Maitreya: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Satsang room of the Mission of Maitreya. This is the room
that the New Revelation of God will be revealed to you and
explained.
The Revelation is the one that all of humanity has
been waiting for, for the last 12,000 years. This is the Revelation
that reveals the Plan of God, explains how He has been sending all
these revelations before It, and now It unifies them all together as
the last Revelation of God.
After this, everything before this Revelation has
been fulfilled. God has prophesied the coming of this Revelation. He
has given the place it will come, what it will reveal, and where it
will be revealed (from what part of the earth).
So He has given the address of the Revealer, where
he will be born, where he will receive the Revelation, and from
where the Revelation will be spread out to humanity.
There is no doubt that the backing of this
Revelation is from God. If you have the slightest Spirit of God in
you, you have no choice but to see this very clearly and will not
judge this Revelation by your own understandings, but will know that
this is the Revelation from God and God’s prophecies of the coming
of this truth.
Therefore, clean your cups and come to this room
with the open hearts that this Revelation can bring to you. At least
investigate it in a deeper level. Go and see how God prophesied. There is no Prophet who has ever fulfilled as many prophecies as
this Mission
has fulfilled, and how God has already said that this Revelation
will come, and now it has come to humanity.
The humans are again in the crossroads between
choosing God and choosing their own understandings and following
their own hearts or minds. Following their minds is the intellectual
understanding of God, dogmas, their old religions, and their own
understanding. Following your heart is to follow God’s Revelation
and the Spirit that has been sending these revelations to humanity,
to this point.
So the responsibility is yours to prove this to
yourself, if it is correct or not. If you cannot prove it to
yourself, then it is your problem. If you cannot accept this
Revelation, go your way. We will go our way. We will see who is the
truthful one at the end.
Therefore, coming and being the source of negativity
that it is not from God is just emotional attachment to your own
understanding and religion. When religion becomes emotional and
emotions creep into understanding, then the logic and deeper
understanding, of course, will go out.
So if religion becomes emotional, the politicians,
the people who have vested interest, will use your emotions and will
steer you toward politicalized religions, which will end that
religion for sure. Therefore, put your emotions aside and become
open to God’s understanding, Revelation, and Prophecies.
The most important thing is that God says, “This
Revelation will come with these specific prophecies that will be
fulfilled with the Revealer. When such a Revealer comes, then he is
My Mouthpiece. I will reveal the part to him that he is supposed to
reveal to humanity, and he will reveal it to you.” Of course, when
he reveals it to you, now it is your Revelation, your truth, your
understanding, your Word of God, and the Revealer or the Messenger
of God is done.
Then you become a second level messenger and you now
have the responsibility to disperse this Revelation to as many
people as you can in any way you can. Therefore, you become a
messenger yourself.
So, this Message is for you to hear, to see the
Vision, and to see the wonderful things that God has been doing to
this point. There is no revelation, no truth, and no revealer who
has revealed the whole thing and has the last word but the Seventh
Angel who will reveal the Mystery of God.
Therefore, you have to see the whole truth clearly. And
when you see it, you will say, “Yes, God, You are indeed
wonderful, and You have done great things for humanity. We are a
part of Your Revelation. We want to be a part of it and help as much
as we can.”
Of course, the Message has been given here in this
room many times and has been explained as the Eternal Divine Path,
or The Greatest Sign. Anytime we have new people, we explain
The Greatest Sign and the Eternal Divine Path for them
as well. When the Eternal Divine Path is explained to them,
we are done with them. We have given the Revelation and the truth,
and it is up to them now to go, search, ask, knock, and the truth
will be revealed to them.
Knowing this truth which is revealed to you in this
room brings a
great responsibility to really prove to yourself that God
indeed has sent the last Revelation to humanity and, therefore, now
you are a part of it. You have to prove it to yourself.
If you prove it to yourself that it is true, then
let everything else go. Concentrate on God and this Revelation, and
reach to humanity so that they can also understand that God indeed
exists, He is in charge, He has created all these Revelations, all
these religions in the last 12,000 years, and now it is the end
time. It is the time for humanity to realize that God is the King and He is the one that will eventually bring the Kingdom Of Heaven
On Earth.
So the way of bringing the Kingdom Of Heaven On
Earth has been revealed. The revelations, how they have come to
humanity, are here. And therefore, the whole mystery of God is
finished.
There is nothing in this Mission, if you
understand it, that will not reveal the mystery of God to you,
unless you are attached to your religion, attached to your
understanding, and you are attached to what you think you know as
the truth.
Of course, we can do nothing about that. When you
are in that state, your cup is filled up, you are emotional, and you
are attached to what you know. Then we can do nothing at all. Even
God cannot help a person who is so attached to their own
understanding.
You have to put your own understanding away. No
matter who you are and how much you understand, when you see the
Vision you say, “OK God, I put my understanding away. I open myself
to Your Understanding and these Words that have come from Your
Mouthpiece. I will approach this with a completely clear
consciousness and let my vessel be filled up with the wine of God
that is much more intoxicating and has no side effects as the
earthly wine that people love to drink and then the next day they
say, ‘What have I done?’”
Here in this wine, when you drink it, your ecstasy
will be Godly ecstasy and you really have no choice but to utter,
“God, You indeed are Great, and You are the Greatest. You have done
great things for us and humanity.”
