Contacts with living nature are essential for spiritual growth. Retreating in forest or at other natural landscapes is one of the important ways of “exposing” oneself to God so that He could teach us more effectively. “In forest seek My instructions!...” . This is where one can expand oneself as consciousness over the harmony of the environment — in contrast to “sitting” in one’s head chakras when one lives in the city, “feeding” oneself with information about people’s mundane desires and getting polluted by energies of their negative emotions.
Although cities, being big cultural centers, are also necessary: there are libraries, as well as other excellent opportunities for intellectual development. It is also easier to find like-minded people and partners on the spiritual Path there.
It is also beneficial to expose the body to the sunlight, especially in the morning, when it is particularly tender. This light exists not only on the material plane, but also penetrates other — the subtlest — dimensions inside our multidimensional organisms, reviving them, filling them with its pure power.
It is good for people who live at high latitudes to have “artificial suns” — quartz lamps and to have periodic sun-baths at home. This is also a wonderful remedy for various diseases. For example, exposure to the ultra-violet radiation easily cures catarrhal infections, if performed right after seeing their first symptoms. And light burns on the chest and the back made with a quartz lamp — where mustard plasters are usually applied — make cough go away quickly.
Summer and autumn is the time for collection and storing of mushrooms and wild berries, which are very important components of pure nutrition.
Any time of the year meditations can be performed at special “places of power” — the zones that have significant energetic impact on human beings. They are very different and can be used depending on this for healing oneself, for talking to God, for refining one’s consciousness, for increasing personal psychoenergetic power or for dissolving oneself in God and Merging with Him.
...Early spring morning is the time when nature gives us the greatest harmony and bliss — when birds start singing even before dawn and the entire space around us gets saturated with the energy of their love. Attuning to their state allows us to get closer to God and constitutes attainment of a certain level of refinement of consciousness.
Those who like to sleep until late, having legitimated this right by classifying themselves as “owls” (or morning persons), have much lesser opportunity for spiritual advancement.
... Sunset time in spring also provides a wide variety of the subtlest impressions. During this time the singing of birds gets superimposed against the background of great and rich silence and harmony. The energy of consciousness “spills” out from the body by itself and expands over the forest saturated with bliss, filling it and merging with it. In this way the consciousness becomes more mobile, more fluid and established in harmony and inner purity.
...But at any other time of the year a morning or an evening spent in the forest or by the water remind us of the spring dawn or dusk times. They are very important for those who have learned to feel spring in its entirety.
...Nature is also a multitude of living beings: animals, plants, which as a rule are more refined as consciousness and enjoy incomparably greater inner peace than most of people do. Average modern person has to come a long way in order to attain their level of Love and Peace before he can pretend to have at least started to develop spiritually.
Moreover, only at open natural landscapes — in contrast to room “boxes” of city apartments and “corridors” of streets — is it possible to expand, to open wide refined consciousness in order to literally grow its size.
...Let me repeat that emotions are states of consciousness. And consciousness is what we are. Depending on what states of consciousness we experience — we can be closer or farther from the Creator. God in the aspect of the Creator is the highest degree of refinement of energy of consciousness. Is it clear to us now, which direction we should move regarding development of our emotional sphere?
...Very few people have witnessed what is going on at a display ground of black-grouse in spring, when pre-dawn mist gets filled with loud ecstatic singing of those big, beautiful and passionate birds. And the majority of those, who have been there, were cutting those beautiful songs of love short with gunshots, pain, blood and death... And enjoying themselves with voluptuousness of sadist-murderers.
Raised in tradition of having a “right” to kill animals, not having absolute inner taboo against inflicting any suffering on other living beings atheists, as well as members of mass sects in our country, easily switch to mass killings of people. We still remember, for example, alcoholic and drug-addict Brezhnev with his boon companions — hunters, who launched aggressive military campaign in Afghanistan... Wasn’t it a similar company of lovers of other’s pain and blood that with a blessing from the Orthodox Church started massacre during the first of two recent “Chechen” wars? Genocide of Chechen people was commenced just because those people did not resigned to Russian conquest and attempted to break free from the Russian yoke...
