We Are Stepping Into The Golden Age
Portland, Oregon, USA. December4, 1993.
Page 4Love For All Beings From BeingVegetarian After you see all thesethings, it's good not to eat fish or meat. Actually, if we canlove a dog, why not love a cow or pig; because they are the same.This is one of the reasons why we should be vegetarian, love forall beings, extending love. Enlarge our love, enlarge ourselves,to the whole universe. We shouldn't even cut the flowers or eatvegetables, but still we have to do what is minimum, what's lesssuffering. The flowers when we cut them, they can sprout againand make more flowers. Vegetables when we cut a branch, they cansprout a few more branches. So, it's not that bad.
Even though all beingshave feelings, plants have the least feelings, because ninetypercent of the constitution of vegetables is water. That's whythey have less consciousness than animals or human beings. Wehuman beings are a combination of many things, and that givesa good environment for intelligence to activate. For example,even though you are very intelligent, you need a good computerin order to program some intelligent things, some distinguishedprogram.
Similarly, God-powerneeds this body which is a composition of different elements,in order to manifest inside into the outer world. That's why wehave more feeling, more intelligence, because God-power can makeuse of many of the tiny instruments within ourselves in orderto spread out the blessing, the message and the intelligence.In the plant, God-power cannot do that, because there are notenough instruments. That's all. Just like the bulb here. If theelectric bulb is a 100-watt, then its electricity can be brighterthan in a 20-watt. If we damage the 100-watt bulb, it is moreexpensive, more of a waste than a 20-watt bulb. This is why wetry to economize. This is why we should eat the least consciousthing possible, like vegetables. Is that logical to you? (A: Yes.)
I don't try to pushyou into guilt or things like that, but we discuss the possibilitiesof why and how. That's why to kill a human being is the most terriblecrime, to kill animal is second to it, and a plant is not much.They can grow again, even from the root. But the animal, evenif you cut only half of its head, won't grow again. Therefore,we have to believe things when they're logical; not because it'sthe guilt-inflicting theory or because we have to do that becausesome of the teachers say so or some of the religions say so.
I do not feel that weare unintelligent beings, that we could swallow anything, especiallythe Americans. They are no-nonsense folks. They don't just eatanything. So, we have to tell them whatever is logical. Even ifpeople do not accept it today, they can think about it later.Sometimes I believe also, that during the course of my speaking,sometimes it's too fast - you sometimes listen to one sentenceand you miss the next, and also it's difficult. So, if you wantto listen again, you can get the tape. All the tapes we sell arewithout profit. It's like a good quality empty tapes, becausewe don't believe in selling God for profit.
We make profit otherways, by mundane talent like dress designing, lamp producing,painting pictures.All these things we are allowed to make. It'sour mundane talent, so we get the mundane profit; but not to sellGod for profit. We don't even collect money, get a member's fee,or anything to do with God's teachings; because it's all freefor every of Hiers children. It was free for me. It will be freefor every-one, as long as I can afford it. If I cannot afford,then I stop. Very simple!
Now, can you see whywe are God? God-power is omnipresent, is all-pervading everywhere;and we are just one of the beholders. Just like my swimming pool- the water came from the nearby stream, led in by a pipe, andwe have a hole underneath or on top so that it will flow out againinto the river without stopping a portion of the water. The waterin the pool, even though it's surrounded by stones and cement,is still water from the river and is connected in some other way.
If our swimming poolis blocked from connecting with the spring for some reason, thenwe have to unblock it. Maybe the pipe is blocked, the pipe isdamaged, or the hole is blocked; so we have to unblock it. Enlightenmentis the unblocking of our obscurity to our own nature, to the Godconnections within ourselves, and to the whole power of the universe.
QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION Q.What are Your views on transmigration?
M. As I have mentioned earlier,transmigration is another word for reincarnation. It is a veryEastern terminology. You don't hear it that often in the Bible,because the Bible is also not always complete, as all of you know.It has 'transmigrated' (Master laughs) for 2,000 years or sometime, so some things may be missing there. The true Bible is lockedup somewhere and we are never allowed to see it. But some of thenewly-dug from the ancient sites - the Bible in some part hascome out, and some of it would mention reincarnation.
For example, I justremember one part like someone asked Jesus whether He was thereincarnation or continuation of the last prophet like Elijahor such and such. They mentioned about two, three previous prophetsbefore Him who had already ascended. Jesus did not answer yesor no. If the question, the conception about reincarnation waswrong - that a prophet even reincarnated to help the people, thenHe would have said, "No, no, never. No reincarnation."But He didn't answer. Probably He answered yes, but He was a verysoft-spoken person. (Master laughs.)
You see, afterward therewas no correction on that question. As I understood: That aboutover 2,000 years ago, at the time of Buddha and Jesus, etceteras,when you are silent on some topic, that means you agree. If peopleask you, sometimes three times, and you are silent, or if youhave an invitation from a disciple, and you are silent, that meansyou accept it. So, in that case, we can have a glimpse of somesegments of the Bible about reincarnation. Otherwise, it's difficultto prove that.
As you have read inmany books about Jesus, that He has been in India and Tibet, andstudied with Buddhist teachers and so on, so for Him the theoryof reincarnation must have been very familiar. We would be surprisedif He didn't teach that to His disciples. Maybe the Bible, someportions of it, are lost. Sometimes translation is not accurate,and everything like that; because at the time of Jesus, was verychaotic the situation.
He had to sometimeshide for His life, and the disciples practiced in fear. So, notall the things Jesus taught would have been recorded. Also, Hetaught only three-and-a-half years before He was terminated. Howcould He have taught everything in such fearful and limited circumstances,as well as a handful of disciples? It was very difficult.
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