People make efforts to gratify their desires, but it is difficult to accumulate treasure from the physical, external world. On the other hand, when you see the inner world, you will come to realize you have been endowed with freedom to fulfill the self. While fulfillment of the true self is the most necessary and most important aspect of human life, it is not going too far to say that it is almost impossible for individual effort to achieve fulfillment of the true self. You think that you see things with your eyes. Behind the physical eyes lies the mind's mirror, with which you understand the world. When this mirror is distorted and blurred by evil causes, you cannot see things as they really are. These evil causes include the influence of physical and social surroundings, behavior, and bad karma that has been inherited from one's ancestors. Because of these spiritual obstructions, many people inaccurately evaluate things and cannot recognize their true nature. As a result, no matter how hard they try, very few realize success in life and fulfill their true selves. The distortions and smudges on the mind's mirror are the real reason people cannot do things as they wish. Only when you are freed from the evil causes that have warped and stained the mind's mirror and try anew with a clear mind can you achieve the intended result and reach fulfillment of the true self. It is the power of justice that is necessary to correct the deteriorated mind's mirror. Moreover, the power must be hundreds of times stronger than the power that first warped the mind's mirror. It is the power of the God incarnate. Suppose there is a disk on which a bad song was recorded. To change this song into a good one, it has to be recorded again with a power which is many times greater than the original power it took to record the poor version. No matter how earnestly you study moral philosophy, unless you receive the Divine Power you cannot correct your distorted mind's mirror nor eliminate evil causes by yourself. This is the reason many people endure suffering and trouble despite their efforts to improve themselves. By receiving the great Divine Power, bad karma will vanish and the mind's mirror will recover its original state, which will enable you to see things as they really are. With this new understanding individuals should try their best to improve themselves, and by so doing they can achieve their aim in life. It is therefore essential that people follow the great incarnate God and have the mind's mirror corrected.
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"Modern man has excessive self-confidence and invites disaster upon himself as he diverges from the way of God." | ||||||||||||
"Philosophical truth is known as the way of God in religion, and in science is the principle of existence; those who run counter to them will perish." | "Do not despoil the other; the other is your parent's body; the merging of you and the other creates the future you." | |||||||||||
"It is difficult to collect worldly treasure, but everybody is endowed with the freedom to obtain fulfillment of the true self." |