A New Heaven and a New Earth (3/12/81)Man is a God to the animal kingdom and when man started to kill animals he also started killing each other. In the coming of a new age on this Earth man must abandon his old way of life and adopt an entirely new way of love and peace on earth. Killing always calls for more killing because that is the inevitable working of karma. Also, as you think, so you are and so you do. Wars serve no purpose of a constructive nature. They only set a pattern for more destruction. There is what is called the universal chain and the Earth is a very weak link in that chain, and the link must be strengthened. The strength or weakness lies with the humans on this Earth. It is the humans that have free will and by their will they can be what they desire to be. Anyone who has no real love for animals has no real love for God, or for his fellow humans. It is not what you declare yourself to be, it is what you really are that counts. Actions always speak louder than words. What humans must now develop is a new way of life, a new quality of the soul. This is very necessary due to the changes in the world that are upon us and still to come. If we are to be a part of the new age, then we also must be made new. We must lay aside our old ways and develop a quality of love that will keep us in stride with the new age of peace and harmony. So much knowledge will be released onto the world that unless there is harmony it will be a pure disaster. It is the human who, created in the image of God, must now start to portray that image. We must have a greater understanding of cause and effect, so we will become fully responsible for what we cause. The law of reincarnation is such that every thought and deed returns to its original source. One must harvest one's mistakes by the experiences we create for ourselves. One must raise one's self spiritually so that a full understanding of right and wrong, and living the laws of life, is fully in one's daily consciousness. It is by our own free will that we allow ourselves to be directed and guided to higher spirituality. There will come in the near future a time when nature will not allow anyone to inhabit the Earth who does not measure up to the quality necessary to live in the new age. None of this is impossible, and when we desire to travel the high road we can instantly start to do so. God is far more merciful than we can ever imagine. If one truly believes in God, then he also believes in himself. If he wishes to live the law of God, which is the law of nature, then God or nature will surely support him. If we choose not to do this, then we must be willing to accept the effects of the karma we have created. In the near future an enormous amount of higher knowledge will be released to mankind, and if we are not fully indoctrinated into peace and harmony we could unleash terrible things upon each other, the world and the universe, for what we release here has a far reaching effect, even way beyond this Earth. So, nature or the hierarchy, in self-protection, will not allow this to happen. We are now coming into a time of quickening where in the next one-thousand years humanity will make more progress than occurred in the last fifty-thousand years. The thing that will happen is that humanity will come up to a higher vibration, a stage of life where life will be truly spiritual. When we reach this, we will be living a life of beauty and an ever increasing spiritual development. The day of selfish interests of humans, where to obtain what someone else has striven to acquire by destroying them, is fast drawing to a conclusion. The law of the universe is that the strong shall help the weak, not exploit them, overrun them, and then destroy them. Those who do this will shortly be removed from causation on this Earth. The evil will be separated from the good and that which is good will even so become better. ~~ Lectures by Charlie Lutes http://www.maharishiphotos.com/lecture5.html
