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A Life of Love and Right Action

A positive life is filled with selfless thinking and remembrance of God. Awaken love for all creatures. Being kind to your spouse, parents, children, colleagues, and employer constitutes this positive life. Do not focus on loving yourself, as that leads to selfishness. You already possess love; give it to others. Their happiness will reveal you are loving yourself. All creatures are forms of the One who never rejects love. Your self is not God, but you are a part and essence of it. The world was created for this meeting. Liberation comes through love for God, devotion, and a pure life that causes no trouble to anyone. Karma belongs to the individual soul and is not transferred with donated organs.

"Awaken love in your heart for all creatures. That is the best path."

"Loving others means loving yourself. And not loving others means you do not love yourself."

One awakens with a question: how to fill the days, weeks, months, and years of one's life with positive and selfless thinking? How to use all free moments for the remembrance of God and prayer? Awaken love in your heart for all creatures. That is the best path. It is beautiful to be with your husband. That is among the best karma you can perform. If you are kind to your husband, or very kind and good to your wife, and very kind and good to your parents, and have a loving, merciful heart for your children, and maintain very good, friendly, positive relations with your colleagues, and are faithful and work faithfully for your employer—that is a positive life. Please give him this message. Why do people, and I mean especially myself, see more of the negative aspects within themselves than the positive? How can I increase my love for myself? It does not matter whether you love yourself or not. That does not disturb us. The main thing is that you love others. When you begin to love yourself, you will become selfish. Therefore, tell yourself you do not need love, because you already possess love. Then you should give this love to others. When others are happy, you will become so happy that you will find you are loving yourself. All of us have so much love, and we search for an object upon which to demonstrate or reflect our love. But sometimes we do not find the right object, because often love is not accepted or is not taken seriously, and that then disturbs you. However, there is One who will never reject our love, and that is God. And that God exists in the form of all creatures. They will greatly accept your love. Therefore, loving others means loving yourself. And not loving others means you do not love yourself. See yourself in others. Be kind, be humble, be merciful, be generous. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Can you please tell me if karma can be transmitted to someone else? And what happens if someone dies and their organs are donated and transplanted to another? Karma cannot be transferred with organs because karma affects the individual soul and not particular organs. The body suffers with the soul. When you donate an organ or receive an organ from another body, very soon your body adopts that organ and your energy flows into it. This is the perspective from karma. Biologically, it is different; some infections or viruses can affect your body, but not your karma. Then there is a question: Is the self, is my self, God? And why was this world created? You said that on a global plan, this world will always stay the same. In which way can the creatures gain liberation? Creatures—meaning all creatures. Your self is not God, but you are a part of it, the essence of it. Second, why was this world created? You must ask the Creator, not me. He created this world so that you could be here today with Me. If He had not created this world, then you could not be with Me today. So the creation continues, through yugas and yugas. It comes and goes. It is good that God created the world. We love our world, we love our planet, we like to be here, and we are happy. The way to liberation is love for God, devotion, and leading a positive, pure, humble life. Do not cause pain or trouble to anyone through your body, mind, words, or actions. Before doing something, think it over for a long, long time. And if you do not know what to do, then ask someone who is wiser—not those who would misuse your trust. Otherwise, not only you, but many others could be led into trouble.

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