That is the rule. If you want to come down here, do anything good at all, you have to balance yourself with bad karma (retribution). You have to pick up some bad karma (retribution) that you are used to before. Okay, the master gives you initiation, and cuts off that, all that bad karma (retribution), you see, burns it off so that you don’t have to come back in another lifetime, and then you’re free, you go up to Heaven, Third Heaven, maybe, but then you look down and you see somebody and you want to help, or you want to come down and improve yourself, or progress in spiritual practice, then you have to overcome your past tendency of negativity.
I feel very sorry for everybody, you know? (Yes.) You know masters always are here on Earth; all the masters came here for that, because the master knows that when you come down here, you will be in trouble, (Right.) and all of you will be in trouble, so nobody can help nobody, see what I mean? (Yes.) So the master always comes with you and tries to help you out, and reminds you that, “That’s not you. No, no, no. Remember what you want to do, remember your greatness before you came here…” etc., etc. But as you are here, you forgot. You don’t even recognize yourself, you don’t recognize the master, your best friend, from Heaven. It’s very difficult. The master runs around, keeps telling you, “Wake up, wake up. Remember,” but sometimes not; sometimes, okay, remember a little bit, and then go back to sleep, just like your meditation here. If I talk like that, you understand right away, because it’s from personal experience. Okay, and then sometimes you even go against the master, even – your friend, the friend who wants to help you, and you even beat him up – maybe physically, maybe mentally, maybe psychologically, maybe different means, restricting his freedom by your bad habit –or even go against the master for no reason. If they choose to do some bad things, then, of course, they have to get the consequences. The thing is, it’s like that.
When you came down here on this planet, before you came, you promised, “I am going to help this and that neighbors of mine a long time ago that she’s now here, and she’s in trouble, and she forgot herself, her great Self, so I am coming down, as her son, her daughter, her friend, or her neighbors, to help her again.” But then when you came down, you forgot. You’re so distracted by eating, drinking, you know, whatever… beauties, “handsomes,” all kinds of stuff – money, position, power – and you forgot your promise, and some also say, “I come down to help Master because Master will need a lot of help to take care of everybody on the planet.” Then you come down, you forgot, you get distracted by men, by women, by money, by whatever – house, car, the latest, the fastest, etc., etc., and I am left alone, again – or any master, you know?
You know sometimes I do need some more help, not like personally, but like, okay, we can do some translation for different languages, yes? I have only a handful of helpers, you know? And, not to talk about they bring their stuff with them; not just their help, but their stuff, you know what I mean? The stuff, the tough stuff. When you get a helper, you get a “package deal,” with all kinds of negativities that come with it. The poor guy also could not help himself, because before he came here, he had to pick up his old karma (retribution), understand? Yes. Depends on how bad you were in the former lives, you have to take how many bad traits with you. Yes? For example, that guy in the old time, if he was a womanizer, yes, and he was not very faithful to his wife, for example, then in this lifetime, if he wants to come down on this planet to help anybody at all, or to help Master even, he’s got to pick up that trait again and to overcome it. But can the guy do it? The answer is big a "N-O." Very difficult, you understand me? Because it keeps strengthening more as you reincarnate time and time again. It doesn't get any weaker. So this is the price anyone has to pay to come in here.
That's why life after life, we should listen to the master’s teaching and be good, so… in case if you have to come down here to help anybody, or want to help a master, then you don't burden the master, or you don't create more trouble for the person you are intended to help even. Do you understand me? Because sometimes if not, then you create more trouble than help, the balance is not that perfect. You see? Sometimes you create like, maybe 80% of goodness, okay? Then you have 40% of badness. That's a lot, a lot of headache for the person that you wanted to help, or to the master. Do you understand me? (Yes.) And sometimes you can be helpful, like 50%, but 30% of you also creates badness; then it’s kind of almost, like, cancelled out, you know what I mean? Or it's very, very tiring for the master to deal with this badness, yes, very difficult. So it's up to you to try to correct these kinds of traits, within the cycle of reincarnation, which is difficult, but if you know it, you know, okay, “How come?” You know your trait is like, for example, womanizing, then you know that is definitely your bad karma (retribution) from the past life. Then this life you must definitely not even look at women. Laughing, why? Why are you laughing? (It’s fun.) It’s fun? It’s not fun for the guy. For you, yes, because you’re a woman, you don’t need to look, except, “Why does she wear that beautiful dress and I don’t have?” You know? That is the trouble.
So some men and women really wanted to help the world, but they were overcome by their own weaknesses. That’s a very big problem for everybody. That’s why I often have to work alone. Everybody comes with some garbage, do you understand me? That is the rule. If you want to come down here, do anything good at all, you have to balance yourself with bad karma (retribution). You have to pick up some bad karma (retribution) that you are used to before. Okay, the master gives you initiation, and cuts off that, all that bad karma (retribution), you see, burns it off so that you don’t have to come back in another lifetime, and then you’re free, you go up to Heaven, Third Heaven, maybe, but then you look down and you see somebody and you want to help, or you want to come down and improve yourself, or progress in spiritual practice, then you have to overcome your past tendency of negativity. So remember, every time, if you tend to turn to that negative corner, please think twice, okay. “Could it be that my bad karma (retribution) came back many, many fold stronger than before?” That is the problem, because when you come into this atmosphere of the planet, there are also plenty more negativities of the like nature, so your negativity will attract, also, a form of that, and they clump together and make you feel more inclined into that kind of negative direction, more than just your own negative tendency. Do you understand me? Like attracts like. It’s very difficult to pick up any positive things on this planet– mostly negative. So, if you bring your own and come here… and then it's like a magnet – other negativity also will be connected with you, through the law of “like attracts like,” and then you’ll be overwhelmed. So you are the only one who decides which direction you go, which direction according to the Buddha’s teaching, according to Jesus’ teaching, according to Prophet Muhammad’s teaching or the Jains’ masters’ teaching – Mahavira, etc., etc. You have to think before you do anything bad, or anything you doubt, “that is not good,” you have to think, “Would Buddha do this?” Okay? “Would Jesus act like that?” “Would Prophet Muhammad agree to my action?” Then you will know what to do. Do you understand me? (Yes.) Otherwise, if you don’t have guidance, you just do whatever you think in your mind, then it’s mostly just negative, because you don't meditate enough to overcome the negative power of this world, yet, you understand?
Apart from your own negative trait that you have picked up before you came here to overcome it, to win over your negative past, apart from that, you have other negativities of different kinds upon you as well. So always think... That’s why the teaching of the Buddha is important, the teaching of Jesus is important, the teaching of Islam is important. Take it as a guidance, understand me? “What would the Prophet do in this case?” “What would the Buddha do in this case?” “What would Jesus Christ decide in this case?” Then you won’t go wrong, okay? That’s how you follow Islam’s teaching, that’s how you’ll be a good Christian, and this how you are a true Buddhist. All right? Don’t just read it for fun. It is the good guidance for you so that you will not err in this negative domain, so that you will not be overpowered by your own past karmic force and the force of negativity in this world, the collective one. Okay? Yes. All right, good.
I’ll see you later. (Thank you, Master.) Lunch time? (No.) (Four o’clock.) (Meditation.) When? (Four o’clock.) Four o’clock. That’s good. Then you meditate for a while. I meditate with you for a while and then you go, okay? (Yes.)