The more people who understand this, the more humans
that see the Vision, the more that they will create Communities of Light,
and we will eventually bring the Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth. That is
the responsibility of each person in the Mission, to work
toward that goal, which is the creation of the Communities of
Light, and therefore, bring the Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth.
So you are here to hear the latest Revelation of
God, how God sent each of these religions to earth.
What are those religions? The first step is the
Mystical Paths. The Mystical Paths are the paths to, “Know thyself
to know God.” It is in every religion, and in every culture. In
every corner of the earth it is well known, “Know thyself to know
God,” meditate, awaken your spiritual forces, and understand deeply
who you are.
Who are you, really? Your Essence, your Spirit, is
God, it is the same as the Father. You are in the image of God. You
are not just your body.
Remember, meditate, “I am not my body. I am not my
body. I am not my body.” The moment you realize, “Oh, really I am
not my body,” then you say, “OK, what happens at the time of death?
My body dies but I do not.”
That Essence, that Spirit, will not die. It will
continue forever to be there. Therefore, God is you. There is no
separation. The moment you separate yourself from God, then you fall
into the illusion of Maya. And the world seems so real. The world
seems so destructive. The world seems so full of conspiracy and ego
trips. You become so caught in those things that you forget, “You
are not your body.” This world is not the truth. It is a relative
truth, but it is not the ultimate truth.
The ultimate truth is your spirit that is within you
and no one can touch it. No one has the ability to touch your spirit
because that is God, and God is untouchable.
If you realize that, you are free from the
attachments, desires, the pains of the body, and the things that
bring you down to earth and you feel, “I have to take care of this
body. This body is…” You have to take care of the body but when you
know you are God and God is a part of you, taking care of the body
is not that hard.
Therefore, meditate on, “I am not my body, but God
and I are One.” We can come to that realization that we are gods. We
are a part of God and therefore, we are not afraid of death.
If eventually you really recognize and realize in
your meditation, that you really are not your body, at the time of
death what happens? It is just a transition that you go back to your
original being, which is God. Therefore, you never die and you will
live forever. And all those fears of this world will vanish
completely.
This is the part that is called the Mystical Paths. Those Mystical Paths, as I said, exist in every culture, in every
religion. The most prominent religions, which represent this path,
are Hinduism, Buddhism, Cabbala (the mystical teaching of Judaism),
and the Saints in Christianity. The Saints say, “We die every day in
Christ,” and Christ is more in them, and there is less of them in
that person. So the Mystical Paths in Christianity is represented by
the Saints.
In Islam we have the Sufis who meditate, jump of
joy, and say, “An’n’allah.” It means, “I am God.” Of course, the
orthodox and religious people become petrified, “How can you be
God?” Many of the Sufis have even been slain, crucified, etc., because they did not understand what the Sufis were talking
about.
That is exactly what the Sufis are talking about,
and what we are talking about here: “You are in the image of God. God and you are one.” And that is the Essence of the Mystical Paths. That is the Essence you have to realize yourself that, “You are not
your body.” You indeed are one with God, and then create that personal
relationship with God.
As we said many times, if you do not have a personal
relationship with God, first of all you do not know God. Second of
all, because you do not have a personal relationship, would you
accept anything the preacher, the mullah, the rabbi, or the brahmin
says? You will follow the teachers.
The teacher is supposed to teach you, “You do not
need me. You need God, and He is already with you and within you.”
Therefore, if you realize that, the only thing you
seek are the Words of God. And, of course, the Words of God are in
the Scriptures. They are in the Upanishads, the Vedas,
and the
Bhagavad-Gita. They are in the Old Testament and
New Testament. They are in the Koran and in the Bayan. They are in other revealed Words of God to humanity. And when you
hear them, you will more and more become godly.
Of course, you cannot understand those Scriptures
unless you read The Holiest Of The Holies (THOTH), The Last
Testament. That is our Revelation. That is our Scripture. That is our miracle. The miracle of the Mission of Maitreya
is the Message; it is THOTH, The Holiest Of The
Holies.
If you want to see the miracle of the Mission,
read the Message. The miracle of this Mission is the Message
of this Mission, which unifies all religions of the world.
Therefore, awaken your spiritual forces. “Know
thyself,” know that you and God are one, and there is no separation. Then read the Scriptures and see how He has revealed all these
teachings and Revelations to this point.
And, of course, you awaken your spiritual forces,
you are god, so now what? You go around and yell at people that you
are god? But most of the people who say, “I am god,” forgot that
other people are god too.
They say, “I am god.” Sure, fine, but remember I am
god too. So god meets god. There is no ego trip that, “I am god.” The way they sometimes say, “I am god,” sounds like, “No, you are
not god, only I
am god.” That is not true. Everyone has that Essence in them.
So you awaken your spiritual forces. Now what? “I
know that I am a part of God. I am not my body.” Is that enough? Is
that the end of the journey? No.
The second step is, “I want everyone to know that
they are god. I want everyone to awaken their spiritual forces. I
want everyone to become loving, beautiful, flowing with everyone
else, and create the relationships that are based on Spirit. I do
not want to just keep this to myself and live with the understanding
that, ‘The Father and I are one.’ But I want everyone to realize
that, and then we can come together and create an environment where
we can even help more people.”