...In spring evenings, after the sunset, when twilight is enveloping the forest, male woodcocks are flying smoothly over glades, forest openings and lake shores overgrown with shrubs. Their song, consisting of beautiful, soul-touching tender “gruntings”, sends to us waves of love emotions of those lovely birds. In the shrubs, over which the males fly, sit female woodcocks — choosing the one, who sings the best... Here — this one! She flashes to show herself to him... He rushes after her, seized by passion of bird’s love... And then they spend the night together. In the morning they fly apart, having become tired of each other... — to look for new adventures and new friends at the next sunset...
Mysterious beauty of a big curlew’s song, wafting to our ears from the nearest swamp, “celestial bleat” of a snipe, performing courtship ritual high in the sky with vibrating tail feathers, songs of robins and thrushes, all-night rumbling of frogs in puddles, flashing of spawning fish in the reeds, smell of a fire, swimming in a forest lake with first rays of the sun and then — puffs of steam coming from wet and blissful naked bodies, exultation of souls, “exploding” from overflowing with joy of love to God and for every living creature — this is the emotional base that God wants us to have so that we could develop faster and more effectively in His direction!
...Plants are living beings, too. Souls live in their bodies, like we do inside ours. Usually — these are the souls of “vegetative”, or “rudimentary”, stage of development. Although I know of several humans-trees, which are quite developed, large and strong human souls. But those people did not attain the required degree of Peace during their past incarnations — and God, in order to help them become better, embodied them into trees: so that they could calm down, become quiet after several hundred years of living as a plant.
It is easy to communicate with such people-trees on the emotional and even on the mental level. They get strongly “attached” to people, who are capable of understanding them, they get sad if no one visits them for a long time. When someone comes to see them — these plants meet them with joy, which is sometimes mixed with pain...
...What is Peace then? Doing nothing? Living a lazy life? A sleepy inertia? No! Peace is the absence of emotional agitation and restless thoughts. It is possible to perform physical, mental or meditative work fast and for a long time while experiencing inner peace. It goes hand by hand with energetic way of living. Maintaining inner peace allows one not to waste one’s energy in vain. Every kind of activity performed with inner peace is done more efficiently. But what is the most important — it allows one to maintain contact with God, to be guided by Him, thus to avoid making many mistakes. In other words it is favorable for positive evolution of man. But restlessness leads to increasing of one’s isolation from God and to cultivation of one’s lower self. This is — a drag on progress.
...All ordinary plants are capable of perceiving human emotions. This was proven by many scientists of various countries, which discovered changes of electric parameters of plants in response to emotions of people (see [9] for more information).
Once, long after I switched to the cruelty-free diet, I was working in a forestry on sanitary thinning out of woods. At first I thought about it as of something useful, in general, and even enjoyed cutting “superfluous” trees — so that the rest of them had more space for living. But at some point, when I attained greater sensitivity, feeling the pain of those creatures, being cut down by my axe, became unbearable to me and I quitted this job promptly.
Sure, we cannot live without eating plants. We inevitably use their bodies in construction and as firewood. And it does not make sense to wait until a tree grows old, falls down and starts to decay, — this is why it is “mature” trees that get cut down.
But one must not kill plants unnecessarily, or thrust a knife or an axe into a tree just for fun, or cut green branches without absolute necessity, or “mechanically” pluck and throw down leaves from trees, grass blades or flowers. Disrespectful attitude towards food is equally inadmissible: since food was made of bodies of living beings that died for our sake. Throwing out food — even when one eats plants — is also a sin, it is a sin of unnecessary killing. And absolutely absurd from ethical standpoint are those “ritual” killings of millions of fir-trees and pine-trees before Christmas and New Year, as well as picking flowers in order to put them in a vase and then to admire their dying...
It is important now that you, the reader, do not start trying to remember: this is allowed and that is — not... What is important now is not “to learn by heart” certain “rules”, but to realize and accept the ethical principles of compassion to the others’ pain and respect for the others’ lives.
