, and that this next Prophet is
predicted in every level and stage of his life in the Baha’i Faith.
The Baha’i Scriptures are the most
powerful and predictive of all the prophecies. I urge you to
go to our website, and that will resolve many of the problems that
we have in this room.
And, of course, anyone who truly keeps
the covenant of the Baha’i Faith will be a member of the Mission
of Maitreya because he fulfills the prophecies and promises to
come.
Maitreya:
John, go ahead, if you have a question from Paula also, I will
answer that.
John:
Thank you, Maitreya. The question is from Paula.
The question is, Are you the last Messenger, and after you will
there be others?
Maitreya:
According to the prophecies, when the Seventh Seal is opened, it is
done. It is finished. And also in the verse of
Revelation, chapter 10 verse 7, it clearly says, “When the
Seventh Angel comes, the mystery of God will finish.” When the
Seventh Angel opens the seal, at the end of
Revelation, it says, “It is done, it is finished.”
Also, if you go to our website, if you
read our teachings, there should not be any questions that will not
be answered. The mystery of God is indeed explained, and even
how to create the Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth, has been revealed to
humanity.
Also the tribulation that humanity is
going through and will go through will bring people to the
realization that their religions are done. Every religion on
earth has been existing to this point so that we can reveal the
Seven Seals to them and explain how each of them fall into the Seven
Seals and the Eternal Divine Path, and how they can be
unified.
You do not have to leave your religion.
The only thing is to understand the Plan of God and realize that all
religions, all disciplines, everything on earth has come from God,
and the only separation and differences between you, your religions,
the branches in your religions, and your separation from other
religions, are dogmas and man made.
If you take out those dogmas and
realize our teaching, and see the Eternal Divine Path, you
realize, “Yes, that makes sense,” and you are no longer going to be
a Jew, or Christian, or Hindu, or Buddhist, or Moslem. You
will become a Divine because you are in the Eternal Divine Path.
Eventually, hopefully, we will become all One.
As I said, “If everyone accepts this
tomorrow, we are going to have peace and the Kingdom on earth
tomorrow.” But that is not going to happen, and we had better
know than just say that it is going to happen tomorrow.
But apparently the human has to go
through the tribulation and destruction before they realize that
they are wrong. Those who are waiting for someone to come from
the sky, let them wait. Those who are waiting for someone to
come by the name, djaal, and then Prophet Muhammed comes, let them
wait. Those who believe that they are the chosen ones, let
them wait. Those who think they are the way, let them wait.
We will wait for them. They will eventually see that this is
the truth.
God said that such a person will come
with these prophecies fulfilled through him, and he has come.
A teaching will come to unify all humanity, and the
Seventh Angel will open the book sealed with the Seven Seals.
Therefore, there is no way but to
conclude, “Yes, this is the last Revelation of God to humanity, this
unifies everyone and brings the Kingdom.” So the answer to
your question, is definitely, “Yes.”
Go ahead, Unity19.
Unity19:
John 1981 claimed to be a Baha’i at one time and you could not
answer it. Why is that if this Messenger has received it from
God? The guardian was Shoghi Effendi, and now he is the House
of Justice, the guardian of the Baha’i Faith.
Maitreya:
Unity19, we saw your question. We are not here to argue with
you. Go to our website. It is answered there. The
prophecy for 1,000 years was not for Baha’u’llah. He was a
twin prophet. Indeed the teaching of Bab was not perfect.
If you go to THOTH (The
Holiest Of The Holies), in chapter 3 of The Revelation,
which is talking about the fifth church which is the Baha’is, in the
very beginning it says, “It is not perfect.” Why is it not
perfect? It is because a lot of the things that Bab said were
not practical, were his opinion.
Also, you glorify your Prophet.
You worship Baha’u’llah. You do not worship God. And
that is not perfect. Whoever worships the Prophet instead of
God, their religion is not perfect. They make the Prophet in
the way of you to connect to God.
Here in the Mission of Maitreya,
we connect you to God. I do not want you to worship me.