If we want to do that, we go to the second part of
the
Eternal Divine Path, and that is to create the Communities
of Light. The Communities of Light are based on the
Eternal Divine Path. And the Eternal Divine Path is the
Essence of the teachings of the Mission of Maitreya.
Not only does it show the fastest Path to God, it
shows the way to bring the Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth. It shows how
all religions of the world have been revealed by God and they are
unified all together now as one Revelation and the Message of the
Mission of Maitreya, which is a miracle by itself, because this
Message could not be given to humanity before this time.
If you read chapters 4 and 5 of The Revelation,
in the Bible, they always were crying and unhappy because no
one could open the Book sealed with the Seven Seals. And when the
Book was opened, the whole universe rejoiced.
Therefore, this Message is so wonderful, and the
whole universe was waiting for it to come. Now it has come to
humanity, and it is your responsibility to give it to humanity in
every way possible.
The next step in your spiritual Path is,
“Ok, now I know I am not my body. I know I am a part of God. Now I
want everyone to know that. I want to create an environment where
people can come together and we can tell them about this Revelation,
this wonderful truth that has come to us. I want to open my house, I
want to open my dormitory room, I want to open my place to other
people to come and meditate with me, to share this wonderful
Revelation,
to let them know that also they and the Father are One. They are not
their bodies, and they have to progress spiritually.”
You reach to other people. You create the
community. You create friends. You create an environment where they
can also awaken their spiritual forces.
That is the message of the Old Testament. What has God been trying to find in the Old Testament? He has
been trying to find a people who will accept Him as King and create
an environment or communities that will follow His Laws.
Those communities are called the Children of Israel,
the Elects, the people who will accept God as their leader and His
Words as the Words that they should follow. So, they become free of
any attachment from this worldly set-up but they become Godly
themselves.
They are not afraid of what is happening outside at
all because what is happening outside is temporary. It is not going
to be there forever.
But the Kingdom of God will be forever. That is
based on the Communities of Light. So they realize, “OK, I am
not going to concentrate on what is happening in this world. I am
going to concentrate on what the Communities of Light will
bring to humanity.” They will help other people to create
such communities.
That is the theme of the Old Testament. The
Old Testament is the base of many, many other revelations and
truth. But really the essence of it is that God wants to find those
Children of Israel and the twelve tribes.
Now, how can we create such an environment? Can we
create such an environment and say, “Oh, I want to have my own life? I want to have my own children, father, mother, job, education,” and
whatever we are attached to and at the same time create the
Communities of Light?
“I am not going to leave anything I have. I want to
be attached to them all and at the same time do what God wants me to
do.”
You cannot have two gods. Which one is your God,
those things or God? Choose, you have to choose. You cannot stay in
the middle. You cannot say, “OK, that is it. I am going to fall to
the world, my attachments, and my desires and at the same time serve
God.”
It has been said 2,000 years ago, it is not going to
work. You cannot have two gods. You have to have only one God and
that is God, who has sent this Revelation and is revealing to you
the Eternal Divine Path.
In order to follow the Eternal Divine Path,
“I have to go to the cross. I have to crucify my lower nature, my
desires, my wants,” the things that keep you from doing God’s Will.
And what are they? They are exactly the things that
keep you from dropping everything, going to God, and doing His Work.
Therefore, you have to meditate on, “Am I serving
two gods or am I serving only one God?” That is when your ego will
be overcome, and you will completely concentrate on only one thing,
God and His Words. So, you will sacrifice everything else.
As Christ said, “The Kingdom is like a land that has
the greatest treasure in it. When you find it, you sell everything
that you have, everything. And you try to buy that land because that
land has the greatest treasure in it.” If still you own other lands
and you do not have enough money to buy that land, then you have to
sell everything else and come and buy the land that has the greatest
treasure in it.
That is the message of sacrifice. That is the
message of, “I will give everything up for God’s Words and His
Mission.” And that is the Message of Christ.
He gave up everything. He gave up the glory of this
world. He was offered that. The devil said, “Fall and worship me,
and I will give you the whole glory of the earth. I will give you
everything you want.”
Christ said, “No, I do not want it, thank you. I
want that land. I want that great treasure that is worth more than
anything else.”
That is the Third Seal, the message of sacrifice,
giving up everything for God’s Revelation and Word. That, of course,
brings Christianity into the Eternal Divine Path.
We sacrifice and we give up everything. Our lives
become miserable. No one listens to us. Everyone thinks we are
crazy. “You mean that you gave up your education, your job, your
money, your everything for this, that no one really wants really to
listen and everyone comes and yells at you that you are wrong?”
“Why do you talk? Why do you walk? Why do you eat? Why do you have a Swastika in your sign?” when they do not even know
what the Swastika stands for and what it means. They come and judge
something that they have no idea about. They have a lot of concepts,
their own understandings, and they judge you.
So what do you become? You become depressed. You
say, “What have I done? I forgot about my family, my education, my
culture, my everything, and then here I am judged and crucified many
times over.”
At least when they put you on the cross, they kill
you once. When they ignore you, or judge you, or yell, etc.,
you are crucified over and over and over. Then you remember, “Yes,
the Fourth Seal says, Do not be attached to the results of your
actions.” Just give the Message, give the truth to humanity, and
then forget about the results. The results are God’s.
