Man's life is one and always the same. It continues after physical death, forever or not. Some, advance in their spiritual journey, others disintegrate into nothing, because of their experience, or previous ones were of so iniquity, that according to the law of natural selection, they end up dissolving in the ether.
The way and the intensity with which man can have his life depends on innumerable degrees. From the moment of conception, the child has its life, the same it will always have, but the awareness with which it has it is minimal. After being born, it has this same life with a little more awareness. Ten years later, the “abundance” with which it has its life is noticeably greater.
With the full development of the senses, the man reaches the climax of his vegetative-sensitive life. Later, many develop a remarkable degree of intelligence, with all its ramifications across the various departments of life at the horizontal level.
Several men try to invade the vertical of the spiritual, divine, universal world, but most of them succeed only through belief, without any experience of their own. Rarely does a man appear who can truly say, “I know what I say and testify of what I saw”. This man possesses life with remarkable abundance, and he can increase it even more, through a successive intensification of his experience.
But for this intensification of the experience of God’s world to take place, oriented discipline is necessary. However, the word “discipline” arouses unpleasant feelings in the minds of many men, as they believe it is synonymous with “sacrifice”, “suffering”, “resignation.”
Evaluating this situation in a figurative sense, it can be said that: The waters of a river that is a thousand meters wide, generally have little strength for the river width is large and shallow. The strength is in the verticality and the weakness in the horizontality. If we narrow these margins in any way, say by a hundred meters wide, the force of the waters will be much greater, as their depth has also increased. And if we could reduce that width even further, to ten meters, for example, the force of its waters would be irresistible, and can now be transformed into a powerful current capable of moving machines.
Only by “discipline”, by compressing its volume in a small space.
Subjecting the river to a kind of sacrifice, resignation, concentration - and yesterday's static inertia has become today's dynamic activity. It acquired “more abundant life”.
At first, every discipline seems exhausting, destructive; it seems to be an impoverishment, not an enrichment of human life. And many beginners become discouraged at this early stage and turn back, preferring the soft indulgence of the plains instead of the difficult dynamics of chasms and mountains.
Those who dare to face the initial difficulties and voluntarily accept the necessary renunciations will find that life with close discipline is incomparably richer and more fascinating than the life led by the whims of the moment. Probably there are few hours of rest for the disciplined man, but those few hours outnumber in quantity, distance and time of the many idle hours of the undisciplined man in quality and intensity. The most delicate flavour of human life arises from the discipline voluntarily accepted and strictly observed, despite all the whims and fantasies to the contrary. This discipline also includes strict punctuality and absolute fidelity to the commitments assumed.
The disciplined man is austere with himself and benevolent with others… He does not easily forgive himself when his established program has been violated.
In this spontaneous and self-imposed austerity, he finds the intoxicating elixir of perennial serenity and profound softness.
Life without discipline gradually becomes so insipid and unbearable that the man enslaved by the arbitrary whims of his tyrannical ego tries to progressively intensify his enjoyments, to be able to feel them, because his sensitivity is becoming dull, and finally, nothing else satisfies him. The undisciplined man needs strong stimuli, impacts on his stupefied senses to put them in vibration, while the disciplined man is filled with pure joy and enjoyment with the simplest events of everyday life... a little flower by the side of the road, the unexpected meeting with a friend, the smile of a child, the melodies of soft music, the singing of birds, a moonlit night, the night symphony of crickets and frogs - everything is a source of satisfaction because his senses are in tune with a subtle vibrating frequency, which only discipline can offer.
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