I do not want tomorrow you to create the abundance of dogmas around
my personality and make a personality cult, and worship me instead
of God. I connect you to God. Therefore, the Baha’i
teaching is not perfect. God said it is not perfect. It
is in the Scriptures, and Bab did not perfect it.
Baha’u’llah came to perfect it, and he
did a good job. But still, even in your teaching also,
Baha’u’llah wrote a lot of Scriptures, a lot of Revelation, but he
never revealed them to humanity. He told his clerk to throw
them into the river because humanity was not ready then.
If he was the person who was to bring
the Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth, he should have let everything come
that came from God to humanity. Therefore, he also did not
write the whole thing and give it to humanity. Therefore, he
cannot be the last Prophet.
Now we can see that all the prophecies
are fulfilled. The Hindu prophecies, the Buddhist prophecies,
the Christian, the Jewish, the Islamic, all the prophecies are
fulfilled to this point.
Therefore, this is the time for
the coming of the last Prophet, and we gave everything to humanity.
We did not hold back.
So go again to our website.
Please do not be argumentative. And we will go now to
Rachael126. Go ahead, Rachael.
Rachael:
Awhile ago Maitreya stated that he has never been a Baha’i.
My question, is from what tradition does Maitreya come?
Thank you.
Maitreya:
Again, if you go to our website and go to our literature, to the
section, Other Literature, there is a writing called, “How He Became
Maitreya.” You can find everything about me, where I was
born, how I was raised, how I was guided to this Revelation, how I
started the Mission, and all that.
But to answer your question, I was born
in Tehran in Iran. I was born in an Islamic tradition.
My grandfather was a very well known clergy in the providence of
Taleghan. He almost owned a village called Shahrasar, where I
spent most of my summers. So I was in a big city and at the
same time in a small village, in the summer, spending time there.
So I was born in an Islamic background.
Of course, Tehran is the fulfillment of the prophecies that Jews and
Christians are waiting for Messiah, Prophet, to come from the East.
The Buddhists and Hindus are waiting for Maitreya and the
Kalki Avatar to come from the West. And Tehran is right in the
middle of those two, or three, or four, religions and cultures.
That is also the fulfillment of one of the prophecies.
Of course, there are a lot of
prophecies that I said many people have found and came and gave to
us in the Mission. The people who have done it, some of
them were not even in the Mission
when they received those prophecies. And then they realized,
“Yes, I have to come and join.”
So it is not something that they were
in the
Mission, and they tried to match me with the prophecy.
But they found the prophecy first, and then they came and said,
“Yes, I want to be a part of it.”
That is what my background is.
But if you want to know more about me, there is a booklet on our
website called, “How He Became Maitreya.” You can
search for it, or you can go to our literature, Other Literature,
and you can find it there.
Go ahead, Kakame.
Kakama:
Thank you very much. I have a final question. You have,
just a few minutes ago, suggested that Baha’u’llah’s words, and he
himself, was not perfect. If that is true, then why do you
justify your own station according to the prophecies of other
religions? One of the criteria for a Prophet is that they
never, never put other Prophets down or diminish their station.
You have done this, and that I found unacceptable.
Maitreya:
Well, I do not put anyone down. This is in the Scripture,
right in the
Bible, it says, “It is not perfect.” I do not diminish
their station. They were both great Prophets. They
brought wonderful Revelations to humanity.
Actually, they relate the Fifth Seal
which is related to the ether. The people, when they reach to
that ether in meditation, think they have reached the end.
They think that they are perfect. They start traveling in the
astral projection, and they see all these great wonderful beings.
They can talk to them, and these wonderful people say wonderful
things.
If you read the teachings of
Baha’u’llah and Bab… Well, you cannot find Bab’s teachings any
more because the Baha’is destroyed Bab’s books. You cannot
find the Bayan because they changed a lot of things after
Bab. They completely covered Bab’s teaching because they said
he is no longer good. And he was the first one who brought the
Revelation.
