People who have worked hard since a young age or who try to
work hard whenever they can, they are more clever, sharp, very
fast and very clear-sighted; because they have practiced a very
long time. So, practice makes masters, because both of the jobs
are similar. Most of the circumstances you can judge, if you
are used to diversity.
I also have had this experience, because since I was young, I
loved to work. I loved to be of help. We had servants in the
house, but I always ironed my own clothes, washed my own
clothes. I even brought water for my parents to take baths and
cooked tea for my father. Sometimes I learnt to cook and I took
care and helped the servants voluntarily. We had about three,
four servants at that time. No need for me to work, I always
liked to work. Probably that's why I am good at many things,
just because I am used to adjustments.
For example, if you do something a long time, sometimes you
don't need to measure, you just look and you know how much is
needed. It's very fast. The same with many other things, the
more you use your brain, the more it will become alert and
intelligent. Otherwise, you just become more and more stupid
and then regress into stone or tree. That's how people regress.
So don't ask me how people can become animals or regress to a
lower nature of life. They make it that way. They make
themselves that way.
There was a story about a man in Formosa. He is a kind of
medium, he can go to hell or to heaven. That man was very pure
from childhood -- ate vegetarian. He never married and he
meditated. He also knew about me. When I first became famous in
Formosa and appeared in public, he also came to have a look, he
pressed himself on the window. Since that day, he doesn't do
medium work anymore. He said: "Great Master has come. We have
to stop all this work in respect to Her. We don't need to do
all this work anymore." He had about two hundred thousand
strong followers. He just dropped it. He went to hell and he
went around the world to check out. Sometimes went to heaven --
maybe it was not very high. The things he recounted when he
came back or during the voyage, I know to be true. So, he must
have been very genuine.
This guy went to hell. He recounted and someone else at the
time took notes of it and he made some books about hell. One
story about hell was like this, very simple. Oh! Not hell,
about our human life was like this. He was walking around and
saw many things in this world with different eyes -- probably
astral projection. He saw a couple, just walking on the street,
jumping and dancing by the way to rock and roll music, and just
so happy. Happy, jumping around like that. Suddenly, they came
across a pig sty. The mother pig just happened to have given
birth to piglets. These two souls were kind of attracted into
this business and they became pigs just by dancing and not
paying attention to where they went. That was one story.
Another story about hell, how people became pigs and animals.
Many people who die, who do not have enough merit to be born as
humans again immediately or to be born in heaven, will be in
so-called hell for a while. They will be punished or something
terrible done to them to clean their karma, burn out all the
bad things, cut off all the immoral ulcers from their souls, so
they can be born again. The king of hell will give them an
audience and ask them what is it that they want now -- what
kind of position they want, and what kind of life they want to
lead -- as now they will have the privilege to be born as
humans again.
One by one, they answered. Some of them said: "Oh! I am so
happy to be free of hell now. I am sure that I am going to be a
human being, very honored, very happy and going to be a very
good person. For example, I want to serve and I want to do
this." Then they will give you a good position like being a
nurse, doctor or whatever to give you a good chance to serve people.
Another person said: "Oh! Since I have been in hell very long
-- very terrible, miserable -- now I want to enjoy life. I want
to have beautiful surroundings, beautiful clothes and a lovely
voice so that I can sing and charm all the females. I should
have a beautiful abode next to a river and should have plenty
of food so that I don't have to earn money to get it."
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The king of hell said, "All right." So he told his
subordinates, the devils, to bring him exactly what he needed.
So what did they bring him? A beautiful, feathered bird, such
shiny feathers. That's what he wanted. He wanted beautiful
clothes, no need to earn them. So he had them fixed
permanently. No need to wash even, no trouble. He didn't want a
troubled life; he wanted just to sit there, eat, drink, and
sing. So they gave him a big, beautiful, feathered body and a
nice voice, so he could sing all day long. Then placed him next
to a tree in the forest -- a lot of berries, wild fruit and
beautiful surroundings. He had drinking, eating, beautiful
feathers, and nothing to worry about. That was what they gave
him. Exactly according to what he wanted. So do not blame God
for our position. It is what we wanted.
Another guy also came up from hell and wanted a similar thing.
"Wow! I have always been burned in hell and my flesh looks like
it's all gone. I'm skinny and burned out. I want to get fat and
even fatter. Looks like a lot of blessings to be fat." Most
people think to be fat and big is a kind of meritorious life.
"I have had such a hard life in hell, I want to make up for it
now. I want to just eat, drink, sleep, and get fat. I have been
very skinny up till now because all the fire in hell drew out
my blood, burned all my fat and flesh. I want people to serve
me, bring food up to my door, up to my mouth even. I don't want
to go anywhere, don't want to earn money for it. Give me that
kind of life! Then I don't have to worry about food, clothing
and everyone serves me."
The king told the subordinates to bring his "outfit" for this
life. Do you know what it was? A pig's skin. They put it down
for him and he immediately became a pig. After that he drank a
kind of liquid and forgot everything about his past life; he
just enjoyed being a pig. Every day people brought food to his
mouth, washed him, brought drinks for him, and made him fat. He
didn't have to do anything at all. That was the kind of life
that he wanted, so he got it. Otherwise, how can you have a
human life; doing nothing, no responsibility. You get food and
drink brought to your mouth, without doing anything. Do you
think there is a human life like that? No. So they had to give
him a pig's life to satisfy his desires. That was very
justified because it was according to what he wanted.
Your Father gives you. Is that not so? Whenever you knock, you
shall be given. Now that you often ask, you'll be given. If you
ask for the impossible thing, you get the impossible life.
That's what it is.
That's how many people run into trouble and are born into lower
levels of consciousness. Just because of the misconception,
just because they want things for nothing, just because they
want to go against the law of karma here in this world. Once we
are above the law of karma, then it's okay, we are in heaven,
we're in nirvana. Whatever we want, it will be supplied; we
don't even need to want. But when we are still in the Three
Worlds -- with physical bodies, physical needs, physical
demands -- we have to make also physical contributions. That's
why the Bible says: With the sweat of your brow, you earn your
bread. No other way. We have been in Eden, we have been in
heaven, but we left the circuit. Now that we are in this world,
we have to obey the law, take care of ourselves, and our businesses.
Freedom doesn't mean that you fly in the sky; I stay here, I
open the mouth, and wait for the berries to come. Freedom means
that you have great responsibilities. Means no one should have
to tell you what to do, but you know what to do. You have
freedom by choice if you know everything; what to do and take
care of your life and your work. No way before. If you still
let people tell you what to do because you don't know what to
do yourself, then you are not free. Doesn't matter how much you
want to be free, you are not, because you are bound within your
own ignorance. You let your mind cheat you into thinking you
are free and you are okay. But you are not.
So there is much work for you to do and your level is up to
you. Even if I take you to the fifth and you are not up to it,
you are still on the first; even if I am, for example, a
university professor but you are still at the kindergarten
state: if I take you to the college by my own power and
position, what do you do there? You cannot do anything. You
don't understand. Even if I love you very much, I cannot help
you to be intelligent at such an age.
So it's up to you. Try to polish your own power, manner and way
of life. You have to know, you can choose whatever you want.
But then, do not blame anyone if you are not free, if you are
not progressing, if you are not respected, or if you are not
good for yourself. That's all. Otherwise it doesn't concern
anyone, what kind of life, what kind of level you choose to be in.
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