If they are yelling at you and they do not
understand you, you say, “God, it is up to You. I did my job, I did
give the Message. If they do not understand, I will leave them to
You, and I will not be attached to the results of my actions. I am
free of all these attachments, and I am not going to be depressed.”
Or, maybe some people come and say, “Oh, I love
this. It is beautiful. What you say makes sense. I always knew that
God is everything. How can there be so many religions? Now God has
sent this Revelation that makes sense, and I want to be a part of
it.”
You say, “Great! See how wonderful a teacher I am? I
can make these people see the Vision. I am such a wonderful person.” You become egoistical.
You know what the ego does to you? The moment you
become egoistical, you are cut off from the Spirit. You do not have
the power of love, but you will fall into, “the love of power.” And
that is when you are a fallen angel, when you are a fallen person,
and you have disconnected yourself from God.
Therefore, that is the message of Islam. It says,
“Surrender to God.” Be surrendered and submissive, what does that
mean? Does that mean to just sit there and say, “OK, God, do
everything for me. I am not going to do anything. I am surrendered. God is going to take care of it.”
God says, “No.” And this Revelation says,
“Surrendering does not mean to just sit there and say, ‘No, God do
it for me.’” Surrendering means, I do my best.
“I meditate. I awaken my spiritual forces. I try to
realize that I am not my body but the Father and I are one. I will
try to reach to other people.” I do not say, “No, I am not going to
reach out. Who am I to reach other people? Maybe they will not
listen to me.” See, that fear of rejection keeps you
from doing it. “Maybe they are not all going to come and when the
teacher comes, no one will listen. Maybe there is something wrong
here," or something like that. So you back up.
You do not do that. You do your best. You reach out
as much as possible. Then you say, “OK, I reached out, God. I am not
attached to the results. Whatever the result is, is fine with me.
Thank you, God, for bringing this opportunity to me that I could
reach out and give this Message to other people.”
That is called surrendering. That means that I
surrender the result of my actions to God.
But, I do my best. I do not sit there and say, “God
is going to do it.” Of course, God will do it, but you have to reach
out. You have to do something about it. And when you reach out, do
not be attached to the result.
Even greater than surrendering, of course, is
submission. It means, God is doing it through me. If the Father and
I are one, who is the real doer? It is God who is the Doer. Does God
do the perfect job? Yes, He does. God is perfect.
Christ said, “Be perfect as the Father.” How can you
be perfect as the Father? The only way you can be perfect as the
Father is when you and God are One and the Spirit of God comes
through you. Therefore, you do perfect things.
Can you do imperfect things and say it was the
Spirit of God who did it? No, you cannot.
Therefore, the fourth step is surrendering and
submission. And that is the Message of Islam. Islam means being
surrendered and submissive to God. Of course, to this point, we are
helping only a few people around us, in our community, our city, our
state, our nation, and even our earth.
The next step is to become a universalist, to
shatter all the narrowness of the mind and say, “I am a part of the
universe. The Father and I are One, right? If we are, then how can
any part of the universe be separate from me, because God is in
everything?"
Therefore you shatter all the narrowness of the
mind, prejudices, and everything that separates you from anything
else in this universe. You become a universalist. With these five
steps, you become an Elect.
Universalism was the message of Bab. And he
was the Prophet of God.
Of course, God said that the Fifth Seal is not
perfect. That is why we find so many problems with the Fifth Seal. Even in the explanation of the seven churches in the Bible,
we can see that in the Fifth Seal, they think they have the truth. But they
really do not have it. We have to wait for the two more Revelations
to come, which God said is going to come shortly. So 150 years
is a short period for two Prophets to bring two other revelations as
the Sixth Seal and the Seventh Seal, which happened.
The Fifth Seal is universalism, to shatter all the
narrowness of the mind and become a part of God. Then when you are
part of God, you will accept every part of the universe, all
religions, and all people as a part of Him. You will then look at
their Essence as the Essence of God, not as their skin, or gender,
or nationality, or whatever else that humans separate one another
from where they are.
So with these five steps, you shatter all the
narrowness of the mind and accept everything that God sends to you. You have the fastest, shortest, most wonderful Path to reach to God
with the
Eternal Divine Path. And you become an Elect.
God said, “The Elects will inherit My earth. They
will inherit My Kingdom.” That is what you have to become. That is
who you are and that is what you are aiming at, to become an Elect,
to awaken your spiritual forces and know that you and the Father are
One. God is in you.
You are not your body, and no one can touch you. Your Soul is free, and your Spirit is free. God created you free,
and we have to create a world that is free and wonderful together.
Then you have to reach to other people. Try to help
them also to come to these conclusions and create the Communities
of Light, sacrifice (not being selfish and self-centered,
overcome your ego), and give everything up for God.
Then, of course, surrender and submit to Him. Do not
be attached to the results of your actions. Or, let God work through
you, which He does perfectly. And become a universalist (shatter all
the narrowness of the mind). Then you are an Elect. That is who we
are trying to create in this Mission.
Come here together and start to do
this Mission together. Let us discuss it, what kind of
abilities do you have? How can we use those abilities for this
Eternal Divine Path? How can we work together to create an
environment that people become more attracted to come and see this
Revelation and the unity of humanity?