You can see that the truth, is the
truth, is the truth, even if it hurts. This is where we say
the truth, and that is what the truth is. That is what the
Word of God is telling you in His Scripture, it is not going to be
perfect. So, it is not the seventh level of your spiritual
progress.
When you do astral projection, when you
go to ether, when you see those wonderful beings in that level, this
is not the ultimate. You think it is the last one, and you
think you have reached the end of your spiritual progress. You
have not.
The same thing goes with the fifth
revelation. The fifth spiritual progress is the fifth level,
and the people who reach there think, “Oh that is it. It is so
beautiful. It is so wonderful.”
Baha’i’s words are wonderful. His
revelation is fantastic. I have no problem with praising him
and what he brought to humanity. And I am not diminishing his
station or Bab’s station. Every Revelation that came from God
is great and wonderful.
But it is in the Scripture that it
says, “It is not perfect.” So every Baha’i who is a real
searcher, which also was recommended by the Prophet, “Be a searcher,
question, ask, and find the truth,” will read the Scripture and find
out that what I say is correct.
That is, of course, unless you are
dogmatic, and you are angry, or unhappy because I have said the
truth. Well, that I cannot help.
Go ahead, Bambinalocc.
Bambinolocc:
I was curious, do you know about how the division between Ali and
Omar occurred? It was because of a Jewish guy. I am not
anti-Semitic – but that is how it happened. I do not know if
you knew about that or not.
And you still did not answer my
question. Have you ever been to Mecca? Or, have you ever
been to the city of Medina?
Maitreya:
No, I have not been to either Mecca nor Medina. It is not
necessary. It is not needed. Those were the prophecies
that Bab fulfilled that he would go to Mecca and Medina. Bab
did those and fulfilled that.
Of course, you still do not accept Bab
and Baha’u’llah as the Revelation that came after Prophet Muhammed,
therefore, you think I should be doing it. I do not have to do
it. That is done, finished.
Now it is a New Wine in a New Skin.
The division between Ali and Omar is
not in the Koran. Yes, Prophet Muhammed finished his
religion and perfected for what he came to humanity by bringing the
message of surrendering and submission to humanity. He
finished that part. That is correct. But he did not
finish the whole thing, the whole revelation, because he said that
he has not revealed the whole Holy Tablet, “He went over a lot of
it.”
Therefore, if he did not reveal the
whole tablet, there has to come another Prophet to finish this.
Also, Prophet Muhammed said that God is an able God. He can do
whatever He wants to do.
If He wants to send another Prophet, He
will. If the Moslems say that He cannot, they are limiting God
in Islam, which is not limited, and it is your dogma that you
believe in.
You are probably going to come up next
and say the word Khatem means he was the last Prophet. Of
course, that was also explained in our teaching. You can
pronounce this as Khatem, as the last Prophet, or Khatam, as the
seal of the Prophets. Again, in our teaching, you will see
that both explanations are correct. He was the Khatem, he was
the last, in the sense that he brought the highest spiritual
realization to humanity.
The highest spiritual realization is
surrendering and submission to God. Surrendering means to do
your work and surrender the result to God so that you are not
attached to the result. Submission is when you let God come
through you. Therefore, He is going to do a perfect job
because God is Perfect.
If you really let God come through you,
you are completely submissive to Him, and God is doing the work
through you. You are not doing anything, and you are not
attached to the result. Therefore, Prophet Muhammed brought
the highest spiritual realization to humanity. In that sense,
he is the last Prophet.
Also if you look at The Greatest
Sign, you can see Islam is at the very top of The Greatest
Sign, just like a seal in a ring. So both of them are
correct and explained in the
Mission, and it takes away the argument that Moslems have had
about that word for 1,300 years.
Also the argument between Moslems and
Baha’is about, what is the meaning of Khatem? Was it Khatem or
was it Khatam? Of course, Baha’is say it is Khatam. It
meant he was the seal of the Prophets. It did not mean Khatem,
the end or the last Prophet.
Moslems say, “Oh no, it is Khatem.
