First Steps Towards Love Conversations with a Spiritual Master by Daniel Ostoja Translated from Polish by Krzysztof Proce and Kazimierz M. Borkowski Edited by Chris Parnell With love and deep devotion to God, whose Love knows no limits, and who resides in everyone’s heart © Copyright Daniel Ostoja, 2010 Originally published by Wydawnictwo 'Arcanus' (Bydgoszcz 2004) in Polish under the title “Pierwsze kroki ku Milosci. Rozmowy z Mistrzem duchowym” 2 The goal and the mission of the book This book has come to existence in order to help you on your spiritual path. You will find within these pages it a lot of content that will enable you to contact higher spiritual worlds. All without unnecessary environment, incomprehensible terminology and needless theory. I wish you luck on your path and hope that what you will read will enrich you. Good luck! :) Help us pass these contents to others If you like this book then ... pass it on, let others obtain the benefit of it. :) Help us in our mission of spreading the contact and communication with the Creator as many people as possible. Send this book to someone who is interested in spiritual matters. Or, to someone who is suffering depression, in a bad mood, or who is going through difficult times. I do not guarantee that it would help, but ... it can help. :) You can help in many other ways: Mention it on a forum when someone asks about meditation methods. Place on your webpage(s) so it can be downloaded. Print it and give to somebody who does not have a computer. You can send the printed version to a library in a prison, a hospital or a school nearby. This book is intended for free distribution – but only in the form it is, without adding or withholding anything. P.S. We are looking for a publisher for the book. Information about the effects When you have practised meditations from this book, you can describe the effects and send to us. We will willingly publish them as examples of accomplishment. We will publish the description, the author‘s initials and name of the place it comes from. Please also include your confirmation that you agree to the publication of your story. In this is the way we may show other readers the versatility of these methods and discoveries. 3 Disclaimer: If you are uncertain about the impact of these techniques on your health – we oblige you to find and utilise a professional medical practitioner or obtain a psychological consultation. For some persons beginning the journey to Love, sometimes, on the early steps on that path, irritation, nervousness and agitation is experienced by people who practice too intensively. This appears to have no cause, and can be quite disturbing to persons earnestly seeking to draw closer to Love. If you notice something like this happening with you, stop the meditation for a few days. The techniques described here are very powerful and they profoundly alter the energetic structure of the human body, tuning it to higher vibrations. These techniques really work, connecting you to the higher energies. That is why you should use them persistently and carefully. Start early, drive carefully, arrive safely. And now get to the book. Enjoy! Table of Contents Introduction PART ONE – SOME EXPERIENCES 1. Experiences of Zazen 2. Master in a Short Garment 3. Life in Outer Space – the People on Vega 4. Three Masters in a Cave 5. Vision of God 6. Meeting Death 7. Divine Light 8. The Benefit of Writing Conversations Down 4 PART TWO – CONVERSATIONS 9. Uncertainty 10. Wise and Loving Power 11. Should we Make Parents, Society and God Happy? 12. Love is the Heart of Religion 13. Should we Abandon Religion? 14. World Means Light 15. What is Most Important? 16. These Most Important Prayers 17. Reading Holy Books 18. Pupil-Teacher Relations 19. Impact of Energies 20. Behind the Curtain 21. Why is God Allowing so Much Distress to Happen on Earth? 22. Transformation 23. Physical Work 24. Barriers of ‘I’ Awareness 25. A Little Step Every Day 26. I am not Condemning Anybody 27. Essence of Deities 28. Manifestation of Mind’s Nature 29. Co-feeling 30. Abortion 31. Gambling and Risk 32. Spiritual Development 33. What can We do for Our Planet? 34. Freedom is Slavery 35. Human and Divine Energies 36. Suicide PART THREE – A TURN TOWARDS LOVE 37. Meditation and Love 38. Preliminaries for Turning Towards Indwelling Divinity 39. When You are Alone and there is Nobody to Turn to... 40. Vision of God – How Would God Like to be Perceived? 41. Is Illness a Problem or Blessing? 42. First Encounters with Love 43. Meditation as Path to Freedom 44. Four Great Secrets 45. The aura of Sathya Sai Baba 46. Dreams 47. Success and Loss 48. What is Liberation? 49. Love is More Important than Feeling Guilt 50. Loving Oneself 51. Death and Dying 52. Humbling Ego 53. World as the Living Manifestation of the Creator 54. Causes and Effects 55. Attachments 56. Concentrating on God 57. The Valley of Doubts and Hesitations 58. The Path to Love and Freedom 59. Where do Changes to Our World Lead? 60. How to Turn Towards Divinity 5 Introduction At the beginning I would like to tell everybody how happy I am to be able to share my experiences and wisdom flowing from conversations with the Master with so many like-minded people. This book is the fruit of spiritual love and writing it down has been accompanied by many wonderful moments for a very long time. I thank the Master for these moments and for consistently sharing His unusual love with me for years and with everyone who will resolve to turn towards Him. I wholeheartedly thank Him, because, as far as He let Himself be known to me, He is the most feeling-filled and loving Being in the world, always ready to render assistance without any shade of personal interest. I thank you, dear Master, once again. It started a long time ago. A certain turning point came, when one of my mundane teachers taught me how to listen to an inner voice, overcoming the limitations of time, space and mind. After many years and with a plenitude of experiences it turned out that it was only a prelude to something much greater—the waking of love towards Divinity and coming closer to Divinity. I hope that this book will constitute a useful source of guidance and inspiration for spiritual seekers. When I talk with my conversation partner I frequently address him as Master or Baba—the latter being of Sanskrit origin, the holy language of India and means ‘Father’. I have been asked many times about who I think the person I talk to is. I am leaving that answer to your ability to surmise, your sensibility and intelligence, my dear reader. Yes, I am asking you to think it over carefully and find out for yourself. This will be much more valuable than telling you my answer, which for you does not carry the needed profundity of meaning, happiness and love. Find the answer yourself and above all the feelings that accompany this. They are most important, being our best guide, because the best thing that leads us towards Love is just love. You will recognise the value of these messages from fruits they will bear to you. I am inviting you to make this journey with me and share in discovering all this, what has always been here and with its fullness of wonder and uncommonality, which surpass everything we have known so far. I know that many issues touched upon here will seem strange to you and some of these you may regard impossible. However, now itself I will answer these doubts in the following way. There is an unusual wonderland that opens out right next to you, and it is literally within your arms reach. Moreover, you do not even need to look for it in any special manner, it has always been and it will always be here. I was astonished myself when the loving Master started to uncover it for me. This is a land of unusual events, of edifying inspirations, the land in which, when it is penetrated, 6 we experience deepening happiness and gladness, the place where love reigns supreme—pure, hot, sensible and near love. It is the land where you can meet the One, who has been here since the beginning of time and is waiting for every our good thought, act or word just to be able to give us His love in return. At the same time, contrary to what we were taught, all this is available within our arms reach—here, now, not somewhere far away or only after we die. It seems that in my current life I was allowed to discover this hidden door, the door behind which the contact, access (whatever we call it) to the most wonderful mystery of this world (and possibly the entire Universe) can be found. The Creator who loves us is this amazing Mystery of Mysteries. Believe me, my dear reader, I am writing these words with great consideration, awareness and responsibility for what I say. I know that you may yet not believe me today. This is only natural, but I am asking you to wait and check it out for yourself what is real and what is not. This is the reason for this book, for describing events as well as giving explanations for many important questions, which have been delivered to me by the loving Master.