Human Love, Divine Love - by Hilda Charlton

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Human Love, Divine Love

by Hilda CharltonBased on a speech she gaveat the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City

 

Do not ever lose the feeling that you are important in the scheme of life. Have

you ever lost that feeling? Of course you have! You began to think you were

nothing. I don't know what God bothered to make you for then, to make the image

that is you, if you were not important in the great scheme of life.

Each soul is individual, yet a part of the whole. Each person must stand

straight and tall, unbending, not leaning left or right, conscious that he or

she is important to hold up the tabernacle of life. We have to be straight,

like the columns of the Parthenon, so that the roof of life can be put on top.

If one column is leaning on the other one and another is leaning another way,

the thing is going to topple. We have to stand straight to make the whole.

Yes, never lose the feeling that you are important in the scheme of life. You

are God's idea. Do you understand that? God's idea. You came out of God's

infinite mind. His essence manifests down here. He/She has a plan in store.

Sometimes we lose sight of the blueprints of our life. That is the part a

teacher or a guru plays, to once more make clear the path for you to who you

are. That's all a guru can tell you. That's all a teacher can tell you. You can

sit at their feet forever, but all they can do, if they're a good teacher, is

remind you who you are. They can't make you into something else. You have to

make yourself into something else. You have to clear the debris out of yourself

and become once more that which you were at one time, before you got mucked up

with the Earth and its vibrations.

A young man, trying to clarify the blueprints of his life, asked me to speak on

human and spiritual love. I know that's a vital thing to all of you, is it not?

Because it gets you muddled up, especially when you're wondering what to do:

"Hilda is only talking about God all the time." Nowhere in the scriptures of

the Bible did I ever see Jesus talk about marriage. He only talked of the

Absolute. And I just talk of the Absolute. But it's a vital thing to you to be

able to know what this person asked me — what is human love and what is

spiritual love? Because you get muddled up. You think, well, you have to be

spiritual, so you have to give up all relationships. Let me speak on it

tonight, not only for that one person, but for many.

I cannot compartmentalize. There is only one love flowing from the Source. How

we use this essence is the question. Love is a gift from the heavenly heights,

yours to use as you wish. It never diminishes, never fades. Only man blocks the

rays with the clouds of thought he makes. Love within you is, and it has never

faded.

Sometimes you think it has. You go through a hell. Someone leaves you or hurts

you and you feel that love has ceased. Love has not ceased. You have only made

clouds over the rays of light in your heart. To have love for another human

means you must take the good and the bad. If you're going to love down here —

putting your love on another human being, say in marriage or companionship —

you have to make up your mind to take the good and the bad. You must think

outward, and not inward to "I" — "I want, I like, I desire" — if the love is

not to be blocked off as it flows down from above or, should we say, is

released from within.

To have what humans call spiritual love is to be love. Do you understand that?

To have what humans call spiritual love is to be love, be love itself,

unhindered and unbound by human frailties. The only difference between human

love and spiritual love is that the love down here is hindered by your

frailties that block it. In between, there is a love which fluctuates between

so-called human and spiritual. What is this division, this separation? All love

stems from the one source, God.

Human love is the same as spiritual love. Love stemming from attachment is like

the sun's rays that come through a stained glass window and become colored by

environment. When God's love flows through you and you have your frailties and

you have your angers and your fears and your doubts and all the things that

make you miserable and quarrelsome, it's as if the rays of God's love are

coming down and coming through a stained glass window, and it comes through the

color that you make it. But it still comes through. Because of human frailties,

the purity and clarity of love gets colored by the emotions of the moment.

I hope this is potent to you, because it is meant for everybody — not only the

young kids falling in love and out of love, but the people who are married,

people who have had divorces. It's potent to everybody who has had any

relationship in this world, even business office relationships or those from

church or from coming to this meeting. Any relationships.

The saying, "I've fallen in love, I've fallen in love" — oh, in every song when

you turn on the TV, the radio, you're "falling in love again" — often means

just that, because it is an attachment which often takes people from the height

of their Godhead. It should not. Rather, a person should say, "I have met

someone and I have risen in love." I've risen in love!