And those who do not understand or accept this — should not resent their own pain: through our pain God teaches us to understand the essence of the pain phenomenon: how unpleasant this sensation really is. In this way he teaches us to spare others and not to hurt them unnecessarily.
And even to a greater extent than to plants this principle of compassion should be applied to animals, since they can feel pain incomparably more acutely, than plants.
The necessity of total adherence to the principle of compassion, in application to nutrition in particular, has been taught by Huang Di, Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Babaji, Sathya Sai. God is Love. If we want get closer to God — we have to totally accept the principle of Love. But what is Love without Compassion? Only a parody of it?
Let us realize, friends, that however persistently “pastors” of various sects teach us the opposite we will not be able to make any progress in our spiritual development without total acceptance of the Compassion principle and without definitively switching to cruelty-free diet (i.e. the one that excludes eating bodies of animals: mammals, birds, fish and so on) — on ethical, and not egotistic (for the sake of improving our personal health, for instance) motives!
...One can learn ethic lessons regarding plants not only in nutrition filed. Tent pegs can be made not only out of green plants, but also out of dry sticks that are still strong. And a fire can be made on the place of an old fire or on a trail etc. — and not right on green plants.
Another thing — fire must not be made on dry peat: huge areas of forest can get burned out, thousands of plants and many animals will die in fire. Also, during dry periods fire should not be made under tall fir-trees: thick perennial layer of fallen needles will smolder — the roots of the fir-tree and surrounding plants will get burned as a result. One should be extremely careful during the spring, when last-year’s grass catches fire very easily. When it happens a lot of green plants, insects, birds’ nests with eggs or fledglings, as well as seeds get burned and die. And a great mass of the old grass that could serve as a natural fertilizer and enrich the soil is also wasted in fire.
And it looks like a wildly immoral act, when someone intentionally, for fun, sets this old grass on fire, which very often becomes the cause of destruction of haystacks, homes and other constructions...
In the Orthodox temples people sing, trying to convince God that He is “forbearing and merciful”... But wouldn’t it be better if they give up this useless occupation and start living themselves in accordance with God’s Principle of Love, which is unthinkable without Compassion to all people and to every living creature, including ants, worms, plants and many others?...
Although cities, being big cultural centers, are also necessary: there are libraries, as well as other excellent opportunities for intellectual development. It is also easier to find like-minded people and partners on the spiritual Path there.
It is also beneficial to expose the body to the sunlight, especially in the morning, when it is particularly tender. This light exists not only on the material plane, but also penetrates other — the subtlest — dimensions inside our multidimensional organisms, reviving them, filling them with its pure power.
It is good for people who live at high latitudes to have “artificial suns” — quartz lamps and to have periodic sun-baths at home. This is also a wonderful remedy for various diseases. For example, exposure to the ultra-violet radiation easily cures catarrhal infections, if performed right after seeing their first symptoms. And light burns on the chest and the back made with a quartz lamp — where mustard plasters are usually applied — make cough go away quickly.
Summer and autumn is the time for collection and storing of mushrooms and wild berries, which are very important components of pure nutrition.
Any time of the year meditations can be performed at special “places of power” — the zones that have significant energetic impact on human beings. They are very different and can be used depending on this for healing oneself, for talking to God, for refining one’s consciousness, for increasing personal psychoenergetic power or for dissolving oneself in God and Merging with Him.
...Early spring morning is the time when nature gives us the greatest harmony and bliss — when birds start singing even before dawn and the entire space around us gets saturated with the energy of their love. Attuning to their state allows us to get closer to God and constitutes attainment of a certain level of refinement of consciousness.
Those who like to sleep until late, having legitimated this right by classifying themselves as “owls” (or morning persons), have much lesser opportunity for spiritual advancement.
... Sunset time in spring also provides a wide variety of the subtlest impressions. During this time the singing of birds gets superimposed against the background of great and rich silence and harmony. The energy of consciousness “spills” out from the body by itself and expands over the forest saturated with bliss, filling it and merging with it. In this way the consciousness becomes more mobile, more fluid and established in harmony and inner purity.
