What Causes Wars?
United Nations, March 6, 1991
Page 5So, actually we talked about war and endedwith peace. If everyone of us wants to have peace within ourselves,we must practice the Kingdom of God. Wemust get in touch with this God power, which is very easy to do.We can do it instantly because God is within us. He is not veryfar away. The Kingdom of God is within us. Why should we go todistant church or temple to get it? And why should we take a longtime to get it?
That's why we call our method "instantenlightening" or "immediate enlightenment". "Instant"is just what my disciples call it, but I don't like the word "instant."Actually, my original words were "immediate enlightenmentand eternal liberation". Once we are enlightened, we areforever enlightened and liberated. Liberated from what? From thecycle of birth and death, being reborn and reborn again, sufferingand suffering again. For example, your work in the United Nationsis the best job, the noblest work one can find because here youserve the whole world, not only one company or two companies,one family or two families but the whole world. Your work is thebest. I advise everyone to stay and not to leave the United Nationsfor as long as you can. But even then you have your suffering,frustration and headaches. Do you see? Things are not as perfectas we want.
There is a better life, a more perfect lifeinside. Once we are perfect inside, our outside life will be perfecttoo. We can use our inside wisdom and power to make our work moreefficient, faster and more beneficial to the world. So actuallyif we want to be in any important position or be successful inany field, we must get the proper power to work for us,not our minds. There are two levels of power.The first level, the lower level, is the mind, the automatic reactionand action. Yes, that is the mind. The other higher level poweris all grace, love and miracles. By miracles I don't mean changingthe weather or..., but we can do that too.
For example, my disciple just prayed and theairplane had to run backwards to get him, the only one left behind.Formally they didn't want to have anything to do with him, becausethey said that his ticket did not have the price on it, or somethinglike that. There was something wrong, but we paid for the ticket.Something bureaucratically wrong, that's all. And the airplanehad to come back. This is also called a miracle. But, we don'tdo it on purpose. We just pray, and the one who is in touch withGod can pray for anything, provided we pray with our own power.Do you understand? If we pray for someone else and that someoneelse is not in tune with God, then it's difficult for the prayerto be answered. It is not that we don't want to help them. OtherwiseJesus would have prayed for at least the Jews; or the Buddha,would have prayed for at least the whole of India. Do you understandwhat I mean? Even though we are enlightened, we can not changethe world. We can only reason and bring them into changing themselves.
Therefore, we have to begin with ourselves.We cannot sit and wait for miracles. No one can change the world,not even thousands of Buddha or millions of Jesus. They wouldhave done it if they could. Miracles do not happen in this way,where karma is concerned. We have to clean ourselves. We have to bathe ourselves. Take our medicine in orderto cure ourselves. The best doctor can only give us medicine butcannot take it for us. Therefore, it is a very sad and difficultthing to pray for other people when they are not in tune withthe prayer fulfilling source.
The best way is to get in touch with God andthen pray. We don't even have to pray, things will happen. ThisI know for sure. This I have experienced. And many, many thousandsof my disciples have also experienced this. All of them know itis true. I would like to present it to you today should you feelinterested, and should you believe that there is a solution towar. By changing ourselves, by having peace within ourselves,we'll have peace in the world. Each one must do it. Even if wecould not influence the whole world we light some torches; atleast peace would be more and war would be less. This in itselfwould be a great achievement.
Our world is better now compared to the oldtimes because many masters have stepped down to earth and taughtus many great laws of civilization. We have improved. That's whyour world has become more civilized, more bright, more comfortablecompared to thousands of years ago. That's due to many, many greatenlightened masters who have elevated our understanding. Eventhough they taught just a group of people, but the teachings thatthey left behind, the vibration and the seeds continue to growand benefit the whole world on a large scale and have lifted upthe whole consciousness of mankind to ahigher level. Therefore, our world is getting better and bettereveryday. Due to some great masters and some of their disciplesour world has become better and better.
You may join them. I am not saying that youmust come and study with me. It is not so. Study with whomeveryou like, who you feel is the most enlightened, who will be themost beneficial to you, and who shows the way the most clearlyto you; but do something. Get in touch with your own wisdom andpower, and use it to work for you. It is better than just usinga brain-computer, fumbling with it everyday and feeling headaches,frustration and difficulties. Nothing is so difficult if we useour great wisdom to do the work and not the small intelligenceof the habitual computer-brain. Thank you very much.
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