Do not just stay out there and say, “No, I am not
ready, I am not ready, I am not ready.” When are you going to get
ready? If you are going to keep saying, “I am not ready, I am not
ready, I am not ready,” you are never going to get ready.
You have to jump with two feet into the pool. Say,
“OK, I am not ready but I am going to jump anyway.” And when you
start drowning in the water, of course, you start swimming faster
and faster. After a while you say, “Hey, I am floating. That is
great. I am going over and doing it.”
The Sixth Revelation came with my spiritual teacher,
Baba, in Ananda Marga. He brought the concept of Sadvipra. Of
course, he never explained how his explanation also matches the
history. Also he did not open the Seventh Seal, and he never claimed
that he opened the Seventh Seal.
Actually, no other Prophet ever claimed this
themselves. Maybe their followers claimed, “Yes, this Prophet opened
the Seventh Seal. That Prophet opened the Seventh Seal.” But no
Prophet ever claimed that he has opened the Seventh Seal but this
one.
We know that when the Seven Seals are opened, the
Mystery of God will be finished. And now it has.
The Seventh Revelation is our Revelation, the
revelation of unity, the Revelation of the Seven Seals, the
Revelation that unifies all together. Those who have the Spirit of
God in them will see it, will love it, and will follow the
Eternal Path “to the max.” And they will create the Kingdom Of
Heaven On Earth.
They have no choice. If they really truly follow the
Eternal Divine Path, they will create the Kingdom. And they
will not be distracted with anything else. They are not going to let
their fears keep them from God’s call.
This is our Mission. This is our Revelation. This is our teaching.
Now the floor is open. If you have questions,
questions that are related to the Mission, go ahead and raise
your hand, and we will answer them.
Go ahead, Littleone.
Littleone: Sal-OM, Maitreya and everyone.
In reading THOTH the other day and several other times
before, we have come across the information where it says, “God took
Enoch.” Could you please speak more about that?
Maitreya: If you read the other verses before
that, the people in the Bible always
died. Such and such a person comes and lives this
long. They have a son or daughters, and they die. Such and such a
person comes and they live that long, they have children and then
they die. So we can see everyone dies.
When it comes to Enoch, God took him. He does not
die. What happened to him? Suddenly we just see that the sentence
changes, and he does not die.
Therefore, the conclusion is, “God took him,” which
means, He reached Pure Consciousness. He reached the son-hood, he
became a son of God, and therefore, he did not die.
Since he did not die, he became one of the workers. Enoch is actually known as the Angel of science. He has brought the
science part of the universe to humanity and, therefore, he became a
worker for God. Instead of being just a man, he became a son of God.
So we can see that there is a difference between
everyone else and Enoch. We know that before that, Adam was with
God, and he was close to God. So he was a Son of God, and he was the
first teacher of man.
Then Enoch came, and “God took him.” So there are
now at least two sons of God, Adam and Enoch. Or, maybe Adam was
Enoch, whatever. Now we have two sons, or more.
In chapter 6 of Genesis of the Bible,
we see that the sons of God came to man. So we can see, there is
even more than one son. The Bible clearly says that there is
more than one son of God. So we can see that the belief that there
is only one son of God is incorrect, and God has more than one son.
So with this understanding, we see that God has many
sons. And at the end of the Bible it says, “Whoever
overcometh will become My son.” So if we believe that whoever overcometh will become My son, Enoch overcame in that lifetime.
Enoch realized God; he overcame his lower nature. He
overcame all the propensities of his physical body, this world, and
reached Pure Consciousness. Therefore, God took him. He became one
with God. He became a son of God.
Go ahead, Brad.
Brad: Sal-OM. Thank you for your teaching. I
have a question concerning Karma. In the recent sniper attacks in
Washington, DC, we have what looks like a random choosing of
targets. Then you have the people who are the victims of the sniper
attack either being injured, or in most cases, they were killed.
Is there a karmic connection there or a karmic
reason that what looks like random to us is really a tribulation, or
something that has to be learned by the victims? Or is it a random
act of someone who is under the influence, a part of him is under
the influence of the tama guna, where he is doing these selfish acts
and the victims are not really a part of it?
Maitreya: It could be both. It could be a karmic
relationship that made him choose those specific people to shoot. We
can look at it that way. Or, it could have been that he chose some
people who really did not deserve to die, but he shot them and he
created bad karma.
Of course, those who have been shot and did not
deserve it will have a debt from him, and he will have to pay for
whatever he did to them. But have they done something to him in a
previous lifetime, or they have done something that they deserved to
be shot? As we teach here, it is not really black and white.
In the teaching, we can look at the things in
different ways and explain them in a way that frees us from looking
at the situation in only one way. So if we say, “Oh, it was all
their karma, therefore, they deserved it,” we do not have to worry
about it. Everyone gets what they deserve.
If we say, “No, it is not the Law of Karma. He chose
them randomly, it had nothing to do with God or the Law of Karma,”
then we become very rigid in a way that we think everything is
random in life and therefore, we create laws and situations that
become very dry.
So it could be both ways that it happened. It could
have been that they had some karmic relationship with him, or, he
might have just chosen randomly and killed those people.
When he did that, if there was no karmic reason for
it, of course, he very much will pay for it either in this lifetime
through the legal system, or in the next lifetime whenever it comes
to him. Or, if it is a very bad Soul, he will not be
incarnated for a long time.