...But at any other time of the year a morning or an evening spent in the forest or by the water remind us of the spring dawn or dusk times. They are very important for those who have learned to feel spring in its entirety.
...Nature is also a multitude of living beings: animals, plants, which as a rule are more refined as consciousness and enjoy incomparably greater inner peace than most of people do. Average modern person has to come a long way in order to attain their level of Love and Peace before he can pretend to have at least started to develop spiritually.
Moreover, only at open natural landscapes — in contrast to room “boxes” of city apartments and “corridors” of streets — is it possible to expand, to open wide refined consciousness in order to literally grow its size.
...Let me repeat that emotions are states of consciousness. And consciousness is what we are. Depending on what states of consciousness we experience — we can be closer or farther from the Creator. God in the aspect of the Creator is the highest degree of refinement of energy of consciousness. Is it clear to us now, which direction we should move regarding development of our emotional sphere?
...Very few people have witnessed what is going on at a display ground of black-grouse in spring, when pre-dawn mist gets filled with loud ecstatic singing of those big, beautiful and passionate birds. And the majority of those, who have been there, were cutting those beautiful songs of love short with gunshots, pain, blood and death... And enjoying themselves with voluptuousness of sadist-murderers.
Raised in tradition of having a “right” to kill animals, not having absolute inner taboo against inflicting any suffering on other living beings atheists, as well as members of mass sects in our country, easily switch to mass killings of people. We still remember, for example, alcoholic and drug-addict Brezhnev with his boon companions — hunters, who launched aggressive military campaign in Afghanistan... Wasn’t it a similar company of lovers of other’s pain and blood that with a blessing from the Orthodox Church started massacre during the first of two recent “Chechen” wars? Genocide of Chechen people was commenced just because those people did not resigned to Russian conquest and attempted to break free from the Russian yoke...
...In spring evenings, after the sunset, when twilight is enveloping the forest, male woodcocks are flying smoothly over glades, forest openings and lake shores overgrown with shrubs. Their song, consisting of beautiful, soul-touching tender “gruntings”, sends to us waves of love emotions of those lovely birds. In the shrubs, over which the males fly, sit female woodcocks — choosing the one, who sings the best... Here — this one! She flashes to show herself to him... He rushes after her, seized by passion of bird’s love... And then they spend the night together. In the morning they fly apart, having become tired of each other... — to look for new adventures and new friends at the next sunset...
Mysterious beauty of a big curlew’s song, wafting to our ears from the nearest swamp, “celestial bleat” of a snipe, performing courtship ritual high in the sky with vibrating tail feathers, songs of robins and thrushes, all-night rumbling of frogs in puddles, flashing of spawning fish in the reeds, smell of a fire, swimming in a forest lake with first rays of the sun and then — puffs of steam coming from wet and blissful naked bodies, exultation of souls, “exploding” from overflowing with joy of love to God and for every living creature — this is the emotional base that God wants us to have so that we could develop faster and more effectively in His direction!
...Plants are living beings, too. Souls live in their bodies, like we do inside ours. Usually — these are the souls of “vegetative”, or “rudimentary”, stage of development. Although I know of several humans-trees, which are quite developed, large and strong human souls. But those people did not attain the required degree of Peace during their past incarnations — and God, in order to help them become better, embodied them into trees: so that they could calm down, become quiet after several hundred years of living as a plant.
It is easy to communicate with such people-trees on the emotional and even on the mental level. They get strongly “attached” to people, who are capable of understanding them, they get sad if no one visits them for a long time. When someone comes to see them — these plants meet them with joy, which is sometimes mixed with pain...
...What is Peace then? Doing nothing? Living a lazy life? A sleepy inertia? No! Peace is the absence of emotional agitation and restless thoughts. It is possible to perform physical, mental or meditative work fast and for a long time while experiencing inner peace. It goes hand by hand with energetic way of living. Maintaining inner peace allows one not to waste one’s energy in vain. Every kind of activity performed with inner peace is done more efficiently. But what is the most important — it allows one to maintain contact with God, to be guided by Him, thus to avoid making many mistakes. In other words it is favorable for positive evolution of man. But restlessness leads to increasing of one’s isolation from God and to cultivation of one’s lower self. This is — a drag on progress.
