Pain reminds us of God and love

Reader's Question: Please explain why women should not visit the church during their menstrual period?

Sergei Nikolaevich's Response: To continue life, it must first be lost. In losing life, we turn towards God and restore the correct system of priorities in our subconscious.

Menstruation represents the destruction of potential life, and the extent to which a woman is oriented towards God, retains love and kindness during this time, influences how healthy her child will be.

The psychological burden during menstruation is enormous. Subconsciously, it's as though there's a dying, a demise of both woman and child. The more a soul is attached to the worldly, the stronger are the emotions of grievance, irritability, and despondency that manifest in a woman. The more subconscious grievances towards men, the more painful the menstruation.

Lately, more and more girls numb this pain with medication. Consequently, the pain does not mitigate this aggression. In the subconscious, negative processes are intensified. The subconscious is our deepest emotions, comprising a network of subtle fields. Here, our emotions and those of our future children are intertwined. An aggressive subconscious in the mother translates to a future aggressive soul in the child. Internal aggression leads to diseases, misfortune, and death.

I heard that during menstruation, you can go to church but should not kiss the icons. This may be because a person who has not overcome irritation, offense, or despondency, is aggressive towards the feeling of love and may fall ill after visiting the temple. This will be a purification of their soul, but if the person is weak, it can generate fears and doubts.

Incidentally, I was told that in America, any scratch on a child terrifies the parents. They immediately apply iodine, bandage it, etc. The intolerance of pain, I believe, is one of the reasons for the widespread degeneration currently engulfing the inhabitants of the USA.

Interestingly, Canada recently passed a law prohibiting students from playing with snowballs because it's painful, could cause injury, and secondly, it degrades human rights and dignity.

The cult of the body and life leads to the destruction of the spirit. It breeds depression, homosexuality, infertility, etc. In Ancient Greece, which actively borrowed philosophy and spiritual values from India, there initially existed a cult of philosophy and culture, which led to the flourishing of the economy and civilization as a whole.

But then, the cult of the spirit was replaced by the cult of the body. Homosexuality progressed, gluttony, and worship of bodily beauty and sexuality. What followed was the destruction of Greek democracy, as the civilization no longer supported by culture and spirituality, and the overall destruction of civilization.

We come to know God through continuous love and the ability to accept pain. Those who want to flee from pain ultimately flee from love. Recently in Sweden, an interesting experiment was conducted. For an hour, they filmed newborn babies. Women who gave birth without anesthesia, experiencing pain, had babies who behaved naturally—they suckled milk. Almost half of the children whose mothers had pain relief during childbirth refused the breast and stopped suckling milk. For scientists, this fact remained unexplained. However, the same statistics in Sweden indicate a dangerous pattern: all drug addicts were born to mothers who had pain relief during childbirth.

The reason? Pain and suffering drive us to turn to God. If there's little love, then suffering can lead to self-destruction or hatred towards the world. Therefore, during childbirth, the main suffering is not given to the child, but to the mother.

The child, emotionally united with the mother, perceives her suffering as his own. But he experiences less physical pain and more opportunity to focus on love. The mother loves him, rejoices, and simultaneously suffers. The child gains experience in overcoming pain and turning to love. In moments of pain and humiliation, human love transforms into Divine love.

Animals, for some reason, are born without much pain. Why? Because their level of life protection, their level of consciousness development is much lower. An animal can die at any moment, it's ready for death. Its focus on its happiness, on life, is much less. The higher the level of human development, the more physical and emotional pain one must receive. And this pain will be unbearable if love for God does not grow in the soul.

The fact that the number of drug addicts is increasing worldwide is a direct result of the worship of the human body and life. For a drug addict, emotional pain is unbearable. He feels that he is perishing, and stress becomes an insurmountable obstacle for him. To survive, he must dull his consciousness and his feelings, hence alcohol, drugs, and the subsequent breakdown of the personality, etc.

The conclusion is simple: if at the moment of discomfort, pain, physical and spiritual problems, we forsake claims in favor of love and aid ourselves with prayer, we save not only ourselves but also our children and close ones.

S.N. Lazarev, «Karma Diagnosis 10»