WHEN
YOU COME TO A SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK, YOU RESPECT MATTER.
THEN
YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY GOD CREATED THE MATERIAL WORLD
IN
THE FIRST PLACE.
If you want things to change around you, to avoid suffering and boredom, but
you still want to maintain your materialism, you are asking the impossible.
It is you who have to change. When you get to spiritual Illumination, you
also use matter. You are automatically dharmic; you couldn’t be otherwise.
Dharma is your instrument. That is why the Prophets come to uphold dharma,
whether Rama or Krishna or Christ or Buddha. Do you think they come just to
have fun and a great time here—including battles and wars—and then go back
to where they came from? They come to balance the creation, to bring harmony
and to protect dharma. And when they balance it, whatever the conditions of
that age, then they go back to Spirit. The world then goes on for some time
in more harmony, cooperation and peace. That is what we are all hankering
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Before that we thought, “It’s just for fun and enjoyment, for me.”
But when you come to this understanding you will know why He created the
gross in the first place. He could have avoided it. He could have created
only the astral plane; the devas or angels would be enough to travel
around, be happy and have fairy tales. Why did He create the
three-dimensional world with weights and measurements? When we see through
spiritual eyes, we see the beauty in it. God wants to express right here
into earth consciousness. He wants to manifest divinity even in this
grossness. As it is in heaven, so on earth. Therefore all is sacred.
We worship in the temple and do rituals with a different attitude than if we
were sitting in a businessman’s shop with a cash box nearby and money as
Number One.
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