He is the last Prophet.” Now we have unified that argument as
well. We say both of you are correct. Khatem means that
he brought the highest spiritual realization, therefore he was the
last Prophet in that sense. But he did not bring the whole
truth. He did not bring the whole Holy Tablet to humanity.
And Khatam, he is at the very top of The Greatest Sign.
Go ahead, unity.
Unity:
Maitreya, you are not teaching truth in my own opinion.
The Manifestation of Bab would answer for himself and not be
preaching this in my humble opinion.
Maitreya:
Unity 19, I do not think we want to let you come in any more because
you are becoming argumentative. We are not here to argue.
Go to our website, read the teachings, and see that the prophecies
are fulfilled.
Read the prophecies about the Baha’is
and their teaching. Read our teaching about the Baha’is and
their teachings, and come up with the conclusion. Either you
conclude that we are correct and we say the truth, and you come and
join and help, or you say we are not saying the truth and are
incorrect, and you go your way. We will leave you to God, and
let God judge between us.
You are not going to change our minds.
Apparently, we are not going to be able to change yours. But
the truth is in the website. It is the fulfillment of the
prophecies, and the teaching unifies all the religions.
And all the religions are not the same.
It is not that God is going to send Revelation through Prophets
forever, as the Baha’i teaching says. It is going to finish.
It is not Scriptural that God is going to send Prophets forever.
Therefore, we can see again that that teaching is not perfect.
I am sorry it hurts you. You do not like it.
I am not trying to put Baha’u’llah or
the Baha’i teaching, or Bab, down. They are beautiful Prophets
from God. We accept them with all our hearts, and we recognize
their station, but Scripture is clear and truth, therefore, go and
study that.
Go ahead, Makum.
Makum:
Thank you. Thank you very much. OK Maitreya, how
are you? Nice to speak to you again. I have three
questions in one but all about the same thing. It is about The
Holy Ghost.
When did you last experience It?
Did any other person on earth, including Prophets up to now, did any
other person beside Jesus bring The Holy Ghost back to earth?
This is question number two. And number three, would it be
experienced again in our time? Thank you.
Maitreya:
Yes, The Holy Ghost, the Grace of God, was taken away from humanity
at the time of the Garden of Eden. That is why the human fell,
and they started worshipping stones and statues and kings and
queens. Of course, they are still doing that, they worship the
stars, or Hollywood, or whatever they can replace God with.
Christ then released The Holy Ghost,
and that is when the Pentecost, the day of Pentecost, came.
People thought his followers were drunk. But they were not.
They were in the Spirit with The Holy Ghost and felt very beautiful.
They spoke in many tongues that, of course, they had been
reincarnated before in that tongue, and that is why they knew how to
talk in that tongue, in those languages.
Will we experience The Holy Ghost?
Prophet Muhammed experienced It. He received The Holy Ghost.
Actually, The Holy Ghost is the revealer of the Revelations and the
truth. Although The Holy Ghost was taken away from humanity,
it was released to the Prophets of the
Old Testament. So although the regular human could not
experience It, there are people like Moses, people like Job, people
like Jonah, and all those Prophets of old, who experienced the Holy
Ghost because if you do not experience The Holy Ghost, you cannot
experience the Truth, because The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of God,
and The Spirit of God reveals the Revelation to the Prophet.
Have I experienced the Holy Ghost?
I am experiencing It right now [laughing]. The Holy Ghost
should be with me that I would be able to reveal this truth that I
am giving you. If you have been chosen, you will say, “Yes,
what he says makes sense. There has to be One God, One
Humanity.”
God cannot send all these religions.
Prophet Muhammed did not reveal the whole truth. Baha’u’llah
and Bab struggled to perfect their religion, but it was not perfect.
It says in the Scripture of God that it
was not perfect. And we can see that it is not. Even the
Guardianship was taken away from them. The very base, the very
pillar of their religion is gone.
We can see that all these truths are
there. If The Holy Ghost would touch you, you would say, “Yes,
Maitreya is right. Maitreya is correct. What
he says is from God, is from The Holy Ghost.”
