Q: I’d like to know a bit more about what happens at the time of initiation. I was ill for a long time, and now suddenly I have lots of energy after being initiated. I’ve found myself constantly thinking, “It’s quite fantastic!” A great thrill has come over me. Can you please explain a little more about what’s happened?

M: You’ve answered yourself. Great things can happen to you because your own power has been awakened. Your torch has been lit by another already lit torch. Our torches are both lit, and we’re both illuminated. You feel that I’m just like you and are slowly discovering that whatever I have, you also have. In case you haven’t discovered or are not yet confident in yourself, you may pray to the so-called Master to help you at the beginning of your spiritual practice.

But even without praying, you get it. Just being initiated for only a few minutes — it’s immediate enlightenment! I tell many people, but they don’t believe it. Only the ones who believe as you do will get it, and then you’ll shout with joy. But don’t shout too loudly, or people on the street will think you’re crazy! But you’d like to do it, sometimes jumping like a baby. It happens. Because you’re very sincere and pure, you receive the maximum benefit. For the ones who are pure at heart, the Kingdom of God belongs to them: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God,” (Matthew 5:8) or “Anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” (Mark 10:15 and Luke 18:17) That’s it. If you’re pure, anything is yours because it’s already there. To the complicated or doubtful ones it will also come. But sometimes they waste it a little bit, or it doesn’t soak into them so deeply. Because they’ve built some protective walls around themselves, and the blessing is stopped because of their unwillingness to accept it.

Even God’s blessing is not to be forced upon anyone. Otherwise, God would force blessings from Heaven and we’d all be liberated. There would be no need for me to go around and beg each of you to meditate. But you understand that because you know it for yourself and because you’re sincere. And I’m happy for you. Many people are like that; you’re not the only one. There’s nothing to explain, nothing logical and nothing scientific about it. It’s just that you yourself, your great wisdom, wakes up and immediately goes to work. It organizes and regulates the “body-disordered” places and puts them in order again. It also puts your mind in order and erases some of the negative tendencies and residues through the great force of the universe.

Thus, you feel alive again. In the mystical sense, you can say that this illness or the heavy feeling of pressure from the physical and mental body is the result of previous karma or from this life. But now we turn to the source of mercy and love, so it’s washed away. That’s as much as I can say. Many more of the things of God we can’t explain at all. So just enjoy it, and keep quiet. It’s all right for us to talk about it here, but if there’s much more you would like to tell people later, take care to see if they understand. Otherwise they’ll doubt you and think you’re telling lies, and that will hurt you.

I’m used to getting hurt. I keep telling people, “Please come; it’s all free. I do everything for you. You only have to know yourself and be happy. Don’t be ill, don’t be so weak and don’t beg for anything because you have everything. Please just come and experience it.” But many people just stay outside. Even if they come, sometimes they walk out. It’s due to their karma, which is so heavy that they’re blind to any love that stands in front of them. Therefore, even Jesus, they crucified Him. Such a love personified, such a blessing that He wanted to pour into the world. But they see nothing and feel nothing because they’re so spiritually blind and deaf. The world is like that.

So sometimes I suffer. Even though I know everything is God’s will, I suffer for them. I feel so sorry for these people: How can they be content to live such a life? Why don’t they believe in themselves? (Applause)

Our path is a little different from many other paths because I tell you to rely on yourself, to awaken your own power (Master gestures toward the wisdom eye) and become the Master, not to worship me all your life, do everything for me and rely on me. So I give you the way to know yourself. Then you at least begin to be a teacher of yourself, or of whoever comes in contact with you. Maybe I could just let you worship me, and you would get the blessing all the same anyhow. Many people just recite my name because they don’t want to get initiated. They pray to me for every kind of help or anything they want, and they get the benefits. They see Light, and they also sometimes see the Master coming to them. It’s not that I bargain, but they won’t become teachers. They’ll forever rely on my blessing and grace. But that’s what they want so what can we do about it?

If they want it that way, I don’t mind. Relying on me is fine. But I’d like all of you to be your own great teacher. That’s what I show you with this way. Do it every day, and you’ll become greater. And everything you want will just come even if you don’t ask for it. Just be pure and sincere. ... Next Question