The love within never decreases or diminishes. I repeat: the love within you

never decreases or diminishes. Rather, the situation of what you term human

love very often brings out the selfishness, the desires, the pettiness, the

frustrations, and sometimes even the hate, envy, anger and jealousy. All these

are generated from the ego being curbed by another's ego. Do you understand

that one? You have just met somebody, you're with them, your love is flowing

beautifully, and everything is wonderful. It doesn't have to be a romantic

love, it can be any kind of love, but you've met someone that you love,

somebody who's very close to you in spirituality or whatever, and then all at

once they do something — they rub you the wrong way or they rub your ego, and

that love begins to cease to flow so beautifully after a time. Is it not so?

The frailties of man, his ego, get in the way, and you each rub each other's

egos. And after a while, instead of loving, you're quarreling.

Personality clash. Personality clashes come in when you live closely together or

work closely together. Sathya Sai Baba calls this situation being "sandpapered."

He has married people and sometimes he's said it will sandpaper them off and get

the rough spots off them. Well, it will either make or break them, that's for

sure.

Through these rampant emotions, a companionship or marriage sometimes becomes

merely a sex drive for release of the emotions. One partner uses the other one

to release uptightness. That's very clear, isn't it? After a while the

beautiful relationship — we're talking about marriage now, and companionship —

gets into a sex drive rather than the love of companionship and sharing,

because life on Earth here makes you so uptight. One or the other is using the

other one, and then one gets sick of it and says, "I want out!"

Where is the love that was there flowing beautifully? The original love which

most humans have felt is lost in the jungle of everyday living. True or false,

kids? Isn't it true? Those of you who have gone through this and those of you

who are beginning to go through this — you don't have to suffer! You don't have

to hang on to the old and make yourself ill!

I knew a woman whose sister was murdered, and all she wanted was to find that

murderer. Her whole purpose in life was to retaliate! Her sister was gone! And

what would she end up with? In the end, sickness, ugliness — it's not worth it.

Love is the only answer.

Two meet in altruistic love and the love gets trampled in the undergrowth of the

emotions and tensions of living. Life in the city or anywhere on Earth is pretty

heavy for the emotions. People go to work eight hours a day and they come home

and they're pretty uptight, and that wonderful love that used to flow doesn't

flow any more. It gets trampled in the undergrowth, the undergrowth of the

emotions and tensions of living.

The original beauty of the love flowing from the heart towards another was as

spiritual as the love of a saint. Do you understand that, kids? The original

love of two people — let's take lovers, shall we, because we're talking of

human love — was as beautiful as any saint's love, in the beginning. But what

was the difference between the saint and the ordinary person? I'll tell you.

The saint had this love for God and a person has this love for the God in the

other person. Because what is it that you love in another person when you meet

them? You love something that's unnameable in them, don't you, when you first

meet someone and you rise in love? But the saints did not lose their way

through the labyrinth of life. They kept their eyes on the light ahead and did

not waver. They did not let disappointment or anger defeat their marriage or

communion with God.

I'm thinking of Little Flower now, Saint Therese of the Little Flower. She could

have had every bitterness in her heart, like many nuns and monks and yogis do.

They start out with this enjoyment, with a great desire to love their God and

their Jesus. And then what happens? Well, what happened to Saint Therese. The

other nuns used to say, "Since this little one came here, our place is dirty,

the garden is full of weeds." And Saint Teresa of Avila, as she walked down the

corridor, the other nuns would open their doors and throw holy water on her so

the devil wouldn't come out of her onto them. Do you think those saints

couldn't have become as disappointed? Couldn't they have become just as

disappointed in their God, in their convent, in their religious life as any

human in another human? But no. The difference between a saint and a human —

and listen clearly, kids — is that the saints never allowed the disappointments

and the meanness of others who were trying to make

mischief come between them and their lover, God.

They never allowed those things to come between them and their lover, Krishna.

