Introduction:
Sal-Om everyone. Welcome everyone to
the second question and answer session with
Maitreya for this year's
Feast of Tabernacles celebration.
Before we begin, let us all take a moment to
close our eyes and meditate, and center
ourselves, to be prepared to hear
Maitreya's words and realize their
truth to the fullest and ask the best
questions possible [silence]. Sal-Om.
Today we have the great honor and
blessing of having Maitreya
himself, God Is With Him (GIWH), in the
room. Other names and titles given to
him include Vigi Kumar (the Young Prince),
the First Begotten Son of God,
the Christ, the Kalki Avatar, the Qa'im, He
Whom God Shall Make Manifest, the True White
Brother from the East, the Seventh Angel, and many others.
He is the representative of God, the
Formless, Invisible, Nameless, and Eternal,
FINE, on earth, come to reveal the Mystery
of God, unify the religions of the world and
humanity, and bring the Kingdom Of Heaven On
Earth, as has been prophesied. The
Father and Him are One, and He knows the
Mother.
He will
be available for the next hour and a half,
from 2 to 3:30 PM, Mountain Standard Time
(MST), to answer questions on all aspects of
His Teachings.
Although we did ask that people send in
their questions beforehand, we have no
questions pre-sent. So
Maitreya will be available to take
questions from the room immediately.
However, there are some guidelines and
requirements in order to ask questions.
So please listen carefully to these rules of
room conduct:
To ask a question of Maitreya,
you are expected to have visited the website
and know the base of His teachings.
You are also expected to have searched the
website and Maitreya's
teachings and Discourses for the answer to
your question before asking it here.
Maitreya has been answering
questions for many years and you can find
His answers to hundreds of questions on the
website.
So it is your responsibility to use the
resources provided to answer your questions
yourself, before asking them here. If
your question is one that has been answered
many times before, or makes it clear that
you have not deeply studied the teachings,
it will most likely not be answered.
If you do have a question for
Maitreya, please type it in text.
If your question is chosen to be answered, a
Mission representative will
read your question, or you may be asked to
come to the mic and ask it yourself.
After Maitreya finishes
answering your question, you may ask a
follow-up. Please be courteous and ask
only one question at a time. If there
are no questions, we will read from
Mission literature until another
question is asked. If you do not
follow these guidelines, or attempt to grab
the mic without Maitreya's
permission, you will be red-dotted and/or
bounced.
Please note that this is a public forum,
and whatever you say is in public domain.
We do record these sessions, and may
broadcast them later or use them as we see
fit.
So that is the rules of room conduct. The microphone is now released to
Maitreya; please give him your
respect and your undivided attention. All
thanks to God and to His Prophet.
Sal-Om.
Maitreya: Sal-Om everyone.
I hope you are enjoying the Feast. We are
in the middle of Feast of Tabernacles, yearly
Holy Days, the last Holy Days of the year, which
is the greatest of the Holy Days. And that
is why in these 7-8 days we come together to
praise and experience God in the highest
possible. And His Presence surely is the
highest in this time.
I hope you all can hear me OK. Go
ahead with questions if you have one.
Otherwise I release the mic for the people
who are going to read. Sal-Om.
There is a question in the room. I
do not know if anyone is going to read it.
Reader: Sure, I will
be glad to read it. It is from Hosanna.
Hosanna: Sal-Om
Maitreya, what is the proper
way to observe no servile work on the Sabbath?
Should it be viewed as no work and not to ask
others to work in any form as well?
Maitreya: OK, I promised last
time when I was here that we were going to share
the questions with everyone who has been in the
Mission for a long time.
Of course it sounds like a new question and
might not be that popular or studied anywhere.
But let us give it a try. Does
anyone wants to answer that question, what
does it mean no servile work in Sabbaths?
Go ahead. Anyone want to answer
just take the mic.
Keyosha: Sal-Om.
Thank you, I would like to take the mic.
Hope my sound is coming through good.
