PEACE

What is this state of peace, that all in human embodiment struggle so hard to find? Is it really a true state or is it again an illusion of the 3-dimensional world?  And we would disappoint you, if we told you it is only an illusion!  There is no state of peace. Because if you accept that there is a state of peace, you must then also accept that there is a state of ‘no peace’, that there is conflict, that there is disharmony.  And there is no conflict, there is no disharmony. That is in itself an illusion.

What you consider conflict are merely wonderful moments of change that you have to undergo. Change is very, very difficult for you.  You are comfortable even if what you lie in is a ditch, you are comfortable with its odour, you are comfortable with its blackness, and you are comfortable with the feeling of drowning. And you do not wish to move from there. And so you call this comfort ‘conflict’. It is only your word for what you wish. If you did not resist the change that must take place, there would be no state of disharmony, no imbalance, no conflict. But you resist and how can you resist that which is as vast as the Universe itself, and what is it what you resist? What is it that is so vast our beautiful ones? What you resist is ‘YOU’. You resist the truth of who you are. You resist. You refuse to acknowledge that ‘I am only Light. And as all Light will, I must travel farther and farther’.

What does Light do, when it meets an obstacle? Does it stop shining? Does it hide the obstacle at all. The obstacle may be a large brick wall and the Light will only increase its intensity and soon in the power of this light the brick wall must crumble. Because the Light must travel. But when you meet your little brick wall, you look at the brick wall and you say ‘I have no power’. You say that because you do not wish to extend
your power. You are scared, little one, (turning towards Armaiti) of your power and yet all that you pray for, is greater power!  How can you get greater power when that which you already are, you fear?

None of you fear being small, all of you fear being large. ‘If I extend, where will I reach? How far must I go? Where will I be? Will I be myself, will I leave those who I care for? Will I in fact have to enter a place of darkness in order to illuminate it?’  And that is what you fear. But that is what you enjoy and what you are comfortable with. Your illusion of smallness.

You must never be ‘selfish’. You must be ‘Self’. Do not be ‘like’ Self. That is ‘Self’ ‘ish’. When an adult behaves like a child, you say he is being ‘child’ ‘ish’.  Why then do you want to be ‘Self’ ‘ish’, when you already ARE a wonderful, vast ‘Self’?  And when you wish to be ‘Self’ ‘ish’, then your Mind gives you your mind’s interpretation of ‘Self’. And your Mind’s interpretation of ‘Self’ is limited.  Because your Mind is at present caught in the 3-dimensional world. How can it expand beyond that? How can Mind give you an interpretation so vast and beautiful? And so the Mind gives you a meaning of ‘Self’ that is illusory. Mind tells you that Self is this physical. Mind tells you that ‘Self’ are your Veils of Forgetfulness. Mind tells you that ‘Self’ are illusory feelings. And Mind tells you that if you have to remain ‘Self’, you must fear ‘Self’. And you then become ‘Self’ ‘ish’.

Do not have any Mind-controlled concept of ‘Self’. If you wish to know what is ‘Self’, look into a flame, and there you are. Does the flame fear? Does the flame extinguish its power because that is what is desired by others? Does the flame fear the dirt that you will add to it so that dirt can be burnt? The flame will make itself larger and larger every time you add something dirtier to it. Because the flame knows ‘as soon as there is impurity added to me, it is in my power to remove the impurity and to make it pure. Because in its purity my own power will increase’. And what is then a tiny flame becomes an all- consuming fire.  Flame does not fear. Are you a flame? Then you cannot fear. You must burn. And that which you must burn first in the mind’s interpretation. When your Self has consumed that which ‘you are not’, it will not burn gently, it will roar and others will automatically come to you, so that in your fire you can consume what they ‘are not’.

And that is the task that you fear. You do not wish to be that large. You wish to be small. Small enough to hide inside the crevices of your Mind. If you grow larger, where will you find a cavern that is so big that it will hide your illumination?  So you see, little one, we cannot give you peace, because we have no such thing to give you. But yes – we can guide you, we can hold your hand, we can cradle you and take you to a stage where you are only ‘Self’. And in that ‘Self’ there is no duality, so there is no peace and there is no ‘no peace’.

Burn! Do not be scared of the heat of the fire! It only gives you an illusion of burning. No fire, no fire can burn YOU. Walk through that fire and every time the fire gets stronger be joyous, because you know that the fire within you is now strong. Because it has burnt, because it has transformed something that ‘I was not’! Light your own fire and jump into it. This is true death. There is no other death. Light the fire and jump into the fire! And feel and experience that which ‘you are not’, transforming into that which ‘you are’.

 Sir, am I permitted to express the thought which occurred to me when you mentioned ‘selfishness’? The analogy with the word ‘Shell Fish’ which is closed, and not open to anything.

But always be careful of it when it opens. Because in its opening there is a sting: That which you ‘are not’.