Look at Mirabai. They tried to poison Mirabai. They tried to do everything to

her, but her love for Krishna flowed on and on and on.

Do you see that that is the only difference between a saint's and a human's

love? They didn't lose faith in their God or faith in their fellow beings

around them. They kept their love flowing.

If you're going to have love, kids, don't have it human. If you're going to love

another human being, then for God's sake, make it a saintly love that cannot

diminish when the other person changes a little and you see some human traits.

I say there is no human love. Human love, when it ceases, is not human! It's not

even love! Only spiritual love exists. Place it where you may — on another human

being and have a companion, a marriage if you wish, have children if you wish —

but don't lose your Godhead in it.

Many a saint has gone through what is called the dark time of the soul. When

despair came upon them in their hearts and they felt they were lost in the

world of darkness, the saints kept their minds on the razor-edged path which

leads to the goal of everlasting love and bliss. You do the same. You do the

same.

Keep your mind on that goal of love. Let nothing cheat you of your love, kids.

No matter what your relationship in this world. No matter what your life, your

business life, your love life. Please don't be cheated of your Godhead in the

midst of the world. Those seeking the world, when they come to that stage where

there are disappointments, where there are despairs, they put a shield over

their hearts and no longer have love flowing through. Their marriages and

companionships and friendships and everything fall apart. They should not lose

their love for their fellow beings. Haven't you all suffered in the night? I

don't think there's one here — maybe a few, I don't know — who has not suffered

through human relationships, suffered in the night, had sleepless nights,

worried about losing someone, even if it be a member of the family. You can all

understand what I am talking about.

There is no human love. There is only love. There is a seeming loss of love, but

there is never really a loss of love. There is a closing off of the heart

through hardships, but then love comes back again. The heart opens up again and

you see somebody else that you love and then you go through it, over and over

again, until God becomes your lover. That does not mean that you cannot have

relationships in this world, that you cannot marry, that you cannot have

children and have a life and a household, but it means — I beg of you — to

place, like the saints, love into your home. Do not get so dried up as the

years with someone go by that you just hang on and no longer feel love. Let

love ever flow. And if you have to, put your mind on God and bring it down to

the one that you're having a hard time loving. Never lose love in this life.

What you are really wanting is an object to love, a person to love. Are you

wishing to love them unconditionally or conditionally? "If you do so-and-so

this way and that way, then I shall love you. If you do not, then I cannot love

you." It has to be unconditional. It has to be like the Ganges that flows from

the heights of the Himalayas and never stops. It doesn't matter whether it goes

past ugly ground or beautiful ground, it flows and flows. And so must your love

flow at all times.

Not so easy, you say. No, not so easy. You have to train yourself to open your

heart so it will love. If it were so easy to be unconditionally loving, then

there would be no change when conditions change. No, most people are looking to

receive, and when the other person changes from a sweet, loving person — a

near-saint as you saw it in the beginning when God sprinkled that gold dust in

your eyes, an angel from heaven, as the songs say, that came to minister to you

and to help your life — when they change into a human being in your eyes, a

human with the same frailties as yourself, you wilt in disappointment. If you

had truly loved, it would not change with a changing of the winds. Your love

would flow with understanding of the other's needs: that they may need love

more than you love.

An angel from heaven come to minister to you particularly — and they change all

at once into a human being with the same frailties you have, and then you don't

like them because they've got your frailties. You see yourself mirrored there —

that's why you don't like them. You wilt in disappointment, but if you had

truly loved, their needs would release in you compassion — compassion and

patience — and that would bring forth the best in the other. If you really

love, the other person will love.

No, I say, there are not two kinds of love. I say love is from God and is part

of God's essence. Life in its fullest is the art of finding out how to tap that

essence, that love, and keep human traits from hindering the flow.

On all planes of existence, love can flow through if you practice the art of

living. On all planes of existence — that means in human relations such as

marriage relations, companionship relations, mother/father relations, child

relations, whatever relationship it is — love can flow through if you practice

the art of living that I teach here. Practice the presence of God in your life.