When you follow the Eternal Divine
Path, when you awaken your spiritual forces, dedicate yourself
and your life to the creation of the Communities of Light,
sacrifice for them, surrender and submit yourself to the Will of God
to see, “Why did God send me here? What is this life all
about? Why am I here? Am I here to preach and teach this
teaching from Maitreya, or am I here just to sweep the floor
in one of the Centers of the Mission? No matter what, I
am here for that purpose, and I will do it. I will listen to
God. I will surrender and submit to the Will of God. I
will surrender my life to this Revelation.” Therefore, you
will be completely One with God because God is going to do through
you. Then you will break all the narrowness of the mind, of
the gender, color, nationality, titles, anything.
Some of the biggest problem with
humanity is titles: “I am a Rabbi.” “I am a big shot,”
or, “I am a Mullah.” “I am a Priest.” “I am this and
that.” Throw all that out. “I am the teacher.”
Even, “I am the big teacher of the Mission of Maitreya, and
everyone should bow down in front of me,” and all that.
So throw them all out. Become an
instrument for God, and help everyone in the universe no matter
where they are from, or who they are, how they look, or what
language they have. If they need help, help them. Come
and spread this Message to humanity.
Then you will become an Elect.
You will experience The Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is given to
you. It is your birthright. God wants you to have it.
He gave it to Adam and Eve in the beginning. He did not
withdraw it from them. The Grace was with them.
So God wants to give it to you.
But you have to do something. You have to earn it. God
did not want you to earn it in the beginning. He just gave it.
It is just like our Satsang room or
like here. Last week we wanted everyone to come, participate,
and be nice to us. But we saw that if you let everyone talk,
then you see what happens. They start with the things that
just did not make sense.
So it is just like us, we would like to
give everyone the floor so they can talk but unfortunately, we have
to restrict it and make it more orderly. That is exactly how
God is.
He wants you to have The Holy Ghost.
He wants you to experience It but first you have to go through the
Eternal Divine Path. Then when you get to the Sixth Seal,
you will experience It.
Go ahead, Lou.
Lou:
Maitreya, is there a difference between The Holy Ghost and
The Holy Spirit?
Maitreya:
There is none, it is the same thing. The Holy Ghost is the
Spirit of God, and The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. They
are the same thing. Of course, that is according to my
definition. Unless you have another definition for yourself
and you define The Holy Ghost as something and The Holy Spirit as
something else.
But in my book and in my definition, they are the same thing.
The Holy Spirit is The Holy Ghost.
Go ahead, Rachael.
Rachael: Sal-OM Maitreya. My question is,
you are speaking about how The Holy Spirit can benefit mankind, but
my question is, how does what you teach benefit God?
Maitreya: How does it benefit God? How would it
not benefit God?
God created the whole universe to help humanity go back to Him, and
this is the way back to God. That is what God wants. God
created this universe to help humanity to turn around, to be
baptized. The force of creation is going away from God, going
to Maya, going to the external world, being lost, not going back to
God.
And Creation, you and me, everyone, are a part of His Body. It
is just like a part of your body is diseased. You go to the
doctor and you ask, “Doctor, your treatment, what is it going to do?
It is going to help this disease but how is it going to help my
body?”
“Well, if you cure the disease your body is going to feel better.”
That is why God created and sent the Prophets. Why is He so
concerned about our well-being and wants to send the Prophets and go
through all these problems and send the Messengers and messages to
humanity? If it would not benefit Him, He would just leave us
alone and say, “Just forget these people.”
“Why do You have to struggle so much
with us and want us to return and turn around?” It is because
it does help God by bringing us back to the Body, unifying ourselves
with Him, healing the universe, and going back to the state of
“be-ness,” which is the state of complete Bliss and Oneness, which
of course, Buddha called Nirvana.
Hindus call it oneness with God.
Sufis call it being in love with God with all your heart, mind, and
spirit. And Christ also taught the same thing.
So why are all these people saying
these things? If it is only benefiting humanity, then that is
not good enough. Why does God want to only benefit humanity if
it does not benefit Him? So this teaching not only benefits
humanity, also it benefits the universe because it teaches that you
have to meditate and you have to awaken your spiritual forces.