It is a good question. And also I
was thinking about that for the Feast of
Tabernacles, because that relates as well to
that for someone that might have to work
just a tiny bit in the Feast, or whatever.
But I was thinking on the Sabbath, not to
have to work out in the world. And I
think it has a lot to do with attitude.
And even still, Sabbath, I mean the best
thing is to celebrate the Sabbath, I think,
quiet, reading Scriptures, not turning on TV
or outside, trying to block out outside
noises and things like that, doing as little
mundane work as possible. Sometimes it
might be necessary to do a little something
here and there.
I just think a whole lot of it has to do
with attitude because there is also that
part in Matthew
where it talks about the shewbread, how
David ate the shewbread, and if there is an
emergency on the Sabbath day you would still
pull a sheep out. For instance
sometimes if you have to work one Saturday
in a year or something like that, it is not
the end of the world.
I think the thing is just to be in the
right place in your heart and really be
trying to honor the Sabbath for God.
I will release the mic and give someone
else a chance.
Noor: As for the second part of
the question that, "Not to ask others to work in
any form as well."
I do know that in other cases, for
example when we celebrate the Passover, if
we have bread left over, we decided that it
is not really kosher to give the bread to
someone else. Because that is like
saying that it is OK for us not to sin - I
mean, it is OK if someone else does not keep
the Passover, as long as we do. And
that is not really a kosher thing. So
we decided that we would not do that
anymore.
So probably it is just as equal to ask
someone else to do work for you as it would
be to do the work yourself.
Maitreya: OK, let us put the
question this way: What is Passover for?
What did God do after the sixth day of creation?
OK [reading from text], He rested, and
then what did He say? He looked at His
Creation and what did He see? So He
was pleased with it. And He said,
"That is good." It was perfect, it was
no blemish in it. There was nothing
wrong with it. It was perfect.
He looked at what He created. He
said, "That is good what I created. I
have nothing against it. I did not do
anything wrong."
If it is weekly Sabbath, it is the time
of evaluation and looking back in the week
and say, "That was a good week. It was
perfect. I did not do anything wrong.
I am pleased. That was good."
If it is yearly Sabbath, we look at the
yearly work and say, "That was a good year.
I accomplished this, and that, and that, and
that. I was Godly. I did not
fall. That was good."
Now why God demands not to work?
Which is better: To work and be perfect, or
not to work and do not know if you have done
well or not?
Anyone wants to get the mic and tell us
which one is better, or write it down.
For example, if you have some emergency
and you have done good for the whole year or
for the week and you have to do that... Do
not rationalize it though. Remember
that article we wrote about
rationalization? Do not
rationalize it and say, "Oh yes, I am doing
good."
So the purpose of God and His Holidays
and Holy Days and Demands and Commands are
for our own good. If we become too
rigid and not good, we have still a lot of
ego and we have not cleaned up the house,
but someone who has cleaned the house and
has no ego works on Sabbath, and we go and
tell him, "Hey, you are working on Sabbath,
you are not following God," but within us we
are not clean ourselves, then we have
created a religion. We are not seeking
the truth.
That is what is happening in many
religions, that people in it have become
dogmatic and they have rules and regulations
and enforce it with a vengeance and if you
are not like them, you are no good, when
they themselves full of impurity, then they
have a dead religion.
If we are rigid ourselves, and we want to
make everyone else rigid like us, and if
they are not, we start feeling bad about
them and put them down because we are so
rigid ourselves that we think we are great
because we do everything according to the
Commandments, but at the same time we
despise other people and we think we are
better than them because... It is just like
that person who was sitting and telling God,
"God please forgive me. I am such a
sinner." And the other person who was
very rich and with beautiful clothing and
said, "Oh God I am pretty good. I give
some money to the poor. I am not like
that poor wretched man, that sinner over in
that corner."
Then we become judgmental, and we think
because we are rigid and we do everything
according to the Law, then we are better.