...All ordinary plants are capable of perceiving human emotions. This was proven by many scientists of various countries, which discovered changes of electric parameters of plants in response to emotions of people (see [9] for more information).
Once, long after I switched to the cruelty-free diet, I was working in a forestry on sanitary thinning out of woods. At first I thought about it as of something useful, in general, and even enjoyed cutting “superfluous” trees — so that the rest of them had more space for living. But at some point, when I attained greater sensitivity, feeling the pain of those creatures, being cut down by my axe, became unbearable to me and I quitted this job promptly.
Sure, we cannot live without eating plants. We inevitably use their bodies in construction and as firewood. And it does not make sense to wait until a tree grows old, falls down and starts to decay, — this is why it is “mature” trees that get cut down.
But one must not kill plants unnecessarily, or thrust a knife or an axe into a tree just for fun, or cut green branches without absolute necessity, or “mechanically” pluck and throw down leaves from trees, grass blades or flowers. Disrespectful attitude towards food is equally inadmissible: since food was made of bodies of living beings that died for our sake. Throwing out food — even when one eats plants — is also a sin, it is a sin of unnecessary killing. And absolutely absurd from ethical standpoint are those “ritual” killings of millions of fir-trees and pine-trees before Christmas and New Year, as well as picking flowers in order to put them in a vase and then to admire their dying...
It is important now that you, the reader, do not start trying to remember: this is allowed and that is — not... What is important now is not “to learn by heart” certain “rules”, but to realize and accept the ethical principles of compassion to the others’ pain and respect for the others’ lives.
And those who do not understand or accept this — should not resent their own pain: through our pain God teaches us to understand the essence of the pain phenomenon: how unpleasant this sensation really is. In this way he teaches us to spare others and not to hurt them unnecessarily.
And even to a greater extent than to plants this principle of compassion should be applied to animals, since they can feel pain incomparably more acutely, than plants.
The necessity of total adherence to the principle of compassion, in application to nutrition in particular, has been taught by Huang Di, Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Babaji, Sathya Sai. God is Love. If we want get closer to God — we have to totally accept the principle of Love. But what is Love without Compassion? Only a parody of it?
Let us realize, friends, that however persistently “pastors” of various sects teach us the opposite we will not be able to make any progress in our spiritual development without total acceptance of the Compassion principle and without definitively switching to cruelty-free diet (i.e. the one that excludes eating bodies of animals: mammals, birds, fish and so on) — on ethical, and not egotistic (for the sake of improving our personal health, for instance) motives!
...One can learn ethic lessons regarding plants not only in nutrition filed. Tent pegs can be made not only out of green plants, but also out of dry sticks that are still strong. And a fire can be made on the place of an old fire or on a trail etc. — and not right on green plants.
Another thing — fire must not be made on dry peat: huge areas of forest can get burned out, thousands of plants and many animals will die in fire. Also, during dry periods fire should not be made under tall fir-trees: thick perennial layer of fallen needles will smolder — the roots of the fir-tree and surrounding plants will get burned as a result. One should be extremely careful during the spring, when last-year’s grass catches fire very easily. When it happens a lot of green plants, insects, birds’ nests with eggs or fledglings, as well as seeds get burned and die. And a great mass of the old grass that could serve as a natural fertilizer and enrich the soil is also wasted in fire.
And it looks like a wildly immoral act, when someone intentionally, for fun, sets this old grass on fire, which very often becomes the cause of destruction of haystacks, homes and other constructions...
In the Orthodox temples people sing, trying to convince God that He is “forbearing and merciful”... But wouldn’t it be better if they give up this useless occupation and start living themselves in accordance with God’s Principle of Love, which is unthinkable without Compassion to all people and to every living creature, including ants, worms, plants and many others?...
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