Nothing, no one, should deprive you of your Godhead, your birthright.

That doesn't mean you've got to run from someone that you find is a little

cranky in your house. It means no one is going to deprive you of your Godhead

because you're not going to let them deprive you of it! Do you understand that

one? Don't say, "I've got to get out of this house. I can't meditate. They're

so mean. They're so horrible. I have to get away!" No, that's not the way. When

you have a roommate and you find that they are a nuisance to you, are you going

to stop loving them or will you start helping them through love to come around?

There are too many people running from other people. Karen told us last week

about the time the roof caved in at Sai Baba's. There was no drinking water and

when she finally found water to drink, she got sick because it hadn't been

boiled and had so much bacteria. No, she didn't run from it. She stayed there

and although she had gone there thinking she would find peace, her love didn't

change with the changing of the winds.

Remember, you are a prince, you are a princess. Sai Baba tells the story of a

prince who had a dream. He went to sleep and he dreamed that he was a beggar,

that he was in rags crying for some food, holding out his begging bowl, and

nobody would give anything to him. People were kicking him. He yelled, "Help,

help, help!" He woke up and found he was in a palace and he was a prince. And

so with us. You've forgotten that you are a prince, a princess, and that your

Father is a King. Children of the Supreme King, you have a right to your royal

inheritance, and your royal inheritance is love.

You have a right to love, but this love depends on no one. This love depends on

no one. It must flow unhindered through you, filling the Earth around you with

peace and light and harmony and bliss. Wherever you walk there should be a

light around you. That is your right, that is your inheritance — to be a radio

station. What do you think I went overseas for, to Greece and to Egypt? Why did

I go to Jordan and the West Bank? What did I go to Israel for? To Jerusalem? I

went to walk on those lands to try in my own tiny little way to put a little

peace there that we would see the Egyptians and the Israelis come together. I

saw them hug the other night on the TV, and my heart was filled with joy, but I

could hear in the ethers, as they were hugging, that this was only the

beginning, because there were going to be a lot of people putting monkey

wrenches into this peace thing. I could hear the letter S for Syria, and L for

Lebanon. So we have to go on working on that.

That's why I went and that's what I want you to do — walk the streets in love.

Don't be worried about the noise of the town, the sirens going by. Walk in love

and fill the world with a little love.

Be lighthouses in this world. That's a great thing to do on this dark planet.

You have come to Earth for that. You came through a womb for that. You stayed

nine months in the darkness of a womb so you could come to Earth to fill the

Earth with light and love. For this you took birth, you took a form. I care not

which path you choose upon the Earth — marriage, companionship, motherhood,

fatherhood, whether you be an artist or a teacher, whether you're in the

business world, a healer or a householder — all make up the symphony of life. I

only care that you do not lose your inheritance by acting in lower ways. There

is no lower way or upper way unless you make it so.

Do you understand this, my beloveds? Does this clarify anything for you? I hope

so. I thank the person who asked me to speak on this.

Don't let anything of hate or lust or greed eat out your heart and cut off love

from flowing. Why live in the dregs of life when immortality is at hand for

you? Don't let the thief of your emotions steal your inheritance. Do you all

know what that means? Don't let the thief of your emotions steal your

inheritance, because if you`re having anger you can't have love flowing

through, which is your inheritance. You can't have peace flowing through if

you're having jealousy and envy, if you're having fear and doubts. You can't

have it all. You can't have God and Mammon, too. You can't straddle the path,

kids. You can't have one foot over here and one foot over there, one on Mammon

and one on God. It doesn't work that way. You've got to walk on that

razor-edged path, one foot after the other.

You become attached to a person in love, and they seemingly change and start

showing their human colors. People call it their true colors. Well, I don't

think it's their true colors. I think if they showed their true colors, they

would be pink and blue and white, the colors of the soul's truth!