But really the truth of the whole thing is
to purify ourselves to the point that we are
Godly and we follow God's Way.
So with this answer, what is better: Keep
the Sabbath and do nothing? Or keep
the Sabbath, meditate, realize you are doing
well, if there is some emergency to be done,
and you do them, but if it is not emergency,
still use the Sabbath for the rest and even
looking deeper within?
So the answer again is, God is not rigid.
His Commandments all are for our own good.
If you do not have any emergency, rest and
not to do anything, it is great, do that.
Even in some of those Sabbaths or Holy
Days, God actually says, "Not at all, no
servile work." Maybe there is more
emphasis in those for even we are doing
something usually, you should put that even
away and completely become in attunement.
As Noor just posted, in the Feast of
Atonement, if you read the Commandment,
emphasis is, "Not at all," do not even think
about working (unless it is really
emergency, as you have no choice).
So God makes it very clear in that Feast
of Atonement He really expects you to be as
rested and as deep as possible, because what
is happening? The Feast of Tabernacles
is coming. You have to purify
yourself. You have to attend the Feast
in any way you can. The more you are
with other likeminded people in the Feast of
Tabernacles, the greater the effect will be
on you.
So the Day of Atonement sound like God
says, "Do not even think working." But
still if it is something emergency and you
have no choice whatsoever, God will forgive.
He is tremendously generous and forgiving.
But if you do not have something like
that, in that Day God seems to be really
serious about it and you atone yourself,
start thinking about yourse- the coming of
the Feast of Tabernacles, about the year
that you passed through. How much did
you listen to His Words and committed
yourself to His Cause? Or did you
commit yourself to other causes, which was
for you, not for God?
That is what that Day is for.
Before that, of course, the Feast of
Trumpets, and that Day it is a loud voice
telling humanity that God is coming soon in
the Feast of Tabernacles.
That is what every human should become so
attuned to this Truth that they realize,
that is what God has given them the life to
come to this earth, and they have to listen
to this Calls and commit themselves 100% to
every Word of God. Not oppose Him.
Not play games with Him. Not try to
look good in the eye of man, but in the Eye
of God.
So it is just again is, everything God is
doing is for our good, for our return to
Godhead. And at the time of the
Sabbath, as He did, He rested, He looked at
His creation, we look at our lives.
And if you are doing good, you can loud see,
"Well, that's good. I am perfect.
I am doing everything God said and told me
to do, and I am committed to Him and His
Cause every moment in my life. And I
am not doing anything that needs to be
improved. Thanks God! OK, by the
way I have some emergency things to do,
maybe I should be going and doing them,
although if I could I would postpone it and
rest anyway. But if really have to be
done, I will do them." So that is
really the crux of the matter.
As usual God is flexible. And the
answer to his question also are flexible.
But do not rationalize it. Flexibility
and rationalization are two different
things. Rationalization means you are
not going to listen to God because... It is
not in my comfort zone, or because... I have
a better thing to do, because... Whatever
the rationalization is.
But if you really have something that has
to be done and God tells you that, "Yes, it
is OK," then it is all right.
I hope that answered your question.
If you have a follow-up, go ahead.
Sure, Hosanna. OK. If there
is no other question, we continue reading.
[reading]
Well, I
tremendously enjoyed the reading. I should
listen to them more often so learn something
[laughs].
And I am very pleased that there is no question
left in the Mission.
Go
to the website and see all the questions
answered and come up with the ones that have not
been, so maybe we can answer all the questions
that might ever come up so humanity will have
some guidelines or guideposts or whatever that
helps them answering any question might be
there. And I think the question we are giving
the answer has been helpful to many people
and hopefully there would be no question
left at all when we leave earth in this
lifetime.
So go ahead to the website, search for
any question you have, and if you find
something that you have not asked or has not
been asked, bring it here and let us finish
with all the questions there.
And it is great that there is no
question. That is a good sign.
Have a good day, and Sal-Om!
Q&A Sessions 2010