You have to question your religions,
your beliefs. You have to go and listen to the Word of God.
You have to go to the Scriptures and see, “What did God say about me
and my religion? Is that really perfect as I think, or is it
just because the House of Justice, or my religion says, ‘It is
perfect, therefore, I have to accept it?’” No.
Even if I said something that does not
make sense, do not accept it. You should not. And I hope
you will not, because if it does not make sense it is not from God
because God has a lot of Sense.
So, God sent this Revelation because
humanity needs it and He needs humanity to go back to the Godhead.
Go ahead, Lou.
Lou:
Thank you. My question: Is speaking in tongues a sign of
the manifestation of The Holy Spirit?
Maitreya:
Well, speaking in tongues and having many powers in the spirit are a
part of your birthright. There are many of them, which are the
gift of the Spirit. But they are not the goal of the
meditation. They are not the goal of spiritual progress.
The goal of spiritual progress is not
to gain powers. It is not to gain psychic powers.
But in your progress toward perfection
or Pure Consciousness, you will gain spiritual powers. But you
probably should learn from my own experience when I started
meditating. When I started meditating, one month later I could
see the past and future of the people where I was.
I was then in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
I knew a lot of people in my university and another school in
Wilkes-Barre. The people in Wilkes-Barre would invite us to go
to their gatherings. I started telling the people what
happened to them in the past and what is going to happen in the
future a little bit. I became the center of their gatherings,
and everyone would say, “Tell me, tell me about what did I do,” this
and that. So I would tell them, and they were all amazed.
I felt, “Wow, what a great power I
have.” One or two months later that power was taken away from
me, and I could not do that anymore. I felt even worse than I
was before.
So the lesson was, “Do not misuse your
power. Do not think that that is the goal of the life.”
The goal of the life is not to talk in
tongues. The goal of the life is not to see people’s future or
past. The goal of the life is not to have a 900 number so
people can call and you can tell them their future from Tarot, or is
your boyfriend or girlfriend going to stay with you or not.
These are not the goal of the life.
The Goal Of The Life Is To Be(come)
Divine. How do you become Divine? You become Divine by
following the Eternal Divine Path.
Therefore, The Holy Ghost has a lot of
gifts and it gives them to you but if you misuse them and you think
that is the goal of your spiritual progress, you will be even worse
than before.
Go ahead, John.
John:
Sal-OM, Maitreya. I have a question about how the
postures in
The Reminder affect the energy centers in the body.
Maitreya:
The Reminder is the practice of praying that is very similar
to what the Moslems called Namaz. It is a new way of doing it.
It starts, “We pay our salutations to the Divine Father, who has
helped all come from ignorance to the path of enlightenment.”
Of course, the posture of the hands is
in the center of your chest and your fourth chakra. Therefore,
you are relating to your fourth chakra, and you are coming from that
center instead of your lower nature or lower chakras.
Therefore, you are awakening that part of your spiritual body that
affects your chakras.
Then, of course, you raise your hands
and you say, “We open our hearts to Your Grace.” So you open
your heart, yourself, to The Grace of God, which is The Holy Ghost.
You want to experience The Holy Ghost. You want to receive The
Holy Ghost, the gifts. But be aware, as I explained, that is
not the goal of spiritual progress. So you open yourself by
opening your heart to God so He can enter into your fourth chakra
and open it up.
And then, “Detaching ourselves from
Maya.” Detaching means, not to be attached to the result of
your actions. Therefore, that is the fifth and sixth, opening
yourself to God, believing that God is Everything. That is the
fifth chakra. That is, again, universalism. Detaching
yourself from Maya means that you are completely surrendering and
submissive to God, and that is fourth, that affects your fourth, and
fifth chakras.
Then you bow down and, “Promise to help
the whole universe to reach higher consciousness.” That again
is the fifth level, which your intention is to help the whole
universe. It is not only one group, one community or anything,
but you expand yourself to the whole universe. That is again
universalism.