They show their human colors and you feel cheated, don't you? How many have gone

through that, feeling cheated? Sure, I'll bet every hand could go up. You feel

cheated because you had seen something in this person or this experience, in

this way of life or whatever you were choosing, and you thought you had gotten

the perfect being by your side or the perfect — what should I say — teacher?

guru? ashram? And then that person or place was taken from you. How was it

taken from you? Because it wasn't up to your expectations, what you believed it

to be was stolen from you. Do you understand that? It was stolen from you

because you thought it was going to be something else, and now you feel cheated

in life. A person who made you feel secure was taken from you, because they

changed.

Does it mean something to you for me to talk about this tonight? It's right down

to the nitty-gritty, isn't it? It applies to everybody. You think Hilda sits up

there in those silk gowns as if she's on a throne. "Maybe she wants too much of

us. Maybe she's demanding too much. Maybe she wants me to be a yogi or a yogini

and go sit on the Ganges or in a cave. Maybe I'd better not go any more." No! I

say wherever you be is your cave! Wherever you are, whether it be the subway or

even in Italy when they're pinching your behind. Sure, my female students got

pinched over there, right in the airport! So I pinched little Shanti, age 13,

and said, "I wouldn't want you to go out of Italy not being pinched, kid."

If you go into a human relationship, then, like the saints, pledge your love for

life. I didn't say pledge your relationship, did I? No, because you might grow

out of the relationship. You understand that? You might grow out of the

relationship in time. But I said pledge your love for life. That's a different

thing. I think nearly everybody has grown out of some relationship. Your old

friends sometimes don't like you any more. They think you're nutty, crazy,

loony, wacko, and you don't like to be around them any more. No, you're

interested in different things, you've grown up a little bit, and the little

baby rattles no longer interest you. You understand the things I'm talking

about here, so therefore you've grown out of those other things. But I say,

even if you've grown out of that, don't grow out of love for that person or

that experience that sent you onward, upward.

Like a saint, pledge your love for life. Even if your ways part, keep the love

flowering. You do not have to love the wrongs, the limitations of a person or a

situation, but do not let those things steal your heart's love and close it

down. Is that clear to everybody? Take this to heart tonight because it will

take you up the path a long way if you understand this and put one of these

things into action.

Love all, for some teach you what not to do, and that's for sure, and some what

to do, and that's for sure. All are our teachers. If you have a wife who's

nagging you, then let her be your teacher. Touch her lotus feet and say, "I bow

to thee. Thou has taught me to keep my mouth shut!" Everyone we meet or come

close to in our walk through life is an opportunity to hold our tongues,

control our emotions, and let us experience being at peace in the midst of

chaos. "Wow! Peace in the midst of chaos? Oh, Hilda's asking too much now! I

thought she'd bring us up into peace and it would last a week and we'd be all

right."

You've got to have peace in the midst of chaos. You've got to find your own

peace. Saint Therese said, "It is easy to love someone who loves you, but it is

divine to love those who are difficult to love." So when you find your beloved

is off-key, should you be off-key too, or is not that the time to love, to

prove your love? That is when they need it, is it not? When a person is cranky,

mean, hopeless, angry, is that not the time to send your love to them? Or is

that your time to come down to their level and get hopeless, angry, despairing,

with them? And that's what you do, because your aura gets colored by them. I'm

going to teach you later tonight how to clear your aura a bit.

Think. Is receiving love the greatest feeling, or loving? Which is the greatest

for you? Think now. Come on. Which is the greatest? Loving, of course, and I'll

tell you why, shall I? The love you feel is within, sparked off by kindness

outside. Do you understand? The love that you thought came from another person

was never outside. It was in you. It was sparked off by someone's kindness and

the twinkle in their eye and their sweetness — patting your head or something —

and you said, "Wow!" and love flowed out. It came from you, not from them.

Long ago there was a person I knew. He and his wife were very kind to me. He was

a great fan of mine when I was still very young. One day I thought I could feel

this person pouring love to me, and I was so grateful! Oh, I thought, this

person is so kind to me, filling me with this divine love of the Masters. I

went along the street and I passed a car and there he was, sound asleep in it,

snoring. He wasn't pouring it out at all. It was coming from me, do you

understand? It was I who was loving, nobody else. The love you feel from

another only kindles your love which flows outward through you, and you feel

it. You are the enjoyer of your own feelings. Got that? You are the enjoyer of

your own feelings. But what do you say? You need an object to start it going?