From his state of mind, he probably thought that he
had been pushed to the limit of completely losing his touch with
reality; therefore, he felt that he deserved to do what he did. Usually the people who do things like that, think that they have the
right to do those things. That again shows that those religions that
these people follow have some problems, and they do not want to look
at the problems. They think that everyone is the problem instead of
looking at themselves and their beliefs and saying, “Well, maybe my
belief system, maybe my religion, maybe my way of life, has
something to do with what I became or how I am treated.”
There are so many aspects in every situation; it is
very hard to just look at it from one point of view of why it
happened and how he chose those people to do it.
What pushed him to that point? No one asked that
question. They say, “He is crazy.” But what makes people to be
pushed to those points that they become crazy?
Would such a person come to that point if he would
have had some Communities of Light to support him, listen to
him, help him out, and create an environment that he realizes that
God really exists? Then he would have become loving also toward the
Communities of Light and the Communities of Light toward
him, and eventually he would feel one with the rest of humanity and
the universe.
When you do those destructive acts, when you reach a
point that you can go around and hunt people like you are going
hunting in the woods, you no longer have the connection to the
reality of looking at the people as humans, as your brothers and
sisters, and you have no right to do that.
It goes for everyone. Everyone who kills another
person, they mentally have been brainwashed to a point that they do
not see the bad side of what they do, no matter how it is and where
it is.
The only way the killing of another person is OK is
in self-defense. Any other way, even in wars, they should come to a
point that they can negotiate things. They can talk with each other
to see, “What is the point of view of the other person? Let us sit
down and know why you want to become a terrorist. What do you have
that made you come to that point?”
If the people sit and talk with each other and
create an environment where we can resolve our differences, then we
will not reach the point that we can shoot another person with no
feelings. That by itself is absolutely wrong, no matter who does it
or where it is done. It shows completely that the person who is
doing it has been mentally brainwashed to a point that they do not
see that such a bad action is done by them.
Therefore, we can see that such a person probably
needed a lot of attention. He needed Communities of Light
to take care of him, to listen to him, to understand him, and
eventually to make him realize, “Everyone is god.” Then he cannot go
and shoot people, and we can create an environment that anyone will
not do what he did, or anyone like that, does.
That is the goal of the Communities of Light. The goal of this Mission is to reach a point that every human
has to look at another human as the Essence of God. You cannot kill
the Essence of God. You cannot be rude to the Essence of God. You
cannot be angry with the Essence of God. You cannot be domineering
to the Essence of God. You cannot. If you are a realized person, you
will love that Essence, you will work with that Essence, and you
will try to help that Essence, and eventually you will become one
with God as you are.
The problem is the misunderstanding of this world,
of the Essence of God, and the Essence of themselves. That is why
they separate each other by nationality, by race, by religion, by
financial status, and all those things that create separation in
every level.
It starts from family. They separate man and wife,
separate from each other because of the differences that we have. But when we all become one in God, our differences are just
differences in personalities.
As I said, we are all here, one in God together. But
personality-wise, we are different. We each have our own
personalities, which is OK. But at the same time, we love one
another because we know the Essence of each of us is God.
If we can convey this message to that man who did
that, how can he go around and shoot the Essence of God? How can he
go and kill other people who have the Essence of God in them as
well? So you see, after a while, we become conscientious objectors
to anything that is not toward peace on earth.
We can see that the whole subject is much more
complicated than bringing just one view of, “Was it karmic or was it
not karmic?” A lot of powers and forces are working toward making
these people the way they are. And we have to eliminate those
forces.
How do we do that? We do that with Communities of
Light, with the Eternal Divine Path, with the creation of
the Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth.
But when we do not have time for other people, to
sit and talk to them, after a while a lot of people become
alienated. That actually is a psychological phenomena that in the
big cities, in an environment that people do not have time for each
other, individually they become very alienated from the other
people, and they lose their human part. When you lose your human
part, you are not human any more.
They are animals. What does the animal do? The
animal feels he is cornered.
Their logic is no longer human logic. Their logic
is, “I have to get back at these people who made me to what I am.” And who are “they?” They are everyone out there.
So to them anyone is the enemy. Anyone who they
shoot is a part of the problem, for them. It is in their distorted
logic.
Go ahead, Brad.
Brad: In one sense, would it then be right when
we pray for power over the tama guna, that it is kind of a base
cause, because that separator, that crudifying power, is kind of the
underlying cause of the problem? Such as terrorism, when someone
says it is a pure act of evil, then really that would be the idea
that it is an act of the tama guna, which is crudifying. Which is
what our job is, to bring power over that and realize that we all
are Divine and that we should treat each other equally in that way.
Maitreya: Exactly. You "hit the nail on the head." This person has been crudified so much, the tama guna has been on
the Soul so heavily, that his mind does not see that Essence any
more. He does not feel to be a part of the universe. He does not feel
to be a
part of the rest of humanity.
That is the Essence of all the problems on earth,
the crudified mind and the power of the tama guna over their Souls. And when that happens, of course, it creates ego.
What is ego? Ego is the power of the tama guna over
your Soul. That is exactly what you are saying. That is exactly what
the problem is, creation of ego by the tama guna and therefore not
being one with God and not seeing that everyone is also God. So,
that separation comes and destruction follows for sure.