Then you, “Bow down in front of all
those Great Souls who have helped and will help,” therefore, you
recognize the Prophets in the past, the Revelation that came to the
Mission, and the Prophets in the future. Therefore, you
become a Paravipra.
You shatter all the narrowness of the
mind, and you expand yourself to realize that God is the Doer in all
these things. In the past, sending all these religions, and in
the future, He will send other Great Souls, who will explain our
teaching according to that time, place, and people involved.
There is not going to be any great
revelation come after this one. This is it! This is the
end of it, but there are going to be Great Souls who come and
probably explain different parts that some people did not
understand. Or, the people will try to change it and all that,
and these Great Souls are going to help to keep our teaching and
Mission going.
Of course, I will also be reincarnated
and come back and help in the process. So that also expands
yourself to the sixth chakra, or Paraviprahood, because we will
believe in them, and they will come.
Then, you surrender and submit to the
Word of God, The Greatest Sign, THOTH, and our
teaching. That means again, you do not just accept one
religion. You accept all the religions that came through the
Prophets. And that again is expansion. That is
acceptance. That is unification. That is the shattering
of the narrowness of the mind.
Also, you surrender and submit to the
Formless, Nameless, and Invisible. It means you do not give
any names, any shapes, or anything to God that separates man from
man.
Anytime you give a name, anytime you
give a shape, anytime you give any physical attribute to God, it is
going to create separation. So, the names, the shapes, or
anything given to God is not acceptable.
Therefore, by doing that you again
shatter the pitfall of falling into a teacher, a guru, or a mullah,
or a book, a priest, a rabbi, a father, or whatever is between you
and God. You go to God directly to the Formless, Invisible,
Nameless, and Eternal, which is FINE. You will completely free
yourself from any pitfall on earth, which has separated humanity.
Then you also “bow down in front of all
the Great Souls who will teach you to reach Pure Consciousness.”
If you find a teacher who will take you to God, your respect should
be the greatest toward that teacher. You have to respect them.
You have to love them.
You have to greatly accept their
judgment and their teaching. If they tell you that you have to
improve in some part, you should take it very nicely and say, “Yes.
He is my teacher. He is telling me about this. I will
meditate on that. I will not become angry. I will not
become disappointed. I will not become unhappy about it.
And I will say, ‘Yes, I will meditate on this, probably he is
right.’ I will improve and become perfect in my quest. I
will be a better person.”
So, of course, there are two other
Satsangs I gave on The Reminder. If you want
those, I can tell someone to send you them, or at least tell you
where you can find them on the website. You can go and read
more about that.
But in general, The Reminder
is not only reminding you of what the Mission is all about,
it also affects your chakras. It is actually a yoga, very
similar to, as I said, the namaz the Moslems do.
Probably most Moslems do not know that
they are really doing yoga when they are doing namaz. Namaz is
going up and down, and you are actually using the muscles that you
usually do not use in regular life. It affects your chakras
when you do that.
Yoga means to go to a stretch, hold,
and then after awhile release. That is really what yoga means.
When you do that you feel the energy is released from the lower
chakras to the higher self.
And The Reminder does
that without calling it Yoga. So not only does it affect your
chakras, it
Reminds you of your goal, it expands you, it affects your
chakras, but also it is the yoga thing.
So if you want, someone is going to
send you an e-mail. You can read more about The
Reminder.
It is after 12 now. We have
been here for two hours. It was nice being with all of you.
God Loves you, and it is great having you here. May you all
have benefited from these discussions. If you are in other
religions, please go study our teachings. See your religion in
the light of the Mission.
Do not argue. Do not become dogmatic.
If you are a real seeker, you will see
that we are not on an ego trip, and I am not here to degrade your
Prophets or your religions. All of you have great religions,
have great teachings. But this is the last one. If you
want to really know the truth, this is it.
So please go check us out. If you
decide, “No, you are fake,” then go your way. We have no
argument with you. We are not here to fight you or argue. We
will leave you to God. And leave us to God.
Sal-OM everyone.