What shall I tell you?

I was thinking of a saint the other day, and as I said this saint's name, oh, I

was filled with ecstasy! Bliss divine! Every part of me, from my toes to my

head, was billowing with pink love. And I thought, "Hey, I'm going to try the

wall," and I said, "I love you, wall." Oh! I was in ecstasy! I was billowing

with pink love. And then I thought, "Hey, I love you, floor!" Wow, it was

marvelous. And then I looked at that rotten dog that drags dirt all over the

house and I said, "I love you, dog!" And Wooo! I found the love was me all the

time! Do you understand? I can look on anything, an insect, a cockroach — and

say, "I love you, cockroach," and oh, it just kindles the glory and fills me

with ecstasy divine.

And that's the way it is, kids. That's the way it is. Open up the floodgates of

your heart and let the light of God's love flow through it! Do it now! Do it

now! Don't just go away and say "I'll try that next week — when I get through

hating that one person who let me down. Maybe next year I can get over that

one. But I sure hate that husband who took all my money and my house and my

this and my that, and that wife who walked out on me, and that lover, he just

ripped me off. Oh God, I won't love this week. I want to hang on to that one."

Open up the floodgates of your heart now and let the light of God's love flow

through it. This is the answer to Earth life. Without love on this dark planet,

there is only despair.

Love all and let love flow. Get a sense of humor about life down here. If you

don't, kids, you're lost before you start. You've got to have a sense of humor

down here. It's so stupid down here. Did you ever look around at the stupidity

of it? First we go and maim a lot of people and then we quickly send some

people over with red crosses on them to fix them up fast and then we get

doctors to sew them up again. Then we go and shoot them down again. This is the

nuttiest Earth you've ever heard of.

So, then, why did we come here? Well, so we could love unconditionally in the

midst of this crazy rot. Get a sense of humor about life down here. Go through

life with a chuckle in your heart. Life here is fleeting at the most — a flick

of God's eyelash. Blink! A whole lifetime is not a split second in eternity,

but each moment builds up into a life. Each moment that's flicking away — tick,

tick, tick, tick — is building your lifetime. When are you going to start living

and loving? Oh, are you going to live next life? "Well, let me see, I'll work

hard now and then tomorrow I'm going to go to Europe, I'm going to do that

thing and that thing. I'm going to start living tomorrow. I'm going to start

loving tomorrow." Tomorrow never comes. When you get to the end of your destiny

here, are you going to leave Earth still wanting and waiting to live? I see

people spending their whole lifetime waiting. All they do is work to make

money, work to get a position, work to get some

degrees after their name, and they never live. Will you start living this night?

Start living this night. Not living it up, you know, but living, loving. Start

loving tonight. Don't wait to live and love.

Are you still thinking to do something sometime? That's a goody, isn't it?

Whenever I would dance, people would come backstage. Sometimes they would be

old and they would say, "I always wanted to dance, but my parents wouldn't let

me." No matter what age they were, I would say, "Why don't you start now?" I

said it to a ninety-year-old and she took me at my word and joined my class.

Why not? Instead of thinking that someday you'll find someone to love and then

getting disappointed and moving on, in the name of God who created you, live

now and love now. Take the bad and take the good, kids. Take the bad with the

good and laugh at it. Take the joys and the sorrows, but live here now while

still in your body.

You know, you're not going to get away from the bad and the good, because

they're here on Earth. As Baba says, "When great good comes, great bad comes to

bang against it" — the negative and the positive banging against each other. You

have a lot of love, and somebody is going to come and knock you around. So what

do you care, kids? I don't. I've had people glorify me and I've had people

you-know-what. So what? Let "So what?" be your mantra this week.

