This solution is apparently summarized as follows: Man, renounces to your personal Self and immerses yourself into the universal Us - this us which in its first stage is called Humanity and in the last one… God.
However, it is fundamental to experience the first two commandments to benefit from this solution: the first, to love God and the second, to love your fellow humans. But in daily practice, we must begin from the second, which is the commandment of ethics, to achieve the first, which is the commandment of mystics. When the mystique is achieved, the difficult and compulsory ethics becomes easy and spontaneous - and then it is solved the last problem of human life.
To achieve this goal, the man must pay attention to the following:
--- Demand nothing - always be ready for anything!
--- Do not ask for rights - fulfil only obligations!
--- Do not judge yourself as someone's creditor - consider yourself debtor of all!
--- Do not enjoy forgiving offences - ignore them!
--- Do not seek to receive and be served - give and serve wherever you can!
--- Keep within you an environment of serene tranquillity which proves to be a sweet benevolence to all creatures of God!
--- Perform with perfection and love all your tasks without expecting recognition, applause, gratitude, nor visible results!
In doing this way, your Adamic ego will surely protest, indignant, stating that your life is absurd and that you are a fool; for how could you renounce to the greatest triumph of thousands and millions of years of evolution, which is your ego? What value would your life have without the enchantments of the ego, which is nourished by praise, applause and tangible results of your tasks?
But do not forget, my dear friend, that this protest is the protest of a blind or short-sighted one. Your narrow-minded tyrannical ego cannot realize that this “renunciation” is not a loss but a profit; in fact, you give 10 to receive 100. Due to its insignificance, the ego does not realize that 10 is contained in 100, and this 100 is a glorious ambition of the 10!
The Christlike Divine Self in you knows of that cosmic mathematics, which the human ego ignores. Therefore, this Self must remain firm and steadfast during all protests because the ego is a beneficiary when governed by the Self and gains rather than loses.
--- It is the wonderful, die and become “Stirb und werde!” according to Goethe.
--- It is the glorious “Unless a grain of wheat does not die...” of Jesus.
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