Vladimir Antonov
How Is It to Merge with God?
Translated from Russian by Vladimir Antonov and Hiero Nani
© Vladimir Antonov, 2012
Those who have not improved themselves with methods of Buddhi Yoga (or, in other words, with the methods of developed Hesychasm or Sufism), can hardly understand the mechanism of mergence of a developed human soul with the Divine Consciousness. So let us explore this subject a little deeper.
When ordinary people think about mergence with someone they are usually referring to sex. Yes, due to harmonious sexual relations between regular partners, among them are very close emotional connections of love. Who is lucky enough to find such a partner can trace it in oneself. So there has been a real uniting of souls between incarnate people.
Emotions they are the states of consciousness. Accustoming ourselves to the states of love, deepening and strengthening of these states this is a great opportunity, given to people by God, to learn great and pure love, which can then be turned to Him.
But for our love to become pure, everyone should on the background of matrimonial relations closely search for ones own ethical imperfections, such as obsession, violence, jealousy, ability to cause any harm to the partner, and other manifestations of egocentrism. One striving to the spiritual perfection should avoid even a potential possibility of the manifestation of such vices.
The break of well-established relations of love may be very painful: it is the disconnecting of once united souls. The described situation can be remembered by many of us from our own lives. And this knowledge can help someone to overcome easier the pain of parting either now or in future.
States of love, similar to those considered above, can form also for children, friends, animals, and even plants. But let us always remember that God should be the Main Object of our love.
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How do ordinary people feel the state of being in love? They may either simply go with the flow of their emotions, or at a slightly higher level realize and observe them, thinking: I am in love or it hurts me. Moreover, these pronouns (I, me) are attached to ones own body or to the mind; the soul is still not recognized as a subject of these situations. Every such person is still living, being tightly bound with the individual body, thinking and acting from it, feeling oneself as it.
But the methods of development of oneself as the spiritual heart allow receiving gradually greater and greater freedom from the material body, while it remains fully alive and increasingly healthy. The consciousness (soul) of such an adept becomes much larger than the material human body. This difference in size can be in thousands, then millions of times! Such a student now even if he or she really wants cannot locate themselves completely in the material bodies! Such a human becomes really ubiquitous across the planet and around it.
Those who have mastered this also after death of the bodies, of course, continue to feel themselves as huge consciousnesses. They are free to move in space, being powerful, wise, and loving. Their love is the most important quality, since they could not become such, if they had not developed themselves solely as love.
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Emotions of love (as well as any other emotions) may spread out of the material bodies of any person.
If it were otherwise it would be impossible to unite in love with other embodied souls.
And if the bodies already are not? If now there is only the vast consciousness, not tied to anything related to material objects? Then it is even easier to merge! This mergence is a mutual penetration and mutual dissolving of consciousnesses. So live Those Who have attained the status of the Holy Spirit. And so Their United We is formed.
I also mention that the emotions of love are uniting. Emotions of hate, censure, hostility, also strongly expressed egocentrism are disuniting. God wishes to see us in uniting, integrating emotions of love. He invites us all to learn to feel ourselves as members of the united Family with other beings and where the Pater (i.e. the Father) is He. So, by the way, we can become the true patriots patriots of God.
One last note: when reasonable people and God talk about love it is necessary to understand that it is not related to lust. Lust (selfish sexual passion) is the opposite of love.
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People generally do not understand who are spirits and the Holy Spirits.
Spirits are just non-embodied at present ordinary people and other beings. They differ not only in species belonging in their last incarnations, but also in their habitual state of consciousnesses during lives in the bodies. Those, who accustomed themselves to coarse emotions, take a place in hell. Those, who attained successes in developing themselves as real love, are paradise souls.
All they are not separated by any of the walls of our material bodies. They can appear for us, for example, in the form of ghosts, becoming more or less visible for incarnate people. They are all absolutely subjugated to God. Therefore it is necessary to understand that even the entering of infernal spirits (demons) into human bodies it is also a necessary measure for making open to reason for some of those embodiments who behave wrongly, from the viewpoint of God.
And what do people know about the Holy Spirit? Bird-pigeon? Similarity to the part of plant shamrock? And even saying that the Holy Spirit is Part of the Trinity Father, Son, and Holy Spirit even though it is the true, but this does not explain anything and does not approach the understanding of the essence.
In reality, the Holy Spirit (or, in Sanskrit, Brahman) it is the concept of an aggregate, collecting all Those now non-embodied Humans of both sexes Who have reached the Divine Perfection and now live in the Abode of the Primordial Consciousness, however easily come out from it for the sake of helping embodied beings.
And we should also strive to achieve the state of the Holy Spirit, to become Ones of Them.
They were primarily the same, as we, incarnate people. But They before us had time to develop Themselves up to the Divinity.
And now They with great joy are willing to help embodied seekers of God, who genuinely seek to learn from Them.
But They are ready to teach only spiritual perfecting. If someone tries to use contact with Them for profit, then They will either remain silent, or joke misleadingly: in order for such persons to realize their error and correct it.
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