Be free in the midst of chaos. Free your mind from bondage — the mind is where

the bondage is. Life's hard, you say? So what? Life's good, you say? So what?

Praise and blame, all the same. Good and bad, the pendulum of life. Can't you

see it? It swings over to one side — good. You can be sure that pendulum is

going to swing to the other side — bad, and back — good. You've got to get

above it all. Climb off the pendulum, get up where it no longer swings, and be

the manipulator of life! You hold the pendulum the way you want. Climb up above

it, don't go back and forth any more, and, above all, laugh at life.

Laugh loudly at yourself. And when you get sad and self pity weighs you down,

say inside, "Is itsy-bitsy me sorry for myself?" And laugh! "Is itsy-bitsy me

sorry for myself?" Stop bitching! You only make life worse! Stop scratching

your itch caused by being allergic to life. Bitching and scratching do no good.

Laugh and love and be free — then life will be yours to command. You will then

have earned your diploma of life and have earned the letters after your mortal

name. You'll have a Master's degree, G.O.D.

The lesson for this week is love in the midst of Earth life. Love

unconditionally. If you can't love, laugh. But don't laugh out loud, because if

you do, you're going to have somebody socking you! Laugh, chuckle inside. I've

got a chuckle deep inside me. No matter what happens, I've got a chuckle.

Thank you, kids. Thank you for the love. Thank you for the vibration. Thank you

for the unity this night. Thank you for the peace I feel here. Thank you for

the oneness. Thank you for being you and for coming here. I love you very

dearly, kids, especially this night. I don't know why. I guess because love was

the theme this night.

Try to live in peace in the midst of chaos because there will always be some

chaos trying to take your peace away upon this Earth. There's always darkness

that will try to snuff out the light. But make a determination in your soul

that you won't let it happen this week. It will try to.

I promised you I would try to show you how to clear your aura a little bit. By

clearing the aura I don't mean just clearing the aura, but also getting rid of

the darkness from around you. Sometimes I will be filled with this light and

somebody calls on the phone. They tell me about their sickness and it comes

over the phone. If anybody is watching, they will see dark spots come around

the edge of my aura. So what I do is just breathe in and I breathe out, push it

out.

I'll show you one way of doing it with your imagination now. Close your eyes.

Think of your aura as very big. Just for tonight, let's think of it being about

four feet out all around. And think of a dark color, like a dark red, on the

outside of it now. Red is not a bad color, but it is a heavier color. Build a

curtain of red around your aura. Hold it in your mind for a moment. Now, with

your mind, put a light within your aura and hold this light within your mind so

it pushes upward, all around you. Let this light start to fill your aura and see

the red disperse into whiteness in your imagination. You can take a big deep

breath in. Now breathe out, and as you breathe out, you'll fill your whole

aura, and it disperses that color. Then breathe in again and breathe out again

and fill your aura until that red becomes absolutely clear white. Every bit of

it. In this way, you can push off any heavy thoughts when they come upon you

during the day.

Breathe in again, and breathe out. See all that dispersing. Now, do not go out.

By this I mean you sit within yourself. Always sit within yourself and work

from your own center. Do not go out psychically. I don't teach the psychic. Do

not flow out, but sit within and let the power flow from within out. Is that

clear? That has to be absolutely clear. Don't be going out. Pull into your

solar plexus, a little below your heart, your solar center, just under your rib

cage. Pull in now.

Now put a blue, a deep beautiful blue light, around you. You can do this

mentally — it's a mental exercise I'm teaching tonight. Feel that you've got

this blue around you, a protective blue. Breathe in, disperse it, and turn it

into white. Come on, do it. Play this game. Come on. It's a good game. It makes

life a little fun. Breathe in. Stay in your center. Center yourself. Now breathe

a big deep breath outward and as you do, pour the white light and let it

disperse the blue. See the blue breaking up like clouds until you have only

white light again.

