Three steps on the path to God

I explain to patients this way: You can only change by renouncing the human and shifting your reliance onto the Divine. When turning to God, you must be in absolute inner solitude. There should be no one close to you around. There should be nothing that delights you or that saddens you. Therefore, before turning to God, renounce everything in body, soul, and spirit.

When you expect a guest, you clean the room so that it matches his tastes and desires, so he can live there. Your soul is that room. For the Divine to enter, there must be love in it. Therefore, if we want to turn to God, there must be a feeling of love in the soul. If it is dominated by fear, despondency, or regret, contact will not occur.

Have you seen how a rocket takes off? It cannot lift off without fuel. But then, when it reaches orbit, the fuel tanks are jettisoned. They start to hinder. It's the same with us. At first, we understand that love for God gives us health, well-being, and development. We turn to God out of a desire to be healthy and happy, and therefore we must stop worrying about our health and well-being.

We need to feel that connection with God is the highest happiness. For this happiness, we strive towards Him. To step onto the next stage, we must push off from the previous one.

A person begins to turn to God initially to save their body, then to save their soul, and only then does the development of unity with God become a continuous need and happiness.

Yesterday we took the first step towards this, today we take the second, and tomorrow there will be the third.

S.N. Lazarev, «Karma Diagnosis 9»