But if we all get together and reach to the rest of
the universe, there are infinite resources out there that we can
use. We do not have to stay here on this earth and claw each other
in the face because there are limited resources.
There are not limited resources. There are infinite
resources out there. If we reach out there and use them, we do not
have to lower our standard of living so we can help elevate other
people’s standard of living. We can use those infinite resources
and bring everyone’s standard of living up and to the higher level,
and not live not with all this craziness that we have created on earth.
God has given everything that we need. In the Garden
of Eden, we did not need anything. The only thing we needed was to
reach out, pick up fruit, and eat. But we fell.
And we are still falling because we think that we
know better than God. That is because we are separating ourselves,
because of the tama guna.
That is right. Exactly! You explained it very well.
Go ahead, Brad.
Brad: I have another question. In the New
Testament we have the moral teachings of Esa. You talked about
the idea of a “Red Letter Edition” where we can kind of extract that
Essence that has not been corrupted, as we see the other parts were
influenced by Paul, by the Romans, and by other writers.
In the Koran, we have the teachings there of
Prophet Muhammad. Is there a way to kind of separate that teaching
from what parts might have gotten put in there, or moved around? You
said that it was lost for a while and then brought back. In the writings
of the Koran, there might be some things similar to the
Bible, which have been influenced by others. Is there a
script or a way to pull that teaching out?
Maitreya: If I understand it, your question is
that there are red writings in the Bible, which are the words
of Christ, but in the Koran, there are no red writings.
The Koran, according to the Moslems, is the
Word of God that directly came to Prophet Muhammad and then to
humanity. Therefore, everything in the Koran is the Word of
God. Of course, as we know, that is not completely true.
Prophet Muhammad never wrote anything down.
Actually, no other Prophet ever wrote it down, corrected it,
supervised it, changed it, and purified it to a point, and then
said, “OK, that is good. I like that. It makes sense. It is the Word
of God,” then put it on the Internet, or provided it for humanity,
and even revised it later on if it was necessary and needed.
So really, no Prophet, not even Bab and Baha’u’llah,
did that to the point that we have done here. Not even Baba did that
himself.
We can see that first, Prophet Muhammad did not
write down the verses. He never really supervised them to make them
purified completely. There were people who memorized them by heart. And that is something that Moslems still value. If you know the
Koran by heart, you create a stature in society as a person,
“Oh, he knows the Koran
by heart.”
So it is very easy to remember because it is very
poetic. Actually one of the challenges that Prophet Muhammad brought
to the people who were listening to him was, “If you can make the
same verses as the Koran, then that is a miracle.” That is
what the Moslems say, “It is a miracle,” because in the Arabic
language it is wonderfully constructed and easily remembered. You
can memorize it easily.
But after Prophet Muhammad died, the people who
memorized it were in a war called Yemama (or something like that). Many of the people who knew it by heart were killed. Suddenly, the Khalipha (or their leader) realized that they had to gather the
verses together.
I think it was Othman who realized that they might
lose the whole Koran if everyone who knew it by heart died or
would not be there. Therefore, he assigned someone to go and gather
all the verses that he could find, and they put them together as the
Koran.
They found that there were many versions, actually,
of the sayings of Prophet Muhammad already in circulation. And there
was a great upheaval between the people, “Which version is correct?”
Eventually, Othman accepted one version, which
really was different than both of those that were in circulation.
They put the longest surahs in the beginning of the Koran,
and the shortest at the end. So it was not even chronologically
correct as it came, and how, for what situation.
We can see that the Koran itself
could have been influenced with a lot of other forces that cannot
completely be accepted as the Word of God. But, of course, they went
through a very strenuous process to make it as pure as possible. Even after they brought the Koran together, sometime later
someone said, “Yes, I forgot, this verse also was revealed,” and
they added to the Koran later.
So that means, who knows how many of the verses were
lost? Also if a person gives Satsang every day in the Masjid
(Mosque) for thirteen years, that book should be even much larger
than THOTH. The size of the Koran is
pretty small in comparision to
THOTH and the Bible. So we can see
there should have been many more verses that were not revealed to
humanity.
But to answer your question, yes, the whole Koran
is considered as the Word of Prophet Muhammad. It is not something
that a disciple wrote and said Prophet Muhammad said that or this. So if you want to put it in red, the whole Koran should be
written in red.
Go ahead, Brad.
Brad: In these last couple of weeks I have been
doing some real simple labor, and it has been giving my mind a lot
of time to think [laughter]. So I guess I have questions. The
working part was good for contemplating things spiritual.
I have a question, when you talk about the
Messenger, we know that God’s Messenger has been with us that
revealed the Eternal Divine Path as far as the opening of the
Seven Seals. Do we know how many times that Messenger has been with
us from the time of Noah, outside of those times that the Seven
Seals were revealed?
Maitreya: If you have one person who does a good
job, what do you do? If you have something to be done, usually you
go to him or her and say, “Will you do this? Will you do that?” After a while you put most of the responsibility on their shoulders
to do the things they do.
So it seems like that person, that Spirit, that
Soul, has been revealing the Revelations to humanity over and over
again. Also God said to Abraham that He was going to bless all of
humanity through him. Of course, He blessed them in the sense of
genealogy.