Now do the same with gold. Start with yellow. Place a yellow light around you

and this time breathe in and push gold out with your breath and turn that

yellow into a brilliant gold. Feel that wonderful gold, almost like a

candlelight, as Sai Baba calls it. Now breathe that light into your forehead. A

candle flame — let it fill your head. Use your imagination. Now let it flow down

through your shoulders into your heart center. That means your fourth chakra in

the middle of your chest, not your physical heart. And now let it flow right

down your legs, this golden substance, down your left arm, down your right arm.

Now you're filled with it and it's beginning to shine out from you like a sun

ray. Come on. Use your imagination.

And as far as you think to the left, rays of golden light are shining from you.

Follow it into infinity. As far as you can think to the right of you into

infinity is this golden substance of light. And as far back as you can think

this light is shining from you. You're like a great sun or a Buddha sitting

here with the rays of light shining in back of you. And let the light shine as

far in front of you as you can think — but don't go out! Sit within yourself

like Masters, and think out and see the light pouring outward as far above you

as you think. And now down below. Feel you're sitting in the middle of the

universe and the whole universe is one glow of light, like a sunrise, filling

the whole panorama with gold. Sit within yourself.

Now come to your heart center. Breathe in a deep breath and breathe out love to

the world. Breathe in once more, a deep breath, breathe out, and feel that you

are sending love to the world. Let a peace come over you. There is a peace

coming now. Take this peace that's coming in the room now. Sit quietly.

If your emotions are getting a little upset, sit quietly and say you demand to

know this peace. Pull yourself into God consciousness this moment, free from

all the worldly feelings of pettiness and worldliness. Pull into a state that

you think God might dwell in this moment. Take an interest, come on.

Think this moment what you're going to give up this week of your little self to

take one step upward on the path of life. Some little thing you're going to

give up. It doesn't mean a material thing. It might mean your tongue, talking

back, a curtness. It might mean pettiness, jealousy. It might mean any dislike.

Give me a gift this night! Give me a gift. Give me a gift this night of

something that you'll give up. Somebody has given me apples here and some

tomatoes. I want you to put on this table the gift you give me, or put it on

the altar over there with the flowers. There are three candles. Place it in one

of those candles. Give me a gift this night of something you don't want — a

white elephant in your life and consciousness. All right. Give it away.

Gift-wrap it. Make a heart on it that says, "Love to Hilda." Tie it with a big

bow and put it up here, and don't take it back this week. Don't take it back,

this week or ever. If you decide to take it back say, "No,

I gave that away. I cannot take it back. I gave it to God that night" — for I've

placed it in His hands. I keep no gifts.

Let's go into a little more peace now, a little more quietness, a little more

stillness. Let love flow this night. I'm going to sing a chant of love, an Aum

of love. Let the love flow down from far above. Open your hearts like a chalice

and let it flow in. Let peace fill your nerves, fill your mind, fill your flesh,

fill every cell. Let the heavenly lands above flow down their gifts to you this

night. Let peace reign in your heart. Know and take your inheritance. Don't be

too great, too old, too young, too intellectual. Be like a child.

Peace on Earth and goodwill.

Peace on Earth and goodwill.

Peace.

Let this peace caress you. Let the light that's shining from above meet your

light and the two meet within your heart. Push forth the light upon your path

this night. Ah, beloved ones of light, fill your hearts with love. Radiance is

a light shining upon you this night. A glow from the heavens fills your space.

Heaven and Earth have met in love, and in love you will know God's face. Peace

is its name. Glory is its fame. Shambala. Shalom.

Let this peace that you feel this moment go forth to Egypt. Let politics cease

and brotherhood begin this night. Let your love go forth to Israel, who has

suffered long, that good may come, politics cease, and brotherhood begin. Let

the lights of your hearts go forth this night to all the Arab countries, to

Syria, to Lebanon, to Jordan. Oh, I plead with all the heavenly powers to bring

peace upon this Earth. Let Chief Joseph on this night win, that we may say, as

he said, "Let us war no more forever."

Let your love go forth, Children of Light, this night.

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COLLECTION; PREETHAM SAI P.V.

MANGALORE,INDIA.