But before we learned of the genealogy and saw how
He blessed all humanity through that, at least most of the Prophets
came through that genealogy. The only person, probably, I do not
know about the genealogy, is Baba. Or, if someone goes and studies
his genealogy, who knows, maybe we will end up also to see that he
is from the same branch of God and Abraham and the Prophets.
So in one sense He blessed all humanity through
that, and in another sense also He blessed humanity through Abraham
by sending him as the Prophet and the revealer of the Revelations
over and over again. Also because He has been revealing His
Revelations, He knows them very easily.
So when in the new lifetime he encounters them, he
picks up the meaning of them much easier because he said it and he
knows what he meant when he said it. Therefore, it very easily comes
to him the meaning of the verses, and he can sit and write
THOTH and say, “That is what it really means,” not what the
other people think it means.
It makes logical sense that God has sent the same
Prophet and the same Soul again and again. Also God said that the
Seven Spirits, the Seven Truths, were in front of His throne, and
therefore, those Seven Spirits of Truth is the same Spirit that was
close to God, which is the First Begotten Son.
Now, how many times has he come? For sure the major
religions have been brought by him to humanity, which are the
Mystical Paths, which came to Noah. And, of course, Abraham brought
the teaching of the Old Testament.
Maybe he came as other Prophets also. For sure he
came as Christ; he brought the teaching of the Third Seal.
He came as Prophet Muhammad. Actually Islam means
“Is-Lamb” (a play on the words). So he brought the Fourth Seal.
He also brought the Fifth Seal as Bab himself.
He probably did not bring the Sixth Seal. It was Baba who
brought it. He was alive when Baba was alive. Unless we say that the
Spirit came through both of them, and therefore, the Spirit was the
same. We can explain it that way.
But in the essence of individuality, they were two
individuals. And, of course, the Seventh Seal came with us and now
is revealed to humanity. He also might have come as many
leaders of mankind, kings, etc., all through history.
So with all that truth then that Spirit brought all
the other Six Seals, or at least Five Seals. Therefore, it is the
same Spirit that comes over and over to humanity.
But which one was and which one was not? It is very
hard to say. Also it is really not that important. The most
important thing is what the Message is.
What was the Message? What was the mission of
each of the Prophets?
It is just like, Noah came to finish the old man and
bring the new generation. Moses came to free the Jews from the
bondage and bring them to the Promised Land. Christ came to bring
the message of sacrifice, and on and on. So the message is more
important than those things.
They are interesting to think about and try to
figure out. But at the end you will find that you might make
mistakes to completely find out who was which.
But of the seven major religions, the six revealers
were for sure the same Spirit that came. And as I said, Baba’s
spirit probably was God’s Spirit also. So you can say that that was
the same also, which brought the truth.
But in an individual way, then they might be
separated.
Go ahead, Samadhi.
Samadhi: Sal-OM, Maitreya-ji. Thank you
again for your teaching. I would just say that as we look around the
world and see all the hatred and all the anger, the terror that is
taking place that we would do well to remember that all things work
together for good for those who love God. The good is that terror
turns the hearts of man to God. It causes us to ask, to seek, to
search, to knock, and to study to find the answers.
The world is looking for answers. We must just be
ready to give an account for the hope that is in us. The harvest is
ready, My Lord, but the laborers are few. The harvest is ready, be
prepared to give an account. Be prepared to share the Eternal
Divine Path with anyone who asks.
Maitreya: So true. So much truth in what you
said, Samadhi, Brother Frank. I hope that we all follow that advice,
and that we all be ready. We surely have the answers, there is no
doubt about that. We have the answers for humanity to come together
in peace and unity. We have the answers to all the questions of the
religious-oriented mind. We have the answers for those who are real
seekers and who want the truth. And I hope all of you become good
workers, harvesters of men, share this Message with them, and bring
the truth.
They are ready, and they will be getting ready more
and more. God is pushing them to that point over and over. Our job
is to educate them, to disseminate this truth.
That is great. That is wonderful that you realize
that, Brother Frank. I hope that you apply that in your life and to
everyone else’s life also. That is wonderful truth that you have
just told us.
Go ahead, Brad.
Brad: I am talking about the different
teachings. One of the lines I really like that you wrote in
THOTH was that the teachings that unify come from God, and
those that separate come from man. That is one of my favorite lines
in there when I am talking to people about their beliefs and giving
them the Eternal Divine Path.
I just have a real simple question. The other day
when I was reading THOTH, I was wondering, on the word
guna, is that an old Sanskrit word?
Maitreya: Well, guna, I picked up when I was in
Ananda Marga. They talk about gunas, about satva guna, tama guna. Also it is in the Bhagavad-Gita. If you read the
Bhagavad-Gita, it talks about gunas. So apparently this is
either a Sanskrit word or it is a Hindu word that they are using
meaning “force.”
That is not very hard to find out. You could
probably ask any Eastern Indian where the word “guna” came from, and
probably they would know. I suppose that it is a Sanskrit word
because Baba was very versed in Sanskrit, and he used a lot of
Sanskrit words in his teachings. So I have a feeling it is Sanskrit.
All of you have a wonderful month. Keep God and His
Revelation in your minds all the time. Reach out to humanity. They
are prepared and will be prepared more for this Revelation. But you
have to take the steps to reach them.
Sal-OM everyone.